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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:07 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:07
From SJ-r.com:
Both times Rod Blagojevich was elected governor, it was as if he’d run against the same opponent: the legacy of a corrupt former governor who was the disgraced face of the Republican Party.
Blagojevich, a Democrat who successfully made now-imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan into a bogeyman, will be that poster boy in the governor’s race next year.
Republicans can use his Dec. 9 arrest on corruption charges — including allegedly scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat — and his subsequent impeachment to try to retake the state’s top office and claim a U.S. Senate seat.