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Left to right: Exelon Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Crane, Exelon Director of Special Projects Rita Stols, Senator Obama staff members Mike Signator and David Katz, U.S. Senator Barack Obama and Exelon Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff of Frank Clark at Braidwood Station, Clinton, Ill., Jan. 11, 2005.
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Thats the only picture available of Michael Signator. There is a HUGE connection with obummer and Signator. One that Axelrod and rahmbo squelched and scrubbed as soon as the connection went viral when reporters caught the Kenyan coming out of the condo that he kept a couple of blocks from their home in Chicago.
Signator also supposedly has a house in the suburbs. An ex cop supposedly. Wonder where an ex cop get the $$ to have that condo so close to his *pal*? Follow the money trail.
11 posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:21:40 PM by mojitojoe
‘Mystery’ man lends support to Obama
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
| 10/19/2008 08:15 PM EDT
CHICAGO He’s the star of bulletins chronicling Barack Obama’s movements, one of only a few nonrelatives to consistently get time with the Democratic candidate for president and a trusted confidant who has shared some of the most pivotal moments of Obama’s career with him.
Yet journalists who have followed Obama’s campaign for the better part of two years don’t know what he looks like, staffers who have logged countless hours traveling with Team Obama didn’t even know he works for the campaign and there’s never been a story in a major media outlet about him.
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He is Michael Signator, an aide and buddy of the man who according to polls stands a better-than-50-50 shot of becoming the next president of the United States of America.
Technically, Signator’s job is to provide “supplemental security support” for Obama’s presidential campaign and also to coordinate the Obama family’s personal and campaign schedules, according to Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
A police officer in a suburban Chicago town, Signator met Obama while volunteering for his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, which eventually hired him as Obama’s driver.
For security reasons , Obama’s presidential campaign refuses to reveal the details of Signator’s role, but LaBolt said it brings Signator into frequent, close contact with the Obamas.
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“Barack and Michelle Obama regularly confer with Mike, as do senior campaign officials. Sen. Obama has met with Signator both at the Obamas’ home and at Mike’s,” LaBolt said in a statement.
Though Signator owns a home in suburban DuPage County about an hour west of the Obamas’ Chicago home he also rents an apartment on the 16th floor of a high-rise called Regents Park, located just a few blocks from Obama’s house in the leafy Kenwood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
When Obama is at home, he works out regularly in the well-appointed gym on the ground floor of the building. But according to “protective pool reports” distributed among journalists following the campaign, Obama may also occasionally stop by the building just to hang out with “Sig,” as some campaign staffers call him.
On a Sunday morning in late June, for instance, a pool report explained that Obama “went for a workout at his friend’s Mike Signator’s building. He wore his black White Sox cap; a gray T-shirt and black workout pants. He only stayed about 15 minutes. Press staff was unsure whether he worked out or just hung with his friend.”
Pool reports have characterized Signator as, among other things, a “friend,” a “longtime aide” and a “former bodyman.”
Bodymen are like traveling administrative assistants who cater to a politician’s every need, from 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry’s peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to Obama’s MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars, which are kept on hand by his current bodyman, Reggie Love, a former football and basketball player at Duke University.
Though the job can sometimes be less than glamorous, young up-and-comers leap at the chance to do it because bodymen, by definition, are the aides physically closest to and trusted by politicians, and that can lead to bonds akin to child-parent relationships with their bosses.
Signator, though, is 50 years old three years older than Obama and displays few of the trappings of a rising Beltway insider, with public records indicating he’s spent most of his adult life in and around Chicago.
Reached by telephone, he declined to comment on his relationship with Obama and his family, and asked how Politico obtained his telephone number. He directed inquiries to the Obama campaign press office and explained, “I can’t do any type of interview at all. I apologize. I’m sorry, and please just disregard this phone number, because I can’t take any calls.”
The campaign press staff which at first denied that Signator worked for the campaign, then discouraged Politico from writing about him declined to set up an interview.
That leaves public records and the protective pool reports written by journalists tapped from the traveling press contingent to follow Obama during all non-campaign-related activities and report back to their colleagues on the typically mundane details to piece together a picture of Signator and his place in Obama World.
According to Federal Election Commission records, Obama’s campaign through the end of August had paid Signator $47,600. The payments, which began in March 2007 at $2,900 a month, dwindled to less than $800 a month in May of this year a full year after the Secret Service began protecting Obama.
Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign paid nearly $50,000 to Signator, who had a cameo in Obama’s 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
A few weeks before Pride, the Politicos website ran a few brief, odd stories about candidate-Obamas daily schedule, which included driving miles out of the way to head to Signators house for workouts that lasted between 15 and 20 minutes. Politico wrote these articles with winks at readers, wondering what the heck kind of workout lasted 20 minutes and was so important that it required the candidate to head to Signators house whenever in Chicago.
It was beyond strange. Especially if you consider that Obama belonged to the East Bank Club downtown in Chicago, which is a very expensive gym and spa center where Obama spent June 29th playing basketball with guys like Reggie Love then enjoying a long steam and locker room antics before heading to the Southside to get his hair cut. Signator has not turned up since he vanished in June of 2008 and to this day no explanation has ever been given for what the heck he was doing with Obama during those 20-minute workout sessions at his house. Apparently, this picture below is the only known picture of Michael Signator:
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Considering that Signator disappeared only a few months after the aforementioned deaths of Donald Young, Larry Bland and Nate Spencer, its possible that Signator (who had access to guns as a former Chicago police officer) may have played a key role in their respective deaths. Police officers are often used as assassins due to their marksmanship, understanding of evidence, and their blackmail-ability. Consequently, the CIA may have used Signator to clean up Obamas mess and was rewarded with a double-cross assassination. That being said, as a former Chicago police officer, Signator may have been Obamas drug dealer, hence Team Obamas incessant need to keep him out of the public eye lest someone recognize him. Consequently, its possibly that the homosexual relationship between the two men may have been disseminated post-mortem as political cover to hide the fact that Obama was using illicit drugs, a charge his political career could never recover from. Lastly, its imperative to note that the assumed death of Michael Sigmator in 2008, was preceded by the death of Michael Young, Larry Bland and Nate Spencer in 2007, and followed by the death of Alex Okrent in 2012. Coincidentally, all of the deceased were evidently gay men living in the Chicago area who were personally known to Obama.
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