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Developing: DA Juan Angel Guerra Who Indicted Cheney Was Indicted Himself Last Year on Three Felony Theft Charges

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

From a news article last year:

Guerra also faces a four-count indictment of tampering with governmental records, perjury and abuse of official capacity.

The second-degree felony charges Guerra with false entry in a governmental record when he filed a petition for a temporary injunction against Connie & Fina Bail Bond Co. on April 17, 2006, falsely alleging the company was over its bonding limit, according to the indictment. Guerra filed the action “knowing the statement was false and intending to defraud and harm” Connie & Fina Bond Co., the indictment states.

An attempted theft charge stems from Guerra’s alleged demand of $10,000 from Connie & Fina Bail Bond Co., according to court documents.

The third-degree felony alleges Guerra threatened to shut down the company if it failed to give him $10,000 in cash.

BILL AYERS INTERVIEW

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Chris Cuomo interviews Bill Ayers on Good Morning America.

Hillary Clinton: Secretary of “Snake”.

Friday, November 14th, 2008

More back door Clinton politics and deals. 

WASHINGTON - We may soon be calling Hillary Rodham Clinton “Madame Secretary.”

President-elect Barack Obama is considering the New York senator and former first lady for secretary of state - an appointment that would go a long way toward healing the wounds left by their bruising Democratic primary.

Two Democratic officials confirmed that Clinton - long rumored to be a contender for the job - is under serious consideration.

Adding to the intrigue, Obama and Clinton met yesterday in Chicago, according to a Democratic official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

McCain Gets Audited; Obama Does Not

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Despite claims of campaign donations from overseas (not allowed) and miscategorized payments to ACORN consultants, Obama will not be audited.  His refusal to use public financing is the reason and the historic amount of small donations to his campaign makes it near impossible.  Remember he did originally agree to use public financing if his opponent did.  Flip flop? Flop flip?  McCain had to save almost $10 million in campaign funds just to cover the expenses of defending an audit. 

Read article here: OBAMA WON’T BE AUDITED

Not [QUITE] Paid for by PACs or Washington Lobbyists!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008


From Bloomberg News:

Transition co-Chairman John Podesta yesterday released rules banning registered lobbyists from raising money for the transition or working for the new administration in areas on which they represented clients.

The new rules also prohibit members of the transition team who become lobbyists from trying to influence the administration on any issues that they worked on. Podesta called them “the strictest, the most far-reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.”

Bundlers Exempt

The rules, however, won’t prevent campaign fundraisers known as bundlers from serving.

Valerie Jarrett, a transition co-chairwoman, raised between $100,000 and $200,000 for Obama, according to his campaign Web site. Two advisory board members, Julius Genachowski, managing director of Rock Creek Ventures, a Washington firm that invests in online companies, and Donald Gips, a vice president of Broomfield, Colorado-based Level 3 Communications Inc., each raised at least $500,000 for Obama.

A third, Michael Froman, brought in between $200,000 and $500,000 for the campaign. Froman is a managing director at New York-based Citigroup Inc. The financial institution’s employees and their families contributed $581,216, Obama’s seventh-biggest source of campaign cash, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group.

Campaign co-chairman William Daley, a vice chairman at New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., also sits on the advisory board. JPMorgan employees and their families were Obama’s sixth-biggest source of donations, giving $581,460.

Registered to Lobby

Another board member, Mark Gitenstein, was registered to lobby through June, House records show. Gitenstein is a partner in the lawyer-lobbying firm of Mayer Brown LLP, whose clients include Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co., which is pushing for government help, and New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co., which sold itself to Bank of America Corp. in September.

Obama may be learning quickly that what sounds good on the campaign trail may not always be best for governing, said Costas Panagopoulos, director of Fordham University’s Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy in New York.

“They want to find the most qualified people; some will have been donors,” Panagopoulos said. “It was probably shortsighted to make promises that such individuals would not be included in his administration.”