February 11th, 2009
Rod Blagojevich was on WLS radio today and made it sound like all lawmakers do in Springfield is party.
Here’s the AP story.
CHICAGO (AP)Â Â Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn’t holding back on how he feels about Illinois lawmakers.
Blagojevich says a bunch of them cheat on their spouses, drink too much and blindly follow their legislative leaders because they don’t know what’s going on in Springfield.
Blagojevich unleashed the criticism Wednesday during an interview on WLS Radio’s “The Don and Roma Morning Show.”
It was the latest stop on a Blagojevich media tour that will take him to New York for an interview with Fox News’ conservative talk show host Sean Hannity.
Blagojevich has been shuttling back and forth to New York doing national TV interviews to profess his innocence since his arrest on federal corruption charges and removal from office.
In Wednesday’s radio interview, Blagojevich blasted Democrats for wanting to raise taxes and complained that some lawmakers take their marching orders from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.
February 11th, 2009
The Rockford Register Star Editorial Board will not endorse any candidates in the Feb. 24 primary election. We will make endorsements in selected races for the April general election.
Primary winners in most races face challengers in the general election, so we saw no need to weigh in during the primary.
We still think making endorsements is important, but we want to evaluate candidates during debates, forums and interviews before we make decisions.
We’re also changing our campaign letters policy.
A maximum of two letters about each candidate or ballot issue will appear in the print edition. Additional letters may be published online at rrstar.com.
All campaign letters — published in print or posted online — will subject to the newspaper’s letters policy. There is no guarantee of publication or posting.
All letters must be signed and are subject to editing for brevity, clarity, grammar and spelling. No more than 200 words will be allowed. All letters will be verified; writers must provide a home address and daytime phone number.
We will automatically reject abusive letters, letters to someone else and letters endorsing family members.
We changed our policy because we received a record number of campaign letters last fall and far too many of them were redundant or were orchestrated. Our space is limited and we need to reserve it for unique messages.
Letters may e-mailed to opinions@rrstar.com, mailed to 99 E. State St., Rockford, IL 61104 or faxed to 815-987-1365.
