...man up and resign. Save what little respect I have for you. I supported you for the appointment, I believed that you weren't "hooked" up with Blago and directly or indirectly paid for that Senator seat, and could believe that maybe you weren't, but I think you have now found out why scripture says: "avoid the very APPEARANCE or evil" or wrong doing.
The story is "here".
Here is a clip: " Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer under ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration, just weeks after he landed in tax and foreclosure trouble.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported in Thursday editions that the September hiring of Burris II as senior counsel for the Illinois Housing Development Authority came six weeks after the Internal Revenue Service slapped him with a $34,163 tax lien and three weeks after a mortgage company filed a foreclosure lawsuit on his Chicago home."
Was this on the up and up? Maybe it was, but it looks way too shady. Mr. Burris, resign for the good of the state, let the people of Illinois vote for a suitable senator.
I'm jus' saying...
Well said.
I had doubts about this dude when he accepted the nomination. He seemed to damn desperate to me. But the governor was within his rights to appoint him.
Posted by: DirtyRed | 03 March 2009 at 12:57 PM