Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The high cost of Blagojevich in staying in office

From Bloomberg:

Fitch Ratings cut the credit rating yesterday on $19.1 billion of Illinois bonds because of concern the governor's legal woes will make it more difficult to deal with a $2 billion budget deficit.

Standard & Poor's has said it may lower the state's credit rating in response to Blagojevich's arrest, which would add millions of dollars to borrowing costs, according to Scott Burnham, a spokesman for Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.

And according to several media reports, the disgraced Chicago Democrat has no plans to resign.

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3 comments:

  1. Jim Roper12:23 PM

    Blagojevich should resign. He is
    only prolonging the inevitable.
    And I don't think former senator
    Obama is as innocent as some think
    he is either.

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  2. Anonymous4:28 PM

    Election officials statewide say they don't have the money to pay for a special election

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  3. Jim Roper9:28 PM

    There is no way Blagojevich can
    win this case made against him.
    The messiah aka. Obama hasn't been
    investigated yet even though he
    should be! four years of this
    idiot?

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