Trib to Burris: resign.
Remember when Roland Burris swore up and down (and apparently under oath) that he had not been in contact with Blago or the disgraced guv’s people about that vacant U.S. Senate seat–until he was appointed? Yeah, not so much.
In the latest in a series of shifting accounts of his conduct, Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) told reporters that he tried to raise money for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the same time he was asking Blagojevich to appoint him to the Senate.
Burris said he contacted “some people” about holding a fundraiser at the request of Blagojevich’s brother, Robert, only to learn that no one was willing to help the governor. He said he later changed his mind, raised no money and contributed none.
The Chicago Tribune has had it.
Let’s see if we have it right: Burris had zero contact with any of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s cronies about his interest in the Senate seat being vacated by President Barack Obama— unless you count that conversation with former chief of staff Lon Monk, and, on further reflection, the ones with insiders John Harris, Doug Scofield and John Wyma and, oh yeah, the governor’s brother and fund-raising chief, Robert Blagojevich. But Burris didn’t raise a single dollar for the now ex-governor as a result of those contacts because that could be construed as a quid pro quo and besides, everyone he asked refused to donate.
The story gets worse with every telling.
Enough. Roland Burris must resign.
But the monument isn’t even full yet.
I think Burris should resign, but I also think he artfully evaded answering the questions asked.
Is that monument a Chicago voting station?
“Is that monument a Chicago voting station?”
Technically, in Chicago it doesn’t become a voting station until it is full of dead people.
Scusate: in my Italian-bred naivete I took it to be a mausoleum — like at St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx.
I’m playing amateur psychologist here, but I don’t think that someone who has had chiseled in granite that he was the “First African-American in Illinois to Become…S.I.U. Exchange Student to University of Hamburg Germany 1959-60″ will be able to bring himself to resign. Much better personally, and for the ages, to cultivate the self-awarded “Trail Blazer” title by resisting any attempts by the Senate to remove him from office.
It is a mausoleum. It’s just that the voters are not residing there yet.
I think that’s where they are going to lay his career to rest.
With the bench in the rear, it reminds me of a fancy outdoor john.
(…and I’m reminded of that line near the end of the film Article 99: Yes, indeedy, “crap can indeed float to the top”)
Thank God the Obama administration is so pure; no corruption in this house, eh? More change we can believe in…
Bob, are you blaming Burris on Obama?