Illinois Governor arrested for selling open Senate seat

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Thanks macushla - that sounds like a very good explaination

The thing that pisses me off about this is that, because of him, the market for people who are honestly trying to sell Senate seats has dried up.

Our Governor is doing ten years for selling casino permits. They were $50,000.
What was the bid on a Senate seat?

^ apparently he was trying to get one of the candidates to give him $500,000. & he seems to have been considering asking Obama's preferred candidate for a lot more than that.

How Much Is A Senate Seat Worth?

Ask Jesse Jackson Jr how much he was willing to pay for the senate seat.

Are you talking about Edwin Edwards?

Welcome to the human race.
Corruption will never be a thing of the past, in this life.

a hero of capitalism he is

JJJr is one of the last people I'd think of that would need to buy the position. He seems to have already earned it
and he's been a front runner for it all along.

I'd been waiting for Lisa Madigan to have Blagojevich declared unfit.
She couldn't do it too fast though because there's been a long tern feud going on between Blagojevich and her family (starting with her dad).

She was in the running for the position as well but it was speculated as mostly because if she was senator she wouldn't be running against Blagojevich for the job as governor.

he was contestant #5, actually. Heard some long radio stories on this. Apparently, at least 3 governors have been arrested since the 50s there.

There is a machine in Chicago, but it's the ghost of a machine... In the 60s, Mayor Daley (sp?) 'got out the vote' including the graveyard precincts (supposedly), and put Kennedy over the top. Later in the 60s, the police announced they 'weren't there to prevent disorder, they were there to preserve disorder' (irony can be pretty ironic sometimes...

I don't know if it's as bad as it used to be, but it's as Chicago as the double-decker pizze they server there...

No, I think the Machine in Chicago is just as active as it ever was.

Blagojevich's father-in-law is a very powerful man in the Machine and was instrumental into getting Blagojevich into the governor's office.
A few days after that election Blagojevich turned around and alienated his father-in-law and eventually the Machine in Chicago.
The Machine has been waiting for a chance to break Blagojevich down ever since.

If Blagojevich was part of the Machine, or had any friends in Illinois for that matter, none of this foolishness would have become public. They would have taken care of one of their own.

I suspect the press is more than happy to slaughter Blagojevich over this too because he's got a history of trying to get reporters who write critical things about him fired.