Illinois Awash in Philandering Drunks: Blago

The lawmakers who deposed Rod Blagojevich are “holier than thou” hypocrites, the ex-guv declared on a radio show this morning, saying that Springfield is full of anonymous lawmakers who drink too much and cheat on their wives. “This is how the system in Springfield works,” he said. “Nobody knows who they are. They’re away from their families. It’s a whole different world down there.”

He recounted a story in which an unnamed lawmaker’s wife discovered him cheating with his secretary and demanded he fire her. So the lawmaker asked Blagojevich to hire the secretary so he could continue sleeping with her. “I don't want to be too judgmental,” he said. “But these same guys get up and they get holier than thou on their soapboxes, and there they are doing that sort of thing.” (More Rod Blagojevich stories.)