Chicago Sun-Times: Donations and deals raise eyebrows

[Tweed]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gov30.html

"Contractor Robert C. Blum gave Gov. Blagojevich's campaign $124,000 in cash and a $100,000 loan.

Now he's on the receiving end.

Two construction firms owned by Blum -- a friend and business associate of Blagojevich's fund-raising chief, Christopher G. Kelly --have been awarded nearly $25 million in state contracts since July. They include a $24.4 million deal to build a Chicago State University convocation center named in honor of state Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago), a top Blagojevich ally.

There's nothing illegal about the contributions or the contracts for Blum's companies, Castle Construction Corp. and MBB Construction Group. Castle underbid seven companies for the Chicago State job, beating out its closest competitor by a $185,000 margin."

Ah Illinois politics.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Why don't they go after Bush?

:wtf:

[stevebreeze]

2. if we don't fix campaign finance while we have the power to do so

we will have no one to blame when the GOP is back in power.

[Radical Activist]

4. There are a lot of things we should be doing as Democrats

while we have the chance. Madigan and Blagojevich don't seem interested in any of them. I wish we had some actual progressive Democrats running this state.

[mopinko]

3. i'm shocked, simply shocked nt