pajamasmedia.com - 12/31/2008
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The disgraced Illinois governor's master stroke now puts the ball squarely in the Senate majority leader's court.
chicagobreakingnews.com - 12/30/2008
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burris400.jpg Then Governor-elect Rod Blagojevich introduces his board
of advisors, including Roland Burris (to the governor's left)...
in November 2002. (Tribune file photo / Chuck Berman) Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected today to name former Illinois ...
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Blagojevich to name Burris to Senate
chicagotribune.com - 12/30/2008
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected today to name
former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris to replace President-elect...
Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. The action comes despite warnings by Democratic Senate leaders that they would not seat anyone ...
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BLAGOJEVICH'S LATEST MOVE: Rod Blagojevich expected to ...
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Pajamas Media » Reid Balks at Blagojevich Senate Choice
The problem is that the chances of Mr. Burris — a well respected, squeaky clean, more than qualified African-American — ever taking his seat in the Senate chamber are not very good.
…Burris served from 1979-1991 as comptroller of the state and from 1991-1995 as attorney general. He is currently head of Burris & Lebed Consulting of Chicago, a high powered lobbying and consulting firm that, according to the Chicago Sun Times, has gotten nearly $295,000 in state contracts since 2004. ...
REID BALKS AT BLAGO SENATE CHOICE
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My latest column at Pajamas Media is up. I look at Blago’s master stroke of changing the dynamics of his personal political situation and throwing the ball into Harry Reid’s court as far as the senate choice is concerned. A sample: On the surface, this was a brilliant stroke by Blagojevich. By rolling the dice and naming Burris, he puts the onus of rejecting a supremely qualified African-American candidate smack on Senator Reid’s shoulders while perhaps even currying favor with Illinois blacks. In addition, if Reid were somehow to reverse himself, the drive for impeachment would ...
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TIME.com Top Politics Stories 12/31/2008
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's defiant nomination of the state's former Attorney General to take up Barack Obama's Senate seat prompts one question: Who is Roland Burris?
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