OK, this is a free piece of advice for the Giannoulias campaign: clearly their critical decision path process with regard to accepting assistance needs to be updated. From now on, they need to absolutely make sure that at some point during the process the question By the way: are you associated in any way with organized crime? be asked of potential assistants – and if the answer is Why, yes, I am! then the assistance needs to be gently rebuffed.
I’m not saying that it would eliminate all the times that Giannoulias attended a fundraiser thrown by a former female associate of the Lucchese family – but it’d certainly cut the frequency of those embarrassing social moments way down.
[H/T NRO's Battle '10]
Moe Lane
PS: Mark Kirk for Senate. Much thinner FBI file, presumably.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Obama-Rezko_Giannoulias Axis of Sleaze
reaganiterepublicanresistance Tuesday, September 21st at 4:45AM EDT (link)The South-Side mansion purchase with convicted felon Tony Rezko wasn’t the first time Obama had recieved favors to assist his aspirations as a homeowner.
It has been long rumored that Obama benefited from conspicious financial help when he bought his first home, a townhouse that was on the cusp of affordability for him. The Broadway Bank, owned by Chicago’s Giannoulias family, who also had helped him with campaign finances, put together a sweetheart mortgage deal for Obama, all apparently in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined.
Later, in 2006, scion Alexi Giannoulias -a 29-year-old with no experience whatsoever, and who had never even voted before- decided to run for State Treasurer of Illinois.
Barack Obama then promptly endorsed him.
Clearly, it was extremely unlikely that he could have won without Obama’s support. Giannoulias subsequently held an Obama fundraiser for Obama in 2007, in which he raised upwards of $100,000 for the senator’s Presidential bid. They cultivated an image as “basketball buddies” within the stinking bowels or the Chicago Machine…
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Re: it’d certainly cut the frequency of those embarrassing social moments way down.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Tuesday, September 21st at 1:02PM EDT (link)Are you sure?
I’ve always been told that your friends are the ones upon whom you are most likely to be able to depend. If you cut them out, you’re pretty much dependent on the kindness of strangers.