Trial tape: Rahm Emanuel asked Rod Blagojevich to appoint Claypool

[marmar]

from the Sun-Times:




Four days after the 2008 presidential election, Rahm Emanuel called then Gov. Rod Blagojevich to suggest a plan just “between you and I” that would allow the newly-appointed White House chief of staff to handpick a temporary congressional successor, promising: “I will not forget this.”

The first-ever public transcript of Chicago’s future mayor caught on a federal wiretap was disclosed in a defense filing Tuesday.

In the Nov. 8, 2008 recorded call, Emanuel told Blagojevich he wanted then Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool tapped to fill Emanuel’s 5th Congressional District seat “in my interest of, uh, you know, having somebody there you know that doesn’t want to make it a lifetime commitment.”

Claypool only wants to serve “for like one term or two max,” Emanuel told Blagojevich. “And then he wants to go to the cabinet.” ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.suntimes.com/5836317-417/trial-tape-rahm-emanuel-asked-rod-blagojevich-to-appoint-claypool.html

[ljm2002]

1. Good.

They threw Blagojevich under the bus and rolled the bus back and forth over him. Better have your own hands clean if you're going to do that. He's doing a scorched earth defense and I would too under the circumstances.

If Blagojevich is dirty, the question remains, was he just conducting business as usual, the way they all do? I suspect the answer to that question is a resounding "yes".

[mopinko]

3. he wasn't that much worse, it's just that

people got tired of having to deal with a bat shit crazy chief executive who didn't even bother to go to springfield. if he had managed to run the state at the same time, he would still be there.

[Poll_Blind]

2. Ugh.

PB

[frylock]

4. shocking

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