I think what Rod is referring to here (the poison pill language in bills) was that whole JCAR kerfuffle in 2008. Is that right?
I remember Madigan was putting language in bills that said something like “nothing in this bill gives the governor any rulemaking authority,” so the Governor couldn’t unilaterally do things.
First Kelly, now George Steinbrenner, both of whom are currently deceased. How convenient for the defense. Is there anyone alive who can back Rod up on this?
By 2005, Steinbrenner was already in the sad decline of dementia,. In 2006, he officially left the Yankees for his kids to run and stayed in Tampa.
Occasionally, his publicist would release “quotes” from the Boss, but he never gave another press interview or held a press conference again, and was always carefully guarded to avoid contact with those outside his circle at the rare Yankee games he attended.
The idea that he was capable of being some wheeler-dealer for presidential pardons is absurd.
==His atty says game had nothing to do with race track issue, but he keeps talking Bulls.==
Try saying that without a Freudian slip.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 1:28 pm:
It would be great if someone could dig up and post all of the praise Rod and his lawyers heaped on Chris Kelly when they were worried he was going to testify and after his death.
The great thing about Two And A Half Men is that when the leading man became obnoxious, they could can him. The Blago Show keeps going on and on. Pretty soon it’ll morph into Twelve Angry [Jurors]. Then it’ll be all over, FINALLY.
- transplant - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 10:26 am:
Ok, let’s mark it … 10:24 a.m. and my gorge is starting to rise …
- wordslinger - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 10:36 am:
–Blago says he was always on the look out for Speaker Madigan’s poison pills. “This was a chess game going on between me and Mike Madigan.”–
How’d that turn out?
- OneMan - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 10:40 am:
I think we know who won that one time and time again…
- Boone Logan Square - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 10:44 am:
I always saw Rod as more of a craps player.
- Solomon - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 10:46 am:
I had him pegged on Mario Kart 64, but craps is good.
- wordslinger - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 11:06 am:
So it was all Chris Kelly’s fault (dead men tell no tales).
The Johnson family and Bernie Kosar (?!) were going to get Kelly a presidential pardon? Does that sound reasonable to anyone?
- Jo - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 11:20 am:
I think what Rod is referring to here (the poison pill language in bills) was that whole JCAR kerfuffle in 2008. Is that right?
I remember Madigan was putting language in bills that said something like “nothing in this bill gives the governor any rulemaking authority,” so the Governor couldn’t unilaterally do things.
- 47th Ward - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 11:31 am:
First Kelly, now George Steinbrenner, both of whom are currently deceased. How convenient for the defense. Is there anyone alive who can back Rod up on this?
Bernie Kosar? Quinlan?
- wordslinger - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 11:42 am:
47, it’s even more despicable than that.
By 2005, Steinbrenner was already in the sad decline of dementia,. In 2006, he officially left the Yankees for his kids to run and stayed in Tampa.
Occasionally, his publicist would release “quotes” from the Boss, but he never gave another press interview or held a press conference again, and was always carefully guarded to avoid contact with those outside his circle at the rare Yankee games he attended.
The idea that he was capable of being some wheeler-dealer for presidential pardons is absurd.
- Pat Robertson - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 1:10 pm:
==His atty says game had nothing to do with race track issue, but he keeps talking Bulls.==
Try saying that without a Freudian slip.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 1:28 pm:
It would be great if someone could dig up and post all of the praise Rod and his lawyers heaped on Chris Kelly when they were worried he was going to testify and after his death.
- perplexed & perterbed - Friday, May 27, 11 @ 3:13 pm:
The great thing about Two And A Half Men is that when the leading man became obnoxious, they could can him. The Blago Show keeps going on and on. Pretty soon it’ll morph into Twelve Angry [Jurors]. Then it’ll be all over, FINALLY.