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Another kind of corruption
Another kind of corruption By Paul Greenberg The headline on the news story read: "Corruption called way of politics in Illinois." This is news? In terms of sheer notoriety, popular legend and just general sleaziness, the Land of (gulp!) Lincoln may yet surpass even Louisiana, which has been called our only Mediterranean state.IN THE STIMULUS BILL, A 2 BILLION DOLLAR EARMARK — obtained by Rod Blagojevich!
What's in the Stimulus?: An Earmark as Big as the Ritz [Mark Hemingway] Buried in the 800 page stimulus bill is this seemingly innocuous allocation — well it's inocuous relative to a $1 trillion stimulus bill anyway — "$2,000,000,000 is available for one or more near zero emission powerplant(s).” Interstingly enough, there's no such thing as a "near zero emission powerplant" — yet. The Bush administration had been planning to try and build the first of its kind in Mattoon, Illinois as part of the FutureGen project. The Department of Energy scuttled the project last year in part due to rising costs.Rod Blagojevich arrested (Ill Gov.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rod-blagojevich-1209,0,7997804.storyBlago just gets classier and classier
He used to be a bookie: www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/17/informant-claims-blagojevich-worked-bookie/
Key senators may rebuff Obama on health care
WASHINGTON – The Democrats' control of a hefty majority in the Senate — plus the House — would suggest that President Barack Obama is within reach of overhauling the nation's health care system this fall. But the numbers mask a more complicated reality: Obama and Democratic leaders have modest leverage over several pivotal Senate Democrats who are more concerned about their next election or feel they have little to lose by opposing their party's hierarchy. One is still smarting from being forced to abandon next year's election.Blagojevich to Name Burris to Obama’s Senate Seat
* PUBLIC POST ** Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will appoint former state Attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, a person familiar with the decision said.Look for the union lanel in health care bill.
Read the Union Health-Care Label Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals. In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry. Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large.Patti Blago to Join Reality TV Show
Seriously?? SKOKIE, Ill. – Ousted Illinois Gov.IL impeachment panel may end without FBI tapes
By Mike Robinson - Associated Press Writer Tues. Jan 6, 2009 CHICAGO - Members of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment panel say they will move forward despite the possibility that they might not get to hear federal wiretaps of the governor's conversations with aides and others.
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