Jesse Jackson Jr is Senate Candidate 5

God I love the Internet! How quickly and easily information comes out about the hot topics of the day! Here we are, just one day after Rod Blagojevich got arrested for his Chicago-style corruption, we've got an ID on one of the players. We also have information that Barack Obama was indeed "in contact" with Blagojevich about who would take the vacated Senate seat. According to a November 5th story by Carol Sowers of KHQA Channel 7: Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled. That's one of ... Read Full Story

Messy Jesse Jackson’s son says that he and his camp were not trying to buy Obama’s Senate seat: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. hosted a very dramatic press conference Wednesday in which Jackson Jr. leveled harsh criticisms at Rod Blagojevich and denied any involvement in the governor’s “pay-to-play” scheme to fill Obama’s Senate seat. “I reject and denounce pay to play politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing,” said the congressman. “I did not initiate or authorize anyone, at any time, to promise anything to Governor Blagojevich on my behalf. I never sent a message or an emissary to the governor to make ... Read Full Story

Well it looks like the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree - Messy Jesse Jr. might have stepped into some serious $hit: According to a published report, businessmen with ties to both Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. did indeed discuss raising $1 million for Blagojevich as a way of persuading him to appoint Jackson to President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Citing unnamed sources, the Chicago Tribune reports in a story for Friday’s editions that businessman Raghuveer Nayak and Blagojevich aide Rajinder Bedi told attendees at an Oct. 31 meeting that they needed to raise $1 million for ... Read Full Story

by Deputy Diva Psssst! Hey “Candidate #5,” you weren’t by chance trying to destroy any evidence linking you to Gov. Blagojevich, now were you? CBS 2 News Chicago reported that on December 24, 2008 at 12:15 a.m. Chicago Fire Department’s truck 49, Engine 126 and Battalion Chief 17 responded to a fire in the 2500 block of East 72nd Street. A small fire apparently started in the home of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. The origin of the fire was underneath the main fireplace in the residence and the victims were listed in a police report as U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his ... Read Full Story

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