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Illinois GOP wants closer look at Burris, Blagojevich ties

 

Published 1/8/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

Roland Burris told reporters in Washington on Wednesday his appointment has nothing to do with money. SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (CNN) — Did Roland Burris secure his appointment to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat through some kind of pay to-play politics of the very sort that have tainted the man who appointed him, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich? Republicans in [...] (link)

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