Turns out the Rezko scandal is a Republican one
John Kass
Chicago Tribune
March 7, 2008
Yes, Barack Obama's name came up on the first day of the Tony Rezko trial and Rezko didn't blush or flinch or twitch.
Rezko, the political influence peddler facing federal extortion and other corruption charges, didn't smile or weep or issue piteous sighs or beat his breast. He has weeks to go. So he sat there, relaxed at the table, in a nice suit, thick-shouldered, comfortable, as if he were watching some game on TV at the in-laws' after church, reaching to snack on dried chick peas and raisins.
Rezko's lawyer Joseph Duffy cast his client as the victim of a lying, no-good, drug-crazed, weasel of a political schemer. But Duffy admitted that, yes, Rezko knew politicians and raised campaign money for Obama and Gov. Rod "The Unreformer" Blagojevich.
Yet even when Rezko wasn't raising money for his buddy Blagojevich, Rezko was getting credit for other fundraisers. Rezko did so to help keep secret the identities of some heavy hitters for Blagojevich: Illinois Republicans.
And not just some third-string county road supervisors, but the prime boss hog of the Illinois Combine, Mr. Springfield Republican himself, Big Bill Cellini. I've heard analysts scoff at my bipartisan combine theory, so I hope they'll remember to put the two 'll's in Cellini when they write this story.
The out-of-town reporters aren't interested in Cellini. They're still waiting for Barack to burst into the courtroom, sweating, shrieking, "I did it! I did it!"
But that probably won't happen.
(More here.)
Chicago Tribune
March 7, 2008
Yes, Barack Obama's name came up on the first day of the Tony Rezko trial and Rezko didn't blush or flinch or twitch.
Rezko, the political influence peddler facing federal extortion and other corruption charges, didn't smile or weep or issue piteous sighs or beat his breast. He has weeks to go. So he sat there, relaxed at the table, in a nice suit, thick-shouldered, comfortable, as if he were watching some game on TV at the in-laws' after church, reaching to snack on dried chick peas and raisins.
Rezko's lawyer Joseph Duffy cast his client as the victim of a lying, no-good, drug-crazed, weasel of a political schemer. But Duffy admitted that, yes, Rezko knew politicians and raised campaign money for Obama and Gov. Rod "The Unreformer" Blagojevich.
Yet even when Rezko wasn't raising money for his buddy Blagojevich, Rezko was getting credit for other fundraisers. Rezko did so to help keep secret the identities of some heavy hitters for Blagojevich: Illinois Republicans.
And not just some third-string county road supervisors, but the prime boss hog of the Illinois Combine, Mr. Springfield Republican himself, Big Bill Cellini. I've heard analysts scoff at my bipartisan combine theory, so I hope they'll remember to put the two 'll's in Cellini when they write this story.
The out-of-town reporters aren't interested in Cellini. They're still waiting for Barack to burst into the courtroom, sweating, shrieking, "I did it! I did it!"
But that probably won't happen.
(More here.)
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