Articles filed under Political Figures
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Media, officials dance around governor's colorful languageJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - What a bleeping nightmare. Gov. Rod Blagojevich's potty mouth, immortalized forever on FBI tapes of the governor dropping f-bombs left and right during phone calls with ...
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Senators hear G-rated Blago tapes at impeachment hearingJan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's voice was heard in the Senate impeachment trial Tuesday plotting to meet a racetrack owner over legislation to benefit the horse rac...
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Is impeachment trial moving too fast?Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The bipartisan spirit that has guided Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial in the Illinois Senate to this point showed signs of cracking Wednesday as ...
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Blago hits talk show circuit as impeachment trial beginsJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Impeachment prosecutors said Monday Gov. Rod Blagojevich's own words will show he so violated the public trust that he should be the first governor in Ill...
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Send in the clowns: Blagojevich plays to cheap seats in 'media circus'Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It's only January, but Whoopi Goldberg of "The View" got off what is likely to be the understatement of the year when she told Gov. Rod Blagojevich Monday, "This is turn...
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Cost of governor's trip? At least he didn't take state planeJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - If taxpayers are on the hook for any of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's New York City media blitz Monday, it at least won't be for his transportation. Paris Irvin, spokeswoman fo...
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Time to end the state's 'nightmare'Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Instead of comparing himself to Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King Jr., Rod Blagojevich should be trying to emulate Richard Nixon. When it was clear hi...
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Senator Oprah? Blagojevich takes on the talk showsJan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared on four national TV shows Monday in his public campaign to discredit the impeachment process against him and raise his tanking im...
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Who's who in the impeachment trial of Gov. BlagojevichJan 25, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - The cast of characters in the Senate's impeachment trial of Gov. Rod Blagojevich are well-known players in the marble halls of the state Capitol, but they ...
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Governor's impeachment trial a first for IllinoisJan 25, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Moments after President Barack Obama finished his landmark inauguration speech, the masses on the National Mall turned and began making their way home. In t...