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GOV. JAN BREWERS COMMENTS AFTER
THE PHOENIX SUNS PROTESTED SB 1070
This is after the Suns were protesting the new law in AZ:
Finally, a politician with a clue! I love this Governor
“What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people
were sneaking into games without paying? What if they had a good idea who
the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not
allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying
attendees couldn’t be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns’ ownership was
expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink?
And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the
Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?”
- This was posted by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on FaceBook
Ann Coulter talks about how the TEA Party is represented by the Lame Stream Media and hits it on the head! The Narrative is that Conservatives are bad and Liberals are good and this article covers many of the hypocrisies that are being pushed by lying, sniveling, propagandists who hate America as it is. What makes it worse are some of the people who represent the TEA party don’t really defend and make the accusations believable. We need to choose our fights, but when someone accuses me of being a racist, that’s a fight I must have and Ann Coulter is doing just that. God Bless America.
Article:
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The president’s support for Illinois senatorial hopeful Alexi Giannoulias is an unwanted reminder of the Windy City’s unsavory politics.
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JULY 23, 2010
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sent his party into a tizzy when he recently acknowledged that Democrats might lose the House this fall. A better indicator of how anxious the White House is about midterms is the news that President Barack Obama is headed to Chicago to fund raise for Alexi Giannoulias.
Mr. Giannoulias is running for Illinois’s Senate seat. That would be the seat vacated by Barack Obama, put up for bid by indicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and currently occupied by the ethically tarred Roland Burris. In keeping with this pedigree, Democrats have nominated the 34-year-old Mr. Giannoulias, Illinois state treasurer and heir to a family bank seized this spring by the feds.
In the heat of the Blagojevich corruption trial, and in the wake of Congress’s “financial reform,” the last person Mr. Obama wants to be stumping for is a failed banker who radiates Chicago politics. But it was the president who created this nominee and the White House that is now stuck with the liability.
Mr. Giannoulias met Mr. Obama on a Chicago basketball court and later introduced the politician to his banking family’s money, as well as Chicago’s Greek donor community. Mr. Obama would claim this was “critical” to his 2004 Senate victory, and two years later he repaid the favor. The 29-year-old Mr. Giannoulias worked in the family bank and had no political or policy experience. Yet when he decided to run statewide, Mr. Obama turned on his star power, narrating expensive TV slots that described Mr. Giannoulias as “one of the most outstanding young men that I could ever hope to meet.” He became Mr. Obama’s candidate and sprinted to a primary victory.
Mr. Obama continued to swing for Mr. Giannoulias right through the news that the Giannoulias’s Broadway Bank had loaned millions to Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a convicted bookmaker, as well as other crime figures. He stuck with him through the news that some of this money had been disbursed when Mr. Giannoulias was the bank’s senior loan officer.
And Mr. Obama stuck with him when even the Democratic speaker of the Illinois House, Mike Madigan, refused to endorse Mr. Giannoulias. “My history in politics, if you were alleged to be connected to the mob, you were done,” said Mr. Madigan in the run-up to the 2006 treasurer’s election.
The president got his reward when Mr. Giannoulias leveraged his new political clout to raise funds for the Obama presidential campaign. Mr. Obama would also take donations from Giannoulias family members and at least one Broadway Bank manager. A few local papers noted the gap between Mr. Obama’s new-politics rhetoric and his old-politics Giannoulias ties, but most media ignored it.
It wasn’t until late 2008, when the Blagojevich affair touched on the president-elect, that the White House began to realize how toxic these relationships might prove. It scrambled to recruit Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan for the Senate run, to sideline Mr. Giannoulias. But Ms. Madigan declined and Mr. Obama’s protégé wouldn’t be deterred.
His primary opponent, David Hoffman, resurrected the mob story line, leading to new details about Mr. Giannoulias’s lending history. He’s been under fire for mismanaging the state’s college savings program. The Blagojevich trial has rekindled interest in the Senate nominee’s older brother, Demetris, who was pushed for a state board position by convicted Obama fund-raiser Tony Rezko. Mr. Blagojevich appointed him in 2004, and then reappointed him a year later, 33 days after Mr. Giannoulias’s father donated $10,000 to the Blago campaign.
Then in April federal regulators seized Broadway Bank. Records showed the bank’s lending profile changed sharply after Mr. Giannoulias came on full-time in 2002. His lending department doubled down on the risky real estate loans that helped shred the housing market; Broadway piled up losses. Mr. Giannoulias prospered.
No doubt Mr. Obama can’t wait to arrive on Aug. 5 to raise money for one of those, ahem, “fat cat bankers.” And he’ll be landing in Chicago just as the Blagojevich trial is raising uncomfortable questions about Mr. Obama’s Chicago connections and his role pushing his friend Valerie Jarrett for the Senate seat. The state Democratic establishment is dutifully holding “Vote Alexi” signs, but many are bitter that the White House landed them with this guy. It won’t be a pleasant visit.
Republican opponent Mark Kirk has been running as a common-sense reformer and leading Mr. Giannoulias in polls. And earlier this month came the humiliating news that the Democrat had raised a piddling $900,000 in the second quarter, compared to Mr. Kirk’s $2.3 million. News of the White House fund raiser came a few days later. The intervention shows how worried the Obama team is that not just the House, but the Senate, could be in play.
Write to kim@wsj.com.
I thought this might be important information for us to have. I’m sure many names on this list will not surprise you.
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These are the Democratic members of the Socialists of America. Check out the list: http://www.restoringamerica.org/socialists_in_congress_II.htm
Give them a call and ask them why! Why would they oppose capitalism, the one thing that has separated America from all the oppresed countries of the world. Do they want to oppress us also?!
We all need to know who these peopel are. If you live in Illinois, these are the 4 who are members of the Socialist group. I hope you put this info to good use and I KNOW YOU ARE NOT SURPRISED AT WHO ARE ON THIS LIST:
Rep Jesse Jackson
(IL-02) 313 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-0773, Fax: 202-225-0899
Rep Luis Gutierrez
(IL-04) 408 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-8203, Fax: 202-225-7810
Rep Danny Davis
(IL-07) 1218 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5006, Fax: 202-225-5641
Rep Lane Evans
(IL-17) 2335 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5905, Fax: 202-225-5396
http://www.house.gov/evans/
Rep Julia Carson
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.
Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as “half-hearted” and a sign it would be accepted.
In the letter, sent on August 12 last year to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials, Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.
The note added: “Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.”
Mr LeBaron added that freeing the bomber and making him live in Scotland “would mitigate a number of the strong concerns we have expressed with regard to Megrahi’s release”.
The US administration lobbied the Scottish government more strongly against sending Megrahi home, under a prisoner transfer agreement signed by the British and Libyan governments, in a deal now known to have been linked to a pound stg. 550 million oil contract for BP.
It claimed this would flout a decade-old agreement between Britain and the US that anyone convicted of the bombing would serve their sentence in a Scottish prison. Megrahi was released by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill on the grounds that he had three months to live, making his sentence effectively spent.
The US Senate foreign relations committee launched a probe after The Sunday Times revealed this month that Megrahi’s doctors thought he could live for another decade.
A source close to the Senate inquiry said: “The (LeBaron) letter is embarrassing for the US because it shows they were much less opposed to compassionate release than prisoner transfer.”
Last week, a succession of British politicians – including Mr MacAskill, Mr Salmond and former justice secretary Jack Straw – delivered a diplomatic snub to the senators by refusing to fly across the Atlantic to answer questions at the Senate’s hearing on Thursday (US time) about their role in Megrahi’s release.
Despite the controversy over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Megrahi’s release, it emerged over the weekend that BP is planning deep-water drilling off Libya.
And BP boss Tony Hayward is poised to quit this week when the company announces its half-year results, London’s Sunday Telegraph reported.
The Sunday Times, AFP
