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Published 12/30/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
Reuters - Troubled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday defied fellow Democrats and appointed a successor to fill Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat -- a seat the governor is charged with trying to sell to the highest bidder.
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