The Chicago Sun-Times reports today that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel asked then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to appoint a Cook County commissioner to Emanuel’s House seat. Blagojevich claims in a new book that Emanuel wanted to be able to run again in 2010 or 2012.
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