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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (30296)	6/9/2008 10:51:45 AM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

This is 2008. I wanted to know if you were referring to 2008, 2004, 2002, 2000 or some other year. I was asking you to clarify "Senate Campaign" and "state Senate campaign". Obama is a Senator, and he ran for U.S. Senator once in 2004. I don't know when he ran for Illinois State Senator. To me, "Senate Campaign" refers to a federal campaign, and "state Senate campaign" refers to a state campaign. You wrote: "I wrote because I wanted to know if the writer of the article was accurate in this---------in a political campaign there is one official Finance Committee Chairman. Was Rezko the official Finance Committee Chairman ..." If Rezko was an "official Finance Committee Chairman," I don't know what year that would have been or if there was one or more than one. Was it a functional position or a title given to donors or bundlers of a certain level? Did he give advice other than raising money? Your post made it seem like something that was current and ongoing. Today, you made it clear you meant only as to "Finance Committee Chairman for Obama's State Senate Campaign." That should be easy enough to find out, because in most states, that person's name appears at the bottom of any campaign printed materials or advertising, and is spoken on telephone autocalls and radio ads and appears at the bottom of TV ads. It's there or it's not. Also, the Treasurer of the campaign is the position with real authority and responsibility. A "Finance Committee" AFAIK is not an "official" committee even if it is called "official". In the portion I am responding to that you put in bold: 1. "One of Rezko's well paid government contacts has been Senator Obama" is a sign of bias. How much did the position of state Senator pay? Put numbers up if you have a point to make. I think state Senators are not paid very much. 2. "Rezko ... bought property at full price which he turned around and sold to Obama at well below market price." That's not true. The additional land was bought for $625,000 and the 1/6 of that that was sold to the Obamas as a buffer was sold for exactly 1/6 of the $625,000. Some site has claimed that it was only worth $40,500 and Obama overpaid when he paid $104,167 (generally reported as $104,000). That site claims that Rezko overpaid or Obama overpaid (or maybe they both overpaid). Obama or the Obamas made the highest offer for the house they bought for $1,650,000 (the asking price was $1,995,000). If they had paid the asking price, they would have overpaid. They still might have overpaid. But at the time they bought it, 15% below the asking price was possibly good negotiating. 25% discounts were not prevalent.