Jackson was going to visit us

Add comment December 11th, 2008

Jesse Jackson Jr., or Senate Candidate 5 in the criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich, was going to visit us this week if the House wrapped up its vote on the auto bailout soon enough.

Jackson has been seeking newspaper endorsements in his bid to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. The Chicago Sun-Times did endorse him for the post.

I told Jackson’s rep that it would be unlikely that the Register Star Editorial Board make an endorsement for the seat because we don’t know who all the potential candidates are and would probably not get a chance to interview them. I added that I didn’t think we had much influence with the governor.

I said we’d still like to meet Jackson so we’d have a better idea of who he was if he did get the job.

Doesn’t look like that will happen.

In February I wrote a column about who Blagojevich might pick for Obama’s seat and I theorized that he would pick himself so he could get out of Illinois. The criminal complaint said he would have appointed himself if he didn’t get enough bucks from any of the other candidates.