{"id":362,"date":"2008-12-17T04:56:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-12-17T04:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T04:56:48","slug":"rahm_emanuel_and_governor_blag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel and Governor Blagojevich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sneed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/sneed\/1333057,CST-NWS-SNEED16.article\">The Chicago Sun Times<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that Rahm Emanuel is on 21 diffferent tapes discussing the vacant Senate seat in Illinois with Governor Blagoyevich.&nbsp; Now wait a minute.&nbsp; Wouldn&#8217;t it be very natural for a President-elect who was vacating a Senate seat to discuss that Senate seat with the governor of that state who was a member of the same political party.&nbsp; It would be unusual if some discussions were not held.&nbsp; The question is not whether the discussions were held&#8211;they should have been (other than the slime that is Illinois politics), but whether anything was offered for placing someone in particular in the seat.&nbsp; I really feel that this is whole discussion is&nbsp;marginal.&nbsp; Unless you are willing to jump in the swamp and try to clean up Illinois politics (which no one is crazy enough to do), this is just idle chatter.<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder that according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/rezko\/2008\/12\/rezko_to_be_sentenced_in_5_12.html\">The Chicago Sun Times<\/a>&nbsp;blog focusing on the Tony Rezko case, his&nbsp;sentencing will be January 6, 2009.&nbsp; There is now a second case against Rezko and his business partner, which will go to trial next year.&nbsp; Meanwhile, Rezko has been sharing a lot of information with the government.&nbsp; That may be much more important to Barack Obama than anything Ron Blagojevich has to say.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sneed at The Chicago Sun Times&nbsp;is reporting that Rahm Emanuel is on 21 diffferent tapes discussing the vacant Senate seat in Illinois with Governor Blagoyevich.&nbsp; Now wait a minute.&nbsp; Wouldn&#8217;t it be very natural for a President-elect who was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}