Breaking News Rod Blagojevich convicted: Rod Blagojevich, the bushy haired former governor of Illinois, was found guilty Monday on seventeen of twenty federal corruption counts, admitting attempting to sell Barack Obama’s vacated United States Senate seat. Later the verdicts were proclaimed Monday; Blagojevich said he and his wife, Patti, were shocked. "I frankly am stunned," he said. "There's not much left to say other than we want to get house to our girls and talk to them and explain things to them and then try to sort things out." Blagojevich, who could be sentenced to 20 years in prison, will be the 4th Illinois governor thrown in the pokey. Democrats Otto Kerner, Dan Walker and Republican George Ryan all found their way behind bars. Ryan is still serving time in federal prison. This is the 2nd time the Democrat has been in court for the Senate seat corruption charges. Last August Blagojevich, 54, dodged a bullet when the jury deadlocked on twenty-three of twenty-four counts, convicting the boisterous politician on only a single charge of lying to federal agents. The 2011 trial lasted only 3 weeks because prosecutors decided not to charge Blagojevich with racketeering, instead focusing primarily on the allegation that the former governor was serious when he said on a taped phone line that Obama's seat was a "valuable thing" and that "If I do not get what I want I will just take the Senate seat myself." Although the governor may have been shocked, those on Twitter weren't very stunned at all. Nor were they sad to see him go A choice of the mostly jovial reactions later the jump.
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