Will Blagojevich Take Others Down with Him?
Throughout the impeachment process, former governor Blagojevich kept hinting that he ‘knew things’ about his colleagues.
There’s no question that there’s plenty of blame (as well as lots of different kinds of blame) to go around in Chicago/Illinois politics.
But I wonder how much of governor Pat Quinn’s promise to ‘fumigate state government’ will be carried out by the state’s ex-governor.
Earlier this week, Blago casually dropped Machine boss (and father-in-law) Dick Mell’s name and the old garbage dump scandal into the same sentence.
And outside his house last night - despite saying he’d only make a statement, he couldn’t help grandstanding and taking some questions from the press - he asked the assembled reporters if they would come back if he had something to say.
Later, claiming that ‘the fix was in’, he casually worked these two sentences into his mixture of ramblings:
I’d like to tell you some of the inside stuff, some of the things they were trying to do, and I’ll talk about that later, if [you in the press are] interested.
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And as for some of those friends of mine in the state Senate, Dr. King said, that in the end, you remember not the words of your enemies, but the silence of your friends.
Given what Blagojevich has to know - and may possibly mention in a criminal trial/plea bargain - a goodly number of Illinois and Chicago politicians surely broke into a sweat hearing those words.
We’ll have to wait to see if the ex-governor will one up Quinn’s fumigation bomb with a nuclear one.
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