Reply #53: Looks like this is payback to Obama for not continuing corrupt "WALKING AROUND" money to local dems.

[Divernan]

Bottom of the "ballot":

"PAID FOR BY DEMOCRATIC COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA, FRANK L. OLIVER, TREASURER"

Frank Oliver has been a black member of the PA House of Representatives since around 1973. He is an old school Phillie machine party politician. There was a big stink in Phillie earlier about Obama refusing to continue the corrupt practise of handing out $$$ to neighborhood locals on election day.


http://ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-refuses-to-pay-walking-around.html

"The dispute centers on the dispensing of 'street money,' a long-standing Philadelphia ritual in which candidates deliver cash to the city's Democratic operatives in return for getting out the vote.
"Flush with payments from well-funded campaigns, the ward leaders and Democratic Party bosses typically spread out the cash in the days before the election, handing $10, $20 and $50 bills to the foot soldiers and loyalists who make up the party's workforce.

"It is all legal -- but Obama's people are telling the local bosses he won't pay. "That sets up a culture clash, pitting a candidate who promises to transform American politics against the realities of a local political system important to his presidential hopes. Pennsylvania holds its primary April 22.

"Obama's posture confounds neighborhood political leaders sympathetic to his cause. They caution that if the senator from Illinois withholds money that gubernatorial, mayoral and presidential candidates have willingly paid out for decades, there could be defections to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. And the Clinton campaign, in contrast, will oblige in forking over the money, these ward leaders predict."
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Looks like Clinton DID fork over the money. This is exactly the "old-style" of politics which Clinton would continue and which Obama would change.