Posted on 02/26/2011 8:21:38 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
A veteran politician Rahm Emanuel named to his mayoral transition team resigned her high-level state job last summer and paid a fine for conducting political business on state time, according to a newly filed ethics report.
Judy Erwin, a co-chair of Emanuel's mayoral campaign, said late Friday night that she would resign her new post on his transition team after the Tribune contacted her and the campaign. She said she hadn't informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.
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Obama needed some trusted aids to make sure that certain skeletons stay buried, and that anyone not understanding this - e.g. anyone found conversing with certain reporters - needs to become buried.
And if a reporter loses his/her sources, what does he/she have to report?
The first “blow” was to Chicago for allowing that schmoe to be elected in the first place. So sad for Chicago......
We have already lost.
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