suntimes.com - 1/8/2009
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Roland Burris the senator-designate from Illinois said upon landing at Midway Airport Wednesday that Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White told him that if he had to do it all over again, he just would have signed Burris' Senate appointment. But White's spokesman said the secretary of ...
chicagotribune.com - 1/8/2009
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority opened
the way Wednesday for Roland Burris to become Illinois'...
next senator, pressured by President-elect Barack Obama to remove a politically consuming distraction less than two weeks before he ...
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Senate's Democratic majority clears path for Roland Burris -
huffingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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Inches away from securing a seat in the
United States Senate, Roland Burris suffered what could be...
a serious setback on Thursday. Appearing before an Illinois House impeachment committee in regards to the role by which he became the Senate ...
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Burris Admits He Reached Out To Blago Adviser Named In ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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AP - Illinois Republicans are promising tough questions
Thursday for Senate-appointee Roland Burris on why he accepted...
a position offered by disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich and whether he promised the governor anything in return.
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Ill. panel to grill Burris on Senate appointment
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My Good Friend
ArchPundit —
This is a complete farce:
“My good friend Secretary of State White says that, uh, he certainly would sign the document,” Burris said, adding that the only reason White told him he would not sign it now was because the case was in court. “The suit that we filed may have to cause him to hold it up.” Inadvertently transposing “then” and “now,” Burris added, “He said if he knew now what he knew then he wouldn’t have done what he did.”
White spokesman Dave Druker confirmed White and Burris had “a cordial conversation” Wednesday but denied White is having second ...
Burris: White Says He Should've Signed Senate Appointment (VIDEO)
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... "Roland Burris -- the senator-designate from Illinois -- said upon landing at Midway Airport Wednesday that Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White told him that if he had to do it all over again, he just would have signed Burris' Senate appointment," the Sun-Times' Abdon Pallasch reports. ...
Burris: White Says He Should've Signed Senate Appointment (VIDEO)
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... "Roland Burris -- the senator-designate from Illinois -- said upon landing at Midway Airport Wednesday that Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White told him that if he had to do it all over again, he just would have signed Burris' Senate appointment," the Sun-Times' Abdon Pallasch reports. ...
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com 1/7/2009 —
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Burris to face grilling on Blagojevich ties —
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