WH on Burris: Not Touching That With 10-Foot Pole

When asked about the Bush administration’s position on Illinois Senate appointee Roland Burris, press secretary Dana Perino made clear that it’s not going to get involved.

“I’m going to not touch that with a 10-foot pole,” she said during a Tuesday briefing.

Burris, the appointee of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), was turned away from the Senate’s swearing-in ceremony Tuesday.

Perino had a bit more to say about Minnesota’s Senate race, in which state officials have declared Democrat Al Franken the winner despite a pending lawsuit from incumbent Norm Coleman (R).

“Well, there’s still a legal challenge that the Coleman campaign is going to mount,” she said. “And so I think that, while that’s still ongoing, we’ll decline to comment.”