The Blagojevich-Mell feud has a new theater of operation: Dominic Longo. He's part of Richard Mell's 33rd ward organization, and he's threatening a defamation lawsuit against the governor. The Daily Herald has a pretty good summary of it here.
The Illinois Leader somehow got a copy of the letter, in which Dominic states his case against Blagojevich. Gov. Rod, according to Longo's attorney, "committed to making Dominic Longo a rich man." Longo, incidentally, is an officer for an alleged Mell front group, the oddly named Coalition for Better Government.
Better for whom?
Longo has a vote fraud conviction on his record. Yet as you'll see in Rich Miller's Capitolfax blog, this hasn't prevented Longo moving from one public sector job to another. Many private sector companies, such as Wal-Mart, do routine background checks before making a hire. It's pretty safe to assume that Dominic's ballot box stuffing past will prevent anyone from seeing him as a Wal-Mart greeter. But goverment agencies keeps hiring him. Despite, according to Miller, his "leaving one job after reports that he did personal chores on city time."
You'll currently find Dominic Longo with the Cook County Water Reclamation District.
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