2006 Jessy Jackson Jr Close Pal Of Prsident-Elect  

Jessy Jackson Jr say's he is not gulity of any wrong doing, and of course he is innocent unless proven gulity in a court of law.
I read this 2006 political article on Gov Blagojevich,he run in 2006 for reelection even tho he was under a cloud of suspected corruption,President-Elect Obama backed him in his 2006 governors race along with David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel,all of these guy's have been paling around together in the political world of Chicago for some year's.
It strike me as odd in regard to the pay for play political games the Gov of Illinois was just a few day's ago busted on,finding Jessy Jackson Jr was being looked at in 2006 as a black man that possibly would fill Barack Obama's United States senate seat.
Seems to me the Gov,Rahm Emanuel,David Axelrod have been planning with Mr Obama for some time to get Barack Obama in to the white house.
Do you find it of interest being this week the Gov of Illinois was busted on pay to play games and back in 2006 Jessy Jackson Jr was in the Governors tea leaves?

(2006 Story below with link to Full Story)

Jackson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and also a national co-chair for Obama’s campaign, has avoided expressing any interest in the position publicly.

Statewide officeholders such as Comptroller Dan Hynes or Attorney General Lisa Madigan are sometimes cited as possible contenders for Obama’s job, though neither has expressed much interest publicly. That assumes Blagojevich is planning to seek a third term in 2010 and would like to remove a potential primary foe.

Madigan is the daughter of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the Illinois Democratic Party chairman and the top Democratic critic of the governor. Hynes has ridiculed Blagojevich’s money-management policies and Quinn is also a sharp critic.

Mike Lawrence, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, said picking a replacement for Obama depends on what Blagojevich does in two years.

“If he’s still a viable candidate for re-election, he’ll appoint someone who’ll help him politically — a black, a Jesse Jackson Jr., someone like that,” Lawrence said. “If he’s not running again, hard to tell.”


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