newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - 1/16/2009
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Posted by Monique Garcia at 5:10 p.m. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, worried he would be a "distraction" given the impeachment and criminal charges against him, won't be going to Washington for President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural festivities, a spokesman said today. The governor was invited to ...
suntimes.com - 1/13/2009
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suntimes.com —
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
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - 1/14/2009
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Posted by Tribune staff at 11:45 a.m.; last
updated at 3:35 p.m. Rodblagojevich5 SPRINGFIELD---The Illinois Senate took...
an oath today to be sworn in as jurors in the historic impeachment trial of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, hours after he made his first ...
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Senate takes oath as Blagojevich impeachment jurors | ...
chicagobreakingnews.com - 1/12/2009
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WASHINGTON--Roland Burris won his battle to succeed Barack
Obama as the junior senator from Illinois this afternoon...
as Senate Democrats dropped their objections and said he should be seated this week. The agreement came after Senat lawyers said Burris ...
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Senate Democrats agree to seat Burris this week
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Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... Rod Blagojevich's office says he will not be attending Barack Obama's inauguration next week. Under most circumstances would be considered unusual for a governor to not attend the inauguration of his state's favorite son as president, but Blago's spokesman said the governor does not want to be a distraction. ...
Blago regretfully declines HopenChangefest invites
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... When a president gets inaugurated, politicians from his state usually get VIP invitations to the best bashes and get the fatted-calf treatment. It’s practically unheard of that a sitting governor would not attend the inauguration of a President from his own state. Of course, impeachment doesn’t happen every day, either: Gov. Rod Blagojevich, worried he would be a “distraction” given the impeachment and criminal charges against him, won’t be going to Washington for President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural festivities, a spokesman said today. The governor was invited to ...
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