The Hill is reporting that Democrat Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is having trouble raising money, which is amusing because as a failed banker he gave away millions to a pair of mobsters that never paid back the "loan" Posted on 07/16/2010 9:52:15 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The Hill is reporting that Democrat Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is having trouble raising money, which is amusing because as a failed banker he gave away millions to a pair of mobsters that never paid back the "loan"
The Hill reports that Giannoulias "struggled to raise money in the aftermath of his family bank’s collapse in April."
Giannoulias has raised only some $900,000 since March 31 -- the bulk of it in June. His Republican opponent, Mark Kirk, collected close to $1 million that same month. And Kirk was dealing with his own scandal -- the fallout from inaccuracies in reporting his Navy service record at the time.Giannoulias raised less than half of Kirk’s total, and the Republican now has almost a four-to-one cash on hand advantage....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Illinois ‘Mob Banker’ candidate Can’t Raise Money?
No problem-—Ohaha will dig into his federal stash and bail this guy out.
Here’s how Ohaha’ll get the money to the Dems: watch for anouncements of massive amounts of “stimulus” going to Illinois-—only no jobs will be created.
Watch the credit card donations.
Yup——they’ll dig up that oldie again.
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