Babalu Blog: The Culture of Corruption & The Illinois Dems

December 09, 2008

The Culture of Corruption & The Illinois Dems

Those liberal buttwipes have been whining about how the GOP was part of a culture of corruption, but they're pure and lily white, right? Well the Gov. of Illinois has just been indicted for government corruption, and bribery regarding the selection of Obama's replacement in the US Senate .... this is friggin huge folks...

CHICAGO – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama's election as president.
According to a federal criminal complaint, Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.

A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.

The affidavit said Blagojevich discussed getting a substantial salary for himself at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.

It said that Blagojevich also talked about getting his wife placed on corporate boards where she might get $150,000 a year in director's fees.

He also allegedly discussed getting campaign funds for himself or possibly a post in the president's cabinet or an ambassadorship once he left the governor's office.

"I want to make money," the affidavit quotes him as saying in one conversation.

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement that "the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering."

Read about it here and more here in the DOJ's official release.

I wonder if the morons on the left will blame Bush for this too ....

UPDATE: I LOVE THIS FROM THE ARREST AFFIDAVIT -- OBAMA THE MOFO

The FBI affidavit said Blagojevich had been told by an adviser "the president-elect can get Rod Blagojevich's wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate."
Told by two other advisers he has to "suck it up" for two years, the FBI says it heard Blagojevich complain he has to give this "motherf***er [the president-elect] his senator. F*** him. For nothing? F*** him."

The governor is heard saying he will pick another candidate "before I just give f***ing [Senate Candidate l] a f***ing Senate seat and I don't get anything."

Read a copy of the FBI affidavit here.

Posted by Cigar Mike at December 9, 2008 10:29 AM

Comments

Why am I not surprised. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the mafia (Dems) in Chicago demanding that who ever got Ocaca's senate post should be black? Personally, I don't think anyone has really put thier head around the economic collapse we're in. Do people really think Ocaca is going to create 2.5MM jobs? More green jobs propaganda! It's all bullshit, these fuckers who got voted in are going to be robbing the citizens blind. I'm not sure we will have a positive bounce in our economy for at least 4 years, if we're lucky.

Posted by: readytoshoot at December 9, 2008 11:23 AM

Democrats? Corrupt? I am désolée...

Posted by: Universal Spectator at December 9, 2008 12:06 PM

Of course it's not Bush's fault, silly. Bush is old news. It's either the fault of the embargo or global warming. Nothing to do with Democratic party "culture" or anything.

Posted by: asombra at December 9, 2008 12:17 PM

By the way, it's obvious why this guy's in hot water. He should have been working for Putin.

Posted by: asombra at December 9, 2008 12:18 PM

Wait until Obama's honeymoon with the American people is over.

I have a feeling within a year the American people will be in for a rude awakening.

What I'm afraid is the lengths that the MSM will go to cover Obama's behind.

Remember that when the new administration takes over it would do all in its power to keep the scandals sweept under the carpet(this will be Eric Holder's task, pretty much like Janet Reno did in the 90s) with the help from the MSM.

I guarantee you that only Fox News will be the one going after the scandals.

Posted by: FreedomForCuba at December 9, 2008 12:31 PM

http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=6424985

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wanted President-elect Barack Obama "to put something together & something big" in exchange for going along with Obama's choice to fill his vacant US Senate seat, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed following the Governor's stunning arrest.
"I've got this thing and it's f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there," Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit.

What was that the press was writing about Ted Stevens...?

Posted by: Universal Spectator at December 9, 2008 12:42 PM

Well.....Here we go. Liberals dealing and wheeling even before the "Savior" takes office. The Extreme left at its best.

Posted by: Henry Agueros at December 9, 2008 01:08 PM

Speaking of mafia, Blagojevich sounds a lot like Gotti, doesn't he?

Posted by: Zhangliqun at December 9, 2008 09:34 PM