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This, of course, isn't the first time Burris has gone back to amend something.
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The Lord's Senator has become The Absent-Minded Senator. Senator Burris is backpedaling to fix another "oops," this time amending a financial statement involving stock options. According to the Tribune, Burris forgot to mention his option to buy 8,000 shares of stock in Inland Real Estate Corp. on a Senate financial disclosure statement. Burris served on the board of the company between 1996 and January of this year when he was sworn in as the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. Burris' communications director Jim O'Connor told the Trib, "You are absolutely right. His unexercised options were not disclosed," and that Burris will amend the statement to include the options.
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This, of course, isn't the first time Burris has gone back to amend something.
Anyone here ever hear Steve Martin's "I Forgot" routine?
This guy is an absolute joke and brings even further embarrasment to this state. Typical Illinois politician who goes into politics to enrich themselves. Somehow he was elected to statewide office years ago, made some contacts, and then opened up a firm and lived off government business. The Illinois Way.
In the last year or two I have become cynical when it comes to pols and I am starting to despise all of them. Its hard to distinguish good from bad anymore. Even Durbin, who I thought was cleaner than most, has been caught selling stock the day after a private meeting with the Treasury and Fed. How long do we keep buying their explanations that one thing had nothing to do with the other?