The Governor’s Fall

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In 2002, Rod Blagojevich was elected governor of Illinois—the first Democrat to hold the seat in thirty years. He entered office with a progressive agenda and a promise to clean up the wide-spread corruption that had plagued Illinois' government. But all of that changed with the 2008 presidential election, when Blagojevich saw an opportunity to capitalize on…for his own gain. A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's November 4th, 2008.
0:09.8	Barack Obama has just been elected to the highest office in America, President of the United
0:15.2	States.
0:17.9	And people are absolutely going crazy.
0:21.4	This day was historic and significant in ways most of us weren't aware of at the time.
0:27.9	You see, before Obama was president, he was a senator of Illinois.
0:33.2	He's not going to be a senator and president at the same time.
0:36.7	So when he got elected, he had to give up his seat.
0:40.3	You can't just have an empty Senate seat lying around for long.
0:44.2	Somebody's got to fill it.
0:45.9	And in the state of Illinois, the governor is the lucky one who gets the honor of choosing
0:50.9	who that person will be.
0:52.7	The governor at the time, Rod Blagojevic.
0:57.1	He seemed to be a charismatic and vicious Democrat.
1:04.4	This is Juliette Sorenson.
1:06.2	She's a professor at Northwestern Law School, former prosecutor and the co-author of public
1:11.1	corruption and the law.
1:13.4	And Rod Blagojevic was the young handsome governor of Illinois.
1:17.8	Born in Chicago, Blagojevic was considered one of the party's rising stars.
1:22.8	Like Bill Clinton, Blagoe had a way of making people feel special.
1:27.1	He was easygoing, fun to talk to, regarious, engaging with people with something that
1:32.4	came naturally to him.
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