It appears as though maybe at least one candidate for Obama’s Senate seat was willing to play some serious ball in exchange for Blago’s “golden thing.”
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s camp was told last year that U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) would raise up to $5 million in campaign cash for the ex-governor if he was appointed to President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
The overture came from at least two members of the local Indian community who approached the Blagojevich fund-raising team last fall, sources say.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. denies allowing anyone to make pay-to-play offers for President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat to then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich on his behalf.
Panel lacks teeth in ethics probe Jesse Jackson Jr. interviewed by feds Jackson Jr.: ‘I have done nothing wrong’
Besides the $5 million to be raised by Jackson, the proposal also included another $1 million for Blagojevich’s campaign fund that would come from Indian donors, sources say.
This is the first revelation that a proposal for the Jackson appointment involved an alleged promise that he’d raise campaign cash for the ex-governor.
Also, the amount of money allegedly offered to Blagojevich is significantly higher than what’s been reported so far.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 4/13 @ 12:04 pm #
Hmmm … Seems as though Junior gots some splainin’ to do!
Comment by gus on 4/13 @ 12:44 pm #
RACISTS!!!
Comment by MarkD on 4/13 @ 12:51 pm #
Well, when the government is giving away trillions of our money, $5 million is chump change for a seat at the table.
I can only wish that the return on my 401K was as good.
Comment by Blago on 4/13 @ 1:18 pm #
Hey, you don’t fuckin’ give somethin’ this fuckin’ valuable away. You put it on iBay
Comment by LTC John on 4/13 @ 1:25 pm #
Isn’t that ilBay?
Comment by mojo on 4/13 @ 1:32 pm #
“DA-A-D!”
Comment by Blago on 4/13 @ 1:41 pm #
Isn’t that ilBay?
Man, you’re fuckin’ hangin’ me.
Comment by Sticky B on 4/13 @ 2:01 pm #
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)
Didja notice that D after his name? Yeah? OK then. This story is a non-story.
Comment by cranky-d on 4/13 @ 2:04 pm #
This is just a distraction, you know.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/13 @ 2:06 pm #
Two particular problems I have with Jesse Jackson Jr. are that he’s corrupt and also that he is a disgusting dirty socialist. His daddy is a corrupt dirty socialist too what expressed hostile sentiments directed at our dirty socialist president’s testicles. All of these people are trashy beyond words I think.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 4/13 @ 2:07 pm #
Thus opens this week’s episode of “Jesse Jackson Junior: Rocket Scientist.”
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 2:15 pm #
Happy, I had a link for you in another post.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/13 @ 2:19 pm #
In the future, we’ll all be so advanced that we’ll all go to the Wise Leaders of the village and ask them to take what we need from someone else.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/13 @ 2:24 pm #
oh… Hi, Carin!… I will look for the link… I have a link. I will share it with you. Here… I’m gonna wait til I get home to really look at it cause I think you need a big monitor…
Comment by Benedick on 4/13 @ 2:55 pm #
He’s not the Jesse Jackson, Jr. I knew.
Comment by gus on 4/13 @ 3:16 pm #
WRONG! Jesse Jacksoff Sr and Junior are not socialists. They want YOU TO BE A SOCIALIST.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 4/13 @ 3:18 pm #
Five million smackers? All I offered him was a case of “misplaced” Samoas.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 4/13 @ 3:38 pm #
B.A.U.
Same as it ever was…
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 4:49 pm #
Happy, I don’t know what that thig is ….
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 4/13 @ 5:05 pm #
uBuy.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/13 @ 5:30 pm #
I’m not sure either, Carin – they took Internet data and mapped it over Tokyo or something. I thought to myself – this is something I’ve never seen before. You want I can link beautifulcervix.com but… ick.
Comment by Carin on 4/13 @ 7:02 pm #
Beautifulcervix.com? I thought you were joking. Of course, I have five kids, so it’s really nothing I didn’t know.
You know, some women really need to get out more.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/13 @ 9:37 pm #
I thought that whole thing looked gack. And no I didn’t click on the post-coital ones. There are things what you can’t unsee and I’m pretty sure that could be a top ten one.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/13 @ 9:38 pm #
It was on the first page in the comments where they talk about mucus that I bailed actually. Judge me if you want.
Comment by JD on 4/13 @ 9:47 pm #
Oh, good Allah. You are killing me.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 4/14 @ 7:49 am #
Beautifulcervix.com?
What is it with feminists and womyn’s studies types that they go all ga-ga and weak-kneed over things like that?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 4/14 @ 8:16 am #
Anyone else bemused that, if guys enjoy looking at a woman’s body or parts thereof, it’s somehow reducing her to a piece of meat, but if women to the same thing, it’s “empowering”?
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