Witness: Rahm Relayed List of Obama’s Preferred Candidates for Senate Seat

After Barack Obama friend Valerie Jarrett publicly pulled out of contention for the U.S. Senate seat appointment, Rahm Emanuel called Rod Blagojevich’s top aide.
Emanuel, now Obama’s chief of staff, wanted Blagojevich to know the list of Senate candidates “acceptable” to Obama, according to testimony Thursday in Blagojevich’s corruption trial.
They were: Tammy Duckworth; Illinois state comptroller Dan Hynes; U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, according to Blagojevich’s former chief of staff John Harris.
Harris told the ex-governor of the discussion in a secretly recorded phone call Nov. 12.
On the call, Blagojevich calls the list “B.S.”

Read more: (Natasha Korecki and Sarah Ostman, “Witness: Blago Given List of Obama Favorites,” Chicago Sun-Times, 06/25/2010)