Political Bedfellows

Governor Blagojevich, the gift of sleaze that just keeps on giving. Uh, no, I guess it's we Illinois taxpayers who keep on giving.

Front page of the Sun Times about two of Blago's employees. The chief of staff of the state Human Services Dept. has been accused of sexual harassment by her "personal assistant". State legislators are now providing "oversight":

Others wondered how a state agency that provides social services to the poor could afford to equip its top two officials with personal assistants like Estes, who court and state records indicate was paid $70,000 a year primarily to chauffeur Wertz.

And here's the story of a he-said, she-said claim and denial of harassment by a couple of the governor's political bedfellows. Sun Times:

After raising money for Gov. Blagojevich's campaign in 2002, Rajinder Bedi landed a $106,908-a-year job traveling the world for the state's International Trade Office.

A former female co-worker had political ties, too. Her father gave money to the governor and had business ties to Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a former top Blagojevich fund-raiser now under federal indictment.

But a December 2004 holiday party conversation between Bedi and the co-worker went well beyond politics and trade, an internal report says.

One subject? The woman's date. "You tigress you, how did you get him?" she claimed Bedi said after meeting her boyfriend. "He is gorgeous, what a body, what height."

And Rezko sure did get around. Makes you wonder, though, how anything ever gets done under the Blagojevich administration.

The accused was also a Kerry supporter and vice president of the Extra Wide Sock Company.

Blagojevich and his political bedfellows---the tab and the joke are on us.

P.S. Fortunately for Obama, or perhaps unfortunately, Rezko's wife sold her lot next door to his mansion to one of Rezko's lawyers who wants to build condos or something.

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