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     COMMENTS: Defining Disability Down

The next development in the soap opera from Illinois was the application by Lisa Madigan, the state's Attorney General, to have the Illinois Supreme Court certify Gov Rod Blagojevich as disabled, thus removing him from office temporarily. Madigan called it a disability that the governor's official acts would be "challenged as illegal or improperly motivated," noted NBC's Kevin Tibbles. "To some constitutional experts it is a long shot." Disabled people, one imagines, would also take exception.

On CBS, Dean Reynolds looked at the next White House: "It would be no surprise to see that someone of Barack Obama's staff at least talked to governor" about who would replace him in the Senate. ABC's Brian Ross focused on the fifth of the candidates for the seat, Rep Jesse Jackson Jr. Ross followed up on a Chicago Tribune report that a group of Indian-American Jackson supporters held a fundraiser last weekend for Blagojevich that the congressman's brother attended. Ross produced a photograph of the two together. He noted that the FBI affidavit against Blagojevich quoted him as claiming that emissaries from "Senate Candidate #5" had promised to raise $500,000 in campaign contributions "and $1m if I made him senator."

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