Bad news for Dems--Blagojevich to continue to fight

NY Times:

Striking a tone that was unapologetic and defiant, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich broke his public silence on Friday, denying any criminal wrongdoing and vowing to fight what he called “false accusations and a political lynch mob.”

“I’m here to tell you right off the bat that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing,” Mr. Blagojevich said in a brief appearance before reporters at his downtown office. “I intend to stay on the job, and I will fight this thing every step of the way. I will fight. I will fight. I will fight, until I take my last breath. I have done nothing wrong.”

Mr. Blagojevich, a second-term Democrat, bounded out of the room when he was finished, taking no questions and without addressing the specific accusations leveled against him last week in a federal criminal complaint, or in an impeachment inquiry by lawmakers under way in Springfield.

Federal prosecutors have charged him with trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, threatening to withhold state money from a hospital if an executive there would not contribute to him, and trying to have a newspaper writer fired in exchange for state help in the sale of Wrigley Field.

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One of the things wrong with Blagojevich is that he does not think there is anything wrong with selling a senate seat or using extortion to get campaign contributions. That shows you how embedded the culture of corruption is in the Chicago Way of political business. However, his statements and that of his lawyer that he will not appoint anyone at this point is a recognition that there is a problem.

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