Candidate for RNC Chair Calls for PEBO to Release Blago Records

I would like to see transparency on this.
However a Republican calling for it is the height of hypocrisy.

Typical GOP BS

Did the Democrats get Involed with senator Stevens BS NO,Did the democrats get Involed with Sara Palins BS, NO Stay out of it pathetic gop

If there is guilt, there is guilt
if there is none, there is none
Are you O-bots scared that your Messiah is nothing hut a politcian?
Look, if he isn’t involved it will show up. And I don’t care who asks for an investigation – in fact it SHOULD be Dems asking for an investigation to prove they follow their own rules. The Reps didn’t and they lost control of Congress in part because of it. If The Dems do not come out for it, it will show they have something to hide.

“Are you O-bots scared that your Messiah is nothing hut a politcian?
Look, if he isn’t involved it will show up.”
It already has. But that won’t stop right wingers from claiming otherwise.
“U.S. Attorney Patrick “The Untouchable” Fitzgerald was pressed numerous times today at his Chicago news conference about President-elect Obama’s awareness of Blagojevich’s actions.
“I’m not going to speak for what the President elect was aware of,” he said. “We make no allegations that he’s aware of anything and that’s as simply as I can put it.”

My, my. Touchy Democrats on the comment threads this morning. I know they’d like to blame Bush for this (one reporter tried to imply that the feds wiretapping this criminal thug was akin to Watergate LOL), but they’re just nervous that the stench of Chicago and Illinois Democrat corruption racket is going to touch their beloved candidate. And as such, it’s a much needed dose of reality for a media and Democrat Party who thought it could do no wrong (even though this is the third Democrat governor in the last four years to go down in flames due to corruption). Can’t wait to see whose next.
Grow up, kids.
If this were a Republican governor who came from Texas and had ties to Bush, HOO BOY. Can you say scandal of the year for the next two years? Look at Larry Craig, for example – he tapped his foot in a bathroom and the whole media and Democrat party damn near went into a meltdown trying to shove him from office. Today, we have a former confidant and political ally of Obama, whose staffers and underlings crossed paths (Rezko, etc.) with Obama many times in his rise to the top, and now suddenly, the same people screaming for Larry Craig’s head are no longer interested in getting the facts and to the extent to which the voters of Illinois were routinely violated by these mobsters.
Looks like the Obamnation starts off with a stinky little scandal leftover from from the Land of Lincoln (who is currently rolling over in his grave).
Enjoy Fitzmas, Dems! You’ve earned it.

no,we are not scared,after 8 years of all the Republican crap,this is nothing!!!

Yea – maybe Charlie Rangle and Willima Jefferson can look into it.Maybe Dodd can get a VIP investigation from Countrywide.

Uh… it’s being reported that the contact to Rahm let to the fed tip-off. So, yes, it raises questions… and the answers are Obama acted appropriately…

All the partisan BS here is really astonishing. This has nothing to do with Dems or Repubs. It has to do with the individuals involved. Who cares about their party affiliations. All I am interested in is the truth. The FBI affidavit states what the FBI knows. Now a congressman has requested that PEBO and his office divulge any information that they have on coversations with Blago and his people. It will be interesting to see how PEBO responds because, per the affidavit, there have in fact been some communications. Will they be forthcoming or will they be defensive? This will tell us a whole lot about the character of PEBO.

OMG, what’s wrong with you? Obama had no info on this and did nothing for you to go into a swivet over. Grow up! We dems could go on ‘ad infinitum’ about the RePubs who have been scandal ridden, but we have not done that. But I think I will start just the same. Let’s see, there was Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Duke Cunningham, Ted Stevens, Don Young, Palin, Hunter, Ney, McCain and the list goes on and on and on, but I bet you know the names better than I do. So forget it; there are corrupt people all over government and all we can do is get rid of them when we find out what they are doing. In the meantime, Obama is NOT invovled [even though you would drool [[or jizz]] all over your sorry selves if he were], so get on with your lives – there is nothing to see here.

>I see your Rangle (still serving) & Jefferson (just booted, finally) with a Delay (no longer serving), a Cunningham (no longer serving), a Hunter (??? – did nothing), a Ney (no longer serving), a Stevens (no longer serving), a Young (serving, as if earmarks are a crime that Democrats are innocent of LOL).
Cough.
Rangel, Jefferson, Spitzer, Blags, McGreevy, Frank, Dodd, Murtha, Allan Mollohan, Kwame Kilpatrick, etc.
Rangel, Murtha, Dodd, Frank and Mollohan are still currently serving in Congress.

Fitzgerald got permission to do the wiretaps BEFORE the election, in October — so, while Rahm may have reported Blago, it wasn’t that conversation that started the ball rolling.

“a Hunter (??? – did nothing),”
Look up the DP-2 as well as his connection to Wilkes.
“a Young (serving, as if earmarks are a crime that Democrats are innocent of LOL”
On July 24, 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported that Young was under federal investigation for possibly taking bribes, illegal gratuities or unreported gifts from VECO Corporation, an Anchorage-based compan

“Fitzgerald got permission to do the wiretaps BEFORE the election, in October — so, while Rahm may have reported Blago, it wasn’t that conversation that started the ball rolling.”
True but they were investigating other corruption charges.
That’s what makes this so galling.
He’s under investigation, knows he’s under investigation and he STILL tries to shake down the President-Elect.

>You mean the guy accused by the right wing anti-labor National Legal and Policy Center of doing bad things that refused to release their report demonstrating that?
No. This guy:
On April 21, 2006, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi announced that Mollohan would step down from the ethics committee, possibly temporarily, while he defends himself from the ethics charges. [21] The Charleston Daily Mail reported on May 17th that a number of the non-profits connected to Mollohan were subpoenaed by federal investigators and boxloads of their papers were carted away from office buildings.[22]
On June 13, 2006, Mollohan filed two dozen corrections to his past six annual financial disclosure forms, arguing that his accountant had uncovered several unintentional errors. He had left out one major transaction in which in he took out a $2.3 million ‘back-to-back loan.’ Mollohan did not believe that he had to report this previously because the net value was zero.
[...]
On June 22, Bloomberg reported that Mollohan aided in giving at least $179 million in U.S. government contracts to companies that contributed to his family-run charity over the past six years. Among them, money was sent to 21 nonprofit groups and companies that gave $225,427 to the Robert H. Mollohan Family Charitable Foundation, for which Mollohan is secretary, in 2004.[24]
Principally as a result of these scandals, Mollohan was named in 2006 by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as one of the twenty most corrupt US legislators.
Remember him? Nice selective memory you’ve got there.
ROTFLMFAO

I love the new spin by the O-bots here, pretending that Rahm E. is now some kind of hero and by extension how Obama somehow “blew the whistle” here.
This investigation has been going on for over three years – BEFORE BO was even running for Prez – and just after BO had graduated from the Illinois Democrat Sewer to the Senate. BO was swimming in this Blagojevich’s sewage not even a year prior to the investigation starting.
Stop trying to rewrite history, Obamatrons. It’s disgusting.

“I love the new spin by the O-bots here, pretending that Rahm E. is now some kind of hero and by extension how Obama somehow “blew the whistle” here.”
Its has been reported by a Fox affliate in Chi that Rahm tipped the Feds off to this particular issue.
“This investigation has been going on for over three years -”
Really? Fitz began investigating Blago selling a Senate seat 3 years ago?

Jake:
How did he know that? With whom on the Obama Team was Blago talking? How was the refusal to “pay or play” conveyed? Did that person then report Blago to the authorities?
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Jake, an SEIU official was known to be talking to Blagojevich for Valerie Jarrett.
That official has been named by some outlets to be Andy Stern.
So is Andy Stern representing the Obama transition team? If so, what is up with that?

How did he know that?
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How did they know Obama wouldn’t go for the pay for play scenario? It seems in YOUR world, that might indicate there were conversations. (Hmmmm…Makes good press.) Only one problem..Ever thought about the possibility that the same could be said KNOWING the person in question has WAY TOO MUCH INTEGRITY to do such a thing. Too easy…

Obama talking about the need for transparency ??? What A JOKE when he has his medical and school records sealed !!! It is quite tranparen that he received financial aid as a college student and his records will SHOW THAT.

Obama is as transparent as a lead box. Even Superman can’t see what’s inside.

“It is quite tranparen(sic) that he received financial aid as a college student and his records will SHOW THAT”. And what? Millions of us received student loans because we came from families who were too poor to finance a college education for us. I worked my way through college and law school and paid back my student loans. Whatever Tom in Alabama is implying with his crack, it’s out of order. In fact, if Obama did receive student loans, good. That puts him in an excellant position to understand what poor students face.

R daniels, I’m sad that Obama has an off-again on-again ciggie habit, but something that trivial would never affect MY vote. just sayin’…

obusha:
The original news headline reads “Grand Jury subpoenas issued for Rezko records”
“Obama” not included.
I think that Drudge was the first one to alter the original headline. Figures.

Ryan C you got that right about the repubs and hypocrisy.I am an independent and even I can see that Just like Palin and her rants about Ayers when her husband was for several years a member of an american hate Party

Wow, you mean G.W.Bush is not being blamed for this? I guess obama is getting a taste of his owm medicine. How doe it feel obama?

Maybe it was conveyed without a direct conversation. For me in business and general dealings with people I would have an opinion that I was 99% sure of know before I ever asked. And given that Obama is the president elect, I would myself be 99% sure not to even ask Obama for this kind of deal, and sure to make a statement like that made by Blago. This is a weak reach at best.

bill-tb, fred, Ron Hesselbacher, R. Daniels, jimbo, Ryan C, Bamaluvernot, obusha 09, Good Lt, RM, radical right-wing racists like you are one of the big reasons the Republican party is going down in flames. All but a tiny handful of Americans are sick to death of the divisive hate and fear mongering you people project.
Keep it up, you’ll just be shooting yerself in the….foot. ;)

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