{"id":2363,"date":"2005-06-10T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2018-06-01T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:25:15","slug":"steinberg-on-others-on-blago-uh-illinois-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/steinberg-on-others-on-blago-uh-illinois-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinberg on Others on Blago, Uh, Illinois&#8217; Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Neil Steinberg&#8217;s <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i> column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steinberg\/cst-nws-stein10.html\" target=\"_new\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daley isn&#8217;t the only public servant receiving scrutiny. Our embattled governor, Rod Blagojevich, is on everybody&#8217;s minds and lips. His name came up in three very different conversations I had with three very different people one day this week. Since I am known as being a negative sort, I will present the bare facts behind the trio of comments without any kind of embroidery:<\/p>\n<p><\/i>Time: 12 noon. Place: Back room at Gene &#038; Georgetti&#8217;s. Speaker: a well-respected, longtime Chicago editor:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been watching politics for 40 years, and he&#8217;s the worst governor we&#8217;ve ever had, bar none.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/i>Time: 2:30 p.m. Place: Editorial board room of the Sun-Times. Speaker: a longtime state officeholder:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;He&#8217;s missing in action and not paying attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/i>Time: 5:30 p.m. Place: the Metra Milwaukee North Line. Speaker: a lady on a train:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;He&#8217;s in over his head. He doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing. I kinda feel sorry for him.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When Neil Steinberg turns on a Democrat, it&#8217;s obvious the only principle the Democrat has espoused is Peter.<\/p>\n<p>But you know, gentle reader, how I feel about my governor.  I want to <a href=\"http:\/\/draftmattblunt2008.blogspot.com\" target=\"_new\">draft Matt Blunt 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Neil Steinberg&#8217;s Chicago Sun-Times column today: Daley isn&#8217;t the only public servant receiving scrutiny. Our embattled governor, Rod Blagojevich, is on everybody&#8217;s minds and lips. His name came up in three very different conversations I had with three very different people one day this week. Since I am known as being a negative sort, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19982,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/19982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}