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Okay that's not entirely accurate. Patti Blagojevich is accusing a charity official of DEFAMING HER. Allegedly.

Let's cover all bases with this one.

• Allegedly, Patti Blagojevich is accusing a charity official of DEFAMING HER.
• Patti Blagojevich is accusing a charity official of allegedly DEFAMING HER.
• Patti Blagojevich is allegedly accusing a charity official of DEFAMING HER.

The Blagojevich story keeps getting weirder and weirder. After Patti appeared on a reality tv show and blubbered her way through it as the world's biggest victim; she's reaching out for other ways to fill her purse with cash. One imaginative solution they cooked up in Chicago is to sue the charity where she used to work for defamation.

The Charity says she used names of their donors to pump up support for her husband's book. That is...at the very least...believable.

Patti Blagojevich, who was fired from the charity group in January, said the list was hers to begin with. In her post as director of development with the charity last year, she created a list for outreach and fund-raising, she said.

There was no such database before she arrived, Illinois' former first lady said, so, starting from scratch, she placed 600 of personal contacts she had accumulated over the years into the index.

"The galling thing about this is before I got to CCIL -- there was no e-mail list. They had no e-mail outreach at all," she said. "I dumped all my contacts of all my friends. . . . Their list is my list."

That's an interesting interpretation - but when you're working for someone, whatever work you produce doesn't belong to you - it belongs to the firm you're working for.  If you create something and it gets patented, the firm owns the patent.  If you create a spreadsheet and populate it with data, the data and the spreadsheet belong to the firm you work for.  Everything you produce when you work for somebody belongs to them; not YOU.  That's what you get paid for...working for them, not YOU.

Even if it IS a charity.

What's heartless is that she is SUING A CHARITY.

People are just talking about what happened in a very factual way; not in a way that would hurt them intentionally. She is claiming ownership over something that she THINKS is hers...but...as we've seen with both Rod and Patti...they claimed ownership over things that weren't theirs to begin with, anyway.

Like that pesky Senate seat.

Rod and Patti and all those who were in bed with them hurt themselves.

Christopher Kelly took it to the extreme and killed himself.