You’ve got to be kidding
December 30th, 2008 at 11:45am Wally Haas
I just read that Blagojevich intends to pick Roland Burris for the U.S. Senate. Why Burris would accept the nomination is beyond me. The governor is poison and anyone around him will be poisoned.
My guess is that Burris was never in the running, but Blago thinks Burris would be a good fill-in until the 2010 election and is untainted by any of the allegations facing the governor.
Burris is a former Illinois attorney general who ran for governor in 2002. He finished third in the primary to Blagojevich and Paul Vallas.
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1. Drew Williams | December 30th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I hate to say it, but this appointment makes a lot of sense. I’d be surprised if Burris doesn’t accept the nomination. If Blago wasn’t in such hot water and made Burris his Senate appointment, he would probably be commended for a good decision,
In Blago’s warped mind, by making this appointment, he adds some credibility back into the governor’s chair, and he thinks this will have people begin to like him again.
Roland Burris has tons of political experience, and he’s a minority like Barack Obama. This will go a long ways in the eyes of a lot of equal opportunity and affirmative action groups.
In the end, appointing Burris is the right decision. Its just that we all wish that Blago would not have done it. He tried to shake down a Children’s hospital for Christ’s sake. He has the lowest approval rating of any elected public official in the country. But we’re stuck with him unless the Illinois legislature does their job and throws him out.
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