Remember this stunning moment? And just like he dances around the $1500 check issue, he refuses to tell Illinoisans just exactly what the feds are interested in with all those reported subpoenas. (Click here to read the Tribune article on Blagojevich’s subpoenas.) Why don’t we start a ticker counting how many days it takes Governor Blagojevich to answer questions regarding the subpoenas? Starting today we are at 62.

Governor Blagojevich has an expensive habit of flying on private jets. It is costing Illinois taxpayers thousands of dollars a day!

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s practice of flying from Chicago to Springfield and back for daily budget negotiations is costing taxpayers more than $5,800 a day, for a total of roughly $76,000 and climbing.

An Associated Press analysis of state flight records shows Blagojevich made eight round trips on state airplanes from May 22 to June 7. He spent an average of less than five hours in Springfield each time, including travel time to and from the capital airport.

On a ninth trip, he stayed over two nights as lawmakers tried to meet their May 31 budget-approval deadline.The cost of the travel was $52,540.

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-AP