Rezko is not "swiftboating" Its "Whitewatering" and the Clintons

[Perky]

ought to ashamed of even raising this as something of importance.

[aquart]

1. I agree. $300,000 to buy a US Senator is too little to mention.

Let them come back when he can prove he sold out for a million.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. A lot of Obama supporters are using the word "shame" all of the sudden

Was it in a memo this afternoon or something?

--p!

[IndianaJones]

3. I do not like this being used as an issue. nt.

[ArkySue]

4. Find out more about Rezko

Chicago Sun-Times
For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Obama has been friends with Rezko for 17 years. Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and many others, helping to raise millions of dollars for them through his own contributions and by hosting fund-raisers in his home.

Obama, who has worked as a lawyer and a legislator to improve living conditions for the poor, took campaign donations from Rezko even as Rezko's low-income housing empire was collapsing, leaving many African-American families in buildings riddled with problems - including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.

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