JUST REMEMBER THAT REZKO WAS FINANCE DIRECTOR for OBAMAS DEMOCRATIC US SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN CMTE.

[boston bean]

that's all folks.

and on that note, good night!

[Coexist]

1. WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CAN'THEAR YOU???

ITS JUST REALLY, REALLY LOUD IN HERE.

[BeatleBoot]

2. Good Night

Mr Obama.

Stick a fork in him, now. He's Done.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

6. So sayeth Zellary McClinton.

[rodeodance]

53. sleep well

[saracat]

3. Great post! Good night

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. OMFG!!1! SERIESLY???!!1ONE

[qazplm]

5. there are a number of shady

folks for just about any candidate.

Obama, Clinton, heck there is probably others for each we dont know about.

so what? No one is "clean". Power brings along slimy hangers-on.

I dont get why this somehow means that Obama is some evil man.

[mac2]

12. We have Democratic "clean candidates" but the powers that

be among the elite few pick them. Don't tell me this is politics as usual. We are sick of the corruption and lies. We want real "change" not just a different face like a woman and a part Afro-American. This is not a part in a movie by god.

[thunder rising]

7. Where are Hillary's tax returns? Did she collude with the Canadian gov to smear Obama?

[rodeodance]

54. stick to the topic of the OP please

[OzarkDem]

8. k&r

[skipos]

9. OMG YOU CONVINCED ME TO VOTE FOR HILLARY OR MCCAIN

I MEAN REALLY, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM? THEY ARE BOTH EQUALLY BETTER THAN THAT DRUG DEALING, MUSLIM, JESSE JACKSON WANNABE.

[mac2]

13. What?

[rodeodance]

56. Hillary--as she is the Democrat.

[Window]

10. WOW!!! THAT'S DEEP!!!!

[mac2]

11. How many times are we going to find out that a campaign

person was corrupt and the candidate appears to not know? Or are all of them that way but one is singled out more than the others?

It seems to be good timing that all this comes out right as Obama is a Presidential candidate and could run against a Republican.

Why didn't he make sure this didn't happen before he ran for office? News...they find out everything to win. We need honest change not the same old corruption.

[mac2]

14. What works in Illinois won't work nationally.

[Birthmark]

15. So what?

Is there any indication that Obama did anything wrong?

[1776Forever]

16. This link says Julianna Smoot was his Finance Director - Do you have a link for Resko?

Barack Obama's Advisors

His finance director is Julianna Smoot, who earlier served as the finance director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

http://news.muckety.com/2008/02/21/smoot-rakes-in-millions-for-obama-campaign/851

[Little Star]

17. Not of his presidential financial, his US Senatorial Cmte. you goof! nt

[Tellurian]

18. They're all goofy...afaic..They can't tell an apple from a watermelon..

unless it's labeled for them..

[1776Forever]

25. Take this label Sweetie

:hurts:

[1776Forever]

23. I am NOT a goof!!! It said his Senatorial Committee before she went to his Presidential Cmmt.

Again I ask you for a link for Rezko heading Obama's Senatorial Finance Committee! :dunce:

[chill_wind]

19. Newsflash to the present.: Clintons +Ms Clinton's National C-Chair got Rezko $$$.

Clintons tied to Rezko

"Clinton's national co-chair received donations from Rezko.
Three of the co-defendants at Rezko trial contributed to Clintons and campaign supporters. Obama didn't receive any donations from Rezko.

http://www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/2/3501879.html

Clintons got money from Rezko co-defendants by margieburns on Sat 02 Feb 2008 01:26 PM EST


Since the name of Chicago defendant Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko has come up in national debate, it seems fair to look at donations from other defendants in Chicago’s “Operation Board Games.”

Of the other five defendants, three have donated to the Clintons or to Clinton supporters, three have donated mostly to Republicans, and at least two have donated to Obama’s political opponents. None have donated to Obama.


(...)

Predictably, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the national co-chair of Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigo, also got Rezko donations.

(...)


There is a pattern emerging regarding Clinton campaign tactics: NAFTA/CANADA and REZKO implicate the Clintons, not Obama.
So the Clintons flip their involvement in these two scandals and blame Obama.

How did this story, published at the beginning of February get overlooked? "

Link: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/clintons-tied-to-rezko.php


Sweet dreams!

[Exilednight]

20. Is that Rezko dollars I see in Hillary's campaign fund? Why yes it is.

[chill_wind]

22. Indeed!!! What did you say? I can't hear you! :-)

[jlake]

21. K&R To expose the rotten sleaze masquerading as pristine.

[chill_wind]

24. Would that be the pristine HRC slamming the "Resko slumlord" crowd out of one side of her mouth

while pocketing money from some of his crowd-- even sleazier associates-- for her campaign?

(...)
Letter to HRC

The company’s attorney, Myron “Mike” Cherry, also a contributor of yours(Clinton's), has been identified in published reports as “Individual H” in the Illinois criminal indictment of businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Cherry has acknowledged in published reports that he was the conduit for some of the IPA campaign contributions.
(The whole letter follows.)

Hillary Clinton for President
4420 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA. 22203

Dear Senator Clinton:
We, the undersigned small business owners from across the country are deeply offended that you continue to accept campaign contributions from top officials of a business consulting company, International Profit Associates (IPA), Buffalo Grove, IL., that defrauded us. As we struggle in federal court via a civil racketeering lawsuit to recover the thousands of dollars this company took from us illegally, you continue to use political donations that might have come directly from our pockets.

We also are appalled because you accepted the money amid dark clouds of fraud allegations, a criminal past by the company’s founder, and one of the largest sexual harassment lawsuits ever filed by the federal government.

We are trying to fight back against this company and you, Senator Clinton, are enabling it. We ask that you immediately donate to charity the more than $150,000 the New York Times says you’ve accepted from IPA’s top officials, a figure that includes a ride on IPA’s corporate jet and a donation from a high school age son of an IPA official.

(more)

 The company founder, John Burgess, is a convicted criminal, according to numerous published reports. He was convicted of attempted grand larceny and of soliciting a 16-year-old prostitute, those reports state. He was disbarred as a lawyer in New York state in July 1987 for “failing to answer charges which involved perjury, larceny, a conviction for patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, possession of drugs and engaging in a pattern over a six-year period of lies and deceit,” according to The Lawyers Fund for Client Protection of New York state. Burgess also is named as a key defendant in the sexual harassment lawsuit.

 The company’s attorney, Myron “Mike” Cherry, also a contributor of yours(Clinton's), has been identified in published reports as “Individual H” in the Illinois criminal indictment of businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Cherry has acknowledged in published reports that he was the conduit for some of the IPA campaign contributions.

thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4907332#4908770

More on Hillary + Rezko

"Clinton's national co-chair received donations from Rezko. Three of the co-defendants at Rezko trial contributed to Clintons and campaign supporters. Obama didn't receive any donations from Rezko."

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/clintons-tied-to-rezko.php

[jlake]

26. Your headline quote is wrong. Hilly referred to him as "slum landlord"

That is a media distortion you have bought into. Sad.

[chill_wind]

29. Is that the best you can come back with in light of the facts I just posted????

You don't see the irony of your own "sleaze" vs "pristine" projections? THAT is what is sad.

[emilyg]

27. k/r sleep well.

[Lucinda]

28. Night!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

30. In all of the many articles I have read about Rezko, I have never seen this fact

I am not saying this is not true, I am just saying that I have not heard this before. Could you substantiate this with a link or something?

[chill_wind]

32. Facts and links in this thread don't matter too terribly much.

I just linked to a number that are quite damning of HRC's Rezko money taking. It's like talking to the deaf and blind.

[Yossariant]

36. She didn't do all those sleazy deals with Rezko like Obama did so she doesn't have to "distance"

herself from him -- like Obama does.

[chill_wind]

38. Right. All she has to do is pocket gobs$$$ of Rezko money.

Let me know when she "distances" *herself* by returning it.

[Yossariant]

35. I don't think he was the Director. Obama appointed him to his Finance Committee.

Whoa! No wonder the Chicago press is after Obama on Rezko:

"Obama and his Rezko ties

DAY ONE OF TWO

April 23, 2007

BY TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter/[e-mail]

For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Obama has been friends with Rezko for 17 years. Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and many others, helping to raise millions of dollars for them through his own contributions and by hosting fund-raisers in his home.

Obama, who has worked as a lawyer and a legislator to improve living conditions for the poor, took campaign donations from Rezko even as Rezko's low-income housing empire was collapsing, leaving many African-American families in buildings riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers...

Eleven of Rezko's buildings were in Obama's state Senate district...

Rezko was among the people Obama appointed to serve on his U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, the Sun-Times reported in 2003. The committee raised more than $14 million, according to Federal Election Commission records, helping send Obama to Washington in 2004..."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article

[peace13]

31. BOO! n/t

[anigbrowl]

33. Yet another lie from you.

Bet you wish you had a candidate worth telling the truth for.

[anamandujano]

34. The little that I read said that it was common for Rezko to direct people

to contribute to his collection of politicians for either positions or some other favors.

This would keep his personal dollars out of Obama's campaign but is actually much worse than a simple donation.

[canadian_is_cold]

37. I wonder what he was doing before that????

[mac2]

39. You can pose with the President and First Lady for a fee.

[chill_wind]

45. And if you give her $150,000 what do you get? n/t

[mac2]

48. A local paint store owner is a very proud Bush supporter

He had he and his wife photographed with x-President GH Bush and Barbara. It hangs in his store for everyone to see.

I wanted to throw darts at it but kept my temper until I left.

He did it for a fee. He's not up for any criminal act that I know of.

I have to give Hillary a bit of room on her story about that photo moment with Rezlo.

[chill_wind]

50. Per the NYT story, she's connected by more than a simple photo op.

Hence my point about the $150,000, which it appears she has yet to return, while she's been flinging feces at Obama.

[mac2]

60. So is Obama

Hillary doesn't have to attack him. The media built him up is now tearing him down over Rezlo fraud.

[Raffi Ella]

40. oh yeah

Obama is up to his neck in dirty politics.It's hilarious that this rezko trial started when it did.Karma baby,karma.

K&R

[mac2]

41. Rezko worked with x-President Bush on his campaign

could Rezko be a plant to destroy Democrats? Or is it after all one party and he supports globalists?

Illinois politics is so corrupt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rezko Check it out.

[mac2]

42. Rezko worked for GW Bush not his father.

[anonymous171]

43. HRC has ten times the scandals that Obama allegedly has.

Most haven't even been mentioned in the MSM yet. Be prepared.

[Occam Bandage]

44. Wow. 20 recs for a lie.

Nobody has yet substantiated the claim that he was "Director" of anything. He was briefly a member of his finance committee. That's all.

[AX10]

46. 22 for the truth!

[Occam Bandage]

47. Provide link substantiating claim Rezko was the "finance director."

[ProSense]

49. What's Hillary hiding? When will she release her tax return?

Gupta, Burkle, shady deals?

[CitizenRob]

51. What is Rezko? Never heard of it.

And you know what, neither has the rest of the country.

[rodeodance]

59. you wish--this case has been in national newspapers. You are out of the loop

[mac2]

62. delete

[mac2]

63. What is a Rezko

A political hack is all I can see...for both parties. From the home of Neo Cons...Chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rezko

[avrdream]

52. Bumping for the truth.

[rodeodance]

55. 2nd that.

[Occam Bandage]

64. So, perhaps one of you can provide a link substantiating the claim that Rezko was

director of anything for Obama.

[chill_wind]

66. ::Crickets:: .... 24 hours later and STILL waiting for such link. n/t

[rodeodance]

57. Thanks for the post

[rodeodance]

58. and a REC

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

61. thanks for that wide-eyed idealism

[Mooney]

65. OK I'LL BE SURE AND KEEP THAT IN MIND.

WHEN YOU POST SOMETHING IN ALL-CAPS IT MAKES IT MORE TRUE.

[Vinca]

67. Rezko - 0 Convictions. Clintons -

Eugene Lum: Clinton/Gore campaign contributor and colleague; felony conviction; money laundering (Los Angeles Times, "First Fund-Raising Sentences Meted Out" September 10, 1997)

Nora Lum: Clinton/Gore campaign contributor and colleague; felony conviction; money laundering (Los Angeles Times, "First Fund-Raising Sentences Meted Out" September 10, 1997)

Johnny Chung: Clinton/Gore campaign contributor and colleague; many visits to Clinton White House and Oval Office with mainland Chinese associates; several illegal campaign contributions, money laundering, tax fraud, and bank fraud guilty pleas (Associated Press: "Democrat Fund-Raiser Pleads Guilty" March 17, 1998)

Roger Tamraz: Clinton/Gore campaign contributor and colleague; many visits to Clinton White House and Oval Office; fugitive from Lebanon embezzlement convictions; target of French government financial investigation; BCCI connections (The Wall Street Journal: "Integrity of the Institutions" March 20, 1997, et. al.)

This, as your probably realize, is only the tip of the iceberg.

[chill_wind]

68. Requesting one more time--- where was your source for this assertion again?

Link?

[Hawkeye-X]

69. Sigh. Post, Rinse, Repeat. Same old shit posted, rinse, repeat.

Come on, got anything new?