Politics & Government

The 17 Best 'Blago Convicted' Headlines: CONTEST WINNERS

We asked for your best headline for Rod Blagojevich's 17 guilty verdicts and boy did you guys come through!

We asked and boy did you answer! E-mail, Facebook, Twitter, comments on the site – you flocked to respond to our "Submit Your Best 'Blago Convicted' Headline Contest."

There were exactly 17 submissions, one for each count where Blagojevich was found guilty of corruption. Spooky, huh?

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So let's get to those submissions and Patch editors' top pick:

  1. Jurors give Rod the Shaft
  2. Doin' The Jailhouse Rock!
  3. No Surprise...Cubs lose, Elvis dead, Blago Guilty
  4. Run for your Life Rod...You're Guilty
  5. Blago Trumps Ryan...Guilty on 17 counts
  6. BLAGO-0 BAGGO-17
  7. Senate Seat Seller Blues
  8. Change in Hot Seat for Blago
  9. Rod "Hot Seat" Blagojevich
  10. You want what for that seat? Oh Federal Time, you got it.
  11. Celebrity Apprentice "Warden's Files"
  12. Bad Hair, the least of Blago's problems now
  13. Blago guilty.......next role is Survivor: Alcatraz
  14. Blago guilty - possible future cell mate with George Ryan
  15. Blago going to Heartbreak Hotel, will he get Jailhouse Rocked?
  16. Blago convicted! Conviction sets precedent! All Illinois Politicians report to the Federal Penitentiary A.S.A.P.!
  17. 17 convictions...effin GOLDEN!

 

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And the winner as selected by a panel of Patch editors is ... (Click on the video attached to this story now)

#17: "17 convictions...effin GOLDEN!"

Congratulations to James Boskey for submitting it and his son Peter for coming up with it.

The runner-up was "No Surprise...Cubs lose, Elvis dead, Blago Guilty," submitted by Dave Brost.

So thanks for your submissions, but now it's up to you. Did we make the best pick? Is there a better one on this list or that you came up with?

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