Looks like Obama Chief-Of-Staff Rahm 'RAHMBO' Emmanuel Spoke with IL Gov Rod Blagojevich about the US Senate Seat left vacant by his boss. Here is the video from My Fox Chicago:
Looks like the OIP (the OBAMA Internet Police) have gotten to the video we posted earlier (YouTube took it off). Here is a video from Fox News:
Other articles on this issue:
Rahm Emanuel Reportedly Spoke with Blagojevich About Senate Seat
Chicago -- The firestorm surrounding Governor Blagojevich is putting some heat on Barack Obama’s transition team. Fox Chicago News has learned about possible conversations between a top Obama aide and the governor regarding the open senate seat. Craig Wall has the exclusive.
Troubling Questions For Obama Team
By Linda Chavez
December 12, 2008
A corruption scandal in President-elect Obama's backyard is the last thing this country needs. But like it or not, that's exactly what we have in the unfolding drama of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest earlier this week for trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat. The federal prosecutor in the case -- Patrick Fitzgerald, the man whose investigation of the Valerie Plame leak case nearly paralyzed the Bush White House for a time -- has made it clear that nothing ties Obama directly to the Blagojevich scheme. But the timing of Fitzgerald's announcement raises some serious questions.
Apparently, Fitzgerald knew that Blagojevich was trolling for bidders for the Obama seat in the waning days of the general election. Before the first votes were counted to elect Obama president, Blagojevich was so confident in Obama's victory he was already soliciting bids for the seat. And
Fitzgerald already had substantial evidence that Blagojevich was engaged in
major corruption before the governor put a "for sale" sign on the Senate seat. So why didn't the federal prosecutor act prior to the election? Had he done so, of course, it could have damaged Obama.
Many would argue that bringing down another Illinois Democrat before the election would have smelled like a dirty trick. The federal prosecutor, after all, was a Republican appointee, and the McCain campaign had already run ads trying to tie Obama to political corruption in Chicago. One of Obama's early financial supporters, land developer Tony Rezko, was convicted on corruption charges earlier this year, and Rezko figures prominently in the Blagojevich scandal. Had Blagojevich been forced to do a perp walk before Election Day, voters might have asked why Obama had endorsed Blagojevich just two years earlier, considering the governor was at that time under investigation for taking bribes. The endorsement would have been yet another example of Obama's bad judgment in his associations from Rezko to the Rev. Wright to Bill Ayers.
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Rahn Ducks Reporters Questions about Blago
Is Emanuel the adviser on gov tape?
MUM Obama's chief of staff refuses to answer the question
December 11, 2008
BY FRAN SPIELMAN AND ABDON M. PALLASCH Staff Reporters
President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, refused to take questions from reporters this morning about whether he was the Obama “advisor” named in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The complaint states Blagojevich wanted a promise of a high-level appointment or some other reward for Blagojevich in exchange for Blagojevich naming Obama’s friend Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the U.S. Senate.
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