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State Chapters => Illinois => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 03, 2021, 01:37:45 pm
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Formerly convicted ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich sues for right to seek elected office again
by Mike Brest, Defense Reporter |
| August 03, 2021 08:14 AM
Former Illinois governor and felon Rod Blagojevich filed a lawsuit against the state, demanding that his right to run for elected office get reinstated.
Blagojevich, who served eight years of a fourteen-year prison sentence that was commuted by former President Donald Trump in Feb. 2020, despite consternation from some Republicans, lost the chance to run again following a 2009 vote by the Illinois Legislature, which occurred a year after his arrest.
“I’m back from the dead. And it’s good to be alive again,” he told reporters on Monday outside a Chicago federal courthouse. “It’s about the people’s right to choose their own leaders.”
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/blagojevich-sues-illinois-right-office-elected-convicted
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Rod is the perfect IL politician.... a convict.
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Rod is the perfect IL politician.... a convict.
Yep.... :silly:
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He may have learned some things during his period of disgrace. It's possible he's even become a conservative.
His new twitter account is at https://twitter.com/realBlagojevich
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"Vote for the crook, It's Important!"
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A question we have seen a lot of in the past 5 years: "Does a Presidential Pardon really make a person 'whole?'"