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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (15097)	7/9/2009 5:47:55 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Ensign pursued his friend and employee's wife. Then paid off everybody in sight. And only came clean when he was threatened with exposure. ugly.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (15097)	7/9/2009 7:50:53 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Susan Davis reports on politics. Illinois Democratic Sen. Roland Burris will not seek re-election to a full six-year term next year, according to local Chicago reports. Burris’s short-lived Senate tenure was ill-fated from the start after he was appointed by scandal-plagued Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was later impeached and remains under criminal investigation. Burris could not shake his ties to Blagojevich, and calls for his resignation quickly escalated after it was revealed that his testimony had changed under oath about whether or not he had offered the governor anything in return for the Senate appointment. (State investigators said last month that there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue perjury charges.) The 2010 Senate race—for President Barack Obama’s former seat—could become competitive for Republicans as a pick-up opportunity as the Democratic field has yet to take shape. The party’s top contender, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, announced Wednesday that she would seek re-election to her current office instead. That same day, moderate Republican Rep. Mark Kirk indicated he intends to run for the seat.