{"id":3778,"date":"2008-12-09T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2008-12-09T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:34:14","slug":"its-another-chicago-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Another Chicago Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard &#8211; Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is under arrest for, essentially, <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/local\/rod.blagojevich.charged.2.883170.html\">trying to sell Barack Obama&#8217;s vacant former Senate seat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich, a Democrat, was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps during the last month conspiring to sell or trade Illinois&#8217; U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife. At various times, in exchange for the Senate appointment, Blagojevich discussed obtaining:<\/p>\n<p>A substantial salary for himself at a either a non-profit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions;<\/p>\n<p>Placing his wife on paid corporate boards where he speculated she might garner as much as $150,000 a year;<\/p>\n<p>Promises of campaign funds \u2013 including cash up front; and<\/p>\n<p>A cabinet post or ambassadorship for himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Expect the leftyblogosphere to spend a lot of time updating the gentle reader on Mark Foley, Larry Craig and Duke Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be an interesting question for the next one-to-four years; did Barack Obama <em>escape <\/em>Chicago Democrat politics, or did he bring &#8217;em all to DC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard &#8211; Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is under arrest for, essentially, trying to sell Barack Obama&#8217;s vacant former Senate seat: A 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich, a Democrat, was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps during the last month conspiring to sell or trade Illinois&#8217; U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}