Posted on 08/02/2010 9:08:10 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama was believed to be avoiding Alexi Giannoulias. Why? Well, Giannoulias, who is vying for Obama's old Illinois Senate seat and is a former basketball buddy of the president, has become something of a political toxin. It became public that the former banker serviced loans to mobsters and crooks, and Giannoulias's own family bank collapsed, creating yet another political embarrassment for the candidate who is currently Illinois's state treasurer.
But Obama seems to have had a change of heart, and later this week he will host a political fundraiser for Giannoulias in Chicago. Will, perhaps, this latest news story from the Chicago Sun Times persuade the president from associating himself with Giannoulias?
By February 2006, businessman and political fixer Tony Rezko was already politically radioactive, caught up in a federal investigation that would see him criminally charged by the end of that year.
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The list, ping
When George Soros orders you to cozy up to a crook, you don’t argue or resist, you COZY UP.
Good.
Guilt by association.
Crook + crook.
Problem is; Chicagoans don’t care. Thank God this is a State-wide race. I’m not in love with Kirk but if he wins that is another seat in the (R) Column.
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