<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cfb8cff0-36f4-49e1-b8e1-d44ea987b065/42DC4BC6-90C6-4683-A369-80904A82FD5E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt" href="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.southernillinoisan.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><DIV id="StoryPageHeadline">Experts: Alleged actions mind-blowing</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><DIV id="StoryPageByline">By Adam Testa, The Southern</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><DIV id="StoryPageTimestamp">Tuesday, December 9, 2008 11:14 PM CST</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><DIV>CARBONDALE - The accusations of corruption on the part of Gov. Rod Blagojevich are so serious they raise questions not only about the governor's integrity but about his sanity, said an expert on state politics.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><DIV>Federal charges released Tuesday allege that Blagojevich attempted to sell the appointment to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><DIV>"We've seen a lot of political corruption in this state, but we've never seen anything as brazen as what's alleged in these federal charges," said Mike Lawrence, retired director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Lawrence also worked in the administration of Gov. Jim Edgar and covered state politics as a journalist for 25 years.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2008/12/10/front_page/27090379.txt"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.southernillinoisan.com/img/1DC4B547-4797-40D7-8EA6-D40CDD96444F" alt="page masthead" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/42DC4BC6-90C6-4683-A369-80904A82FD5E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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