Quote Originally Posted by cassiesmom View Post
Well... Jesse Jackson, Jr. has submitted his resignation and acknowledged that he is under investigation. Only in Illinois. In any other state he would have not run again and someone else would be making arrangements to take over his district right now. But not in Illinois -- he was re-elected despite barely mounting a campaign, so now there will be some kind of special election to replace him, and people who didn't run for the office on the November ballot will try to get it now. We might be the Land of Lincoln but I think we are also the land of SNAFU politics.

Jackson Jr. was released from federal prison today and driven by his family to a halfway house. It's being reported that he will only be kept there for a matter of days and then will go to his family's home in the Washington, D.C. area. His wife also has a pending prison sentence but her lawyers are trying to get it postponed or waived outright. The Blagojevich family is upset because former Gov. Blagojevich is still in prison in Colorado.