Here’s another topic that will hopefully bring fruits of justice to the table…

CHICAGO (AP) - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.

Rezko also was friendly with Obama - offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko’s trial, there’s no indication there’ll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee - even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.

Keemo on October 11, 2008 at 10:45 AM

This may be of some interest to you:

CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court sided with Ohio’s top elections official Friday in her running battle with Republicans over how to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge’s order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.

Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.

“With less than a month until the election, and less than two weeks until the beginning of counting absentee ballots, the secretary cannot be required to undertake the extensive reprogramming and other changes to the election mechanics without complete disruption of the electoral process in Ohio,” the majority said in its opinion. “The irreparable harm to the voting public caused by the district court’s order is equally clear.”

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith in Columbus ordered Brunner to verify new registrations by matching information on them against a database maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration. He also ordered her to establish a process by which the county boards can access the information generated by the checks.

Brunner praised Friday’s decision, saying there are sufficient systems in place to verify new-voter registration.

“The … Court of Appeals has halted another partisan lawsuit in Ohio,” she said. “Under the Help America Vote Act, this verification process is not and has not been permitted to be used to determine a voter’s eligibility.”

Send_Me on October 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM

I am totally morose about this now. Even Larry Kudlow is talking about how Obama might not be so bad.

The upside is maybe they will pull Limbaugh off the air so we do not have to listen to him turning our candidate into a cartoon character or smearing Romney supporters with labels like “mittens” as if we were brainless groupies.

Screw the GOP for their incompetance.

clnurnberg on October 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM

Speak of the Devil, I see that the interview with the tool has been posted upstairs.

Buy Danish on October 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM