Does this guy last the weekend?  Did he really make all of these contacts trying to get this job?  Look, nobody’s faulting him for expressing his interest, they’re hitting him on not being forthcoming.  As they in DC – it’s not the crime, it’s the cover up.  And the way this one just keeps drip, drip, drip, dripping out ain’t good…unless you’re Roland Burris’s political opponents – which now includes many of his former political allies.  From the Examiner:

Former Blagojevich administration chief operating officer John Filan said Burris also called after Blagojevich’s Dec. 9 arrest on federal corruption charges, during which Burris asked Filan to put in a good word with then Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn in the event Quinn became governor, the Chicago Tribune reports in Friday’s editions. Filan said he didn’t do that.

Burris’ contact with Filan was not mentioned in the first affidavits about how he got the job that was filed with state lawmakers.

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