Articles filed under Political Figures
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Governor no media darling, just a menaceJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Something very strange - and disturbing - has happened with Rod Blagojevich. Even as legal wheels turn in Springfield to remove him from the governorship, he has become ...
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For those who don't know how to love himJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Rod Blagojevich has compared himself to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, but now the Second City comedy troupe is giving him the role he really...
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Governor will finally speak to SenateJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to make a personal, last-ditch appeal to stay in office today in the final moments of an impeachment trial he has repeated...
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So who's the next Lt. Gov.? Answer may surprise youJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Now that Pat Quinn has become governor, who becomes the lieutenant governor? Answer: no one. According to the Illinois Constitution, when the office of lie...
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Only 7 governors successfully impeached in U.S. historyJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Only seven U.S. governors have been impeached and removed from office: WILLIAM W. HOLDEN of North Carolina, 1871. Holden was removed after he sent a militia to quell vio...
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Blagojevich has no golden parachute if impeached.Jan 27, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - When it comes to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's personal finances, the man who once wanted campaign money so badly he allegedly shook down a children's hospital fo...
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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...