Posted on 04/03/2008 3:04:28 PM PDT by george76
Just when the party needs them most, the Dems super-delegates are dropping like flies. First there was William Jefferson, followed by Eliot Spitzer, then Kwame Kilpatrick, and today, Anibal Acevedo-Vila.
This morning’s announcement of the indictment of Puerto Rico’s governor along with twelve others, including prominent Philadelphia democratic fundraiser Robert Feldman, worries party faithful for more reasons than one. Governor Acevedo-Vila , “a Harvard educated attorney and politician,” who according to AP, “was elected governor in 2004 after campaigning on an anti-corruption platform,” just last month endorsed Senator Obama for president.But as WaPo’s the Trail points out:
" The reach of the case could wind up touching supporters of both Obama and his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton…The paper reports that the investigation “was triggered by the FBI’s Philadelphia City Hall corruption probe in 2003. Feldman, who raised more than $1 million for Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and Gov. Ed Rendell, was a former business partner of Ronald A. White, the late power-broker who was the lead defendant in the Philadelphia corruption case.” Rendell is a prominent Clinton supporter."
And Senator Casey is, you guessed it, an uncommitted super-delegate.
Neither Rendell nor Casey have been implicated in the probe, but association with Feldman seems to bring bad luck at the very least. Another recipient of his fund-raising largesse was former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.
The stench of scandal threatens to further envelop the Garden State as Acevedo-Vila’s close ties with Sen. Robert Menendez are once again in the spotlight.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
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It will impact Obama the worst, however. He loses a superdelegate in Acevedo, but more problematic, he has once again been associated with election crimes and corruption.
He had just gotten past his Tony Rezko problem, and now the proximity of another money-launderer will call into question just how naive or worse the unvetted Obama may be.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/27/superdelegate-watch-puerto-rico-governor-indicted/
Yeh. Thank heaven Pelosi and Reid are on the J O B.
I think Hannity, Rush, Hugh, and company need to be hammering home all the ways the democrats have corrupted the United States of America and continue to LIE about it. They pointed the finger at Republicans and shouted how culture of corruption was evident throughout and yet NO ONE stands on the rooftop and yells how blatantly, completely corrupt are the democrats. THey’re SO BAD that they have DISENFRANCHISED THEIR OWN VOTERS in 2 BIG STATES prior to their Presidential Convention. Come on, if we hammer this home, perhaps it will make a difference in November TOP DOWN - I really am sick of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their scumbag associates disrespecting good and fine leaders like President Bush, Vice President Cheney, General Petreus, etc. We’re so busy trying to poke a thumb in their pie, we’re missing out on the baked goods sitting OUT on the COUNTER ready to be eaten!
Culture of Corruption is right Is anybody keeping count?
Republicans lost both houses of congress in 2006 when the democrats were able to convince the general public that republicans represented a “culture of corruption”.
So, why can’t we do the same thing this time around with the democrats seemingly being in the news every day with their corruption and morals and ethics problems? Where are the republican ads regarding the “democrat culture of corruption”?
Do you really think he is past the Rezko connection?
Will it resurface in a general election if he is the nominee?
Seems to me that the frequency and timing of these prosecutions and scandals a la Spitzer is suspicious. Could these be strikes and counterstrikes between Team Clinton and Team Obama? Rat on rat fratricide? After all, who would know more inside dope on the PR guv than fellow democrats? This is kind of like an X Files conspiracy with politicians as aliens.
No.
Hillary’s team will drag it up every week into August...
“past the Rezko connection?”
Hillary can not afford to stop.
Her money raising would die, her superdelegates would run away...
She already loaned her campaign $5 million with more campaign debts of $20 to 30 million...?
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I’m a bit confused: when does a Superdelegate become unable to vote at convention? What’s the bylaw that disqualifies them? Surely it’s not criminal activity :)
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