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I hope wherever you came from is much worse than this.

Don't you live in Illinois?

Time to move to California, you'll be welcome here.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Of course I live in Illinois.

Funny thing is, we're not stunned that he did it. We're stunned at how
immune he thought he'd be!

Illinois, isn't that like Monopoly.

Yes. And Governor Rod is the banker.

"Here's 100 dollars. What do you mean you get effing 200 dollars for passing Go?

Give me 50 dollars and we have a deal."

Maybe I'll take the Reading Railroad. Or something.

Then you have to deal with the Levar Burton to contend with.

Wait, that is actually what it is called.

I'm going to eat dinner.

Something about St. James Place.

That's what's great with California. No one effs with the Governator!

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Yeah, I guess no one messes with our governor, but seriously, do you want to pay vehicle registration fees that will triple next year? I don't. Energy is also expensive, because there's a monopoly on it between PG&E or SCE. I live in the sticks though, so we don't have a Municipality district like Sacramento or other areas. Not to mention the state legislature's inability to balance the budget for how many years in a row?

I'm beginnging to believe my mom and dad have the right idea in moving to washington, and out of this state.

Anyways, would it come as any surprise to the amount of corruption from Chicago? It is been its MO since the 20's or whenever.

I'm not surprised that he did it, only that he was dumb enough to get caught. Usually our dumb politicians are weeded out before they get to that level.

Tacobake wrote:Maybe I'll take the Reading Railroad. Or something.

malfred wrote:Then you have to deal with the Levar Burton to contend with.

I think if you check, Levar Barton did Reading Rainbow, not Railroad.

Indeed.

Redbeard wrote:I'm not surprised that he did it, only that he was dumb enough to get caught. Usually our dumb politicians are weeded out before they get to that level.

Given you have a senator who was found with $100,000 in the freezer and another one who’ll be serving hard time for being given some seriously ugly art, I don’t think it’s being weeded out that well at all.

Tacobake wrote:Illinois, isn't that like Monopoly.

How about that Prime Minister?

Eh buddeh?






But no really, Illinois is pretty lame. I live here, do not move here.

Weren't a bunch of cops in the chicago area just busted providing security for drug dealers? At least in KC all we have to watch out for it people driving cars/trucks into buildings.

Ah, Chicago!

Don't worry young Padowon, Illinois has come to Washington DC...

A govenor is (more or less) like a state president with regards to laws and powers etc yes ?

It really depends on the state. In general though they have similar positions. They act as the executive-they run the state bureaucracies, can introduce legislation and budgets etc. In some states they have the power to appoint or nominate judges or interim legislators but that depends on the state. The also run the state militia units to use a more common vernacular. Some states in the South (Texas for example) are much more limited, as a reaction to Reconstruction after the Civil War. In Texas the most powerful position is the Lieutenant Governor (Vice President in a sense).

No. A governor is a central favor collection agency and the one who gives
out all the contracts and good jobs.

At work we were talking about expanding the jail to include a "governor's wing."

From Slate's Explainer:

Even if Blagojevich makes his pick before any state-level action can be taken, the buck stops with the U.S. Constitution, which states: "Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members." That leaves the final say up to the discretion of the U.S. Senate in Washington. There have been five cases in which the Senate has refused to recognize an appointee (although all but one occurred before the 17th Amendment and the direct election of senators). In 1912, the Senate concluded that a 33-year-old businessman named William Lorimer had obtained his seat (three years earlier) through bribery and corruption. The would-be lawmaker hailed from the great state of Illinois.

Lol turns out this guy didn't like Obama much.

In Chicago on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said prosecutors were making no allegations that Obama was aware of any scheming. And Blagojevich himself, in taped conversations cited by prosecutors, suggested Obama wouldn't be helpful to him. Even if the governor was to appoint a candidate favored by the Obama team, Blagojevich said, "they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation."

The two Illinois politicians have never been close and have largely operated in different Democratic Party camps in the state. Blagojevich's disdain for Obama was clear in court documents; he is quoted as calling the president-elect a vulgar term in one phone conversation recorded by the FBI.

Looks like it's getting lonly at the top pretty fast for the Soon to be prez.

sexiest_hero wrote:
Looks like it's getting lonly at the top pretty fast for the Soon to be prez.

With friends like Blagojevich...

Don't forget that he came from Illinois, so he could be just as currupt as the rest of them.

Yep, I allready bought my "Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him" bumper sticker just in case.

It will be interesting to see where it leads.

Jesse Jackson Jr. is being outed as "Senator #5." I'm shcoked just shocked!

This will pretty much be a race to see if the State Congress can pass legislation to give themselves emergency powers of nomination. Otherwise the appointment will just fall to Pat Quinn, and this whole thing will shake out in about the same way politically. There will probably be some heat on Obama, but Blago has been roundly discredited by Illinois politicians of all stripes for quite some time now. So it is unlikely that anything will really stick.

this makes two governors in a row now....

it sucks living in IL.

they named a sewage treatment plant after bush.... are they going to name a sewage production plant after Blagojevich??

though i still like the name "soon to be some bodys bit a jevich"

dogma wrote:This will pretty much be a race to see if the State Congress can pass legislation to give themselves emergency powers of nomination. Otherwise the appointment will just fall to Pat Quinn, and this whole thing will shake out in about the same way politically. There will probably be some heat on Obama, but Blago has been roundly discredited by Illinois politicians of all stripes for quite some time now. So it is unlikely that anything will really stick.

How long would it take the Blag to nominate someone? He could still do it tomorrow, if he so pleased.