Politico:
The attorney for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said the governor will be vindicated and he has no plans to resign.Blagojevich has gone from a golden senate seat to bargain with to a resignation letter to bargain with. It may be of some value to him in getting a reduced sentence. That is why he is not offering it at this time.
"He didn't do anything wrong," attorney Sheldon Sorosky told reporters after Blagojevich was arraigned. "A lot of this is just politics."
Blagojevich should be in the office Wednesday, Sorosky added.
So, reporters asked, he does not intend to resign?
"Not that I know of, no," said Sorosky, who added that the governor was "surprised" by the day's events.
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The lawyers statement about his not having done anything wrong reminds me of a plea negotiation I was in one time where the defence lawyer asked his client if he had done the things alleged in the indictment. He responded, "Yeah, but they did not seem that bad while I was doing it." Looking at the transcripts of the tapes, Blagojevich's conduct seems pretty bad at this point.
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