McConnell says Democrats trying to restrict speech with disclosure plan

Obama Associates Now Include Convicted Felon

Rezko and Obama….

1. They met in 1990. Obama was a student at Harvard Law School and got an unsolicited job offer from Rezko, then a low-income housing developer in Chicago. Obama turned it down.

2. Obama took a job in 1993 with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that represents developers — primarily not-for-profit groups — building low-income housing with government funds.

3. One of the firm’s not-for-profit clients — the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama’s then-boss Allison Davis — was partners with Rezko’s company in a 1995 deal to convert an abandoned nursing home at 61st and Drexel into low-income apartments. Altogether, Obama spent 32 hours on the project, according to the firm. Only five hours of that came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, the firm says. The rest of the future senator’s time was helping WPIC strike the deal with Rezko. Rezko’s company, Rezmar Corp., also partnered with the firm’s clients in four later deals — none of which involved Obama, according to the firm. In each deal, Rezmar “made the decisions for the joint venture,” says William Miceli, an attorney with the firm.

4. In 1995, Obama began campaigning for a seat in the Illinois Senate. Among his earliest supporters: Rezko. Two Rezko companies donated a total of $2,000. Obama was elected in 1996 — representing a district that included 11 of Rezko’s 30 low-income housing projects.

5. Rezko’s low-income housing empire began crumbling in 2001, when his company stopped making mortgage payments on the old nursing home that had been converted into apartments. The state foreclosed on the building — which was in Obama’s Illinois Senate district.

6. In 2003, Obama announced he was running for the U.S. Senate, and Rezko — a member of his campaign finance committee — held 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 adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood — a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million —$300,000 below the asking price. Rezko’s wife paid full price —$625,000 — for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko’s wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it “boneheaded” because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.

8. Eight months later — in October 2006 — Rezko was indicted on charges he solicited kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. Federal prosecutors maintain that $10,000 from the alleged kickback scheme was donated to Obama’s run for the U.S. Senate. Obama has given the money to charity.

And today Mr. Rezko was convicted on 16 out of 24 charges including aiding and abetting bribery, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to extort.

http://floppingaces.net/2008/06/04/obama-asso...

Obama's Solyndra execs will decline to testify at hearing

Tue Sep 20, 2011


Sept 20 (Reuters)- Solyndra LLC's chief executive and chief financial officer will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer any questions put to them at a Congressional hearing on Friday, according to letters from their attorneys obtained by Reuters.

In the letters sent to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, attorneys for Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO W. G. Stover said they advised their clients not to provide testimony during the hearings.

The bankrupt company's $535 million federal loan guarantee is being investigated by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Harrison is represented by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Stover is represented by Keker & Van Nest.

Solyndra's offices were raided by the FBI two days after the company filed for bankruptcy, although the FBI did not say what prompted the raid.(Reporting by Nichola Groom in Los Angeles, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews...

While here in Michigan, Republicans are trying to restrict the speech of TWO Democrat State Representatives, One for using the word 'vagina' and the other for daring to bring up the question of regulating vasectomies.

"Both Representative Byrum and I were gavelled down without cause yesterday while voicing our opposition to the Republican's war on women here in Michigan," Brown told the Detroit Free Press. "Regardless of their reasoning, this is a violation of my First Amendment rights and directly impedes my ability to serve the people who elected me into office."

Byrum said she had been ignored and prevented from speaking on an amendment that would hold men and women to the same reproductive standards.

"Now I am being silenced for standing up for women," she said. "This is yet another example of this Republican majority's misogynistic and cowardly tactics."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/15/m...

I'd like to know exactly how much my Company is spending on political organizations. They could instead have used that money to hire workers.

I would think both sides of the aisle would agree that is information they would like to know.

Lobbying expenses are not deductible to a corporation so it is a double-edge sword to a business: lost tax deductions and lost costs that could have been spent on growing a company's business. So that is information I would like to know about my Company and where that money is going.

Ex-GOP Con wrote:

I'd like to know exactly how much my Company is spending on political organizations. They could instead have used that money to hire workers.
I would think both sides of the aisle would agree that is information they would like to know.
Lobbying expenses are not deductible to a corporation so it is a double-edge sword to a business: lost tax deductions and lost costs that could have been spent on growing a company's business. So that is information I would like to know about my Company and where that money is going.

Now that the many of the right wing imbeciles are in one place, can we call Terminix?

“This is nothing less than an effort by the government itself to expose its critics to harassment and intimidation, either by government authorities or through third-party allies,” McConnell said.
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but if they believe in what they're supporting then why do they feel the need to hide their identities?
and if they believe in what they're supporting, why are they so ashamed of it that they need to keep their involvement hidden?

Lawrence Wolf wrote:

<quoted text>Now that the many of the right wing imbeciles are in one place, can we call Terminix?

Attention you bloated wolf tick!!! Terminix is recommended for ticks so GFY.

Dumbbell democRats are much more concerned about shutting people up than they are about the sleaze surrounding Rezko, Solandra, Ayers et al and it's especially so during an election that's not going their way.
On the other hand if you want to shut a democRat up mention Rezko, Solyndra, Ayers et al. It's an obamanation.

The lord marshal b. h. obama’s content of character...

Thanks to a biased media far too many people know little about bill ayers or that b. h. obama launched his political career from the home of bill ayers or do they understand the depth of the obama/ayers close lengthy relationship and shared marxist ideology.
In recent interviews and books bill ayers confirms he is a communist and has not backed away from his beliefs. After all anyone who advocates killing parents like ayers did and had a habit of planting explosives all over the place is as nutty as a fruitcake and has a criminal rap sheet a mile long.
Or do enough people know that bill ayers' girlfriend and two comrades blew themselves up building an ayers' designed bomb. That bomb was intended for US Soldiers stationed at Fort Dix, NJ and who would be attending a dance with civilians. Let me repeat that for the slow to learn,“That bomb was intended for US Soldiers stationed at Fort Dix, NJ and who would be attending a dance with civilians.”
Obviously it takes a self-serving anti-Americanism radical lowlife like b. h. obama to stay in the same room with someone like bill ayers. Most Americans assume any person who would eventually become president would have the integrity not to ever associate with an individual like bill ayers. In the case of the lord marshal b. h. obama that’s a very bad assumption.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individual...

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfi...

what are they trying to hide?

anneutral wrote:

what are they trying to hide?

or "who" are they hiding. It's kind of silly for all the cries about obama not disclosing sources and then crying about the efforts to change that.?

sundaytrucker wrote:

<quoted text>or "who" are they hiding. It's kind of silly for all the cries about obama not disclosing sources and then crying about the efforts to change that.?

exactly!
it makes no sense.
it's as if "republicans" have some sort of expectation that their political donations should be kept secret, but "democrats" should, at the same time, name each and every donor.
it's all very strange.

What do these groups have to hide?

Jen Hussein wrote:

McConnell made it clear that his number one priority is denying Obama re-election. After you announce that you are acting purely for political gain and not for the good of those you represent, the contempt you engender is entirely deserved.

Geewillikers, you'd think he'd be more conciliatory after the Obama "they'll have to get to the back of the bus statement" and Nancy Pelosi's "we won, you lost, get over it" rant.

Ten minutes after any election the losing side begins the strategy to unseat the winner.

To say otherwise is incredibly naive, disingenuous, or just plain stupid.

Le Jimbo wrote:

<quoted text>OBAMA TO GRANT IMMUNITY TO YOUNG ILLEGALS...
FLASHBACK:'The notion that somehow, by myself, I can do these things, it's just not true'...
PRESIDENT SCOLDS:'I didn't ask for argument'...I am King.
But doesn't take questions -- again!
The boy has no balls.

So refreshing to see Le Dimbulb and Laughing Limbaughtomy teabagger spam on yet another thread trying not to defend the actions or words of their fellow teabaggers but to try to change the subject to Obama.
If McTurtle's dog were to take a dump on his neighbors lawn, it is somehow Obama's fault and impeachment proceedings should begin.

Makes sense wrote:

We should know who is buying our government. Maybe they aren't even Americans. It's a question of national security.

Then again, I really care more about people saying "vagina". Our country will probably heal itself if foreigners secretly buy our goverment through the grace of the unregulated non-transparent free market.

anneutral wrote:

<quoted text>
exactly!
it makes no sense.
it's as if "republicans" have some sort of expectation that their political donations should be kept secret, but "democrats" should, at the same time, name each and every donor.
it's all very strange.

No it's not. It's just more frightwing teabag hypocrisy.

Aprilvue wrote:

<quoted text>
Geewillikers, you'd think he'd be more conciliatory after the Obama "they'll have to get to the back of the bus statement" and Nancy Pelosi's "we won, you lost, get over it" rant.
Ten minutes after any election the losing side begins the strategy to unseat the winner.
To say otherwise is incredibly naive, disingenuous, or just plain stupid.

I'd say there's a difference between recognizing who won and who lost, and making sure the other side loses as your number one priority. McConnell was not elected to defeat the Democratic Party. But that's all he's bound and determined to do. He said so, and what's unbelievably sad and disgusting about that is he wasn't condemned for such an outrageous statement by the people he is supposed to represent.

Jen Hussein wrote:

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I'd say there's a difference between recognizing who won and who lost, and making sure the other side loses as your number one priority. McConnell was not elected to defeat the Democratic Party. But that's all he's bound and determined to do. He said so, and what's unbelievably sad and disgusting about that is he wasn't condemned for such an outrageous statement by the people he is supposed to represent.

The president is supposed to represent all the people and not tell his opponents to get to the back of the bus. His agenda was clear. He was going to ram through anything he wanted.Nancy Pelosi underscored the plan. McConnell was absolutely candid and correct in his desire to stop the runaway freight train called Barack. To do anything less would have been a betrayal to those who elected him.

Apparently the voters thought so, too, as evidenced by the shellacking of 2010. Should Obama be defeated in the Fall, perhaps you'll recognize America is tired of this incompetent and arrogant crook.

Don't take my word for it though. Take a look at the liberal media, including Politico and the Washington Post, not to mention MSNBC,who are now openly challenging the content of his speeches, and those stalwarts of the DNC who are correcting his misrepresentations and policies.

Jen Hussein wrote:

McConnell made it clear that his number one priority is denying Obama re-election. After you announce that you are acting purely for political gain and not for the good of those you represent, the contempt you engender is entirely deserved.

Are you saying the 8 years of trashing Bush wasn't to discredit him and block him from election of a second term. You must be on something.