Blago Chooses Obama’s Successor
From CNN:
President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday it is disappointing that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ignored warnings from Senate Democrats about appointing a successor to his Senate seat.
On Tuesday, Blagojevich, a Democrat, named former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to serve the last two years of Obama’s Senate term.
Ignoring threats from the U.S. Senate Democratic leadership to block his pick, Gov. Blagojevich this afternoon said he’s appointing Roland Burris to President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat.
From the Chicago Tribune reader’s letters:
Reid and Durbin learned that a rogue Democratic governor will force Senate Democrats to publicly reject an African-American nominee—if engineering that rejection serves the governor’s purposes.
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