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Show 2 Thursday, December 11,2008 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com: All stories and photos from The Associated Press Blagojevich ignores Obama's call to resign CHICAGO—His career in shreds, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich clung defiantly to power Wednesday, ignoring a call to step down from Presidentelect Barack Obama and a warning that Senate Democrats will not let him appoint a new senator from the state. "Everyone is calling for his head," said Barbara Flynn Currie, a leader in the Illinois House and, like the governor, a Democrat. One day after Blagojevich's arrest, fellow Illinois politicians sought to avoid the taint of scandal-by-association. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said at a news conference in Washington that he was Senate Candidate 5 in the government's criminal complaint—a man Blagojevich was secretly recorded as saying might be willing to pay money to gain appointment to Obama's vacant Senate seat. Jackson said he had been assured by prosecutors he was not a target of the investigation, and he emphatically said he had not engaged "whatsoever in any wrongdoing." Other Democrats in Washington edged away from calls for a special election to fill Obama's place in the Senate, hoping that Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn would soon become governor and fill the vacancy on his own. That would assure the party of holding the seat, and on a far 1 1 Thursday • • ; * & 44/30 Partly Cloudy • Green Resolutions: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. @ Union • Predental Information Session: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. @ SSB, 380 • Students for Sensible Drug Policy PowWow: 3 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. @ West of v : the Union Patio . • " _O • Occupational Therapy Information Session: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.@520 Wa- , karaWay ^ , .-.-t-} 12 40/31 AM Rain/Snow • Fall Semester 2008 Academic Deadline: Term length and second session classes end , •..•-. ;• Ski N Shred Red Day; all day @ Snowbird Ski Resort , ; -:'.- '; [ '• Red Rocks Preview: 7 p.m. @ Huntsman Center /: • University of Utah Choirs Holiday Concert: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Lib by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, center, leaves his home through a back alley on Wednesday a day after he was arrested on federal corruption charges. faster timetable than any balloting would allow. Ensconced in his downtown office, Blagojevich gave no sign he was contemplating resigning, and dispatched his spokeswoman, Kelley Quinn, to say it was "business as usual" in his i6th-floor suite, situated a few blocks from Obama's transition headquarters. "At the end of the day, the top priority for our office is to serve the people, and we have not lost sight of that, nor will we lose sight of that," Kelley Quinn said. One day earlier, federal prosecutors released a thick document that included excerpts of wiretapped conversations in which the governor allegedly schemed to enrich himself by offering to sell Obama's Senate seat for campaign cash or a lucrative job inside or outside government. Blagojevich, whose 52nd birthday was Wednesday, is charged with conspiracy and solicitation to commit bribery, punishable by up to 20 years in prison and 10 years, respectively. More than 24 hours after the arrest, Obama joined other prominent Democrats from his state in calling for Blagojevich's resignation. "The president-elect agrees with Lt. Gov. Quinn and many others that under the current circumstances it is difficult for the governor to effectively do his job and serve the people of Illinois," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said in response to questionsfromThe Associated Press. Asked whether Obama supports a special elec- tion, Gibbs said Obama believes the Illinois General Assembly should consider how to fill the Senate seat and "put in place a process to select a new senator that will have the trust and confidence of the people of Illinois." Top Senate Democrats were more pointed in a letter circulated among the rank and file for signatures. Blagojevich's resignation, followed by an appointment made by a new governor, would "be the most expeditious way for a new senator to be chosen and seated in a manner that would earn the confidence of the people of Illinois and all Americans," wrote Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and the party's second-ranking leader, Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois. Jesse Jackson Jr.: I'm not target of investigation WASHINGTQN—Ren*Jesse J a p ^ 3 ^ 8 ^ | f j ^ n ^ ^ ^ - s e v e n " t e r m Houseson Ji. said Wednesday he openly member and son of civil rights acsought appointment to Barack tivist Jesse Jackson, told reporters in Obama's S e n a t e ^ e a H ^ ' d e m ^ ^ he spoke with the fering favors in return to Illinois U.S. attorney's office Tuesday. Gov. Rod Blagojevich and said he "They shared with me that I am was not involved "whatsoever in not a target of the investigation and any wrongdoing." that I am not accused of any misA lawyer for Jackson acknowl- conduct," said Jackson, who left edged that the Illinois Democrat is the crowded session without taking "Senate Candidate 5" in the 76-page questions. federal complaint filed against U.S. attorney's spokesman RanBlagojevich, who was arrested Tues- dall Samborn would not confirm or day. Wiretapped conversations sug- deny Jackson's assertions. gest Blagojevich felt the candidate Blagojevich, a second-term Demwould raise campaign money for ocrat, is accused of scheming to him in exchange for being appoint- enrich himself by selling Obama's ed to the Senate seat vacated by the open seat for cash or a lucrative job president-elect. for himself or his wife. The federal Officials: Obama picks energy, enviro posts WASHINGTON—President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration. The president-elect has selected Steven Chu for energy secretary, Lisa Jackson for EPA administrator, Carol Browner as his energy "czar," and Nancy Sutley to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Democratic officials with knowledge of the decisions said Wednesday. Obama plans to name the four to • the posts in the coming weeks, barring unforeseen developments. Still unclear is whom Obama will tap for interior secretary. Officials close to the transition said support for John Berry, the director of the National Zoo and a former assistant secretary at the Interior Department, was growing. But these officials also said Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva and California Rep. Mike Thompson were still in the running. The Democratic officials who disclosed the selections spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal names that have not been made public. Among these posts, Browner's stands out because it's a new White House position. ' She is expected to coordinate the various agencies that play a role in energy and environmental policy, especially on issues such as climate change that don't fit nicely in the silos of the federal government. Those agencies could include the EPA and the Transportation, Energy and Interior departments. complaint-says-that in a wiretapped conversation on Oct. 31, Blagojevich described an approach "by an asso:; ciate"cfiF'Sferiate'Candidate 5." The governor was quoted as saying the person made a "pay to play" proposal, a term for a payment in exchange for a political favor. "That, you know, he'd raise me 500 grand" for future political campaigns, the governor said in the wiretapped conversation. Blagojevich went on to say "An emissary came. Then the other guy would raise a million, if I made" Jackson a senator. The complaint did not specify whether the $500,000 and $1 million would have been raised by the same person. -;—^-:;•-: NEED A C A R ? r - - v - v CAFIRSTTIMEBlllYER PROGRAM-} A. ^ AUTO SALES/FIRM.-^JU- GardnerHall Rain/Snow Showers • • ':•'•: J'''- 32/22 WORLD U.S. leads U.N. push to hunt, punish Somali pirates UNITED NATIONS—The United States sought international authorization Wednesday to hunt Somali pirates on land with the cooperation of Somalia's weak U.N.-backed government in one of the Bush administration's last major foreign policy initiatives. The U.S. circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution proposing that all nations and regional groups cooperating with Somalia's government in thefightagainst piracy and armed robbery "may take all necessary measures ashore in Somalia," including its airspace. U.S. Miss, residents sue over Katrina housing funds JACKSON, Miss.—Housing advocates and low-income residents sued Wednesday to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Mississippi State Conference NAACP, Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center and residents sued the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in federal court in Washington, D.C. Congressional leaders and others slammed HUD when it approved the state's plan to steer money to the Hurricane Katrina-damaged port despitea lingering housing crisis caused by the 2005 storm. : UTAH Lawsuit filed against Trolley Square shooting hero An Ogden police officer who was called a hero for cutting short a 2007 shooting rampage at a mall that left five shoppers dead is being accused in a lawsuit of using excessive force. 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