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Witness: Blago Disdained Big Money Deadbeats
By DANIEL LIBIT
July 6, 2010
Following lunch, former Friends of Blagojevich Finance Director Kelly Glynn continued her testimony by describing Rod Blagojevich’s involvement in certain fundraising meetings from January 2003 to August 2004.

The jury was introduced to Blagojevich’s list of “bulls—-ers,” the name he ascribed to major donors who couldn’t meet their goals.

“The thing to keep in mind,” Glynn said, “is we had set very high goals because in Illinois at the time, there weren’t fundraising limits. So we would ask people to raise 25, 50, or 100 [thousand dollars], with expectation they would hit that goal. Sometimes they did, but not always.”

Those who did not, according to Glynn, were duly christened by the then-governor. Included on that list were former Democratic Senate candidate Blair Hull, current U.S. Ambassador to Britain Louis Susman and former University of Illinois trusteeNiranjan Shah.

Glynn painted a picture of Blagojevich as a greedy politician who was never satisfied with the great lengths his donor “bundlers” went to to raise as much money as possible.

In addition, she recalled a conversation between Blagojevich and his former Chief of Staff Lon Monk over the solicitation of Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Blagojevich, according to Glynn, didn’t want to pay Reinsdorf a phone call, but Monk implored him to do it.


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