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Governor arrested
17 years ago
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6AM, Tuesday December 9, Chicago's north side. Governor Rod Blagojevich was woken up this morning by a phone call from the FBI. Very soon after, he was arrested by federal agents for allegedly "shaking up" prospective candidates for Barack Obama's vacated senate seat.
For those of you who have an idea what that phrase means, it should bring visions of old school gangsters, because trying to get paid to "sell" the seat to a candidate was exactly what he was caught on tape claiming he was going to do / already in the process of doing. I imagine the 6am phone call went a little like this:
PHONE rings. BLAGOJEVICH picks up the phone and answers.
BLAGOJEVICH: "uhhh..... hello?"
PHONE: "Good morning."
BLAGOJEVICH: "hi, who is this?"
PHONE: "How are you? I'm detective John Kimble. Now I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions, and I want to have them answered immediately."
BLAGOJEVICH: "What, Quinn, is that you?"
PHONE: "I'm a cop you idiot! Haha, just keeding. Rod, dis is da Governator. I just called to tell you that FBI agents are at your house and have come to arrest you. You might want to get out of there in a hurry, or there will be a lot of people that are unhappy with the results and these kinds of things. I'd offah you a ride in my helicopter, since ah'm cuerrently trying to get back in bed with Maria (and these kinds of things), baht seence that seems like a longshot I thought I'd give you some advice, governor to girly-governor: Get out of the house. NAOW"
* The preceding text has been dramatized and may not reflect the actual events regarding the vacated senate seat. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.
For those of you who have an idea what that phrase means, it should bring visions of old school gangsters, because trying to get paid to "sell" the seat to a candidate was exactly what he was caught on tape claiming he was going to do / already in the process of doing. I imagine the 6am phone call went a little like this:
PHONE rings. BLAGOJEVICH picks up the phone and answers.
BLAGOJEVICH: "uhhh..... hello?"
PHONE: "Good morning."
BLAGOJEVICH: "hi, who is this?"
PHONE: "How are you? I'm detective John Kimble. Now I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions, and I want to have them answered immediately."
BLAGOJEVICH: "What, Quinn, is that you?"
PHONE: "I'm a cop you idiot! Haha, just keeding. Rod, dis is da Governator. I just called to tell you that FBI agents are at your house and have come to arrest you. You might want to get out of there in a hurry, or there will be a lot of people that are unhappy with the results and these kinds of things. I'd offah you a ride in my helicopter, since ah'm cuerrently trying to get back in bed with Maria (and these kinds of things), baht seence that seems like a longshot I thought I'd give you some advice, governor to girly-governor: Get out of the house. NAOW"
* The preceding text has been dramatized and may not reflect the actual events regarding the vacated senate seat. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.
Although, once he's in the 'big country club' (politicians never get sent to anything worse than minimum security around here it seems, they're all too 'connected' to be put with people who only ruin a few families. No, the guys who ruin the lives of everyone in the entire state get paid vacations for their prison time.) we can sent him postcards of Chicago, and on the back a simple message, "Rod, your village called, they DON'T want their idiot back."
That being said, getting bussed back and forth by private jet every day's kinda a waste of money if it was all on taxpayer dollars :T
Oh yeah it was a waste, since we already had the Gov's mansion for him to live in while he worked. That's why the damned thing is there, to be the Gov's apartment at least while Congress is in session.
~Otaku-Man
In retrospect that was 100% the right decision.
STOP LAUGHING!
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Chicago mobsters VS Springfield mobsters.
Governor didn't cooperate with the others, so they trump up some lame charges and the media implies he's guilty of everything.
Lets not forget NeoCons still have big control over some states.
Meanwhile Bush and Cheney get away with genocide.
That being said, I'm kinda disgusted when right wing hypocrites talk shit about chicago politics pretending to know how it works when they clearly don't :T
Besides, mentioning 'gubinaytors, didn't Arnold get busted for rape a long time ago? o.o
Yeah our Mayor was arrested recently too.. THE WORLD IS CRAZY
Im quite suprised on all the crap he did, and he even supposedly worried his phone calls were getting Recorded, which he was right and still he talked about everything he kept doing. He brought himself down, with the firing of the editorials workers and One named directly and money, money and money. U.S Its a crazy place
Richard Nixon by today's standards he's not a crook