Posts Tagged ‘ corruption ’

Euroblog round-up #2

December 15, 2009
By Stephen
Euroblog round-up #2

Image via Wikipedia Heres another round up of issues making the rounds in the eurobloggerosphere at the moment, with thanks to BloggingPortal.eu Swedish Presidency The Swedish Presidency of the European Council is coming an end, and Spain gets ready to share the reins. A number of blogs look back at the 6 months of the Swedish Presidency. Mats Engström calls the Presidency “Effective” but it wasn’t exciting. (then again name one that was!) The Swedish Europe Minister (and Commissioner...

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Illinois Governor arrested for trying to sell Obama’s open Senate seat

December 9, 2008
By Stephen

This is something else! I found this story on ConHome’s CentreRight Blog and Gaypatriot.net which pointed me in the direction of instapundit.com. But the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is under arrest for corruption charges, including the charge of trying to sell Obama’s open Senate Seat! The part I love no where in the CNN story does it name the party affliation of the Govenor. Democrat if you must know. I have the feeling that if this was a...

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