With credentials like these why would Reid not do every thing possible to seat Roland Burris?

As of 2008, Burris on the Board of Directors of the Inland Real Estate Corporation as an Independent Director and is Chairman of Governance and Nominating Committee. Inland is a $2 billion Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), listed on the NYSE, which owns medium-sized shopping centers. As an Independent Director, he serves on the Audit Committee.



He serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Master of Public Administration Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.



Member, Board of the Better Business Bureau (2008)

Member, Board of the Auditorium Theater of Chicago (2001-2006)

Member, Board of The National Center for Responsible Gaming (1996-2005)

Trustee, Financial Accounting Foundation (1991-1994)

Chairman, National Association of Attorneys General, Civil Rights Commission (1993-1995)

Trustee, Government Finance Officers Association of U.S. and Canada (1987-1991)

Member, Howard University Law School Alumni Association

Member, Southern Illinois University Foundation

Member, Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago

Member, U.S. Jaycees

Vice-Chairman, Committee on Illinois Government

Trustee, Goodwill Industries

Member, Chicago Area Council, Boy Scouts of America

Member, Board of Directors, Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University (1996)

Chairman, Illinois State Justice Commission (1994-1996)

Chairman and Founder, Illinois Commission of the African-American Males (1992-1994)

Vice-Chairman, Democratic National Committee (1985-1989)

Life member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Life member, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Life member, Southern Illinois Alumni Association

Order of the United Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Free Masons, Prince Hall Chapter (32nd Degree)

Chairman, Civil Rights Committee, National Association of Attorneys General (1993-1994)

President, National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (1981-1982)

Member, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Beta Boule

Honorary Doctors of Laws Degree, National Louis University, Evanston, Illinois

Honorary Doctors of Laws Degree, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi

White House summer intern for Office of Emergency Planning (1962)|||Its too bad because he seems well qualified .

Mr Burris should have know what was going to happen and i'm sure Reid has a backup plan.|||It is called fruit from the poisonous tree. If a corrupt politician makes decisions, then all of his actions will always be subject to scrutiny. With credentials like those you listed, Roland Burris should have done the honorable act of declining the office of the Senate.|||Burris isn't the issue, it's that the guy who appointed him was expecting money for the appointment.



Danny Davis was also considered, but withdrew, because he didn't want any part of this process. Burris should have done the same.|||Burris knew his appointment was going to be blocked, but he arrogantly pushed ahead anyway. Apparently with all that experience he hasn't learned to do the right thing.|||It's politics ~

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