Posted on 11/16/2008 9:41:48 PM PST by SoftTyranny
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama tapped a major campaign bundler and a former U.S. attorney who got caught up in Bill Clinton’s 2001 pardons scandal to serve on the 14-member Justice Department review team announced Friday.
Alejandro Mayorkas, a former U.S. attorney in California, drew controversy in 2001 for calling the White House on behalf of Carlos Vignali, a convicted drug dealer who was seeking a presidential commutation. Mayorkas and a host of other California elected officials responded to pleas from Vignali’s father, Horacio, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman whom federal agents had suspected of drug trafficking. Horacio Vignali also paid $200,000 in fees to Hugh Rodham, a brother of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a successful effort an have his son’s prison sentence commuted by the outgoing president.
Read the rest of the article at ObamaHood.org.
I say that by the time Obama runs for re-election felons will have a right to vote? Anybody want to vote against that?
takers?
takers?
s/b bet against that?
This is Obamessiah’s idea of ‘Change?’ Rebuild the troubled Clinton administration?
Was this the cost of getting their support?
So this is what he meant by HOPE! and CHANGE!
bump
The team also includes Spencer Overton, a law professor at George Washington University and expert on campaign finance, who raised more than $500,000 for Obama’s presidential campaign, according to a database maintained by the government watchdog group Public Citizen. Overton also sat on Obama’s national finance committee. Overton will focus on Election Assistance Commission.
They join a team of 14 law scholars, corporate attorneys and former Clinton appointees who will look at civil rights, legal services and election law.
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Five of the review team members, including Mayorkas, have ties to the Clinton administration.
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David William Ogden, co-chair of WilmerHale’s government and regulatory litigation group, served as chief of staff to Attorney General Janet Reno, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s civil division and deputy general counsel in the Defense Department.
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And he’s also a colleague at Wilmer Hale of
Jamie - “ruby ridge .. the wall .. fannie mae $26M” - Gorelick.
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Lobbyists in key positions in Team Obama transition team
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To put the old song on its ear, everything new is old again. Remember when Barack Obama said this?
To rousing applause, Barack Obama formally announced this afternoon that the Democratic National Committee will follow his lead and begin refusing donations from registered lobbyists and special-interest political action committees.
“They do not fund my campaign,” the presumptive Democratic nominee told a small-town southwest Virginia crowd, after delivering a standard refrain that blames drug and insurance interests for blocking universal health care. “They will not fund our party. And they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I’m President of the United States.”
They may not have funded his campaign, although that’s highly questionable, but the Washington Post reports that they’ll be running his government. Obama has tapped a number of lobbyists for high-profile positions in the transition team, and most of them will likely end up with significant leadership roles in the coming Obama administration:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/15/lobbyists-in-key-positions-in-team-obama-transition-team/
The Swahili word for “change” is “Clinton”. Go figure!
Almost as bad as having Shrillary running well, anything.
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