IL Senate Race ShenanigansFollow

Call it the fundraiser that went terribly wrong.

An attorney for a resident of Madrigal Lofts, a condominium building in downtown Washington, D.C., is asking the Senate campaign of Democrat Alexi Giannoulias to investigate an alleged incident of “harassment, intimidation, and assault” that occurred after a recent rooftop fundraising event.

I suppose I'll be voting party this year.

Man, I really don't like Giannoulias (although like you said, he seems to have had nothing to do with the rooftop event). I voted for Hoffman in the primary but now I'm stuck with this dolt on the ticket. I actually voted against Giannoulias for treasurer the few years back.

I actually considered Kirk back when he was still billing himself as a moderate quasi-independent. Now that he's a hack who lied about his military and teaching career and walked back every non-party line vote he's ever cast, I'm stuck without a single guy I actually want to cast a ballot for.

Heh.

So Blagojevich decided he had something in mind -- for himself.

"Let's go down the pecking order. . . . What else is good? Ambassador to the UN?" Blagojevich is heard saying in a secretly recorded call with his top aide, John Harris.

Harris: "No way."

Blagojevich: "Right, keep going ... "How about India? How about South Africa? That's realistic? No s---."

Not every aspect of a possible move to India enthralled Patti Blagojevich.

"I don't know what the hell Amy'd be eating over there," she snaps, referencing their daughter, during a separate phone call.
[...]
"So I'm the governor of a $58 billion corporation, why can't I be ambassador to India?" he asks Harris. He then queries: "What's more important, commerce secretary or ambassador to India?"

He goes on: "Canada? France?"

Harris: "All those are easier than India."

In an exchange with his wife, Patti Blagojevich begins doing what appears to be Internet research on the current Indian ambassador -- a "white guy right now, David C. Mulford" -- and on the ambassador's residence in New Delhi.

"How are the running routes around there?" Rod Blagojevich is heard asking.

"Congested, I'm sure," Patti says.
[...]
Also on tape, Patti Blagojevich calls her husband the day that Obama's elected to report a U.S. senator's salary.

Patti Blagoejvich: "Um, hey, uh senators make $169,300," adding: "I think you make about the same."

"No, I make one sixty," Rod Blagojevich says. "Hundred sixty-nine, huh?"

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