Illinois Senate votes 59-0 to Remove Blagojevich from Office »
Posted By Beau7890 9 months, 1 week ago in NewsRod R. Blagojevich at 4:51 p.m. today became the first governor in Illinois’ 190-year history to be driven from office by impeachment.
Senators voted 59-0 to dump Blagojevich, who was arrested Dec. 9 on federal corruption charges. And, on a second vote minutes later, senators voted 59-0 to bar Blagojevich from ever holding elected office in Illinois again.
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Beau78909 months, 1 week ago
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What a piece of work. He still demonstrates the height of arrogance.
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The historic series of events came hours after a sometimes somber but mostly defiant Blagojevich finally showed up at his impeachment trial to make his case to avoid being removed from office.
"I want to apologize to you for what happened, but I can't," Blagojevich said. "If I felt I did something wrong ... I wouldn’t put my family through this, I wouldn't put you through this, and most importantly, I wouldn’t put the people of Illinois through this.
"But I didn't resign then and I'm not resigning now because I have done nothing wrong."-
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Beau78909 months, 1 week ago
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Here's a link to the transcript of his closing argument, if you have the patience:
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blago...
As one of the state senators said, he talked more about the evidence against him to Barbara Walters on "The View" than he did to the state senate.
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