Affidavit says Burris had limited conversations with Blagojevich before being appointed

[ColesCountyDem]

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:51 PM CST

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — In a formal affidavit, Roland Burris says he had only one limited conversation with Governor Rod Blagojevich before accepting his appointment as a U.S. senator.

Burris submitted the affidavit to the Illinois House committee considering impeachment of the governor. He's supposed to testify before the committee on Thursday.

Burris says he was approached by a Blagojevich attorney about taking the Senate post on Friday, December 26. Two days later, he accepted the appointment in a phone call with the governor.

The 71-year-old Democrat says the two didn't discuss anything beyond whether Burris would take the job and how it would be announced.

That statement appears to rule out any discussion of a deal or of what Burris would do as a senator.

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2009/01/06/breaking_news/doc4963a83761422537781676.txt

Unless someone has proof to the contrary, this affidavit conclusively proves that there was no 'deal' or 'taint' involved in Senator-designate Burris' appointment, now doesn't it?

[mkultra]

1. i wonder what blagos afifidavit said?

"I am not a crook"

[firedupdem]

2. Burris and the rest make my skin crawl. However, seat his ass

so he can shut the hell up. In the words of Fred Sanford he's a "big dummy"!