CNN: Crowded by sign-wielding supporters, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich made what’s expected to be his final speech before he heads to Colorado to start a 14-year prison sentence on a corruption conviction.
“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” he told the crowd. “But this is the law and we follow the law.”
Blagojevich was convicted of corruption in June 2011 after a jury returned 17 guilty verdicts against him. Among other allegations, he was accused of trying to profit as he considered whom to appoint to take Barack Obama’s open Senate seat…. (more)
EDITOR: Without intended to defend Blagojevich, we believe his activities pale in the face of what then attorney general and now Governor Tom Corbett has done or failed to do for his political expediency. (Blagojevich was convicted in large part on the basis of phone taps but what he said concerning the appointment of an interim senator sounded more like political talk than an attempt to personally enrich himself.)
