that’s all fine and good...but they better be able to pare this down to a few sentences, or it wont be worth spit.
True. These complicated financial transactions are too complicated for a sound bite. Better to frame it this way.
1. Rezko’s wife gave Obama a $500,000 gift when she bought the vacant lot and sold a strip to Obama. That made the rest of the lot worthless. There’s no way to build on it. There’s no easement or access to the street. It only provides more open space and privacy for Obama. And I suppose she’s paying the property taxes on it every year, so the gift keeps on giving.
2. At the same time, as Rezko is giving Obama $500,000, he is turning off the heat in his tenant’s slum apartments.
That could be made into an effective 30 second spot.