Blagojevich and his brush (aka "the football")

When you're governor of a major state, apparently you begin to think it's acceptable behavior to berate your aides for not having your hairbrush on hand at all times:

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 reach of a president.

You can't make this s--- up. What will he do in prison without "the football"?

Comments

[David]

How could someone so stupid and crude get elected governor of Illinois? It seems to me that the media must not have been on the ball. Surely reporters directly covering Blago must have perceived what his character was. It seems to me that if they had accurately reported what he was like, his political career would not have succeeded.