Illinois Governor Blagojevich has been arrested for trying to sell Illinois’s senate seat:
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on Tuesday accused Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of participating in a “political corruption crime spree” that was a blatant effort to sell the state’s U.S. Senate seat in the latest “pay-to-play” scheme in Illinois politics.
Fitzgerald described the alleged behavior by Blagojevich, who was arrested Tuesday morning along with his chief of staff, John Harris, as “appalling.” He said his “cynical behavior” reached “a truly new low.”
“He has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree,” Fitzgerald said in a news conference to announce the charges against the governor and his chief of staff. “This is a sad day for government. It’s a very sad day for Illinois government. Governor Blagojevich has taken us to a truly new low.” . . .
The series of allegations say that Blagojevich and Harris tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder. Fitzgerald quoted Blagojevich recorded during court-authorized wiretaps as saying, “It’s a ‘bleeping’ valuable thing. You just don’t give it away for nothing.”
Staggering. Five of the eight elected Illinois governors since Adlai Stevenson have been indicted.
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Blagojevich has been so successful at making himself and his office look ridiculous that about a million people are now able to remember and maybe even spell his crazy name — that’s sort of like an accomplishment, right?