Posted on 01/22/2009 7:31:15 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
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Blago Ping.
This is a surprise? Corruption and Democrats go hand in hand.
Garin-Hart-Yang represents 12 senators, 18 House members and six governors, while Hart Research conducts public opinion polling for a number of major media organizations, according to the firm’s Web site.
Let’s get the names of those Senators, Reps, and governors.
“The revelation that a key executive at the company was captured on FBI wiretaps working with the governor could embroil one of the nation’s most respected and influential polling and consulting groups in the Blagojevich scandal.”
Peter Hart used to be a fixture on CNN as one of their resident “unbiased” pollsters, that’s why I’m not at all surprised by this.
AM getting an error message at this link....
NOw it’s working....must have been busy!
Hart Reseacrh also does the NBC Poll which coincidentally always had Obama up big
Someday someone will do a story on the polling manipulation that was done to depress GOP turnout
I don’t care what support you have. If all you hear on the news for 6 weeks is that your guy is down big and has no chance of winning, you’re far less likely to show up on Election Day. All these polls that came out that had Obama up 12, or up 10 or whatever were totally inaccurate and only served to depress GOP support and cause them to think the game was over when it was still very much going on
It still all goes back to the People being too damn dumb to know what it needs.
A lot of people; including Obama, should go down with Blago.
Peter Hart
Mr. Hart, along with the late Robert Teeter, and currently with Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, have been the pollsters for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal since 1989. In the political realm, Mr. Hart has represented more than 40 U.S. senators and 30 governors, ranging from Hubert Humphrey and Lloyd Bentsen, to Jay Rockefeller and Bob Graham.
Notice this and similar gems...AP turning on BO?
Yang told Blagojevich he “should leverage the President-elect’s desire to have ‘Senate Candidate 1’ (Jarrett) appointed to the Senate seat in order to get a head position” with a union organization called Change to Win.
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Obama released a report late last month stating no one on his staff discussed favors with Blagojevich, ...
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During the first call cited in the Blagojevich complaint that included Yang, on Nov. 7, the governor told Harris and Yang, “I want to make money.” He said he’d take a cabinet post or the Change to Win job in return for Jarrett’s appointment.
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Yang suggested the union job would lead to less questions and scrutiny for Obama, the complaint states.
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“Advisor B stated that he likes the ... idea, but liked the Change to Win option better because, according to Advisor B, from the President-elect’s perspective, there would be fewer ‘fingerprints’ on the President-elect’s involvement with Change to Win,” the complaint says.
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Yang noted that Change to Win already has a revenue stream, meaning Blagojevich “won’t have stories in four years that they bought you off.”
Partner Geoff Garin served as chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential run.
Crap like this makes me so discussed with our political process.
So all these advisers discussing what would be desirable to the President-Elect in this matter did not have any contact with the President-Elect regarding this matter.
Yeah, sure.
Blago ping...
It’s been pretty quiet, but the impeachment trial starts next week. Dem pols have been invisible. The message seems to be that if they just get rid of Blago, all the corruption will go away....not.
Top Democratic consultant on FBI Blagojevich tapes
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press Writers
Posted: 01/22/2009 01:52:46 PM PST
Updated: 01/22/2009 06:34:19 PM PST
CHICAGO—A partner in a prominent, Washington-based political consulting firm is among those secretly recorded discussing ways Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich can cash in on President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. Frederick S. Yang, a top executive at Peter D. Hart Research Group Associates, is identified by prosecutors in the Blagojevich criminal complaint as "Advisor B," Michael D. Ettinger, a lawyer representing the governor's brother, said Thursday. Robert Blagojevich, who has not been charged with a crime, runs his brother's campaign fund.
The Hart firm has represented dozens of Democratic governors and members of Congress. The revelation that a key executive at the company was captured on FBI wiretaps working with the governor could embroil one of the nation's most respected and influential polling and consulting groups in the Blagojevich scandal.
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