Blagojevich May Call Rahm and Reid To The Stand For Retrial

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This should be awesome! Here is Blago speaking to Chris Wallace this morning:

It’s political horse trading that the prosecutors are trying to criminalize and they weren’t able to do it without putting on a defense. If we put on a defense and properly explain these things I think the jury will see it for exactly what it is. Political horse trading. Never about campaign funds. I never made a decision to do that. The decision I made was to make a political deal. The Attorney General of Illinoise whose father was blocking the public works bill in exchange to appoint her to the Senate, I wanted the jobs created, 500,000 jobs, Health care expansion and promise not to raise taxes. Rahm Emanuel, the day before my arrest was the guy to make the deal happen. And I spoke to Harry Reid and [Sen. Robert] Menendez and I spoke to them on the telephone and they were about to help.


Now, we know the re-trial will not happen before the mid-terms but still, imagine if he could get Rahm and Reid up on the stand to testify to this “political horse trading”…whoa boy. On top of this bribe and this one, I bet the prosecutor could come up with some very damaging questions.

Whats the odds of a pardon before that happens?

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Blago, if Rahm asks you to go on a picnic, with him and some of his close friends’ in Fort Marcy Park DON’T GO.

It would be nice if Blago could bring the whole Obama regine down with him but they did not get where they are without being able to cover their ass…
Blago is a minor league player in the professional circuit and he’s outclassed..There won’t be a pardon unless he has a tape up his sleeve we haven’t heard yet..

TRANSLATION: Blago is THREATENING anyone with AN IDEA OF TRYING HIM AGAIN!!

@OLDPUPPYMAX:

Exactly right OPM! I’m speculating that the bit of spin that has already started around here will be the retrial will be scrapped due to cost….. not the threat Blago just fired across the bow. 😉

Interesting that the, ahem’ ace prosecutor, after spending a tremendous amount of money investigating, and then trying two high profile cases, can only get them on lying. Remember the pretrial blustering he did in both cases, had them pretty much convicted before he started to put the cases together?

This is just awesome. Lovin’ Blago, here. I’ve toggled between hoping Walpin would bring O down and hoping to see this guy laugh in their faces. I totally get his tone with the new tape about the Russians. lol I believe him! He’s living it. Even here, he could not help but crack a smile at his own joke. Watching the whole interview on Hulu right now. The man is real.

Play all of the tapes!! 😆

The people of Illinois, and I was one of them in the not too distant past, elected Blago on a similar platform that Obama got elected to the Presidency.

The previous Ill. governor, George Ryan, ended up indicted, convicted, and sentenced due to shady dealings. Blago was painted by his campaign as a ‘fresh face’ in Ill. politics, one that would sweep out the ‘corruption’ of the GOP. His challenger, Ill. Attorney General Jim Ryan, had the unfortunate coincidence of having the same last name as the despised(by both parties) George Ryan, even though there was no immediate, nor secondary family connection between the two. Blago won handily, despite protestations by the GOP that he had close ties to the ‘Chicago machine’, including being married to the daughter of a current machine heavyweight, Richard Mell.

As we have witnessed, Blago’s train came off the rails due to corruption charges which forcibly ousted him from the governorship. He has been investigated by federal authorities on at least a dozen separate investigations. During his actual tenure as governor, he campaigned for a MassCare similar healthcare plan, proposed increasingly higher budgets even during some lean times in Illinois, attempted to ban semi-auto weapons, attempted to raise the FOID card price from $5 to $500, oversaw record increases in funding for education every year, continued support of a moratorium on executions of death row inmates(from the previous gov. Ryan), and seen by both parties in Springfield, Ill. as being “disengaged” from the public sentiments.

Blago was endorsed by Obama during both of his elections.

The Chicago Machine. The gift that keeps on giving.

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Not sure about how my posts are chaning between “skat” or “skatblue” – just saw your message to my email. I THINK it may be that on my desktop- which I seldom use -I have “skatblue”. Hadn’t noticed that until I came in to tell you that I didn’t know how that was happening. I’m sure most everyone would realize that “skat” & “skatblue” are one and the same, but sorry for any confusion or inconvience. I changed it to “skat” on my desktop, which I’m on right now, hopefully that takes care of the problem.
Sorry I hadn’t noticed.

I’m so sick of Illinois crooks aka policitians, when you live in this state and have to tolerate this junk it just makes you sick. Our biggest problem is Madigan who has been in power for some 20 plus years – WE NEED TERM LIMITS. That won’t happen because the crooks won’t let that pass. As soon as Madigan retires as Speaker I’m sure his daughter Lisa will then be crowed Governor. Hope to God we are out of this state by then.