Good morning, Barack! (Rezko got jobs for your staffers? Do tell.)
By SusanUnPC on March 7, 2008 at 9:06 AM in Barack Obama, Tony Rezko
Good morning, Mr. Show Me The Money. It’s March 7, a new day in Chicago politics (actually, every Daley day’s the same there — dark and dirty) and there’s more Rezkorama entertainment:
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Dave McKinney writes in his “Watchdog” column:
Did Rezko find jobs for Obama staffers?
Did Barack Obama use indicted campaign fund-raiser Tony Rezko as a conduit to get jobs for people in Gov. Blagojevich’s administration?
The question arises from a list of 39 people Rezko’s lawyers said in a court filing he urged Blagojevich to give state jobs.
Among those on the list were two people who appear to have Obama links and a third who’s now an Obama presidential campaign staffer.
But did the names come from Obama? His campaign staff’s short answer: Don’t know — but it’s possible.
“We do not know how decisions were made to fill specific state positions, and we have no records of any individual recommendations we were asked to make or made,” says Obama spokesman Bill Burton “But we do know that Tony Rezko, among others, was helping to gather names for the positions coming open with a new administration, and, if it is established any names came through our office, we would have no reason to doubt it.”
Conservative Hugh Hewitt was just on CNN’s American Morning touting his new Web site, “Rezkorama.com” — and note the last sentence from this snippet of Hewitt’s announcement at Townhall.com of the new site:
At my urging, the brains at Kithbridge put together Rezkorama.com on Thursday to provide a continually updating news feed on all things related to Tony Rezko –Barack Obama’s friend, finacier and next-door empty-lot owner. It took about a nano-second for Rezkorama to be denounced as “Swiftboating” by Obama fans at Newshoggers.com, which leads me to believe that any coverage of any democratic scandal from now until the end of time will be known as “Swiftboating,” for which I think the Swiftboat Veterans for truth should charge royalties.
In any event, faux outrage among the Obamians won’t be stifling interest in Mr. Rezko any time soon as Rezko is standing trial on many fraud allegations in Chicago –a trial that began this week and may go on for three months, though we can only hope it drags on through the Denver Convention. …
“Rezkorama.com” — like “Rezkowatch” — appears to be a handy-dandy summary of the latest news and blog entries on the Rezko scandal and trial.
One difference: Rezkowatch was founded by a liberal Democrat whereas Rezkorama is the product of conservatives. No matter. Both sites, best I can tell, rely on careful sourcing and vetting.
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