A look at who backed our President Barack Obama's bid for the White House. Local media tries in their way, but falls short, they have too much at stake. There's no drumbeat taken up by their colleagues around the country to give them cover. It's corruption at the core.
HT Steve Bartin, who illuminates a defining quote of Burke (not to be confused with any enlightened, freedom-loving philosopher)
More news and opinion. The consequences of corruption, hmm: The Illinois Spiral - Chicago Tribune.
Optical business gives to politicians, gets govt. contracts - The Watchdogs, Chicago Sun Times:
Will the Blago trial crack it all open? Here's the list of pols Tropical Optical gifted. You might say it's a guide. Blago, Alderman Burke, his wife Anne, the Illinois Supreme Court Justice, Atty. General Lisa Madigan, her dad, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, Sen. Durbin, our President Barack Obama.Daniel Arce has a prescription for success. He runs his family's eyeglass business, Tropical Optical. He also heads the Mexican American Political Action Committee.
Together, his business and his political fund have given more than $590,000 in campaign contributions in the past decade to a host of elected officials, including former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and key Hispanic legislators.
Related posts: The Machine Politics of Chicago, the Corruption of Springfield, the Radicalism of Alinsky, The ObamAlinsky Regime
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