There.
That feels better.
Posted on 02/03/2009 8:37:56 AM PST by kcvl
Tom Daschle backed the patron who paid him a million-dollar salary and supplied him with a free car and driver for a job inside the Obama administration, two Democrats said Monday.
Leo Hindery, whose InterMedia Partners employed the former Senate majority leader, had been mentioned as a possible secretary of commerce or U.S. trade representative.
"Tom was pushing for him," said one Democratic source.
Obama's aides rejected Daschle's suggestion that a top job go to Hindery, for whose private equity fund Daschle had served as a rainmaker and adviser. Hindery, 61, hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing in Daschle's failure to declare the value of the limo service on his taxes.
His relationship with Daschle was just one part of an interlaced network of business and politics that never quite brought the former cable executive into the top ranks of Democratic power.
Hindery, who had been Daschle's top Senate fundraiser, was also the top fundraiser for a losing candidate for New York mayor, Freddy Ferrer, and a top supporter of former Sen. John Edwards' White House bid. He chaired an economic initiative, the Horizon Project, which aimed, with little success, to move Democratic leaders toward a more skeptical stance on trade.
"Leo's last major forays into politics with John Edwards and Freddy Ferrer were singularly ill-considered," said Steve Rattner, another media mogul and top Democratic fundraiser who clashed with Hindery during the 2005 mayoral race. "He has a habit of backing people who shouldn't to be in the office they're running for."
There.
That feels better.
Not yet. Maybe he will be the fall guy.
LOL....I think that should be Cheney doing the punching, though...
I've got it... it should be... RUSH!!! :)
Be right back...
Hahahah
Go Michael Bolton...er...I mean...Mike.
LOOOOOVVVEEE IT!
OMG. I roomed with Hindery’s sister in Hawaii way back in the late 60’s. We flirted a little but he was already engaged...that marriage failed right away. His sister and I still send Christmas cards. Their whole family excelled in whatever they did. I remember Leo graduated from Stanford. It’s a small world.
Just heard Dashole is stepping down. Wonder if they’ll choose Dashole’s buddie Hindery now. That’s who Dashole wanted them to choose in the first place.
How many tax evaders does that make now?
Three (that we know of)!
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