Posted on 08/18/2009 11:48:52 PM PDT by flyfree
I’ve reported several times over the last few months on Team Obama’s hefty funding from the health care industry/drug lobby — see here and here — as well on the deep pockets behind the Astroturf HCAN/SEIU/ACORN campaign.
Culture of Corruption also hones in on the cozy cash deals involving Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Sher, and David Axelrod to create faux grass-roots support for the University of Chicago Medical Center’s patient-dumping scheme.
Now, Bloomberg’s Timothy Burger brings news about Axelrod’s latest health care conflicts of interest that will come as no surprise to those who have fully informed themselves of the Chicago way. While White House press secretary Robert Gibbs assails the motives of grass-roots activists by falsely smearing the movement as corporate-funded shills, Barack Obama’s own senior adviser and chief Astroturfer raked in millions of dollars from Big Pharma.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.
This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, that is seeking to build support for a health-care overhaul, said the coalition’s spokesman, Jeremy Van Ess.
uhg! gag me with an axelrod!
Color me cynical, but I assume there’s a profit-motive, for themselves or their cronies, in everything this administration does, both on domestic issues and in foreign affairs.
It’s the Daley machine on steroids.
Even if this bill loses Obama abd his cronies will have made a ton of money from it. I
I found it curious yesterday (Tuesday) when I was listening to the daily WH briefing with that nutjob Gibbs and when asked about the payments he said that Axelrod had sold his share(s) in the company and was being paid “free market” value. How about that. “Free market” is OK, unless it’s the car companies, banks, health care.
Shhh! We aren’t supposed to talk about this. It’s racist or something.
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