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Who dropped the dime on Blago?

Submitted by Ironman on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 21:43
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Speculations abounds (espcially from lefties trolling here) on who dropped the dime to Fitzy causing Blago to get pinched this week.

The initial rumors were Rahm Emanuel. Which he now denies  http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/12/10/rahm/index.html?source=rss&aim=/politics/war_room

It does make sense, though. The question is: who in Illinois Democratic politics would benefit from having both Blago and a host of U.S. Senate aspirants nuked at the same time?

Answer: Someone who would be left standing as the last power in the state.

Think how Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger did business---flipping on members of the New England Mafia to the FBI primarily so his competition was sent to prison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Bulger#FBI_informant http://www.thebrothersbulger.com/

 Someone on the inside in Illinois Democrat politics is going to benefit from all this misfortune by taking over the ruins.  I could easily see Rahm running Illinois while serving as Obama's COS.

But if it isn't him (and he may not want to be candid, now would he?)  , then who is it?

We'd best figure this out, cause this guy is: a)sneaky,  b) smart and: c) ruthless. We're having enough trouble in Ill. already.

(hmm: maybe it's the same guy who leaked Blair Hull and Jack Ryan's divorce dirt to the papers?)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois,_2004

One final note; Sam Zell says he will be talking to the Feds about the Wrigley Field "squeeze play" http://blogs.courant.com/stan_simpson/2008/12/sam-zell-to-talk-to-fbi.html

Methinks that if Illinois Republicans have any functioning cortexes left  they will tell Mr. Zell to pay for his own damm ballpark. No need to fire any columnists, either.

 

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More on the dime drop

Submitted by Ironman on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 07:06.

More indications it came from the Obama camp.

http://volokh.powerblogs.com/posts/1228903890.shtml

How about David Axelrod as the snitch? After all, he's the one Obama camper who's had to retract a statement in this mess, and he is neck deep in the dreck of liberal/union /machine politics in the Windy City? 

If you want to point fingers at who benefits

Submitted by RisingTide on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 10:33.

or at least who actually has power in the state: Madigan and Daley.  No way Rahm could run Illinois from washington.

But Obama has a lot to gain from the perception that his admin turned Blag in. Is Palin next? ;-)

Why so cynical?

Submitted by NextRightNando on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 13:09.

The Illinois press is reporting that many people who have had personal interaction with Blago believe him to be mentally ill. So perhaps the tipster was just a good citizen on somebody's staff who thought that  having a total whackjob as gov wasn't a good idea.

where I come from, a good samaritan is someone

Submitted by Ironman on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 21:46.

looking for future favors. I doubt anyone in IL is more high minded than the CT brand of politician

RE: The "Blago is nuts" riff.  Was this guy sane when the Dems nominated him twice for Governor?...or did he suddenly lose his marbles after the cuffs went on and he became an embarassment.

I hope his defense counsel doesn't go down this road. Notice his COS is nailed for the same counts. It's sorta hard to argue against a conspiracy count that both people at the same time had no idea that they behavior was wrongful, and that neither could control their actions.