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Rod Blogojevich has been impeached by the Illinois House 114 to 1.
The Illinois Senate will take up the matter Jan 26.
The Illinois Senate will take up the matter Jan 26.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/01/illinois-house.htmlIllinois House votes to impeach Blagojevich
USA TODAY's Judy Keen reports that the Illinois House of Representatives just voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich on a 114-1 vote, setting the stage for a trial in the state Senate that will decide if he should be removed from office in the wake of corruption allegations.
House members who spoke before the unprecedented vote charged that the Democrat betrayed his oath of office and is not fit to lead the state. Blagojevich is the first Illinois governor to be impeached.
"We stand here today because of the perfidy of one man: Rod Blagojevich," said Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, a Democrat who chaired a special impeachment committee. "To overturn the results of an election is not something that should be undertaken lightly."
It takes 60 votes in the 118-member House to approve impeachment. The two-term Democratic governor could be removed from office with a votes of 40 of 59 members of the Senate.
Posted by Mike Carney at 11:34 AM/ET, January 09, 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Illinois state senate on Thursday convicted Governor Rod Blagojevich of abuse of power, removing him from office amid charges that he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.
More than two-thirds of the 59 senators, acting as a jury following the two-term Democrat's impeachment on January 9, voted to find him guilty, effectively ousting him from office.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/illinois_governor_impeachment
Surely, he could have bought 20 votes...LowlyPion said:He was within 20 votes of saving his job too.
turbo-1 said:Surely, he could have bought 20 votes...