"Trailblazer" was supposed to be waging a listening tour of Illinois. Now, this is something you do if you're running for Senate, right? Well, he cancelled that today, and instead is taking "private meetings" with no press access allowed.
That should come as no surprise. After all, he's taking a beating. It might be a good idea to duck away from the cameras for a while.
Yeah, lay low and maybe this thing starts to go away. As long as no new disclosures hit the airwares, this should all go away.
Guess what folks???...there's been a new disclosure.
The names of lobbying clients that Sen. Roland W. Burris declared to a state legislative panel do not match those on records he filed over the last decade with Illinois and Chicago agencies, a CQ analysis of the records has found.
The discovery comes as Burris, an Illinois Democrat, is fending off calls for his resignation for failing to fully explain his dealings with impeached former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who appointed him to succeed President Obama. The Senate Ethics Committee also is looking into discrepancies in his statements to the Illinois House Impeachment Committee.
Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin , a fellow Illinois Democrat, suggested that the Ethics Committee should also probe Burris’ lobbying activities.
“Every day there are more and more revelations about contacts with Blagojevich advisors, efforts at fundraising and omissions from his list of lobbying clients,” Durbin said in a statement from Turkey, where he is on a congressional trip. “These news reports and the public statements by Roland Burris himself are troubling and raise serious questions which need to be looked at very carefully.”
This is the kind of thing that causes a minor bit of somethin' in the press if its revealed about anybody. It's not really a big deal on its own, but couple it with the allegations already hanging over his head, and...
...like I said, Trailblazer is toast.
It's just a matter of when.
