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Larry Walsh
The FBI conducted a raid on the offices of Larry Walsh, Will County executive and former Illinois state senator, as part of a probe into corruption tied to earmarks and lobbyists. The raid comes after the FBI met with the county auditor to investigate his complaints about one of his aides taking money from lobbyists for favorable treatment. Walsh endorsed Barack Obama this year, and Obama supported Walsh in his current position.
Name sounded familiar. There was a Larry Walsh investigating the Clinton’s/Whitewater, but I don’t think it’s the same guy.
An October surprise?
Rezko Rumpus!! Is this Fitz going after Blago, or Fitz going after Obama, ......or both??
Believe me, there are far, far bigger fish to fry.
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OBAMA READY TO RUN U.S. SEN. BARACK OBAMA HASN’T OFFICIALLY DECIDED, BUT LARRY WALSH , HIS FRIEND AND SUPPORTER, BELIEVES:
Herald News, The (Joliet, IL) - January 17, 2007
Author: By Cindy Wojdyla Cain
JOLIET - A few years back, Barack Obama and Larry Walsh were state Senate seatmates who became friends and poker buddies.
Now both men are poised to leap into a game with much higher stakes: a race for the White House.
If U.S. Sen. Barack Obama commits in February to a presidential campaign, it appears Will County Executive Walsh is all in.
Shortly after Obama announced Tuesday he was exploring a run for president and had filed federal paperwork to raise money, Walsh and about 100 other supporters listened in on a conference call as Obama outlined a plan of action for his exploratory committee.
“He just laid a very, very broad agenda of issues, ideas and thoughts he wanted us to work on,” the Elwood Democrat reported.
“... We will create a network here,” Walsh added. “Illinois is his home, his base. I know without a doubt he wants a huge showing coming out of Illinois. That is our basic goal.”
Walsh said he would act as Obama ‘s “eyes and ears” in this part of the state.
“We will bring back ideas and comments from our constituents to him,” Walsh said.
Walsh and Obama both served in the state Senate until November 2004 when Obama won his race for the U.S. Senate and Walsh was elected county executive.
Walsh is close to Obama , said Myron Brick, chairman of the Will County Democratic Party.
” Larry was the first guy in the (state) Senate to endorse Barack’s run for the U.S. Senate,” Brick said. “Barack will never forget it. This is a great thing for Will County.”
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Normally I would say, “birds of a feather, stick together” but in Obama’s case I think it’s more fitting to say “if you lay with the pigs, you smell like the pigs.” ;o)
The cloud of corruption that surrounds all of Obama’s friends, advisors, donors, and flunkies would taint the public’s view of any other man. Alas Obabma gets a free ride from his followers and the media.
He makes the Teflon Don look like a preschooler.
Obama has more crooks, terrorists, felons, black racists and assholes in his circle of friends than dead bodies, convicted felons or “charitable” Chinese nationals in the Clinton’s circle of friends...
HOW in the name of heaven can ANYONE see a national leader in Obama....
I see a dangerous, overreaching, arrogant, lying, unaccomplished, underachieving, black racist, American principals hating, cheating Marxist and closet Muslim....
Obama has more crooks, terrorists, felons, black racists and assholes in his circle of friends than dead bodies, convicted felons or “charitable” Chinese nationals in the Clinton’s circle of friends...
HOW in the name of heaven can ANYONE see a national leader in Obama....
I see a dangerous, overreaching, arrogant, lying, unaccomplished, underachieving, black racist, American principals hating, cheating Marxist and closet Muslim....
...Walsh, who served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005... With the support of some of Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate volunteers, he easily defeated incumbent Republican Joseph Mikan. Will County auditor Steve Weber confirmed that his office had been asked by the FBI to assist in an investigation, but he did not elaborate on the specifics. Two FBI agents out of Chicago reportedly spent more than an hour in the Will County offices on Wednesday morning.Picture it -- from Sea to Shining Sea, Chicago-style machine politics.
Hussein sure has a lot of corrupt Chicago buddies.
interesting how fast this was taken off Drudge. He put in on the far lower right side and its already off just a couple hours later while other stories have been in place for days...
I’m sure President Obama will have somebody’s ass for this. He might just dismiss all the U.S. Attorneys for good measure.
This is not the Larry Walsh, or the Matt Ryan that I have known all of these years.....
Good grief.
Osama probabluy just made it out the back door, as the Feds were coming in the front.