The Chicago Tribune has an article promoting David Bernstein’s long article in Chicago Magazine:
Axelrod was “the main architect” of Blagojevich’s ascension to CongressHere’s an important quote from Chicago Magazine:
Axelrod was also a fierce protector of his client. He brought in his friend Carol Ronen, a progressive state representative and vocal gay-rights activist, to be campaign manager—a move intended to put a good-government face on Blagojevich, who was seen by many as simply a Machine hack.As Capitol Fax reported Carol Ronen is a loyal hack:
Former state Sen. Carol Ronen’s brief gig …

Look, I know that he’s got a big budget problem and all, but the governor is traveling the state demanding that legislators fall into 100 percent lockstep on his reform agenda while he drags his feet on weeding out Blagojevich holdovers from his own administration. That seems awfully hypocritical to me.
I’ve deliberately laid off of him, but time is up. No more. If he wants to claim the mantle of reform then he ought to prove it by ridding his office of the holdovers.
Actions, governor, speak much louder than words. …

Until now, I thought we had the biggest corruption case to break in the nation in 2008—with a sitting Democratic governor of a major state taken from his home by federal agents and to the federal courthouse and placed under arrest. But we didn’t even make the 10 ten major scandals of the year with Time magazine. Not being included in Time’s top scandals of 2008 was a stunner–despite the fact that the difficult name Rod Blagojevich aka Blago has become a national byword for goofy, the …