Oh mess every day in every state across the country our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers pulling in millions of dollars a race sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phonebook, and emails, so many emails. But for all those little fish drawing 100 to their local race, its the whales, those Campaign Fundraisers really need powerful and rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 20 5,000, 1 million, they want a favor or ten it should be obvious that thats corrupt, but with a wink and nod, political deals to the bribery line every single day. And we may never have noticed that certain illinois the governor hadnt flung back the curtain within unrepentant ego, a political corruption, crime spree in a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen meet Rod Blagojevichs it was Early Morning because i used to get up every mor
the deep dive today, tdr continues, it s tuesday. people are voting somewhere. it s president obama s home state. primary day in the land of lincoln, where four republicans are vying to take on perhaps the most vulnerable democratic governor in the country, patrick quinn. and a handful of right on right house primary challenges will test the strength of the democratics a bit. back when he left office in 2003, governor pat quinn who served as rod blagojevich s, eventually sent to federal prison to join a long line of
corruption out of springfield by bringing term limits to our state government. eight years and out. critical thing to get term limits on every politician. rauner is running on school reform, wants to move public workers away from defined benefit pensions and has poured $6 million of his own money into the campaign and raised another $4 million, more than any candidate seeking a gubernatori a. l position in state history. we re still in the primaries, folks. he leads polls which, of course, means he has a target on his back. you can t just come out and say i m going to buy the governor s race. the more i hear him speak the more he sounds like rod blagojevich. he may own nine multimillion dollar mansions throughout america but he shouldn t be able to bite tenth one, which is the people s mansion in springfield, illinois. they re doing it because they re desperate. they see we re going to shake up their world.