Word: illinoise
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In a move as brazen as it was unexpected, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich - accused of trying to swap President Elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat for a high-paying Administration job or other favors - named former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as Obama's replacement. As a former State...
• While attorney general, Burris oversaw the controversial murder conviction (later overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court) of Rolando Cruz, accused of killing a 10-year old girl. A lawyer in the office resigned when Burris declined to acknowledge any mistakes in the case's prosecution.
• "Please don't allow the allegations against me to taint this good and honest man."- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, during a Dec. 30 press conference announcing Burris as his pick to fill Obama's seat
"Part of me is shocked and stunned. Part of me just thinks this is typical Rod Blagojevich," says Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the University of Illinois in Springfield. The Democratic caucus in the Senate released a letter that said in part, ?It is truly regrettable that...
Burris, 71, has decades of experience in state politics. In 1978, he was elected state comptroller, becoming the first African American to win statewide office in Illinois. He was Blagojevich's rival for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002. "Don't allow the allegations against me to taint this...