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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
President-elect’s Christmas present
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Christmas is coming — and the early present to or from the incoming Barack Obama administration is that neither his designated chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, nor anybody else connected to the President-elect talked about a deal to fill his U.S. Senate seat with Illinois’s bad-boy governor.
Emanuel spoke once or twice about the seat with Gov. Rod Blagojevich and “about four” times with the governor’s former chief of staff, John Harris, and recommended names, but had no improper discussion, according to an internal review prepared for Obama.
Does this end it? Most likely, yes. It wouldn’t for an incoming Republican, but unless federal investigators’ listening devices have discussions that are clearly improper, this story gets lost in the holiday news shuffle and in the excitement of the pending change of administrations.
Merry Christmas, Mr. President-elect. Your present has arrived.
