Gothamist: Illinois Governor Blagojevich on a "Crime Spree"

MisterTissue

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:22:16 -0500

Matty, thank you for bringing up Royko. So often these scandals come up and I wish Royko were around. John Kass is a poor, poor substitute. (I betcha Kass eats ketchup on his hot dogs.)

TSOL

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:53:44 -0500

west side Michael: There's nothing "fishy" about the timing, Blagojevich couldn't sell Obama's Senate seat until AFTER he was elected president. If BHO had lost, the Senate seat wouldn't have been available to sell.

matty

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:10:53 -0500

And lastly, in the words of teh great, late mike royko, the City of Chicago's motto should not be "urbs in horto" (city in a garden) but rather "ubi est mea" or "where's mine?"

matty

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:08:06 -0500

Also DA BEARS.

matty

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:07:45 -0500

"In regards to the Senate seat, ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated “I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.” (pg 59) " Between Rahm Emannuel and this fucker I can't fucking believe how fucking dirty our fucking mouths are in fucking chicago fucking.

NannyState

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:25:57 -0500

That's got to be a wig. I hope the U.S.Attorney's Office looks into that one as well. Speaking of which, I couldn't help finding that U.S.Attorney's exagerrated outrage as entertaining as anything I've seen on TV in some time. It reminds me of the cop that popped Sen. Larry Craig in the men's room ("But you're a U.S.Senator...you're supposed to be representing us.") And the best part is who gets to choose Obama's successor? Who out there isn't tainted by two crooked governors in a row? I think Caroline Kennedy needs to check into the Park View Hotel and get an Illinois driver's license.

babyhitler

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:12:40 -0500

Chicagoans are fucking Retahded! This dude sounds like Mayor Quimby from the simpsons but with an even worse boston/chicago 30's gangster accent! How the hell could you vote this motherfucker as governor. At least spitzer only fucked prostitutes and could speak english.

matty

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:55:38 -0500

Here's the main chicagoist artcile (they did like 5 today) http://chicagoist.com/2008/12/09/feds_take_blago_into_custody.php#comments

mtauser

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:10:29 -0500

Corruption in politics is a neverending web. Always corrupt, all the time. Move on please.

mtauser

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:09:46 -0500

Remember this governor just like Obama worked with Mayor Daley. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Next thing you know, Obama will be indicted.

mtauser

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:05:09 -0500

Politics is lame. I go out in town here in Forest Hills get some food and more people are talking politics. Corruption feeds politics and has always since the beginning of man. Dick Cheney and Halliburton, Obama and Rezco, special backroom wheeling and dealing. Republicans and democrats arent exempt.

matty

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:02:50 -0500

*ahem* Sorry I was stuck in effing Naperville all day. My only two cents is that this is absolutely indicative of the shamelessly corrupt political process here. I mean, it's embarassing. It would be one thing if it got things "done" but it doesn't. All blago has succeeeded in doing is holding up billions in capital spending plans for the past 4 years because he hates Mayor Daley. If you want some real juicy shit look into the goings on that happened with Tony Rezko...the only reason that Rod has been indicted for this and not something way worse is because he hadn't been caught. Politics is a full contact sport here.

west side Michael

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:47:53 -0500

Something fishy on both sides of this story and the timing by the Feds is suspect just before Bush leaves office and Obama comes in with 76% approval. More to come on this for sure. However this Governor should step down and away till his trial. Be nice if the bailout scandals and sub-prime phony loan mess could be so aggressively pursued by the Fed .That's costing us big time money and jobs and loss of respect as a country.

fishfryin

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:05:38 -0500

patrick fitzgerald is from NYC...

Outter Burrougher

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:49:19 -0500

maybe, TVM, but even he frequented prostitutes and what does this have to do with NYC? who cares! it's days like these when I wish I could go back to college so I could just sit in front of CNN all day. I am giddy as a schoolgirl with this story.

r1b2

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:47:56 -0500

Makes Spitzer's time with hookers a little less interesting, eh? He paid for some tail. He isn't an extortionist and enemy of the state.

Toby von Meistersinger

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:25:33 -0500

Apparently the last honest politician from Illinois was Abe Lincoln.

JRod5417

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:23:58 -0500

Matty musty have gotten lost in that luxurious mop of hair.

Dirk

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:22:34 -0500

I hope Blagojevich goes to jail because I can't pronounce his name. By the way, Matty's so embarrassed for his state, he's in hiding.

Koufax

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:22:33 -0500

I've got some friend in CHI who are glad to finally see him go down. It seems the whole state disliked him. I wonder if Al Sharpton or JJ will have anything to say: http://tinyurl.com/58e8y7

fugothamist

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:19:56 -0500

jen can't help her politics-junkie self side note: who do i have to blow to get a senate seat?

jt10000

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:43 -0500

Gee, does something appearing in the New York Times mean it's a "New York" story now? Or is it that pretty much everything in the world has some New York connection that makes it news for this site? I don't get why you bother to call it Gothamist...

virgil

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:33 -0500

If Obama really managed to pass through this system without getting dirty, he's got the self-control of a saint. If he did get dirty without seeming to, he's a political genius for the ages, and I will deeply regret having supported him.

blablanyc

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:07:47 -0500

This is Chicago-style politics.

bxbrian

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:57:58 -0500

Matty, your thoughts?

Peter

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:57:29 -0500

He deserves to be convicted, because of that ridiculous hair.

dr zippy

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:53:25 -0500

When a story is this awesome it doesn't have to have anything to do with New York.

bagelman

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:47:38 -0500

this has what to do with new york?

theevilone

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:42:23 -0500

Blagojevich's got some really Kennedyesque hair going on there.