Jesse Jackson Jr. Senate Candidate #5?

ABC News is reporting that federal law enforcement sources have identified Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) as "Senate Candidate #5", whose representatives allegedly offered up to $1,000,000 to Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for an appointment to Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. Jackson has said that he has spoken to the FBI and that he is "not a target". Even if nothing comes of this legally, the suggestion of corruption should be enough to take him out of the running for the open seat. It is unclear how this will reflect on President Elect Obama. He can make a decent claim to not being close to Blagojevich, (didn't back him for Gov., he didn't back Obama for State Senate) but JJ Jr. will be a harder sell. He was a National Campaign Co-Chair for Obama, and gave a speech at the Democratic Convention. If it comes out that he was involved in negotiations for the Senate seat, Obama may have to warm up the same bus he threw Jeremiah Wright under.