Burris Aided Blago.... Suprising?

Illinois Senate Appointee Roland Burris apparently aided Governor Rod Blagojevich's election bid in 2006-- in sneaky circumstances.

Just days after Gov. Rod Blagojevich accepted his party's nod for re-election in 2006, a letter arrived at state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka's office seeking thousands of pages of documents Blagojevich could use as ammunition against her in their upcoming campaign.

The letter was signed by Roland Burris.

It was one of several requests Burris made to the treasurer's office in 2006, a campaign practice known as opposition research in which candidates use public documents to question their opponents' records.

This really can't be too surprising, but it still seems underhanded. Burris helps the Governor, then gets picked for Senate. And didn't just help the governor, but used a legal but dirty trick to gain favor (or just to help him).

Indeed.