Rod Blagojevich
Chicago Tribune cartoonist Scott Santis doesn’t label his Thursday cartoon “eternity.”
He has panels about
No longer seeking political campaign contributions for governmental acts, but he’s still trying to sell himself one autograph and photo at a time.
His summary is
There’s just no getting rid of them…
Maybe “forever” would be a better word than “eternity.”
Click to enlarge the image.
My Milwaukee niece is developing political ears.
Sunday on the way to Union to show her son Thomas the Tank Engine and Mr. Topham Hatt, she hear on Wisconsin radio a discussion of our big-haired ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich’s selling his autograph and pictures at the Rosemont comics exhibition.
Right there along with Shaft, Batman and Robin.
Couldn't Illinois Ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich earn more money by sitting in a dunk tank than by selling autographs and photos to admirers?
One of the radio guys suggested that Blago would make more money if he were in a dunk tank.
What an idea, I thought.
And, I know just whom to ask.
It’s photoshopper extraordinaire Allan Showalter, Crystal Lake One Heck of a Guy blogger of things Leonard Cohen.
Or, instead of making money in a dunk tank, maybe Judge Zagel would allow it as part of his community service. A sign could be posted saying,
“Community Service Dunk Tank”
Perhaps Rod Blagojevich would apply to sit in a dunk tank to fulfill a community service requirement.
Joe Williams in a relaxed atmosphere at the McHenry County Fair.
Future McHenry County Regional Superintendent of School Joe Williams is quoted in an article on Home Schooling published by the Illinois State Board of Election.
Here’s his two paragraphs:
“Joe Williams, ROE #44 assistant superintendent in McHenry County and also the county’s lone truancy officer, said very few abuse cases happen among the 60,000 or so school- age children there. ‘Maybe two or three per year,’ he said, adding that if truancy is an issue, he is prepared to take it to court if needed.
“’On whole, it’s been a largely positive experience regarding the home school families in McHenry County,”’he said. ‘They work hard, they love their kids, and if they need something, they’ll call.’ But he also said he has no hard numbers on how many home school kids are in the county.”
A 1950′s Illinois Supreme Court decision prohibits regulation of Home Schooling.
Williams is running unopposed in the fall election.
Rod Blagojevich on ABC World News Friday night after being asked if he would run for office again. I know it is hard to believe that Blago's head could be bigger, but, if you click on the image and it will get larger.
Well, that wasn’t exactly what he said as the hopelessly uninformed ABC World News news reader Brian Williams interviewed impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
When asked if he would ever run for office again, he said something like,
“No, if my wife is watching,”
but, when pressed, he said this:
“I’m not ruling out what I’ve done all of my life.”
Whoever briefed Williams before the interview failed to point out that once one is impeached in Illinois, the state constitution forbids one from seeking public office.
Before that flight into fantasy, Blagojevich said that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald tried to flip him, to get him to testify about someone higher in Illinois politics.
Williams asked if it were President Obama and Blago, uncharacteristically, demurred.
Might it have been House Speaker Mike Madigan or Chicago Mayor Richard Daley that drew Fitzgerald’s interest? That is, if Rod’s assertion is any more truthful than his promises to testify under oath during the trial?
Williams, of course, led watchers to believe that Blagojevich was telling the truth.
The intended Chicago Sun-Times front page before the Rod Blagojevich jury delivered its verdict.
Failed politicians sometimes get rehabilitated.
From the front page coverage intended for former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski by the Chicago Sun-Times, you can see that bringing home bacon to Chicago and making deals with Republicans like Ronald Reagan was more important to its editors than his felony conviction for mail fraud.
Charges including stealing tens of thousands of dollars in unused postage money.
But, there was another front page in the Sun-Times today.
The real front page in the Chicago Sun-Times today.
It featured Rostenkowski Republican successor, Michael Patrick Flanagan, who was beaten by now-convicted felon Rod Blagojevich.
Rostenkowski and Blagojevich.
Bookends of representation.
One rehabilitated.
Will the other one be, too?
Pat Quiinn
Governor Quinn is a lawyer, as is Rod Blagojevich.
So when I read in the Chicago Tribune,
“Quinn said, ‘My conscience always guides me to do the right thing.’”
it occurred to me that “guides” gives Quinn plenty of wiggle room. Quinn can always say it was only a guide and he didn’t violate the law.
Dems haven’t passed serious reforms into law to prevent corruption in Illinois.
Can you imagine Chicago Dems ever voting for such nonsense?
For the Dems in Chicago and Dems elsewhere, reality is a game of
”Catch me, if you can.”
Press conference after the trail.
The Blago’s aggressiveness and lack of contriteness typifies the in-your-face unionism that has become the Dems’ core beliefs and behavior.
Rod actually spoke after his conviction of how he was the victim and persecuted by the Feds.
He
“never let anyone down.
Guess what?
Taking Illinois from $5 billion in debt (his number when he took office) and more than doubling that to ($13 billion, according to successor Pat Quinn) brokesville is letting people down.
Rod had many willing Dem accomplices in the General Assembly.
Blago’s temperament and values have become part of Illinois Dems’ DNA.
Until Dems get widely swept out of office, we will have more Blago in the form of other Dems’ swearing they are innocent and doing everything possible “for the people.”
Mike Tryon
State Rep. Mike Tryon has issued the following statement about former Governor Rod Blagojevich’s conviction for lying to the FBI:
Crystal Lake…..Today, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty of making false statements to the FBI, a felony punishable by five years in prison, but the jury could not reach consensus on the 23 other counts against him.
While I am pleased with the jury’s verdict on the false statements count, I am disappointed that they were not able to reach consensus on the other charges against Blagojevich.
The people of Illinois want closure on this issue, and they want a definitive ruling on all 24 counts that were brought against the former governor. To that end, I am pleased to hear that the prosecution intends to retry the former governor on the remaining 23 counts.
Corruption by this Democrat Governor was unlike anything we have ever seen in Illinois.
Not only was he corrupt, but recordings in his own voice paint the picture of a man disdainful of the position he held and of the people he was elected to serve.
And while the jury did not come back with guilty verdicts on all counts, the fact is that Rod Blagojevich has been found guilty of making false statements to the FBI and he will go down in the history books as a convicted felon.
This cartoon is the Rod Blagojevich side of JimRod, the Two-Headed Chicken. A new message--"I'm guilty?"-- has been put in the balloon above this hapless creature's head.
Rod Blagojevich doesn’t understand how he could have been found guilty on any count, of course.
Ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich has won the Corruption Championship Blue Ribbon at this summer's Crook County Fair.
He is clueless.
But the governor who increased the state budget by $1 billion a year–with the complete cooperation of Democrats who control the General Assembly–instead of working the state out of the $5 billion deficit he said he found when he took office now faces jail time.
He has helped his county maintain the blue ribbon in corruption.
Of course, Rod will say,
“They found me guilty,”
rather than
“I’m guilty.”
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Apologies to Crook County, Wyoming, the location of Devil’s Tower.
When we were getting our 1880′s pictures taken next to the KOA Campgound restaurant that served buffalo-shaped burgers, I saw the blue ribbon shown above. There was a sign in the trailer advising that photos were not allowed.
I asked if I could take a photo of the ribbon and was given permission.
The wife of the team asked,
“Don’t you have a Crook County in Illinois?”
I told her the official name was “Cook County,” but that I referred to it as “Crook County.”
Melissa Bean
Joe Walsh
When your opponent has taken $28,000 in campaign contributions from a veteran Democratic Party congressman who has just been charged with multiple “No-No’s” by the House Ethics Committee, I suppose it’s not beyond the range reasonableness for the GOP challenger to call her out.
Especially when the incumbent, in this case Melissa Bean, refuses to donate the money to charity.
Especially, when the jury the man she endorsed for governor is now considering his corruption charges.
Of course, Bean could return it to New York City’s Charlie Rangel the way Rod Blagojevich returned $500 to the mob-run M & M Amusements (think video poker). That way Rangel could use the $28,000 to help pay for his legal defense.
At any rate, here is Joe Walsh’s press release:
Melissa Bean: Witness for the Defense?
With the House Ethics trial of deposed House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel set to begin Thursday set to begin Thursday, one wonders if three-term incumbent Rep. Melissa Bean will be called as a witness for the defense?
After all, Bean is the proud recipient of $28,000 in illicit campaign cash from Rangel, money she steadfastly has refused to return or donate to charity even as the numbers of her House Democrat colleagues choosing to do continues to pile up.
This week, Joe Walsh reiterated his call for Melissa Bean to separate herself from the Rangel cash by donating it to local charities. “It is stunning to me that with the cultures of corruption in Washington and Illinois, Melissa Bean is so adamant about keeping ill-gotten proceeds from her ill-advised relationship with Charlie Rangel,” said Walsh. “Melissa Bean apparently has adopted the Rod Blagojevich attitude towards public service-her constituents be damned, she’s only concerned about enriching herself.”
Back in March, Illinois Congressional Democrat candidates Bill Foster and Dan Seals returned the money they received from Rangel after the House Ethics Committee announced its investigation into Rangel.
This week, a number of other Democrats announced they would also donate to charity money they received from Rangel including: Pennsylvania Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-3) and Indiana Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-8), the Democrat nominee for US Senate in Indiana.
Democrat Rep. Pat Murphy from Pennsylvania went even further this week calling for Rangel to resign saying, “as the facts came out, it was pretty clear what his conduct was. I believe that it’s a discredit for the institution.”
As for Melissa Bean, she has said nothing about the Rangel affair or his upcoming ethics trial since she said through a spokesman back in March that she would not return the Rangel campaign cash because the money “has already been spent”.
Democrat Rep. and U.S. Senate nominee in Pennsylvania Joe Sestak also announced he would donate the Rangel money to charity . A spokesman for Sestak said that in light of the details of the alleged ethical misconduct by Rangel, Sestak decided that donating the money “was the right thing to do.”
That’s where
among of host of other Democrats, disagree with Melissa Bean.
Charlie Rangel has a great friend in Melissa Bean, perhaps even a character witness.
The question is, what do 8th district families have in Melissa Bean as their Congressional representative?
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