From the NY Times:It turns out that Rod R. Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, flamboyant reality television star and billboard for the helmet hairdo, had an unexpected admirer in New York City: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
During Mr. Blagojevich’s corruption trial on Monday, it was revealed that just days before the 2006 election, Mr. Bloomberg gave him a $25,000 campaign donation, one of the largest that Mr. Blagojevich received for his successful re-election bid that year.
What, exactly, inspired this last-minute burst of out-of-state generosity?
Aides said the two men had much in common: advocacy for tougher gun laws, abortion rights and the importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
They also shared something else: Bradley Tusk, a top Bloomberg aide who went on to serve as deputy governor to Mr. Blagojevich. He held that job at the time Mr. Bloomberg sent his check.
Mr. Tusk later returned to New York and ran Mr. Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election campaign.
9 comments:
Birds of a feather. Flock 'em!!!
Shocking. How terribly, terribly shocking.
The poor one corrupts our system by selling his power for money.
The rich one corrupts by using his unlimited money to buy the power he craves.
Is there any difference?
Is there any difference?
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I'll take a stab at that one! A few billion dollars???
Why doesn't Bloomberg just buy himself some third world country and become an instant saint to those people?
I would love to see Bloomy on The Apprentice next season!
Bloomberg number 1 like Sainta George Bush ! He is doing great things for the new peoples. We can vote soon.
I would love to see Bloomy on The Apprentice next season!
Yeah right. He'd fire Trump.
They don't let them wear toupees in jail.
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