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...confers with his advisers: Josh Weiss, a baby-faced 25-year-old producer, and Dan Colla, a burly, affable childhood friend who is a dead ringer for the male model Fabio. After a sympathetic caller declares that the governor's staunchest political foes - including Illinois house speaker Mike Madigan, Governor Pat Quinn and state senate president John Cullerton - deserve to be pelted with rotten fruit, Blagojevich urges would-be assailants to aim for the head. Within a few mind-bending minutes, he slams Quinn's tax policies, speculates about the percentage of politicians who cheat on their wives and admonishes...
Father Dan Madigan, another Jesuit expert on Islam, doesn't deny that it's easier to justify a choice for violence with the Koran than with the Christian Gospel. But Madigan says attempts by Catholics to "claim the moral high ground" fall flat. "The idea that [Christians] can dismiss Muslims as inherently more violent doesn't stand up to historical scrutiny, whatever the justifications we might have given for our wars and our massacres." Even more to the point, says Madigan, a Georgetown University professor of theology with a Ph.D. in Islamic religion, it is counterproductive for Christian leaders...
...pushing a special election instead of an appointment, are calling for Burris' resignation. Senate Democrats in Washington, who already thought Burris would be a weak candidate for reelection in 2010 before this latest flap, aren't exactly rising to his defense. Even top state Democrats - including House Speaker Michael Madigan and his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan - are asking for a criminal perjury investigation by the State's Attorney for Sangamon County, which covers the capital where Burris testified. Late Tuesday, after the elder Madigan turned over reports and officially referred the case to State's Attorney John Schmidt, Schmidt...
...David Ellis, the chief attorney for house speaker Michael Madigan, will prosecute the case. He was scheduled to call as many as 13 witnesses, including an FBI agent who has been allowed to testify, and he will likely play tapes of recorded conversations with Blagojevich - from some of the thousands of hours of often crude conversations that the government has recorded to pursue its criminal case against Blagojevich for allegedly engaging in widespread pay-to-play politics...
...short, Birkett claimed, Lisa Madigan attempted to dislodge her rival, whom she never endorsed during his 2006 re-election bid, from office. Well before the Blagojevich case broke, her office opened probes into hiring practices in the governor's office - an investigation she reportedly turned over to the feds in 2006 at Fitzgerald's request. Madigan also earned a regional reputation for attacking the local meth problem by coordinating with other states to help blunt the siege of the drug and impose tough penalties on people buying ingredients to produce it, and a national profile for going after such mortgage...