Sickening Illinois Politics

[tamarinne]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/acrobat/2008-12/43789468.pdf

You would have thought that one governor in jail at a time would be enough.  I take some small consolation from this:

"In a conversation with Harris on November 11, the charges state, Blagojevich said he knew
that the President-elect wanted Senate Candidate 1 for the open seat but “they’re not willing to give
me anything except appreciation. [Expletive] them.”

Hopefully it will continue to not implicate Obama.

Ugh.  How did we end up with the most corrupt politicians in the country?

ETA: More quotes from documents I haven't seen yet, in an article on Slate:

ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants ... are telling him that he has to "suck it up" for two years and do nothing and give this "motherfucker [the President-elect] his senator. Fuck him. For nothing? Fuck him."

According to the indictment, "Blagojevich said he knew that the President-elect wanted Senate Candidate 1 for the open seat but 'they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. [Expletive] them.' " (Senate Candidate No. 1 seems to be Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama.) In another passage, Blagojevich fumes that if Obama doesn't show him some love, he'll appoint a person Obama doesn't want. Obama comes off as good as he could possibly have hoped for: He's behaving well even when you don't think anyone is watching.