News Source: Tulsa World
| about 1 month ago
Ill. — A published report indicates former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office maintained a list of 5,700 state job applicants with political sponsors — and hired or promoted 2,500 of them. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday that many of...
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| about 1 month ago
Staff Reporters President Obama has distanced himself from scandal-tainted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. But as an Illinois state senator, Obama went to bat for more than a dozen people to get state jobs or promotions in Blagojevich's administration,...
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| about 1 month ago
Staff Reporters On his first full day as governor in 2003, Rod Blagojevich ordered a freeze on state hiring. Only essential jobs would be filled, he said, promising to rein in a record state budget deficit and put an end to what he called "taking...