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Published: 12/15/08

Rod Blagojevich Had Nickname For Hairbrush, and Other Fun Facts

By  Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily
Rod Blagojevich Had Nickname For Hairbrush, and Other Fun Facts

I don't often find myself laughing when I read The New York Times, but today's profile of Rod Blagojevich had me literally laughing out loud. For example: Mr. Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush. He calls the brush "the football," an allusion to the "nuclear football," or the bomb codes never to be out of ...

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