AP Exclusive: Calendar shows key Ill. gov meetings

[Terri]

By JOHN O'CONNOR
Associated Press
January 7, 2009

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's official calendar shows he met with a top union official in his Chicago office the day before Barack Obama was elected president -- just as federal prosecutors say the governor was scheming to trade Obama's Senate seat, possibly for a cushy union job.

The meeting with Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, also was attended by Tom Balanoff, president of the Illinois chapter of the union, which has been Blagojevich's largest campaign contributor.

The governor's schedules, released Tuesday to The Associated Press, shed new light on the governor's activities during the period outlined in a criminal complaint that accuses the Democrat of a wide-ranging scheme to profit from official action, such as selling Obama's U.S. Senate seat and pressuring the Chicago Tribune to fire unfriendly editorial writers.

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[thomas]

and just like Sgt. Shultz, PEBO knows nothing, nothing...
The Old Chief

[garryb]

I still can't get over wondering why Fitz stopped the investigation so early. Something just smells fishy here. If Blogo had been a Republican, they would have waited until the seat had been awarded to the highest bidder, then frog marched both of them down the capitol steps in handcuffs.