Impeached
Posted by Media Outrage on January 9, 2009
Illonios Gov. Rod Blagojevich has just been impeached by a vote an overwhelming vote in the House. We knew it was coming.
Via Yahoo:
The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat.
Impeachment required just 60 votes. The final result was 114-1.
Legislators accused the second-term Democratic governor of letting down the people of Illinois by letting ego and ambition drive his decisions.
“It’s our duty to clean up the mess and stop the freak show that’s become Illinois government,” said Rep. Jack D. Franks, a Democrat.
Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 on federal charges that include allegations he schemed to profit from his power to name Obama’s replacement in the Senate. The criminal complaint included an FBI agent’s sworn affidavitdescribing wiretaps that caught Blagojevich allegedly talking about what he could get for the seat, how to pressure people into making campaign contributions and more.
That arrest triggered impeachment hearings by a special House committee.
The committee on Thursday unanimously recommended impeachment based on the criminal charges but other allegations as well — that Blagojevich expanded a health care program without proper authority, that he circumvented hiring laws to give jobs to political allies, that he spent millions of dollars on foreign flu vaccine that he knew wasn’t needed and couldn’t be brought into the country.
“The citizens of this state must have confidence that their governor will faithfully serve the people and put their interests before his own,” the committee’s report said. “It is with profound regret that the committee finds that our current governor has not done so.”
Blagojevich has denied the criminal charges. He criticized the House impeachment process as biased and said a Senate trial would produce a different result.
But he didn’t testify before the House impeachment committee and hasn’t offered an explanation for the federal charges.
“His silence in this great matter is deafening,” said House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, a Chicago Democrat.
Mediaoutrage- Who thinks they’ll succeed in getting him thrown out of office?
Miss E said
All I have to say is Blagojevich, get your spheech ready boy!
Your a$$ is about to be kicked out of office!
1coolazzchic said
that one vote he got was probably from someone who put in a bid for that damn seat. and what pisses me off about this is…they are callin this an obama scandal.
Yea I Said It said
We are all corrupt even me, hard as that is to believe…. Next time write the amount you are extorting on a piece of paper,and scream out loud pretending to be outraged anyone would consider such a thing as paying for a job! With your madd comic book face
Lindsay said
lol @ 1coolazzchic- i see the media is trying to tie obama to this ridiculous mess. i think he will be thrown out of office.
Random said
Jeben ti majko..picku materinu!!
F*cking Serb!
Marathon_Man said
damn Random you speak some other ish… you turning me on lol.
Asalamalakum…..Malakum Salom….
Random said
Lmao@MM..I speak a few!
CrystalShine said
LMAO @ marathon man.
@ 1coolazzchick, that one vote came from his wife. He was wanting 2 put her in a position as well.
Oh well!
ucanb2 said
Good
truly23 said
how about ole boy he appointed they didn’t even let him in to be
sworn in–now that’s some ish!!!
AYW said
Speaking of Bill Clinton:
It is opined that Bill Clinton committed racist hate crimes, and I am not free to say anything further about it.
Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Y. Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are probably thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. Moreover, there are innumerable copies in very many countries around the world.)
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“If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Off the top of my head—it came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.