hmmm, perhaps that is why Al Gore particularly uncomfortable today at the meeting on Global Warming, Global Change, presser today with O and Biden.
This just keeps getting better!
Is everybody with a (D) behind their name tied up in this mess? Hope so! ;-)
Perhaps Cari should change his last name to “Canary” when he enters witness protection ;-)
American Thinker writer Rosslyn Smith noted that “Biden and Obama have friends in common in the Daley Machine.” She cited the links between Joe Biden and Joseph Cari, Jr., and between Cari and Antoin “Tony” Rezko. We already know about Rezko’s real estate association with Barack Obama, which Obama characterized as “a bone-headed mistake.”
Daley’s brother and former Secretary of Commerce for Clinton, Bill Daley, is contemplating a run for Illinois Governor.
“When the Delaware senator began contemplating his own 2008 presidential run, he initially was helped by Chicago lawyer Joseph Cari, Jr., who also served as Biden’s Midwest field director in his failed 1988 bid for president.
“In 2005, Cari admitted to taking part in an $850,000 kickback scheme that prosecutors say was part of a larger political fund-raising operation for Gov. Blagojevich overseen by Rezko, and was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption involving state deals.”
“A veteran Democratic fundraiser (Cari) testified Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich once offered to give him his pick of contracts and state business in exchange for help building a nationwide political money machine as a prelude to a presidential run.
“The governor said ‘that there were contracts, legal work, investment banking work and consulting work to be awarded to people who helped,’ Joseph Cari recalled as he took the stand in the federal corruption trial of Blagojevich insider Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
“The allegations by Cari, once a finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee, were the most explicit accusations of pay-to-play politics leveled against Blagojevich at a trial where he is not even the defendant.”