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In reply to the discussion: 45 has commuted Blago's sentence. [View all]

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)
9. I don't think Blago has any constituency remaining in Illinois, does he?
Tue Feb 18, 2020, 08:51 PM
Feb 2020

Republicans never liked him and Democrats were never more than cautiously supportive, which evaporated the moment he was nailed.
This move may just be a matter of grifter professional courtesy.

(PS for the record as little as I think of Blago, I do think the length his sentence was excessive.)

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