The State legislature has very weak grounds for impeachment proceedings. The ONLY aspect of any of this circus that carries brevity is a POTENTIAL ethical violation for having a ? corrupt ? conversation with his Chief of Staff.
In my opinion, there is a weak case against the Governor every place including any ethics violation. The Governor needs to take the 'bull' by the horns and assign a new Illinois Senator and I won't waste any time either.
The 'feeding frenzy' over this mess is getting stupid and disgusting, but, hey this is America where any media scandal makes money !
Blagojevich Doesn’t Plan to Resign, Spokesman Says (Update2) (click here)
By Joe Carroll and Andrew Harris
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich doesn’t plan to resign tomorrow, a spokesman said, contradicting speculation by the state’s attorney general that the governor might quit in response to federal corruption charges.
“Not true -- the Gov has no plans of resigning tomorrow,” Lucio Guerrero, a spokesman for Democrat Blagojevich, said today in an e-mailed statement.
Blagojevich, 52, has ignored calls to resign since his Dec. 9 arrest at his Chicago home for what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called “a political corruption crime spree.” The governor and his former chief of staff, John Harris, 46, were accused of attempting to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, soliciting bribes and trying to pressure the Chicago Tribune to halt critical editorials.
The scandal means Illinois, the fifth most-populous state, may have to wait several months to bring its Senate contingent to full strength if lawmakers succeed with plans to strip Blagojevich of authority to fill Obama’s seat, said Charlie Wheeler, an associate professor at the University of Illinois- Springfield. Every U.S. state is entitled to two Senate seats....
