YES HE IS!
Posted on 08/19/2009 3:53:48 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's push for a national health care overhaul is providing a financial windfall in the election offseason to Democratic consulting firms that are closely connected to the president and two top advisers.
Coalitions of interest groups running at least $24 million in pro-overhaul ads hired GMMB, which worked for Obama's 2008 campaign and whose partners include a top Obama campaign strategist. They also hired AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama's campaign and now to the White House. AKPD did work for Obama's campaign, and Axelrod's son Michael and Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe work there.
The firms were hired by Americans for Stable Quality Care and its predecessor, Healthy Economy Now. Each was formed by a coalition of interests with big stakes in health care policy, including the drug maker lobby PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the Service Employees International Union and Families USA, which calls itself "The Voice for Health Care Consumers."
Their ads press for changes in health care policy. Healthy Economy Now made one of the same arguments that Obama does: that health care costs are delaying the country's economic recovery and that changes are needed if the economy is to rebound.
There is no evidence that Axelrod directly profited from the group's ads. Axelrod took steps to separate himself from AKPD when he joined Obama's White House. AKPD owes him $2 million from his stock sale and will make preset payments over four years, starting with $350,000 on Dec. 31, according to Axelrod's personal financial disclosure report.
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That Yahoo link will die in the future.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hglkoB2YjIJvQTTQkh9vqEKQAiQAD9A666080
This one shouldn’t. So that future references can get a working link.
But they are from Chicago where everything is open and honest.
Save it as a file.
Yes, it is “transparent”.
Go figure....you don’t expect that anyone who actually supported Zero was being selfless do you? They are ALL in it for themselves, as selfish as it seems.....
Here’s another link that might work.....
What good would that do someone searching for this in the future?
Oh goodie. First major, formal escándalo of the BO administration. I bet the MSM will be all over this one. Where’s the independent prosecutor? Uh huh.
Sweet.
It’s a good story, should push libs over the edge.
I just don’t like yahoo links because they die. Dead links are horrible for future references.
I’ll never knock someone for using a current yahoo link, but when I see it I try to do what I just did. It’s helpful.
This whole thing has a vile stench.
YES HE IS!
This doesn’t sound very ‘emotional and moral’ to me....
Love it!!!
Thank you!!!!
CHANGE and HOPE= SCREW AMERICA!
But, it is a story we know all too well.
When I read of Michael Axelrod, One of the stereotypical "do you know who my dad is?" types of scabrous, worthless, parasitical punks who infest political organizations like this one, and his likely good (although unearned) fortune, I had to control the sudden impulse to toss the monitor out the window. Only in a democrat organization like Chicago's will a fool like this grow up to be an old fool.
This is and was a given, hence the continued push.
Same with Cap and Trade.
Drudge finally has this at the top. Took him long enough. Been sending him links for two, damned days! LOL!
Same old same old. Corrupt politicians corrupting the country.
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