mydd.com - 2/18/2009
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Re: Pressure Mounting For Burris To Resign ( none / 0 ) The Chicago Sun-Times came up with one of the worst editorials I have ever read , in which they basically said "he wouldn't resign even if we called on him to do it, so instead we're going to talk about how newspapers are so much better ...
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - 2/18/2009
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The benefit of the doubt had already been
stretched thin and taut by the time Roland Burris...
offered his third version of the events leading to his appointment to the U.S. Senate. It finally snapped like a rubber band, popping him on that long ...
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chicagotribune.com - 2/18/2009
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chicagotribune.com —
About the affidavit Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., talks
to the media about an affidavit that he filed...
Feb. 5 with the Illinois House committee. ( Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo / February 15, 2009)
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... Detroit can haz more loanz?
Good news.
But not in Ka-lee-fornia.
And not for Roland.
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I wish he wouldn't phrase it quite like that.
This asshat used to be in the US Congress.
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Bet she does better than Karen Hughes.
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Roland Burris must resign
The Reaction —
... Tribune The hole just gets deeper and deeper, and Burris keeps digging. He has no credibility. ***** There's only one honorable action for Burris: resign. Find more reaction at Memeorandum, including from HuffPo's Sam Stein, Political Animals's Steve Benen, and MyDD's Todd Beeton.
2/18: It's Time To Go, Roland
Blogometer —
February 18, 2009 2/18: It's Time To Go, Roland Most liberal bloggers are calling on Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) to resign following his admission that he tried (unsuccessfully) to raise money for ex-IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich before Blagojevich appointed him to the Senate. Lefty bloggers believe that Burris "has sunk whatever credibility he might have once had," and some are urging the Senate to expel Burris if he refuses to resign on his own. Conservative bloggers, meanwhile, are enjoying "the latest embarrassment to Democrats ...
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Resign Sen. Burris
talkleft.com 2/18/2009 — Why? Chicago Tribune : U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has acknowledged he sought to raise campaign funds for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the request of the governor’s brother at the same time he was making a pitch to be appointed to the Senate seat ...
Illinois Governor Calls on Burris to Resign
news.aol.com 2/20/2009 — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has called on U.S. Sen. Roland Burris to resign, CNN reports. "I would ask my good friend Sen. Roland Burris .. to step aside and resign from the office," Quinn said during a press conference moments ago. He also said he ...
Ill. GOP leader calls on Burris to resign
msnbc.msn.com 2/15/2009 — An Illinois Republican leader says the state's freshman U.S. senator should resign over contradictory statements regarding Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment.
Burris Refuses Plea to Resign
politicalwire.com 3/2/2009 — Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) refused to resign today, the AP reports, "rebuffing the call from the Senate's No. 2 Democrat who made it clear that the embattled Illinois lawmaker would have little luck next year winning the seat vacated by President ...
Burris Will Not Resign, Will Not Run in 2010
politicalwire.com 2/24/2009 — Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) meets with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) today to attempt quell the storm surrounding his appointment to the Senate seat left empty by Barack Obama. Lynn Sweet has the scoop: "Burris will also be sending, directly or indirectly ...
Illinois gov.: Burris should resign from Senate
news.yahoo.com 2/20/2009 — CHICAGO Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says Sen. Roland Burris should resign his post for the good of the state. Quinn said Friday that his fellow Democrat, Burris, is an honorable man. But he says controversy surrounding Burris' appointment has cast a ...
Pressure on Burris to resign mounts —
CNN Political Ticker 2/18/2009
(CNN) — The largest newspaper in Illinois on Tuesday called for U.S. Sen. Roland Burris to resign, a day after Burris detailed several conversations with impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother he had failed to mention under oath.
Burris, ...
Congress: Burris under fire —
First Read 2/18/2009
Per NBC’s Ken Strickland, a source on the Senate Ethics Committee said it was opening a preliminary investigation into the Burris matter. MSNBC’s Adam Verdugo got this quote from a spokeswoman for Ethics Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer: ...
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