Blago Pardon on Tap?

Rod must feel so loved, what with all the Illinois politicians telling the President to butt out and let the disgraced governor rot in prison for longer than most shooters:

• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot criticized President Donald Trump’s decision-making process on pardons and commutations, saying “the president is a person who doesn’t respect the rule of law.”

Just like how Groot "respects" Federal immigration law we guess.

• Lightfoot wouldn’t say whether the former governor’s sentence should be commuted but expressed no sympathy for Blagojevich, who she noted was convicted in a court of law. Both the conviction and sentence have been upheld, Lightfoot said.

Governor JayBee the Gutt, who was on the infamous wiretaps with Blago, was even more direct:

• “President Trump has some pretty important things that he ought to be dealing with, not the least of which is the mindless killings over the last week and gun safety. I wish he focused on that,” Pritzker told reporters at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. “Gov. Blagojevich should remain in prison.”

Blago is an uncomfortable reminder of Governor Flounder's verbal miscues regarding "the African-American thing" when Blago was trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Sparklefarts.

We've mentioned it before (and in light of the political stances by the Machine that pretty much railroaded Blago into fifteen years), any deal for a pardon or commutation ought to include an extensive prison exit interview with Blago naming names of everyone he did business with, starting with his father-in-law and working through mayor's office to the state house. And seeing these quotes from his former "friends" ought to make that decision a simple one.