Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Burris on wiretap: 'Keep me in mind' for Senate seat

Burris and Blago in a tree,

can you spell conspiracy?

Burris and Blago in a tree,

Today here's what we see... 

From the Associated Press...

Sen. Roland Burris promised to "personally do something" for Rod Blagojevich's campaign fund while pressing for the then-Illinois governor to appoint him to President Obama's former Senate seat, according to a wiretap transcript released Tuesday.

"Tell Rod to keep me in mind for that seat, would ya?" Burris tells Robert Blagojevich, who headed his brother's campaign fund, in a Nov. 13 phone conversation secretly taped by the FBI.

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image via AP in USA Today

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