Gov Quinn would appoint a Dan Seals to the Senate
I wonder who Politico's sources are for stuff like this.
Sources say Blagojevich’s s successor if he’s removed from office, Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, is likely to point someone who is African- American, but likely not Burris because of the taint or Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill), who is often mentioned as a possibility but would be too controversial.
Sources said the choice is likely to be someone young and dynamic, like Dan Seals, who ran in a northeast Illinois House district in 2006 and 2008. It needs to be someone who would appeal to the white Republicans in downstate Illinois, to prevent the seat going to the GOP in a future election.
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No idea who this guy is, but he's got it right about seating Burris: Republicans Shouldn't Help Dems Block Burris
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Burris has already been appointed. The most Quinn could do is maybe appoint someone to fill the seat until the Supreme Court overrules the Senate and seats Burris.
Shouldn't Burris be on the phone with Dick Cheney? He's the one who will be doing the swearing in as President of the Senate. Getting Cheney to swear him in, with or without the Senate's approval would go along way to getting him seated sooner. Plus, people will start calling him Senator Burris.
What the Senate Dems are doing is in COMPLETE violation of Article V of the constitution which says "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." By imposing the condition that Illinois cannot have a second senator unless the general assembly impeaches the governor is in essence denying Illinois equal representation in the Senate.
It is kind of ironic that the media is now criticizing Blagojevich/Burris/Rush for using the race card when the puppet like media was fawning all over Obama who was effectively using the race card and guilt more effectively than Wallace.
The media (and the Sun Times was an extension of the Obama campaign with the exception of Tim Novak) lacked any journalistic ethics of objectivity and did not do a formal vetting process or any real investigation.
Because of the media's lying and ignoring the corruption in Illinois and Chicago we are now left with an interesting Constitutional dilemma regarding the appointment to the Senate seat by our corrupt governor.
The media has released the internal report by the Obama team that exonerates the Obama team. What did you think Rahm Emmanuel did when he was fundraising? He was swearing and wanted something (Money) for something (favors, contracts, jobs) which is called quid pro qou. Rahm Emmanuel and Rod Blagojevich are basically the same type of person. Egomaniac, vulgar, and corrupt.
It is truly ironic that the media allowed a race based campaign on the historic premise of electing he first biracial President but ignored his paucity of accomplishments and the corruption in which he was spawned.
Blagojevich is just doing what Obama did with race.
It is also at least interesting (if not sad and a waste of money) that Illinois really doesn't need a junior Senator because Obama has resigned since the election and before that he was only there 40% of the time (absent 60% of the time) and has been running for President since he was elected to the Senate in 2004 and officially announced in 2006. So what did Obama do in the US Senate (besides getting a paycheck, pension and health care on the taxpayers dime?) NOTHING Obama did nothing as US Senator and was absent most of the time--now that Obama is gone and we have NO Senator we do not even miss him--isn't that ironic?
We have NO US Senator in Illinois and it doesn't matter because Obama did nothing as US Senator. We have no representation at a time that Israel is attacking Hamas, Muslim terrorists are attacking Mumbai, we are supposed to bail out the car manufacturers, mortgage crisis and much much more. But we cannot debate or even discuss any major issues because we are distracted by the National Enquirer and Entertainment Tonight type journalism of the Chicago Sun Times and the the way (perhaps unintentionally) Obama has demeaned and lowered the level of political discourse to Obama's girl, soundbites, Obama on the beach, and verbal platitudes that hide the political corruption of Valerie Jarrett (Chicago CTA and Planning and Development), Rahm Emmanuel (the f bomb fundraiser and liar for the Clintons), Lyrch Arne Duncan and the highest murders in a school district--but glad Obama has a hoops buddy, and Billy (Investment banking and insider deals for him and his son that we all pay for) Daley on the transition team, maybe add real estate Danny Solis's sister that Clinton puked out and you have a real Chicago team--Chicago the most stressed city according to Forbes, highest murder rate, highest sales tax, high unemployment rates, highest foreclosures and evictions--let Obama do to the US what they did to Chicago but we can hear a great speech and he has some African blood.
Blago is doing what the Obama team did on race.
We don't seem to need a US Senator because it doesn't matter and the last Senator didn't do anything.
Maybe Larry Dominick the Mayor of Cicero should be appointed US Senator?
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