The latest Roland Burris news is that apparently he is promising not to run again in 2010. Given that most Illinois voters have already promised not to vote for him if he ran in 2010, this is probably a good idea, assuming he even makes it to 2010 in the Senate.
But I still can't get over the news from a few weeks back that he set up a mausoleum for himself:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/31/burris.memorial/index.html
A mausoleum? I thought that kind of thing was for Kings, heads of state, famous world leaders, and people at that level. Not random Illinois politicians. My favorite part though was the list of accomplishments he has chiseled already onto the granite side of it, to be preserved for posterity.
"The memorial also notes that Burris was the first African-American exchange student to Hamburg University in Germany from Southern Illinois University in 1959."
That's what he wants to world to remember? That's not something that goes on a mausoleum. That's barely something you would use to pad a resume prior to your first job interview after college.
He did leave room at the top for future accomplishments though, so "first African-American Senator from Illinois to be unceremoniously tossed out from the Senate in connection with state scandals" may still end up there.
2-1 odds say we will hear the word "mummified" in the same sentence as "Roland Burris" sometime in the next 20 years.
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