A mysterious mural has turned up on a half-dozen concrete walls around the city in recent weeks. The black graffiti stencil shows former Gov. Rod Blagojevich wearing his familiar tracksuit, running through the street and glancing over his shoulder, as if he is being pursued. The image leaves it to the viewer to speculate about who is trailing Blago -- U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald, perhaps?
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Blagojevich art: Graffiti stencil of disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich appears around city
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Outrage of the Day: NBC Wants Blagojevich for Reality TV Show
The former governor of Illinois, who pleaded not guilty to federal racketeering and fraud charges Tuesday, has inked a deal to star on NBC's summer reality series, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Blagojevich's participation requires court approval because the show will be shot in Costa Rica and he is not allowed to leave the United States.
Blagojevich would be one of 10 celebrities competing in survival-of-the-fittest challenges in the Costa Rican jungle to raise money for charity. The series, adapted from the U.K. version, will premiere June 1 and is slated to unspool four nights a week for a month.
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Blagojevich Removed From Office By Illinois State Senate
Without a dissenting vote, the Illinois State Senate found
Rod R. Blagojevich guilty of abuse of his office. He was the
eighth governor in United States history to be removed, and
the first in 21 years.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Blago Media Blitz
Illinois' beleaguered Gov. Rod Blagojevich said today that when he was deciding who would take President Obama's Senate seat he considered appointing talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.
Blagojevich made the revelation to Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America" on the day his impeachment trial is set to begin. That trial is expected to toss him out of office.
The governor said that Winfrey's name came up as a potential successor to Obama in the Senate.
Blagojevich is slated to appear on "GMA," ABC's "The View," the "Today" show and "Larry King Live" today.
The governor insisted he was innocent but was boycotting his trial because he was not allowed to introduce witnesses like Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and the president's top adviser Valerie Jarrett.
"I'm talking to Americans to let them know what's happening in the land of Lincoln," Blagojevich said.
When asked whether he had tried to auction off Obama's Senate seat, Blagojevich said, "Absolutely not and I'll have a chance in a criminal case to show my innocence and bring witnesses."
Reminded that many people, including Obama, have called on him to resign and that Mayor Richard Daley even called him "cuckoo," the governor said, "Here's a question I have to you, to Mayor Daley and everyone else: Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence?"
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Daley Knows Best
If Gov. Blagojevich wants to invoke the insanity defense, he won’t get an argument from Mayor Daley.
Daley turned into an amateur psychiatrist Friday when asked about the governor’s claim that the state Senate’s upcoming impeachment trial is a plot to get Blagojevich out of the way to pave the wave for a massive tax increase.
“I’ve said, ‘cuckoo’ once. I’ll say it again: ‘Cuckoo,’ ” the mayor said of the governor’s claim.
That’s the second time in four months that Daley has referred to Illinois’ disgraced governor as “cuckoo.”
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