Crystal Lake Stylist Does Rod's Hair for $600

Springfield Lee Newspapers reporter Mike Riopell gets the credit for discovering that taxpayers paid Crystal Lake beautician Deborah Dee $600 to get Governor Rod Blagojevich ready to deliver his annual budget address.

The professional hair stylist was apparently paid $600 by both the state and the governor’s campaign fund.

The $600 was for travel and advice on the lighting for the budget address. No word on whether smoke and mirrors were extra.

Riopell reports that Dee had sent a reimbursement check to the state.

This is apparently not the first time Blagojevich has engaged Dee’s services. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reported on April 20th

"HAIR SCARE . . .

"Gov. Blagojevich's detractors tell Sneed the gov spent $5,700 for eight trips to the 'beauty parlor' during the last four years.

"- The flipside: So here's what really happened -- the expenditures to Deborah Dee and Co. were, in fact, for event preparation services for Blagojevich, his wife Patti and anyone else in campaign ads and political fetes, according to the gov's office."

Dee’s address is listed at 3790 Ravenglass Road on the State Board of Elections web site. Friends of Blagojevich reported the Crystal Laker was paid $1,700 for “event preparation” in 2006.
This says she worked on “Ground Hog Day” and "The Kid Who Loved Christmas."

She also is credited with “Hair for Harry Dean Stanton” in Disney’s “the straight story” and “The Game of Their Lives” here.

Another web site adds these:

• What About Joan
• This Is Michael Bolton
• Evil Has a Face
• Legacy of Lies
• The Untouchables

If you want to have some fun, tell us how these movies prepared Dee for her role with Blagojevich.

If you don't know the story, go with the title.

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