RezkObama

Posted by KelmandKirk at 6/5/2008 7:29 AM
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Here's the thing, there may be nothing illegal in The Obama's relationship with convicted felon Tony Rezko.  However, when you jump into the corrupttion that is Chicago politics and is quickly becoming Illinois politics and swim with the likes of Emil Jones, John (Todd) Stroger, Jeremiah Wright, Mayor Daley, Rev. Pfleger, William Ayers and Tony Rezko, something is going to rub off.

Illinois is now the most corrupt state in the nation.  The Obama claims that he did 'great' things during his brief time as a State Senator.  He didn't.  In fact, he wallowed in the cash and corruption of IL politics and now would like the rest of the country to ignore the Pigsty on the Prairie.  This is not going to happen.

The Obama is stuck with Rezko.  Each time he and his wife watch their two daughters play in their enlarged backyard, which they bought from Rezko, they will be reminded of their relationship with this scumbag. 

The Obama will attempt to smear John McCain with the Keating 5 and other associates.  The difference in perception for the average American voter is Keating 5 took place a LONG TIME AGO and Illinois corruption is happening right now; prosecutions are happening right now; one Governor is already in jail and another is potentially on his way.

Again, maybe there is nothing illegal about The Obama's relationship with Tony Rezko.  But in the eye of the voter, it won't matter.

Below are the highlights of the RezkObama relationship from the Sun-Times:

Rezko's relationship with Obama goes back 18 years. Some key events:

1. In 1990, Obama was a Harvard Law School student when he got a job offer from Rezko, then a developer of low-income housing in Chicago. Obama didn't take the job.

2. In 1993, Obama got a job with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that worked with low-income housing developers.

3. In 1995, one of the firm's clients -- the Woodlawn Historic Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama's then-boss Allison Davis -- teamed with Rezko to turn a vacant nursing home at 61st and Drexel on Chicago's South Side into low-income apartments. Obama worked 32 hours on the project, but only five hours came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, according to the law firm.

4. In 1995, Obama ran for the Illinois Senate. Among his first supporters was Rezko, whose companies gave $2,000 to his campaign. Obama won the race to represent a district that included 11 of Rezko's 30 low-income housing projects.

5. In 2001, Rezko's housing empire began to crumble when his company stopped paying the mortgage on the nursing home project. The state foreclosed on the building, which was in Obama's district.

6. In 2003, Obama ran for the U.S. Senate. His campaign finance committee included Rezko, who threw a lavish fund-raiser June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion.

7. A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjoining pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood. Obama paid $1.65 million for the mansion, $300,000 below the asking price. Rita Rezko paid the full asking price of $625,000 for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rita Rezko $104,500 for a strip of her land, giving Obama a bigger yard. At the time of sale, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Obama has since called the deal "boneheaded'' because it might look like he got a favor from Rezko.

8. In October 2006, Rezko was indicted for soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. The feds say $10,000 of it went into Obama's campaign fund for U.S. Senate, prompting Obama to donate the money to charity.

***Good insight from one who was there, former US Attorney Bill Roberts.

***One down, one to go.  Blago's next.

***The AP picks up on RezkObama:  A day after Barack Obama sealed the Democratic nomination for president, a corruption scandal involving a fundraiser who once bankrolled his campaign resurfaced to slightly dampen the festivities.

***The RezkObama We Don't Know from WSJ:  We can't find a single issue on which Mr. Obama has broken with his party's left-wing interest groups.

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