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Que es muy macho? Senor Blago or Senor Cohen?

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010 by J. Robert Gough       Email This Story E-mail This Story

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Who would win in a no holds barred, steel cage match between ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Lt. Gov. candidate Scott Lee Cohen?

And yes, no holds barred means Cohen can juice up if need be. And Blago could use his favorite guitar to hit Cohen over the head (Wasn't there a WWE character who did that?).

Anybody that looks at this state's politics over the last decade (Who am I kidding? We could go back to when the dead voted for JFK.) could pitch all of it to a Hollywood producer and get laughed out of the studio.

A former governor in his seventies goes to jail?

An unknown community organizer with a funny name goes from state senator to U.S. senator to our first african-american president in four years and along the way defeated the country's most popular female politican and a war hero?

The governor with a funny name (who came in after governor who went to jail) was arrested after he (allegedly) tries to sell the U.S. Senate seat of the man who became president? And he gets recorded by the feds talking like he's trying out for The Soprano's: The Musical.

Then he gives the senate seat to a guy who already has his resume on his tombstone...and he's not dead yet.

That governor gets impeached and the new governor, who made his bones as a gadfly and outsider, wins a primary over a scion of the state's Democratic machine?

And the impeached governor goes on to write a book, perform Elvis impersonations for hire and reality television shows.

A state with a Democratic stronghold has a chance to lose both the governor's mansion and the senate seat which was once held by the current president just two years after he was elected president?

And I haven't even gotten to Scott Lee Cohen. His story may be the best of all.

Pawnbroker with a shady past spends $2 million of his own money while neglecting his child support payments to win a primary and is only a general election win away from being one heartbeat away from being governor.

I gotta get a book deal.

 

 

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JAK
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Back to the 60's & Dead voting for JFK?
Reply #1 on : Sat February 06, 2010, 16:49:53
Bob,
It goes back MUCH more than to the 60's with JFK & the deceased Sec. of State Paul Powell's closets FULL of shoeboxes of cash as payoffs (from horse racetracks, as I recall).
How about Illinois "help" with getting the 17th Amendment ratified in 1913 turning US Senators into "super representatives" via direct election rather than by the state legislators?
In Illinois, the House chose the US Senators.
For example, when Lincoln ran against Douglass (sp?)the voters "cast" their vote by voting for their state rep. (today, voting for Jil Tracy to indirectly vote for the GOP--ie Lincoln.
However, about 100 years ago, a "gentleman" that wanted to be a US Senator from Illinois REAL BAD bribed Illinois Reps to vote for him. (I Know, it is hard to believe BRIBES IN ILLINOIS?)
Thus, Illinois "helped" convince other states to ratify the 17th Amendment so we would NEVER have to worry about BRIBES for ANY US Senate Seat!
Sadly, we now have LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD issues that SHOULD be employing MUCH MORE of the local media's time than Lt. Gov. Cohen!

JAK
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