Hmm: Obama, CLinton, Emanuel, Spitzer, Daley, Edwards....He’s been busy!
From: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Axelrod
David Axelrod, a Democratic media strategist and founder of the Chicago-based AKP&D Message & Media, handled Barack Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign and is currently handling Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.[1][2]
Axelrod’s former/current client list includes Sens. Obama and Hillary Clinton, U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, and the 2004 presidential election campaign of former Sen. John Edwards.[2]
AX OP ED From:
http://divisionstreet.wordpress.com/tag/david-axelrod/
The Op-Ed is no longer available online, but I have retrieved it from a newspaper database in order to take a look. The abstract:
“A WELL-OILED MACHINE:
A system that works? Political debts contribute to better city services. By David Axelrod, a Democratic political consultant whose clients include Mayor Richard Daley.
Fraudulent acts such as test-rigging are one thing. But if hiring of a qualified worker who comes recommended by a politician is treated as evidence of a criminal act, then [U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald]’s approach will ensure that only applicants without political involvement are considered.”
Axelrod wrote the Op-Ed in question just a month after Mayor Richard M. Daley’s patronage chief “was accused of systematically circumventing a decades-long federal ban on most political hiring by secretly directing top city managers to hire ‘preselected’ applicants favored by politicians and union officials,” as the Tribune reported