The boom is being lowered on embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich- the Illinois AG is following through on her threat to have him removed and went to the State Supreme Court today to ask them to declare him 'unfit to serve' and install the Lieutenant Governor- and bar him from appointing a replacement to President-Elect Obama's Senate seat.
Blago was meeting with a cavalcade of Ministers, ostensibly for prayer (he needs it) and is still reportedly claiming that he's going to be vindicated.
Jesse Jackson Jr. is still denying any involvement with any of this...
New White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel is also staying tight-lipped about this- the word is that he may have presented Blago with a 'list of acceptable Senate candidates' which, if it's true, probably doesn't look that good, but is probably OK. I would imagine if a Democratic Administration creates a vacancy in a state run by a Democratic Governor someone's going to write a memo saying 'hey, we like these people for the seat.' I don't think that's bad (illegal)- it's just horrifically bad timing.
And a plaintive plea for Mike Royko, bad-ass (and now sadly deceased) columnist.
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