Complaint points to clash over Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett

President-elect Obama and Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich clashed over whether to appoint Valerie Jarrett, a senior Obama adviser, to replace him in the Senate. Gov Blagojevich in a conversation intercepted by federal agents calls Obama a "motherf----r" and dismisses Obama's unwillingness to strike a deal: "F—k him." The complaint refers several times to Blagojevich's effort to win concessions from Obama in exchange for appointing "Senate Candidate 1," who is described as "an adviser to the President-elect" to Obama's vacant seat. The complaint also reports that federal agents intercepted a conversation on Nov. 12 between Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris in which "Blagojevich noted that CNN is reporting that Senate Candidate 1 does not want the open Senate seat." Two days before, CNN broke a story based on two Democratic sources close to Obama that Jarrett would forgo the Senate and take a job at the White House instead. The complaint states that Blagojevich and his top aide discussed trading the Senate seat for a lucrative private sector job arranged by Obama, such as the head of a foundation dependent on the government. Blagojevich also discussed the possibility of trading the seat for the position of secretary of Health and Human Services in Obama's Cabinet. Blagojevich and Harris also discussed the possibility of Obama pulling strings on his behalf to land him a position with the Service Employees International Union's Change to Win coalition. "Unless I get something real good for [Senate Candidate 1], shit, I'll just send myself, you know what I'm saying." Blagojevich said in an intercepted conversation. "I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain." Obama's unwillingness to trade favors enraged Blagojevich.