Blagojevich gets six-figure book deal
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/01/29/art.blagocu0129.gi.jpg caption="Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will include information that could be “embarrassing” in his upcoming book."] (CNN) – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has landed a six-figure book deal to tell his story, his spokesman confirmed to CNN Monday.
Blagojevich was impeached earlier this year amid allegations that he tried to sell President Obama’s vacant Senate seat. The former governor, who maintains his innocence, will write about the process he used to pick Obama’s successor, and “the dark side of politics he witnessed in both the state and national level.” The former governor will also discuss his two-terms in office.
The book, which has a working title of “The Governor,” is scheduled to be released by Phoenix Books in October.
Glenn Selig, Blagojevich's publicist and founder of The Publicity Agency, said the governor will divulge information that will be “embarrassing” to himself and others.
"There were some people in high places who didn't want the governor to write this book and worked to try to squash a book deal," Selig said in a statement released Monday.
The Illinois Senate voted unanimously in January to impeach Blagojevich and to permanently bar him from holding political office in the state of Illinois.
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And my Mama told me corruption never pays.........she lied.
Slime.
let's look at the ties to emanuel!
This only happens in America!!
Crime has it's rewards after all.
Who in their right mind would spend good money buying a piece of lying trash from this moron? Go somewhere and disappear until you report to prison.
Gotta love America and its capitalist system!
uh, all I want to know from him is: what is that dead animal on your head and why is it there?
I know that's one book I won't read!!!
I wouldn't spend ten cents on anything this creep wrote.
Hopefully he can take down Senator Burris and Daley with him.
Well, that sounds about right.
I will want to read his tell all book. I knew it would happen after the Chicago team at the White House disowned him.
And exactly who would even care to read anything he had to say!
he even looks like a pig.......
Why is the publishing industry rewarding this jerk for his crimes? Isn't there a law against that? I sure won't be buying the book.
My question, after his media tour, is whether or not there's really anything more he can say that we'd be interested in reading.
I won't buy the book. Will you? If this guy is convicted and or charged, How much of this book will be true compared to the true charges?
Screw you Blago
Sorry...that would be "talk shows."
And Bush still can't get a publishing deal for his "memoirs" – thats the total kicker in all this! LOVE IT.
Beware of the tattle tale strangler?
Hey look, it's the guy every Cable News Network trash talked, took out of context and then crucified!
Another loser writing a book.
I say right on! I love this guy. He got a bad stigma from the public with a less than thorough senate hearing. Let him live up his humiliation with a few Benjamins to soften the future.