{"id":192830,"date":"2009-02-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/16\/not-this-sh-again-7\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T05:01:00","slug":"not-this-sh-again-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/16\/not-this-sh-again-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Not This Sh&#038;% Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the gifts that keep on giving, courtesy of Roland Burris and Rod Blagojevich, and not it appears taht  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/15\/us\/15burris.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Burris &#8220;forgot&#8221; to mention that Blago&#8217;s brother hit him up for a donation before his appointment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Senator Roland W. Burris of Illinois acknowledged in documents made public Saturday that the brother of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich sought campaign fund-raising help from him in the weeks and months before his appointment to succeed Barack Obama as the state\u2019s junior senator.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Burris said he provided no money to Governor Blagojevich\u2019s campaign in response to the brother\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure was different from Mr. Burris\u2019s earlier descriptions, including one under oath, of his conversations with those closest to the former governor. It raised new questions about events that preceded Mr. Burris\u2019s unusual appointment in late December and prompted some Republican lawmakers in Illinois to immediately demand an inquiry into whether Mr. Burris committed perjury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, just make it stop.<\/p>\n<p>If Burris had any illusion about running for office in 2010, this needs to stop right now.<\/p>\n<p>On a more personal level, please, just make it stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the gifts that keep on giving, courtesy of Roland Burris and Rod Blagojevich, and not it appears taht Burris &#8220;forgot&#8221; to mention that Blago&#8217;s brother hit him up for a donation before his appointment: Senator Roland W. Burris of Illinois acknowledged in documents made public Saturday that the brother of former Gov. Rod &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}