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Offer of $6 million made for Jackson as senator

July 20, 2010

From the SouthtownStar:

BY PHIL KADNER
No way, no how was Gov. Rod Blagojevich ever going to appoint U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to Barack Obama's old Senate seat.

That's what Robert Blagojevich, the brother of the former governor, said over and over again as the defense opened its case Monday in the federal corruption trial of the Blagojevich brothers.

What did Robert think of Jackson?

"He's a f....ing articulate incompetent," he says on a federal wiretap.

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Watchdog: Stroger using county jobs to reward supporters, punish foes

July 14, 2010

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is using the county payroll to reward those who backed his failed re-election effort and punish those who did not, a court-appointed hiring watchdog told a federal judge Tuesday.

To do that, Stroger’s staff has lowered minimum job qualifications, pretended not to know job applicants when they did, tried to invoke emergency hiring powers and fed job test answers to applicants with political sponsors, the hiring monitor stated in a 35-page report.

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