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Just what the US Senate needs
The American Thinker ^ | April 25, 2010 | Phil Boehmke

Posted on 04/25/2010 3:36:35 AM PDT by Scanian

Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, Roland Burris, Carol Moseley Braun, Paul Simon, Alan Dixon...Does Illinois really need to add Alexi Giannoulias to it's sad legacy of corruptocrat senators?

On Friday at 5:00 p.m. Broadway Bank in Chicago was closed by federal regulators (do the F.D.I.C. computers have a "porn filter"?). The bank which was owned by the family of Illinois State Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias was unable to raise the requisite $85M needed to re-capitalize the bank.

A spokesperson for Mr. Giannoulias' Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate Mark Kirk stated.

"While years of risky lending schemes, hot money investments and loans to organized crime led to today's failure, it's a sad day for Broadway Bank employees who may lose their jobs due to Mr. Giannoulias's reckless practices," Kirsten Kukowski said.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; chicagoway; democrats; fdic; giannoulias; kirk

1 posted on 04/25/2010 3:36:35 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

“While years of risky lending schemes, hot money investments and loans to organized crime led to today’s failure, it’s a sad day for Broadway Bank employees who may lose their jobs due to Mr. Giannoulias’s reckless practices,” Kirsten Kukowski said.

LOL! Right between the eyes. Kirsten better watch her (his?) back though. SEIU doesn’t take kindly to those types of insults.


2 posted on 04/25/2010 4:17:53 AM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Scanian

What the Senate needs to do is grow a pair and stand up to the Kenyan! The DIABLO’s are a bigger problem than the rats.


3 posted on 04/25/2010 5:26:19 AM PDT by RU88
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