Posted on 10/06/2010 10:42:06 PM PDT by george76
President Barack Obama flies to Chicago Thursday in a bid to keep his old Senate seat from falling into the hands of Republicans in what has become an ugly and bitterly-contested race.
The seat should have been an easy win for Democrats, who have only lost one US Senate race in Illinois in the past four decades.
But a series of scandals have undermined Democrats in the midwestern state, as has voter frustration embroiling the nation as a result of the deepest economic crisis a generation.
Obama will appear at a Thursday evening fundraiser for one-time protege and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias, a first-term state treasurer whose campaign has taken a major hit from the failure of his family's bank.
Giannoulias worked as a senior loan officer at Broadway Bank when a series of questionable loans were made, including to mobsters and top Democratic fundraiser Tony Rezko, who was later convicted of influence peddling...
ads have come from third-party groups, like one produced by a group led by former president George W. Bush's political guru Karl Rove with an animation of Giannoulias falling asleep at the wheel of a crashing SUV.
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I hope the flies follow him there.
That’s strange. It didn’t mean much to him when he had it.
Awesome comment!
Alexi Giannoulias is quite a driver....
He helped drive his family’s Broadway Bank into the ditch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-iBXHJ1L-8&feature=player_embedded
If I could figure out where this fundraiser is being held, I’d go FReep outside on the sidewalk with my hand-made protest sign(s).
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