The SJ-R sez:
A second term for Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich became less assured Wednesday with the fraud indictment of one of his top fundraisers and private advisers, Antoin "Tony" Rezko.Really? Prove it. I bet the polls don’t budge an inch. Not that they shouldn’t based on the merits (demerits?), I just don’t think anyone cares all that much. Call it Ryan fatique. And perhaps if the Republicans had a more aggressive and charismatic candidate seizing the opportunity we might see some movement in the polls, but I don’t see Topinka getting much out of this.
I also have to take issue with the SJ-R using that opening paragraph. It seems to me the reporter is drawing a conclusion he can’t immediately support. He may be right (and I wrong) but no one really knows that right now. Perhaps he could have gotten away with “A second term for Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich MAY HAVE BECOME less assured Wednesday…” but as it stands in the article he’s telling us that it is, in fact, less assured.
Update: And isn’t the start to this SJ-R editorial a bit hyperbolic?
The atomic bomb detonated Monday by North Korea had nothing on the bomb dropped by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago Wednesday.
Feds indict Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s chief fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Ka-boom!Yes, North Korea testing an atomic weapon is “nothing” compared to a corrupt political fundraiser in Illinois. Ka-Boom!
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Compare that to their coverage of Shimkus' involvement in covering up the Foley page scandal. They ran an entire article full of quotes form people saying they didn't know much about it and didn't care. The headline was overly generous to Shimkus as well.
It this it is because it ivolves local gambling casino kingpin, reputedly part of the nationwide crime cartel, William F. Cellini owned a hotel in Springfield, Ill. In the 1980s, according to reports, power-broker, and gambling casino overlord, WILLIAM F. CELLINI received more than $15 million in state loans to build the hotel but has repaid only a small portion of that money.
It sure was nice of Blago to be bi-partisan and put Jill Cellini in control of the Lincoln Land Library.
CELLINI, reportedly paid one million dollars to buy in 1994 the federal court judgeship for Blanche M. Manning. The pay-off reportedly made through then-U.S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun. Will he have other federal judge that was appointed by Bush and Peter Fizgerld? If not will Fitzgerld or the central district get a change of venue?
Notice the tie-in A gambling casino kingpin, reputedly part of the nationwide crime cartel, William F. Cellini, reportedly bought the Judgeship for Blanche M. Manning sitting in the Coca-Cola case. One of those reportedly covering up dirty business in gambling casinos for Cellini what later became head of the Illinois Gambing Board for then-Illinois Governor Jim Edgar [1991-1999]: "The list of those linked by prosecutors to the scandal but not charged included Michael Belletire, Edgar's deputy chief of staff and later head of the ILLINOIS GAMING BOARD; JANIS CELLINI, Edgar's patronage chief AND SISTER OF SPRINGFIELD POWER BROKER WILLIAM CELLINI..." (Emphasis added.) having been an unindicted co-conspirator. That is, the prosecutor, splitting hairs because of being corrupted or otherwise inflluenced, left him off the jhook. William F. Cellini's sister, JANIS CELLINI, as one who somehow escaped being actually prosecuted and jailed.
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