Senator Dick Durbin held a 59-minute meeting Tuesday with embattled Senator Roland Burris and afterwards said Burris told him he will not resign. Durbin said he told Burris he would not support his candidacy in 2010. Durbin said he asked Burris if he was going to run in 2010 and Burris said he has not decided. A source told the Sun-Times that Burris is not going to run. In any case, the uproar surrounding Burris would make it politically impossible to run since almost every major Democrat in the state has asked Burris to step down.
"I told him that under the circumstances I would consider resigning if I were in his shoes. He said he would not resign, and that was his conclusion," Durbin said. "People in Illinois are bone weary of this stuff." They "want this Blagojevich burlesque to end."
Burris left the Durbin suite of offices through a side door. Trapped by reporters while waiting for an elevator, Burris said “it was a good meeting” and he was “under orders not to say anything about this.” Those orders are self-imposed and from his lawyer, he said.
Meeting reporters after speaking with Burris in his Capitol office, Durbin said he told Burris he was “disappointed” Burris gave incomplete testimony to the Illinois House about the circumstances surrounding his appointment from ousted Governor Blagojevich. Since Burris is staying, Durbin said he will find ways to work cooperate and work together.
24 February 2009
Some guys just don't get it, do they?
The Sun-Times has an article by Lynn Sweet about the Illinois senator problem:
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