The Illinois House has voted to impeach Governor Blagojevich. The vote was 114 to 1, impeachment required 60 votes. The legislature accused the Governor of 'letting down the people of Illinois by letting ego and ambition drive his decisions.' Would we have any state governors left if they could be impeached for this?
It's amazing to me that the criminal charges include plans to sell a Senate seat (which he never actually did). The other charges listed included expanding a state healthcare program without proper authority, going around the law and giving jobs to political allies, and misspending money on a flu vaccine that wasn't needed and couldn't be brought into the country. This just doesn't sound like the stuff of which impeachment is made. It sounds like the normal cronyism and insider baseball that goes on in our government. If I believed that this was the beginning of a nationwide effort to clean up government, I would be impressed. However, I'm not quite sure what this is. It may just be a governor that crossed the Chicago machine somehow.
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