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    Gov. Blagojevich leaves his home through a back alley Dec. 10. (John H. White/Chicago Sun-Times)

From the mouth of Blagojevich:

  • The Governor Speaks
    Dec 10, 2008 "Whether you tape me privately or publicly, I can tell you that whatever I say is always lawful and the things I'm interested in are always lawful."

    On an another call he told "adviser A": "I've got this thing and it's [expletive] golden and, uh, uh, I'm not just giving it up for nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there."

    After quoting from the Rudyard Kipling poem "If", Mr Blagojevich said: "There are some powerful forces arrayed against me. It's kind of lonely right now." "But I have on my side the most powerful ally there is, and it's the truth."

    "I will fight. I will fight. I will fight until I take my last breath," Blagojevich said in a Dec. 19 press conference in Chicago -- his first public statement since his arrest.

    "They're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. (Expletive) them," Blagojevich told Harris in an intercepted call Nov. 11.

    "I can drive a hard bargain. You hear what I'm saying. And if I don't get what I want and I'm not satisfied with it, then I'll just take the Senate seat myself," the governor allegedly said of filling the US Senate seat, speaking with a person...

The Governor and Roland Burris

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06/12/2011

Jim Matsumoto, #Blagojevich jury foreman at first trial urges this jury to speak as a group, avoid the media frenzy

"By speaking to the media in a group, you can forestall some of the media frenzy that is generated by a verdict" to read click here

From Jim Matsumoto James-matsumoto[1] :

"What is the jury thinking? I still have no clue; these are some poker faces. A question I was asked was would it have made more of a difference, in my opinion, if our jury had heard the same testimony from the former governor? I think the answer is a resounding maybe. Would testimony we have heard from Blagojevich be enough to have changed the opinion of those that thought he was just talking? Would his defensive stance sway others to think the same? Nothing I have heard has changed my mind. That is all I can say for certain."

To read all of Jim Matsumoto's posts as he watched the Blagojevich retrial archive of all Matsumoto's posts

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