That Didn't Take Long… GOP Ties Dem Giannoulias to Chicago Mob (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 4:48 AM
That didn’t take long.
The National Republican Senate Committee already released an ad tying Democratic Senatorial Candidate Alexi Giannoulias to Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, and the Chicago Mob.
“He would make Tony Soprano Proud.”
Via News Alert:
They forgot Jarrett, Deadfish Rahmbo and the Obamas.
The NRSC released the following statement already last night:
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), released the following statement in response to U.S. Representative Mark Kirk’s (R-IL) victory in the Illinois Republican Senate primary:
“I congratulate Mark Kirk for his victory in the Illinois Republican Senate primary election. With Congressman Kirk as our nominee, the Republican Party has a real opportunity to pick up the President’s former Senate seat in the blue state of Illinois.
“In contrast, Mark Kirk’s Democrat challenger, Alexi Giannoulias, is a product of the ethically-tainted political machine in Chicago that was run by disgraced Governor Rod Blagojevich. As the state’s first term Treasurer, Giannoulias has eagerly endorsed his party’s out-of-control spending agenda in Washington, and he has failed to reject the Obama Administration’s plans to detain and try terrorists on American soil.
“As we witnessed in Massachusetts last month, Republican, Independent, and Democrat voters are tired of the Democrats’ failed tax-and-spend policies, and they are looking for real leaders who will represent their best interests in Washington. I look forward to serving with Mark Kirk in the United States Senate.”
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 60 Comments
BigAlSouth commented:
Great ad for national consumption, but will it play in Peoria? It seems like a state that has been immersed in corruption for so long just will not have the political will to seek a different path. After all, if the majority of Illinois voters believe that corruption works in their best interest, Alexi wins.
Reaganite Republican commented:
It has been long rumored that Obama benefited from conspicious financial help when he bought his first home, a townhouse that was on the cusp of affordability for him.
The Broadway Bank, owned by Chicago’s Giannoulias family, who also had helped him with campaign finances, put together a sweetheart mortgage deal for Obama, all apparently in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined.
Later, in 2006, scion Alexi Giannoulias -a 29-year-old with no experience whatsoever, and who had never even voted before- decided to run for State Treasurer of Illinois. Barack Obama then promptly endorsed him. Clearly, it was extremely unlikely that he could have won without Obama’s support. Giannoulias subsequently held an Obama fundraiser for Obama in 2007, in which he raised upwards of $100,000 for the senator’s Presidential bid.
Convicted felon and Obama political Godfather Tony Rezko also has ties to the bank… anybody surprised, really?
All three of them are scum, obviously
J commented:
Good for the GOP, now that they have pointed out that the dem is mob connected and will fit in with all the rest of the crooks running that state, the voters can vote for the dem with absolutely no qualms whatsoever that Illinois will continue to operate in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY IT HAS FOR YEARS. Are you people happy with that?
bullmoosegal commented:
It didn’t take long because it’s already well-known in both Chicago and Springfield. The entire party structure, from aldermen all the way up to mayor and governor, is rife with corruption and has been for years (it’s depressing really – moved from there to So. FL to see more corruption).
Agent 99 commented:
OT but http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2442516/posts “MANCHESTER – U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., said yesterday he intends to introduce a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision last week that removed corporate and other special interest campaign spending limits. ….Hodes said he has been “fighting to stop the power of money in politics and now, after consulting with constitutional scholars, I believe a constitutional amendment is necessary.”
Hodes said he will soon introduce the exact language of the amendment.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee called Hodes’ plan hypocritical.” AND Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and now Hodes are seeking to OVERTHROW the Supreme Court with A CONSITUITIONAL AMNENDMENT!!
Opus #6 commented:
I have a feeling politics are about to turn rough in Chicago. Again.
NC Cop commented:
A dirty, corrupt Chicago politician?
The hell you say?!?!
hermie commented:
It wasn’t hard to tie him in since it was a well-known fact that his bank had a very close relationship with Chicago mob figures. Now, show Obama’s rather close financial relationship and Alexi is toast. Better yet, have Obama campaign for him and bring up those old ties again.
Peggy commented:
Downstate, Hynes clobbered Quinn. Alexi did okay. Why should downstaters defend Alexi? He’s the worse of 2 evils from Chicago. In many counties (you can see on Politico), GOP ballots were almost 2x Dem ballots. That offers a sense that people want to vote GOP or the GOP base is fired up. Statewide about 200K fewer GOP ballots than Dem ballots. That’s much better in 2004, when Dem ballots far outweighed GOP ballots.
bg commented:
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mega deja vu..
Barack Obama and campaign contributor Alexi Giannoulias
[Alexi Giannoulias—a "man who has long been dogged by charges that the bank his family owns helped finance a Chicago crime figure" and "who became Illinois state treasurer" in 2006 after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) "vouched for him"—"pledged to raise $100,000 for the senator's Oval Office bid," Charles Hurt reported September 5, 2007, in the New York Post.
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“The bottom line,” Stewart said: “Obama is the potential king maker. Expect Obama to publicly endorse Giannoulias, cut television ads for him, and go heavy for him on black radio stations. Of course, there’s a downside. If Obama endorses Giannoulias and he loses, that would indicate that Obama’s clout is not transferable,” Stewart wrote.
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“In February 2007, the Illinois Sudan Act was held to be unconstitutional by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in National Foreign Trade Council v. Giannoulias. The Illinois legislation directed the state treasurer to divest any investments in companies doing business in or with Sudan. An even more far-reaching provision prohibited the deposit of state funds in any financial institution that loaned money to companies doing business with Sudan.]
more @ link..
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Atomic Lib Smasher commented:
Nice ad, but I still don’t trust Kirk The Jerk. If he maybe has a hardcore change in principle, then maybe I’ll vote for him come November (my vote was for Hughes yesterday), but I doubt it. After all, Hughes was the same one that voted for Crap and Trade and SCHIP and is pro-abortion.
bg commented:
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between the rabid religious rogues & murderous mob machine, we have the propagandizing progressive pawns running everything, to say we are summarily socially screwed doesn’t even come close.. gah!!
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unknown jane commented:
Meh, yeah Giannoulias is a mobbed up creep (he’s a bit like Blago — that would be a good meme to run with GOP…). Kirk isn’t much better though. I’m sick and tired hearing about how he has had to masterfully walk a tight rope to keep his position within his very purple district — he hasn’t exactly been good for the rest of us here in this state and truth be told, he probably isn’t lily pure himself (sorry, downstater, don’t trust anything coming out of Chicago…or Springfield by way of Chicago). I’ll hold my nose and vote for Kirk more as a vote against Gino, but that’s about all the excitement I can muster.
Quite a lot of people in this state would very much like to vote in something that would clear out the corruption — across the board even. Kirk is just the same old same old however, if you ask me. Once again, the connected urbanites have their say…to the detriment of the rest of the state. Can we please vote to secede from Cook Co. and EStL Metro this Nov.? (I tell you what, we’ll even take EStL Metro if it will promise to consider the rest of the state from here on out, just to get rid of Chicago).
Old One commented:
unknown jane # 15
Illinois sound like California. If we could rid ourselves of Sodom-by the Sea and its environs there would be hope for rebuilding California. Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, ad collection of freaks in the Congress such as Stark & the state legislature legislature have all come out of the open cesspool that is the “Bay Area”.
Bunni commented:
Jim, This is an excellent post, and the video is GREAT! We are going to have some fun times in Chicago the next 9 months.
PS: I linked and hat tipped you in my blog post I just wrote about the elections. You’ve done a super job of keeping track of everything this season. Thanks, Bunni
Elaine S. commented:
The video may have a catchy and accurate message, but please, the fake accent is way too Noo Yawk, and besides, Chicagoans call it “The Outfit,” not “The Mob.” The true Chicago accent also tends to be more Eastern European than Italian.
Seriously, though, the election news isn’t all bad. The current leader and, at this time, presumptive winner of the GOP gubernatorial primary is a very conservative, pro-life, downstate Catholic, State Sen. Bill Brady. He nosed out State Sen. Kirk Dillard, who is also generally conservative and pro-life but who royally ticked off much of the GOP by appearing in a campaign commercial for his “friend” Obama during the ’08 Iowa caucuses. However, the race is extremely close — less than 500 votes separate them — and will probably have to go to a recount.
Already some folks are bleating that Brady can’t possibly win in November because he’s “too far right” for people north of I-80 to vote for.
Granted, Brady got barely 21 percent (!!) of the total vote in an abysmally low turnout primary against five other candidates. (He’s not a Tea Party candidate, by the way; the two that were got 8 and 15 percent of the vote.)
However, I think the pundits who insist he can’t win underestimate the level of anger and frustration out there. The current governor, (Pat Quinn, who succeeded Blago) barely survived the Dem primary; he won by less than 1 percent of the vote and his opponent also has still not conceded.
If Brady prevails, and if he’s smart (and I think he is), he could be just what’s needed to “clear out the corruption across the board.”