Chars Life and Times

On Friday, January 09, 2009, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich. This is a first for an Illinois governor. The vote was 114 to one in favor of the impeachment. The individual that posted the no vote was Chicago Democrat, Milt Patterson. Patterson said that he read the report and didn’t feel at ease to vote against Blagojevich since he had “no first-hand knowledge of any of the evidence.” It does seem strange that there was only one no vote and everyone else voted to impeach our Illinois governor. It sure would have been nice if it had been unanimous but we’ll take the vote as it was given. 

Blagojevich still assures us Illinois voters that he has done nothing wrong. He feels that he will be shown as innocent when the vote reaches the senate, which is the next step in the impeachment process. Blagojevich thinks that the House had it in for him and he said he wasn’t surprised at all at the vote. Of course, almost since the moment he was reelected into the governor’s office, he has been scrutinized on what he was doing. Before he was arrested in December, many legislators have been trying to get him impeached. I think they were just waiting to obtain enough evidence to convict him. 

The senate plans to meet around January 26th to have the impeachment trial. Hopefully Blago will be gone from the governor’s office after that.