State Journal Register: In-law Trouble for the Governor

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http://www.sj-r.com/Sections/News/Stories/44626.asp

"CHICAGO - Gov. Rod Blagojevich's father-in-law, a Chicago alderman, took a simmering family feud public Friday, accusing the governor of shutting down a landfill run by a distant relative in a political power play aimed at burnishing his populist image.
Ald. Richard Mell, a Democratic heavyweight credited with helping get his son-in-law elected governor, said Blagojevich was trying to show his political independence and get back at Mell for criticizing him.

"He can't stand to have people thinking it was me who got him elected," Mell said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from Florida.

"It's purely because of me, because he wants to demonstrate to the world that he is the champion of virtue and that no relative, nobody, can use the governor's office. He is going to be the best possible governor beyond belief," Mell said."

This is such a weird story. Blago's father-in-law, Alderman Mell, is calling out Blago in a sense saying that he helped elect Blago and Blago doesn't want to admit it. This doesn't look too pretty.