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Obama Chief Strategist David Axelrod is a Lobbyist Connected to Ayers Family
October 29, 2008
| Biochemky
Posted on 10/29/2008 10:21:42 PM PDT by BIOCHEMKY
As reported by Ed Morrissey (2008), two years ago when the large nuclear utility Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) wanted Illinois state lawmakers to back a large rate hike two years ago, it took a creative lobbying approach. Its parent company, Exelon Corporation, contracted with ASK Public Strategies, a consulting firm, to a build a fake "front company" that appeared to be devoted to the public interest called Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE). Then the "front company" (CORE) ran TV ads warning of a “California-style energy crisis” if the rate increase wasn’t approved. The CORE ads, however, failed to disclose in the commercials that CORE, the supposed citizen's action group, was actually being funded by the ComEd utility itself.
When the truth about CORE and ComEd came out, Illinois Leutenent Governor Pat Quinn was quoted as saying, “It’s corporate money trying to hoodwink the public."
What is of interest today about this story is the senior partner of the ASK Public Strategies consulting (lobbying) firm is David Axelrod, yes the same David Axelrod who is now chief strategist for Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign. (Ask Public strategies is located in the same office as Axelrod's political firm.)
Ah, but the story gets better. A proposal ASK developed last year proposed a “political campaign style approach” to help Illinois hospitals block a state proposal that would have forced them to provide more medical care to the indigent. One part of this plan was to create a “grassroots” group of medical experts “capable of contacting policymakers to advocate for our position,” according to a copy of the proposal.
As Ed Morrissey reported (2008), "Obama has run on health-care issues to create universal health-insurance coverage to do exactly the opposite of what ASK proposed. Axelrod’s firm wanted to set up another phony front group to oppose that same policy, attempting to fake the public into thinking that the “grassroots” effort had nothing to do with the hospitals themselves. Axelrod’s firm had so much success with their front group for the energy company that they planned to duplicate the same dishonest structure in health care — and in both cases, on behalf of opponents of Obama’s professed policies today."
Ah, but the story gets better still. Exelon Corp. executives have pumped almost a quarter-million dollars into Obama’s Presidential campaign. The state of Illinois and the state of New York both consider ASK to be a lobbying firm. So, is Obama serious in his campaign promises, or as Ed Morrisey (2008) put it, "Is Obama's Presidential Campaign merely another Axelrod public-relations Trojan Horse?"
Ah, but the story gets even better again.
Who became president of ComEd in 1964, served as chairman and CEO from 1973 to 1980, was the architect of ComEd's nuclear power program in the 1960s and 1970s, and continued to exert his influence over the large utility until his death in 2007 (Napolitano, 2007)?
Who served on the boards of Sears, G.D. Searle, Chicago Pacific Corp., Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, First National Bank of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs and the Tribune (newspaper) Co. (Napolitano, 2007)?
Who was Chairman of the Board for the Chicago Urban League, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Erikson Institute, Bank Street College of Education in New York, Community Renewal Society, the Chicago Community Trust, and Northwestern University Board of Trustees (Napolitano, 2007)?
Who was described by his heirs as an "Agent of Change" and someone who 'believed in change' (Napolitano, 2007)?
This very powerful individual who was very well known in Chicago's sociopolitical cirles for the last three quarters of a century was none other than Thomas G. Ayers, Sr., father of radical unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, just a guy Barack Obama says he "knows from his neighborhood".
Morrissey, Ed. (2008). "Obama's lobbyist problem: David Axelrod." Retrieved on October 29 from hotair.com/archives/2008/05/25/obamas-lobbyist-problem-david-axelrod/.
Napolitano, Jo. (2007). "Utility exec. led civic, racial initiatives." retrieved on October 29, 2008 from http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/cinnamon/2007/06/thomas-g-ayers-1915-2007.html.
TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; ask; askpublicstrategies; axelrod; ayers; billayers; bo; comed; core; davidaxelrod; exelon; frontcompanies; obama; pbamastaffers; publicstrategies; thomasayers; tomayers; williamayers; wuo
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To: BIOCHEMKY
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posted on
10/30/2008 4:42:22 AM PDT
by
PjhCPA
(I Am Joe!!!)
To: spectre; MeekOneGOP; Fred Nerks; TigersEye; floriduh voter; MHGinTN; snippy_about_it; ovrtaxt; ...
Good morning, my FRiends! Another bad day of exposes for Obama:
Marxist ‘mentor’ sold cocaine with Obama
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79467
Alleged Communist Party member’s book boasted of bisexuality, sex with minors
Obama Chief Strategist David Axelrod is a Lobbyist Connected to Ayers Family
[ — this thread — ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119364/posts
Ayers Link Thread Updated:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2111988/posts?page=56#56
Ex-CIA Expert: Obama Took Millions in Illegal Foreign Donations
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donors/2008/10/29/145612.html
A Newsmax investigation of Obama/Biden campaign contributors has discovered dozens who appear to lack U.S. citizenship or residency—a violation of federal law. But that may only be the tip of the iceberg. Some donors work for foreign governments, and others are quite open about being citizens of countries like Nigeria, Pakistan and Canada. Most campaign organizations guard against such abuse, but not this one.
Ex-staffer: Obama camp gave ACORN ‘donor list’
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79432
Goal: ID maxed-out contributors to presidential campaign to give to group
[More about ACORN in ‘view replies’]
Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations: Washington Post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118866/posts
Basically, he’s allowing donation by use of “prepaid” credit cards, which allow people to donate anonymously and evade campaign funding limits.
Mo. Counties Have More Registered Voters Than Adults
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/missouri_registered_voter/2008/10/29/145386.html
More disabled voters coached into picking Obama
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79478
‘What kind of people would do this to somebody like that? He wouldn’t know 1 candidate from another’
Yes, Barack Obama really is a Manchurian candidate [socialist New Party]
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79453
O’Reilly Factor: Obama, Ayers, Weatherman, Genocide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2119012/posts
New video of Khalidi 2007 Lecture
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119358/posts
RED ALERT Tip: Two quotes from the Obama-Khalidi videotape
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118570/posts
[More news links in ‘view replies’]
[Want on/off list? Let me know.]
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posted on
10/30/2008 4:56:46 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: Arthur Wildfire! March; All
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posted on
10/30/2008 4:58:38 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: holdonnow
Axlerod - Ayers Connection??? *ping*
24
posted on
10/30/2008 4:59:16 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(Giants a 17-14 victory over New England . It's not over!)
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
25
posted on
10/30/2008 5:02:52 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: tiredoflaundry
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posted on
10/30/2008 5:03:24 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
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posted on
10/30/2008 5:04:44 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(Giants a 17-14 victory over New England . It's not over!)
To: tiredoflaundry
Obama AND Axelrod are in league with a terrorist. If anyone says ‘it just doesn’t matter’, don’t believe him/her. The remark could be well intentioned, but most likely the person is a useful idiot of Obama spin:
From hillbuzz (P.U.M.A’s) [Confession of an Obama operative]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2117212/posts?page=49
Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc.
People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad” [snip]
Obama AND Axelrod are in league with a terrorist.
Obama AND Axelrod are in league with a terrorist.
Obama AND Axelrod are in league with a terrorist.
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posted on
10/30/2008 5:09:52 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: PjhCPA; ETL; All
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posted on
10/30/2008 5:14:03 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: BIOCHEMKY
God bless you for you keen use of brain power! This could be a game changer. [Please note my post above: people who drone that it ‘just doesn’t matter’ are useful idiots of Obama operatives.]
— FRegards ....
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posted on
10/30/2008 5:23:02 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Never word from the mainstream (filled with sewage runoff) media about Obama’s admitted commission of drug felonies.
CNN BREAKING: JOHN McCAIN WAS DRUNK ONCE IN 1979 AND CNN HAS LEARNED HE ONCE SHOOK HANDS WITH AND SPOKE TO A MAN WHO HAD SEX WITH A 17-year OLD GIRL. MORE AT CNN.COM.
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posted on
10/30/2008 5:43:41 AM PDT
by
Impy
(Democrats, don't forget to vote on Wednesday!!!)
To: Impy
SPREAD THE WORD!
reference links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck above link to obama's redistribution by USSC, and constitution needs to go interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3IAjphhw6E Obama and Wright: He Never Complained Once
The new Rev. Wright video from
www.GOPtrust.com
VOLUNTEER PEOPLE!!!
TALK THE TALK!
email EVERYONE you can.
The debate is OVER!
OBAMA IS A MARXIST!
Marxism is ANTI-AMERICAN!
Keep the mantra!
TAXES TAXES TAXES
Joe the Plubmer!
Learn it, Live it, LOVE IT!
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS.
32
posted on
10/30/2008 6:12:02 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: BIOCHEMKY
Funny little Billy never got around to killing his rich parents.
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
From UK news. Aunt and Uncle live in a slum in Boston. They are sworn to silence until after the election. He really takes care of his own doesn’t he? MEGLOMANIAC!
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posted on
10/30/2008 10:03:17 AM PDT
by
floriduh voter
(Would YOU have PLO or DOMESTIC TERRORISTS babysit your kids?OBAMA DID.)
To: Impy
“CNN BREAKING: JOHN McCAIN WAS DRUNK ONCE IN 1979 AND CNN HAS LEARNED HE ONCE SHOOK HANDS WITH AND SPOKE TO A MAN WHO HAD SEX WITH A 17-year OLD GIRL. MORE AT CNN.COM.”
News flash: John McCain failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign back in 1983. Oh wait, that was another McCain. More breaking news later.
35
posted on
10/31/2008 1:40:48 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
To: floriduh voter
Slum sweet slum / hut sweet hut.
36
posted on
10/31/2008 4:54:37 AM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(We can win the economic meltdown debate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115485/posts)
Note: this topic is from October 2008 (before election).
times acorn obama site:freerepublic.com
Google
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posted on
03/30/2009 6:48:11 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: BIOCHEMKY
When this is all over, the tribunals will have to figure out who created "Barack Obama", and why.
Those who have been running him, certainly including Axelrod and possibly including Ayers, will have to be dealt with.
38
posted on
03/30/2009 6:51:51 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(They are willing to kill for socialism...but not to die for it.)
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