Monday, January 05, 2009

All Bush with a sprinkling of corruption

Man, The Messiah hasn't even been sworn in yet and he's already got ethics issues all over the place.

First, you had Rahm Emanuel and his dealing with Blago. Then, over the weekend, Bill Richardson decided his ethics violations were too much for scrutiny.

Now, The Billary, with her doo doo....
A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton's foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman's mall project.

Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.

She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.

The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.

Congel and Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, both said there was no connection between his donation and her legislative work on his project's behalf. Reines said the senator had supported the expansion of Carousel mall "purely as part of her unwavering commitment to improving upstate New York's struggling economy, and nothing more."


Notice how all these issues surround former Clintonites. They're making Chicago style politics look lame.

More.....

By the way, Obama better get that alignment checked on the bus. Richardson was a big bump.

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