Posted by JumpyPants
I sure picked a fun day to return to Bob's blog. Wading through the landfill of sleaze and feckless behavior that is the hallmark of the Rod [expletive]ojevich history, one of my favorite stories is, in fact, about a landfill.
It seems A-hole-Rod has been having a public feud with his father-in-law, Richard Mell, himself an Illinois politician with what would appear to be a less than tidy ethical track record. I'm still trying to figure out what sparked the feud (as late as 2002 they were still pals; Mell worked on A-hole-Rod's 2002 gubernatorial campaign and is the father of A-hole-Rod's expletive-loving wife), but the first shot fired was when the Gov shut down a landfill which was run by the cousin of Patti Blagojevich nee Mell and for which, it turned out, Councilman Richard Mell did advisory work. So the son-in-law was very publicly and, one would assume, financially, smacking down his wife's old man. And here's what the son-in-law had to say about it:
Regarding his decision to shut down the landfill despite the fact the landfill was owned by a relative, Blagojevich said, "This is the kind of thing that I think frankly separates the men from the boys in leadership. Do you have the testicular virility to make a decision like that knowing what's coming your way? I say I do."
No follow up required.