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I didn't care about the source for the pic. I just didn't get it except as a dig for a mispelling

Why do you think that Tony R. has Mob connections? Are you thinking Italian Mafia? "Mobster" is an vague and inflammatory term. Proof? High dollar embezzlement and the first name Tony does not a Mobster make.

A man who has long been dogged by charges that the bank his family owns helped finance a Chicago crime figure will host a Windy City fund-raiser tonight for Sen. Barack Obama.

Alexi Giannoulias, who became Illinois state treasurer last year after Obama vouched for him, has pledged to raise $100,000 for the senator's Oval Office bid.

Before he promised to raise funds for Obama, Giannoulias bankrolled Michael "Jaws" Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution.

Giannoulias is so tainted by reputed mob links that several top Illinois Dems, including the state's speaker of the House and party chairman, refused to endorse him even after he won the Democratic nomination with Obama's help.

Giannoulias was the bank's vice president and chief loan officer for most of the more than $15 million in loans.

I got a chuckle out of your misspelling "misspelling".

Ah...so Tony's 16 felony convictions (six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering) don't bother you so much, nor his sinister connections with your candidate for president. You're worried what tag I choose to call him by.

Obama & mobsters: Here's one for you:


http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052007/ne ... dekick.htm

By the way, Giannoulias has a very good chance of taking Obama's Senate seat should he win the White House.

Is your only source the New York Post? Or are you going to give the rest like I asked?

Ah...so Tony's 16 felony convictions (six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering) don't bother you so much, nor his sinister connections with your candidate for president. You're worried what tag I choose to call him by.

Should it bother us? He was convicted, is doing the time. His 'sinister' connections to Obama are inferred

Boiling down a complex blog entry by P.U.M.A. pundit, Tony Rezko used Alexi Giannoulias bank to float $450,000 in bad checks, while campaigning for Alexi’s brother Demetris to be placed on the Illinois Finance Authority Board.

Demetris Giannoulias was on the Board at the Crossroads Fund, a Chicago Based left wing organzation supported by Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Barack Obama, which made grants to such stellar organizations as ACORN and other affordable housing swindlers.
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-column ... ma%2C1866/

In 2002, Rezko borrowed $10.5 Million from Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family bank, the same bank where Barack Obama kept his Senate campaign funds. In 2006, Sen. Obama endorsed Alexi Giannoulias for Illinois State Treasurer, and gives Sec. Giannoulias a slot to speak at the Democratic National Convention.

Glad to see all these upstanding folks able to work so well together, too bad that Rezko doesn’t want to serve time, and holds quite a bit of information about the Chicago Political Establishment that may be interesting to the Feds.

Hardly. In fact, Rezko is reportedly singing to the Feds now even as we speak. We'll see what it yields.

... someone is going to reveal a massive criminal conspiracy when there is no evidence, no proof - but I guess that is how smears work.

Unlike the legislative investigation that found that Palin actually did violate Alaska's ethics laws.

Branchfire has piled a guess (that the Palins wanted Wooten fired, rather than, for example, counseled, disciplined, or reassigned) on top of an inference (that when the Palins expressed concern to Monegan about Wooten, they were really threatening to fire Monegan if he didn’t fire Wooten) on top of an innuendo (that Gov. Palin “fired” Monegan at least in part because of his failure to fire Wooten) — from which Branchflower then leaps to a legal conclusion: “abuse of authority.” Branchflower reads the Ethics Act to prohibit any governmental action or decision made for justifiable reasons benefiting the State if that action or decision might also make a public official happy for any other reason. That would mean, of course, that governors must never act or decide in a way that makes them personally happy as a citizen, or as a wife or mother or daughter, and that they could only take actions or make decisions which left them feeling neutral or upset. This an incredibly shoddy tower of supposition, and a ridiculous misreading of the law.

Branchflower puts under a microscope every direct and indirect contact that can possibly be claimed to to come, directly or indirectly, from Gov. Palin or her husband, Todd. In none of them did either Sarah or Todd Palin demand or request that Wooten be fired. Some of them date back to before Gov. Palin was even a candidate for governor. All of them are equally well explained by legitimate concerns that Wooten was a potential threat to the Palin family (having already made death threats against Gov. Palin’s father) and/or an embarrassment to the Alaska Department of Public Safety and the entire state law enforcement community. That the Palins also had strong — and entirely understandable! — negative feelings about Trooper Wooten does not make any of these communications remotely improper, much less illegal.

Nevertheless, Branchflower leaps to the personal conclusion (page 67 of the .pdf file) that “such claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palins’ real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family related reasons.” Well, here’s another memo to Mr. Branchflower: When the family is question is the family of the Governor of Alaska, and when her security detail is charged with protecting her from threats, and in the process of that, the security detail actively seeks out information as to who may have previously made death threats against the family, that’s no longer solely a “personal family related reason.” And when someone like Trooper Wooten threatens to bring ridicule and shame to the entire state of Alaska, that’s no longer solely a “personal family related reason” either.

"For the record, no one ever said fire Wooten. Not the governor. Not Todd. Not any of the other staff," Monegan said Friday from Portland. "What they said directly was more along the lines of 'This isn't a person that we would want to be representing our state troopers.'"

Heh. Not unlike the "McCain might have had a tryst 8 years ago with a Washington lobbyist, but we have absolutely no proof whatsoever" frontpage story the NYTimes ran back in March. This, while turning a blind eye to Edwards' broad-daylight dalliance. One can only laugh at what passes for journalism these days.

Let's review: An investigator (Branchflower) who is friends and colleagues with both the accuser (Monegan) ... yada yada.

Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.


She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."

Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.

Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: "I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."

In plain English, she did something "unlawful." She broke the state ethics law.

They ran the story, people said 'eh?' and that was pretty much the end of it, as I recall.

When the National Enquirer hired investigators and photographers to trail Edwards and actually have hard evidence, then that story went from 'Eh?' to 'Oh!'

Let's be honest - the Republican controlled Alaska legislature had a bi-partisan committee to investigate, and that committee appointed an investigator. Palin said she would cooperate, and then tried dragging her feet and blocking the investigation. The report says in black and white that she violated ethics laws, and she claims that the report cleared her entirely! And now that people are reading the report, McCain and Palin are crying politics.

Here's what the Anchorage Daily News says about it:

Gosh monty; it seems you didn't take the time to read what I'd just written. Briefly, it said the state investigator skipped several logical steps before coming to a prejudicial conclusion. Should I provide a link so you can catch up?

At the end of the day, I think it is clear that she used her office for a personal vendetta.

Obviously you don't agree. For you, this is a serious topic while Ayers / Wright / Rezko / ACORN are merely 'distractions'.

If X is elected, beer will be illegal.

If Y is elected, they will pry your gun from your cold dead fingers.