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.
Hmmm … Seems as though Junior gots some splainin’ to do!
RACISTS!!!
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.
Hey, you don’t fuckin’ give somethin’ this fuckin’ valuable away. You put it on iBay
Isn’t that ilBay?
“DA-A-D!”
Isn’t that ilBay?
Man, you’re fuckin’ hangin’ me.
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)
Didja notice that D after his name? Yeah? OK then. This story is a non-story.
This is just a distraction, you know.
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.
Thus opens this week’s episode of “Jesse Jackson Junior: Rocket Scientist.”
Happy, I had a link for you in another post.
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.
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…
He’s not the Jesse Jackson, Jr. I knew.
WRONG! Jesse Jacksoff Sr and Junior are not socialists. They want YOU TO BE A SOCIALIST.
Five million smackers? All I offered him was a case of “misplaced” Samoas.
B.A.U.
Same as it ever was…
Happy, I don’t know what that thig is ….
uBuy.
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.
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.
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.
It was on the first page in the comments where they talk about mucus that I bailed actually. Judge me if you want.
Oh, good Allah. You are killing me.
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?
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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