HUFFPOST: In a secretly recorded phone call, the FBI captured Rahm Emanuel asking then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to consider appointing his choice as his successor in Congress when he left to become President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, according to a transcript Blagojevich’s attorneys filed at his corruption retrial Tuesday.
On the call in November 2008, Emanuel tells Blagojevich that he is looking into the legality of such an appointment. And he raises the name of a county official as a potential appointee because the man is only interested in the seat for one or two terms and then “wants to go to the cabinet.”
“I am happy to appoint your guy,” Blagojevich tells Emanuel on the call, according to the transcript submitted by the Blagojevich attorneys. “If I can do it, I’ll do it.”
“This is between you and I …,” Emanuel tells Blagojevich. “I will not forget this.” … (more)
EDITOR: Shame on Emanuel! He should know proper grammar is “between you and me” and not “between you and I.”
