
Patricia Blagojevich fired from fundraising job
-- chicagotribune.com: "Just months after launching a new career as a fundraiser for a Chicago homeless agency, Illinois First Lady Patricia Blagojevich has been fired.
On Tuesday, the board of the Chicago Christian Industrial League exercised the termination clause in Blagojevich's contract with the agency, interim Executive Director Mary Shaver confirmed Wednesday. Shaver said she could not discuss why the board fired Blagojevich because it is a personnel issue.
The Tribune reported in October that political connections helped Blagojevich land the job at the agency after she all but abandoned her real estate business amid questions about her commissions from state contractors and political supporters of her husband, Gov. Rod Blagojevich. She was making about $100,000 a year as fundraiser for the league, which has been struggling financially for years.
'The first lady is saddened by the board's decision,' the governor's spokesman, Lucio Guerrero, said in a statement. 'She wishes her colleagues well in these financially trying times.'"
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