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Blago subpoenas Giannoulias.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 28th, 2010 at 08:00 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

A pleasant beginning to the week, no?

First it was President Barack Obama, then White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, now U.S. Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias is joining the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial subpoena list.

Giannoulias is in the middle of a hard fought campaign against Congressman Mark Kirk for the right to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Obama.

So there’s no doubt that being dragged into the Blagojevich trial is not welcome news for the Democratic candidate’s campaign.

Giannoulias, of course, says he doesn’t know anything about Blagojevich’s shenanigans about trying to sell the Senate seat that Alexi Giannoulias (D CAND, IL-SEN) is now trying to win; he’s just… OK, this is complicated. Let me bullet point.

  • Supposedly, the White House wanted to put Valerie Jarrett in that Senate seat.
  • Governor Blagojevich had a SEIU guy who was allegedly Blago’s mouthpiece.
  • Mouthpiece goes to Illinois state Treasurer Giannoulias for an introduction to Jarrett.
  • Yeah, supposedly the treasurer of Illinois has a personal connection with Jarrett and the White House, but the then-governor of Illinois didn’t.  Then again, the former isn’t under indictment and the latter is.
  • Anything that went on after that?  Giannoulias was not involved.  Well, except for that meeting between Jarrett and the SEIU guy.  He was there, but he doesn’t remember anything about it.

And that last bit is probably going to be the place where Giannoulias sweats the most in all of this.  Giannoulias seems to have a habit of being around places where things went down, then claiming that he wasn’t involved in them.  Blagojevich is going to have his lawyers hammer at this habit; I’m not expecting a meltdown or an implosion or Giannoulias leaving the courtroom under arrest, but there could be some entertainment here.  Right now no Illinois politician wants to have his name associated with the… stickiness… that is the Blagojevich trial.  Particularly the ones running for an office so intimately connected to the trial…

Moe Lane

PS: Mark Kirk for Senate.  Trying for Obama’s seat the old-fashioned way; by earning it.

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  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Maybe some caramel popcorn on this one. Sticky-sweet to go hand-in-hand with the rtotally-on-point national media coverage……. Oh wait……. What media coverage ?

    Best to stick with the tried-and-true butter and salt duo….. Butter for the popcorn, salt for the gaping wound we ‘hope’ is about to offer up some ‘change’.

    ;)

    Gee, I up ‘n done some half-way decent snarkification there. See what actually having my morning coffee can do ?

    Cheers !

  • Brian Hibbert

    It worked well for Hillary, it will probably work for Alexi too (unfortunately). Major corrupt Democrats always get a pass.

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    It has been long rumored that Obama benefited from conspicious financial help when he bought his first home, a townhouse that was on the cusp of affordability for him. The Broadway Bank -who also had helped him with campaign financing- put together a sweetheart mortgage deal for Obama, all apparently in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined.

    Later, in 2006, family scion Alexi Giannoulias -a 29-year-old with no experience whatsoever -and who had never even voted before- decides to run for State Treasurer of Illinois… Barack Obama promptly endorsed him.

    Clearly, it was highly unlikely he could have won without Obama’s support. Giannoulias subsequently held a fundraiser for Obama in 2007, in which he raised upwards of $100,000 for the senator?s Presidential bid. Around Chicago, the two cultivated an image as “basketball buddies” and political fellow travellers… while Obama now acts like he never met him.

  • clintonformccain

    Even when Ayers was writing Obama’s first autobiography or hosting the campaign kickoff announcement for state legistlature on Billy’s front porch.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    Now jus’ hol’ on a secon’……. wait a a cotton’ pickin’ minute there Blago my boy…….. Whatcha meanin’ heah wiffen diss Senator Winfrey thang ?

    Mmmmmphhthpd grmbkkdtrpnfll wrmblqrnpdr Mpry Bnfry znnitr !

    Hey son, take that gag offen yer mush….. Sounded like you said you actually considered Oprah Winfrey to take the Senate seat of that succotash suckin’ sucka now sittin’ in the big chair.

    Mttts tt zctlee !

    Whhhhhaaaaaattttttttt ?!?!?!?!?!?! Grrrrrrrrrrrr—-BOOM !!! ………… (smoke clears)………… Uhhhhh, fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an occasion………….

    ———————

    Mr. Breitbart’s site has some video………….

    http://www.breitbart.tv/senator-oprah-blago-considered