Jesse Jackson Jr - $5 million offered for Obama Senate Seat


	Jesse Jackson Jr - $5 million offered for Obama Senate Seat

ColoradoRight

4-14-2009 12:12 PM

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senate, bribe, graft, illinois, jackson, obama

ColoradoRight says:

no wonder Fitzgerald put this out there so early. He was close to actually getting a sitting House Member for bribery.

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