>>>http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/02/democrats-struggle-with-lieutenant-governor-problem.html
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>>>http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/02/blagojevich-re-indicted-on-corruption-charges.html
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>>>In most states you would have to pay for entertainment like this.
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>>IIRC, Blagojević is blamed by his own party for not offering the place to who Central Committee designated, but went open market. IOW, he did what's usual, just someone up the ladder didn't like it.
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>>And the guys from his ancestral village said, at the time, that Rođa can't do no wrong, they remember him as an all-around good guy, he must have been framed. They should know :).
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>Went open market?! I don't think I have ever known you to be so indulgent. Did the itch at the end of his name make you swoon or something? The man put a Senate seat up for sale. And that was after enough corruption already that he had been indicted.

The emphasis was on open. IMO, the dealing and wheeling are regularly done behind closed doors.

>Around here we kind of laugh about Blago -- not to mention some of his predecessors, who are or have been residential guests of the penal system -- but it really isn't funny at all.

Never was. You deserve these guys.