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Almost from the moment that federal prosecutors charged Blagojevich with scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder, a diverse coalition of local, state and national politicians has called on him to step down. The state legislature on Monday took the first steps to start impeachment proceedings, and state attorney general Lisa Madigan has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to invoke an obscure law to declare Blagojevich unfit (at least temporarily) for office. Over the weekend, there were media reports that Blagojevich could resign as early as Monday. But late Sunday...
...Sunday, Quinn and Madigan made the rounds of national talk shows, saying the evidence and allegations against Blagojevich - that he engaged in pay-to-play politics for years, tried to purge the Chicago Tribune editorial board and, perhaps worst of all, tried to auction off a Senate seat - made it all but impossible for him to govern. "I hope the governor does resign," Quinn said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I think that's best for the people of Illinois, as well as for himself and his family...
...Kennedy family says Caroline believes Paterson is "on board with the idea." There indeed is much to recommend her; Kennedy's celebrity status and high name recognition would make it easy for her to raise money, which is an important consideration, because whoever is appointed to the seat will face a special election in 2010 and yet another campaign in 2012, when the seat's regular term expires...
...Steve Israel; Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown; and Nassau County executive Tom Suozzi. Last week, New York Congressman Gary Ackerman said he didn't know of any qualifications that Kennedy has, "except that she has name recognition - but so does J. Lo." (See other possible candidates for Clinton's Senate seat...
...Senate is not to everyone's tastes either. One of those who discovered that it wasn't, ironically enough, was Robert F. Kennedy. When he held the very seat to which Caroline now aspires, R.F.K. bristled at its aggravatingly slow pace, as well as the reality that junior members, no matter how famous, are expected to wait their turn. That, Caroline Kennedy may discover, is the difference between running for the Senate and serving there...