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Table Tennis anyone? How Obama helped deliver $320,000 in state grants in exchange for ???

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Iceburg (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:12 PM
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Table Tennis anyone? How Obama helped deliver $320,000 in state grants in exchange for ???
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ki...

WASHINGTON -- After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal client -- a longtime political supporter.

Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer to give legal advice to his growing technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange. It allowed Obama to supplement his $58,000 part-time state Senate salary for over a year with regular payments from Blackwell's firm that eventually totaled $112,000.

A few months after receiving his final payment from EKI, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin.

Killerspin specializes in table tennis, running tournaments nationwide and selling its own line of equipment and apparel and DVD recordings of the competitions. With support from Obama, other state officials and an Obama aide who went to work part time for Killerspin, the company eventually obtained $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize its tournaments.
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Killerspin's owner, Blackwell, was a political supporter and friend as well. Both men lived on Chicago's South Side. Blackwell, a savvy and successful entrepreneur, was one of the first donors to Obama's early campaigns, including the state senator's failed bid for a congressional seat in 2000. In the presidential race he is credited on Obama's website with committing to raise $100,000 to $200,000 for Obama's campaign.
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   PING-PONG-GATE!! Alert teh intrawebs!!!1!1! This is HUGH!!!11!1!  yourguide   Apr-27-08 08:13 PM   #1 
   What's the point of that picture?  ruggerson   Apr-27-08 08:14 PM   #2 
   Have already explained it a million times.  yourguide   Apr-27-08 08:20 PM   #7 
   What's wrong with the picture?  IWantAnyDem   Apr-27-08 08:22 PM   #9 
   Re the sig - I'm coming to loathe Hillary and Bill, but  tbyg52   Apr-27-08 08:20 PM   #8 
   Where are the hookers? The drugs and murder? Ping Pong that's it?  thunder rising   Apr-27-08 08:17 PM   #3 
   Boring, let it drop  bambino   Apr-27-08 08:17 PM   #4 
   Thread kept alive  JoFerret   Apr-27-08 09:39 PM   #13 
   Funny how the "payback" went from $50K (previous post) to $320K in this post  lapfog_1   Apr-27-08 08:17 PM   #5 
   This hugh I'm series  Botany   Apr-27-08 08:18 PM   #6 
   Bring on the live boy or the dead girl  WesDem   Apr-27-08 08:24 PM   #10 
   STOP THE PRESSES  BlueIdaho   Apr-27-08 08:37 PM   #11 
   You spelled Iceberg wrong.  skypuddle   Apr-27-08 09:33 PM   #12 
   Pretty thin gruel  struggle4progress   Apr-27-08 09:51 PM   #14 
      Thin indeed...n/t  ChimpersMcSmirkers   Apr-27-08 10:04 PM   #15 
 
yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:13 PM
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1. PING-PONG-GATE!! Alert teh intrawebs!!!1!1! This is HUGH!!!11!1!
Not.


Fail.


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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:14 PM
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2. What's the point of that picture?
are you using it a sig line to show what a foul human being you are?
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:20 PM
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7. Have already explained it a million times.
When Hillary runs a fair and decent campaign that photo comes down, either that or when there is a nominee.

Until then it stands.

You can say I am a foul human being, I would say the same about the way she and her staff has run her campaign.


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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:22 PM
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9. What's wrong with the picture?
:shrug:
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:20 PM
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8. Re the sig - I'm coming to loathe Hillary and Bill, but
I think the fact that she is tired (I would be, too) is beside the point.
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thunder rising (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:17 PM
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3. Where are the hookers? The drugs and murder? Ping Pong that's it?
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sun Apr-27-08 08:17 PM
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4. Boring, let it drop
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 09:39 PM
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13. Thread kept alive
by an offensive sig pic.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:17 PM
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5. Funny how the "payback" went from $50K (previous post) to $320K in this post

And, of course, it was immediately pointed out that spending $112K to get $50K in grants isn't very smart.

Now, how was it again that the Clintons made $100 MILLION in the last 5 or 6 years?

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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:18 PM
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6. This hugh I'm series
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:24 PM
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10. Bring on the live boy or the dead girl
and spare us the ping pong balls.
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 08:37 PM
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11. STOP THE PRESSES
There is money in Politics!!!!!!!!!

Now, guess how HRC is going to be able to retire her campaign debt after losing the primary...
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-27-08 09:33 PM
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12. You spelled Iceberg wrong.
Unless you're trying to insinuate that you're an Ice'burg' as in a town with the appellation "ice".

:)
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14. Pretty thin gruel
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15. Thin indeed...n/t
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