SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Sen. Roland Burris admitted in a document released Saturday that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before the governor appointed Burris to the Senate.
The disclosure is at odds with Burris' testimony in January when an Illinois House impeachment committee specifically asked if he had ever spoken to Robert Blagojevich or other aides to the now-deposed governor about the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.
State Rep. Jim Durkin, the impeachment committee's ranking Republican, told The Associated Press that he and House Republican Leader Tom Cross will ask Sunday for an outside investigation into whether Burris perjured himself.
Gotta love Illinois politics.
5 comments:
Is everyone as happy as I am that our new president is the spawn of the same political machine that gave us Blagojevich and Burris?
But you're wrong. He's as pure as the driven on snow.
You lost me for a minute--I missed two little letters.
Now (that I've spotted them) I agree with you.
:)
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