From the local Western Illinois CBS television affiliate KHQA:

Who will fill Obama’s senate seat?

Ill. governor meeting with Obama today

By Carol Sowers
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

CHICAGO, ILL. — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.

He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement.

There’s already been speculation about his selection…from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Chicago’s south side who co-chaired Obama’s presidential campaign, to recently-retired state senate president Emil Jones, to the governor himself.

It’s likely the governor will make his decision quickly so the new senator will get some seniority before newly-elected senators take office in January.

Part of the timing depends on when Obama officially vacates his senate seat.

Note that Mr. Obama met with Mr. Blagojevich the day after the election. This issue was that important to him.

And this is just one of the probably numerous contemporaneous news articles that put the lie to Mr. Obama’s claim that he never spoke with Governor Blagojevich about who would fill his Senate seat.

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