Will Mr. Burris be trapped in the slimy swamp of corruption which seems to be the hallmark of Chicago and Illinois politics. If the facts are as described by the NY Times, this is disgraceful. Does Burris believe that we're all stupid (see emphasis below)? If he's not corrupt, he is certainly inept and incompetent.
Senate Democrats, including leader Harry Reid, would seem to have considerable egg on their faces after saying the Senate would not seat Burris, then agreeing to it (Could this have been a ploy to insure another Democrat vote on the controversial stimulus bill?).
Will Obama or Immanuel remain unstained by all this? They are both products of Chicago/Illinois politics, after all. Will the media make a concerted effort to find all the facts behind this Burris mess?
"...In documents first made public over the weekend, Mr. Burris disclosed that he had conversations with Mr. Blagojevich’s brother, Robert Blagojevich, and with several other Blagojevich advisers, including his chief of staff, in the weeks and months before he was appointed to the Senate. In the three calls, which took place in October and then after Mr. Obama was elected president in November, Robert Blagojevich sought Mr. Burris’s fund-raising help for his brother, who was then governor — help that Mr. Burris says he refused to provide.
Mr. Burris made the disclosures in a sworn affidavit he sent to a Democratic state lawmaker on Feb. 5 to “supplement” testimony he had provided to the State House impeachment committee on Jan. 8. At that point, Senate leaders in Washington were still considering whether they should seat Mr. Burris.
At the January hearing, Mr. Burris was asked whether he had talked to those in Mr. Blagojevich’s inner circle, including Robert Blagojevich, before he was picked about his desire to get the Senate seat. Mr. Burris told the House committee then that he had and cited one conversation from months earlier with Lon Monk, a former Blagojevich chief of staff.
On Sunday, Mr. Burris said his omissions before the House committee of the conversations with Mr. Blagojevich’s brother, with Mr. Blagojevich’s chief of staff at the time and with two close advisers to the former governor were unintentional [emphasis added]. The panel’s questions, he said, had moved on to other matters before he had a chance to describe all of his conversations with Mr. Blagojevich’s allies..."
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