Chicagoist: Quoting the Blagojevich Complaint

celerysalt

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:23:10 -0600

Betcha Madigan is really, really regretting that hug from *Hugfest 2008* at the DNC. Yikes.

Koufax

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:49:16 -0600

I think everyone in CHI is glad to finally see him go down. It seems the whole state dislikes him. I wonder if Al Sharpton or JJ will have anything to say about this: http://tinyurl.com/58e8y7

BlueFairlane

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:51:19 -0600

Zack: The legislature does not meet again until January 12. The only way they can meet earlier is to have a special session ... called by the governor. Not likely, but I'd bet money Madigan would show up for that one.

Thatbob

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:13:19 -0600

Oh hai! I can parachute me there LOL? KTHXBAI!!1!

Zack

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:11:38 -0600

I think the main question is how quickly can the state legislature kick him out of office? Let's get the process going.

dopplerd

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:10:14 -0600

Maybe Blago can spin his visit today to federal plaza as a high level meeting with Obama about who will be the junior senator from IL. Some how I doubt it.

mrdeltoid

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:55:43 -0600

And to think, during his first run for election he referred to himself as 'Eastern European' instead of a Serb as he wanted to distance himself from any associations with Milosevic's arrest and bad PR Serbia had in 2002.

ObamaRama7

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:54:37 -0600

Is anyone REALLY surprised?? someone needs to execute justice here, I think Al Sharpton is the one to do it: http://tinyurl.com/58e8y7

mrdeltoid

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:51:26 -0600

Looks like I'm not getting any work done today, the complaint is better than Danielle Steele it's a 100 Years of Solitude magic realism MF

tecki

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:47:57 -0600

How bizzare. I've never lived in a state where the governor was arrested. Just as well, I wouldn't have been here long enough to vote him out of office anyway.

that_girl

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:43:40 -0600

@Tingo: yes, he looks like a rogue muppet, doesn't he? man, this is... this is like a frackin' soap opera. damn. I lived in Kentucky for a couple years; they have nothing on Hot Rod. makes me wish I was still in a newsroom so I could gossip with my co-workers.

Karl Klockars

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:42:21 -0600

Blagojevich has always - always - believed he'd be running for president eventually.

tingo

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:35:49 -0600

Hey I'm from NY and visiting. Our ex-governor says hi. BTW: Is your governor's hair real?

UTV

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:16:04 -0600

President, seriously? Matilda is right - the man is far off the deep end.

BlueFairlane

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:07:04 -0600

tecki: I first heard of Blagojevich shortly before I moved here in 2003, when I read a newspaper article in Kentucky about Blago's chance at the presidency. For about 5 minutes, he was the national Democrats' golden boy. Side note: I love how the redacted names include [President-elect], as if we're not going to figure out who that is.

Retardo Montalban

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:02:24 -0600

More like Scumbagovich.

900hp

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:02:05 -0600

i'm moved to comment but it's hard to know where to begin. the complaint reveals everything we've ever suspected and read about RB, and much more. the extent of his overwhelming greed is truly astonishing. and the vulgar language he uses to describe everyone who might either provide or withhold what he wants (for a human being is only recognized as one or the other), particularly president-elect obama, is disgusting. what do you even call someone like this? the scum of the earth? i'll submit this: borderline psychopathic. he shows the symptoms. this individual's every action is defined by an almost violent self-interest, untempered by any concern for others. he seethes with it. no empathy, no interpersonal feelings. i hope they lock him up for the rest of his pathetic life and he goes insane and hangs himself with his dirty underwear.

tecki

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:58:16 -0600

Wait, wait, wait. President? He wanted to run for president? That's some ego, Blogo ...

Stealth

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:49:18 -0600

So he was going to screw over his (allegedly) beloved Cubs just to get his way? Where's the loyalty?

johnnylobo

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:47:46 -0600

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