salon.com - 1/7/2009
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Jan 6th, 2009 | SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president -- just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's Senate seat, possibly for a ...
suntimes.com - 1/3/2009
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Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr.
to Obama's U.S. Senate seat Days before Gov. Blagojevich
was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made ...
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Sources: Reid pressured governor on Senate replacement ...
suntimes.com - 1/13/2009
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Barack Obama jogged only slightly ahead of Rod
Blagojevich across the news landscape of the past month,
the glistening horizon of a new Camelot ahead, perhaps, but the jagged outline of the clouted city not far behind. Obama and Blago are more than ...
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Obama, Blago flip sides of Bizarro plotline
suntimes.com - 1/8/2009
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Arya's memo says Blagojevich is good dad, great
guy but ineffective, emotionally unstable chief executive SPRINGFIELD
When former Chicago television broadcaster Bob Arya joined Gov. Blagojevich's staff as a senior advisor in November 2006, the ...
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Ex-advisor to panel: Order Blago to get psych ...
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BLAGOJEVICH UPDATE: “Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s official calendar shows he met with a top union officia…
Instapundit —
... BLAGOJEVICH UPDATE: “Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president — just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama’s Senate seat, possibly for a cushy union job. The meeting with Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, also was attended by Tom Balanoff, president of the Illinois chapter of the union, which has been Blagojevich’s largest campaign contributor.” ...
When Andy Met Blago
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... When Rod Blagojevich contemplated how to cash in on the “f*****g valuable thing” that is Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat, he suggested to an unnamed representative of the SEIU that a high-paying gig with the union might help him pick a labor-friendly candidate. Originally, speculation centered on Tom Balanoff as the likeliest SEIU official to have fielded that demand, as Balanoff heads the Illinois state organization of the union. Now the AP reports that both Balanoff and SEIU national president Andy Stern attended a meeting with Blagojevich in the time frame of the ...
SEIU Prez DID Meet With Corrupt Ill. Governor
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Later it came out that Blago met with Tom Balanoff, president of the Ill. chapter of the SEIU. This was blown off as of little importance ever since. However, now it has been learned that the president of the SEIU, Andy Stern himself, also met with Blago during the period of time that Blago was trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat. ...
SEIU Prez DID Meet With Corrupt Ill. Governor
Stop The ACLU —
... around Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich there came to light a meeting between Blago and a top officer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). There was no indication of what the meeting was about and at fist no one knew who the SEIU representative was. Later it came out that Blago met with Tom Balanoff, president of the Ill. chapter of the SEIU. This was blown off as of little importance ever since. However, now it has been learned that the president of the SEIU, Andy Stern himself, also met with Blago during the period of time that Blago was trying to sell ...
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