This $70G chauffeur story has legs, let me tell you. Correction on State of Blago posted a few days ago: It’s the Dept. of HS, not HR: that’s [In]Human Services, which apparently supplies In-service training for apparent liars and (female) sexual predators:
Legislators say state official lying on drivers
SPRINGFIELD — The head of state government’s largest [!] agency denied Wednesday that she and her top aide hired taxpayer-funded chauffeurs, but that’s not what her chief of staff said under oath last year in a federal sex harassment lawsuit.
While we’re at it, kudos (singular of Greek word for hearty congratulations, not plural of kudo) to Dave McKinney, Chris Fusco, Whitney Woodward (what, no email address?), and their editors for a good, hard lede.
It’s still the state of Blago, by the way, but he’s not in the story.
Later: Oops, he’s there:
[Pajama Lady] Wertz also testified that she and Estes [the chauffeur], who didn’t have a high-school diploma, were hired after working on Gov. Blagojevich’s campaign. She said both knew Louanner Peters, who is now one of Blagojevich’s two deputy governors.
Blago, we can’t say we hardly knew ye.
Blithe Spirit 