What do you make of Willie Brown (former S.F. mayor) take on Blago scandal?

(I posted this question earlier and mistakenly identified Brown as former mayor of Chicago….my apologies….had Illinois on the brain)

Brown (democrat) is basically saying he thinks Obama’s people initiated contact with Blago after they realized who Blago was leaning towards for the Senate seat.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/7428

" I wouldn’t bet on him [Blago] stepping aside anytime soon. If anything, his hand is getting stronger by the day. I can’t go into details, but my impression is that the whole mess started because the governor had been considering appointing a political rival, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, to the Senate so she wouldn’t be able to run against him when he went up for re-election in 2010. Apparently, Obama’s people weren’t happy about the idea of Madigan coming to Washington, and there were some pretty heated conversations between Blagojevich and Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, which I understand will burn your ears off."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/21/BAG314QRPO.DTL

"It was pretty clear that Blagojevich is going to hang tough, especially after the Illinois Supreme Court shot down Madigan’s request that he be forced from office because he supposedly can’t carry out his duties.

It is also pretty clear that despite all the screaming over his appearing to be "selling" the seat in return for political favors or financial considerations, his fellow Democrats are not going to strip him of his power to appoint someone to replace Obama.

Publicly, they may say that’s because a special election would cost the state millions. But the truth is, the Democrats are deathly afraid that with all these corruption stories swirling around, a do-gooder Republican could win the seat and damage the Democrats’ chances of holding a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate."

I admit, this does sound more plausible than the classic "I didn’t know anything about that" coming from Obama’s people.
I’m talking about Willie Brown’s take on the situation, why does it matter who wrote down what he said??
fluke……..the problem is that Obama’s not supposed to interfere with what was supposed to be the Governor’s decision alone.

I saw Willie make some of those comments and they were compelling. In addition, if you take into account that Blago, for all of the "perceptions" hasn’t "DONE" anything regarding this senate seat, he’s gonna walk on this issue. He hasn’t actually committed any crimes. Conspiracy is weak because no one was willing to deal with him. The Obama camp likely ratted him out if nothing else. The Senate will likely have to back down from Harry Ried’s statement that hey will not accept any appointments by Blago. This is particularly true if Blago picks a retired politician who will promise not to run in two years when the seat is up for re-election.

The Chicago Sun Times (I think) was going to break the story so Fitzgerald had to run with it before he was actually ready. The press conference was a huge mistake on Fitzgerald’s part and will likely come back to haunt him. But Fitzgerald was likely trying to prevent a crime concerning a Senate seat. Regardless, Fitzgerald probably has Blago on something else already and this Senate seat is just a distraction and won’t matter in the end.