This is buying a politician by a firm owned by Chicago entrepreneur Robert Blackwell Jr. This is one sneaky way of allowing a company to pay you off with out anyone find out…well this one was found out…
From redstate: 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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Americans, we need to wake up now and think about what America would be like under a black man that his wife isn’t proud of our country. A black man that id friends to terrorist, crooks and pastor Wright that cursed the United States. Obama himself has said racist things to us small town working class Americans, clinging to our guns because we are bitter he says!
I think its time for the media to start asking the hard questions of Obama, such as about his drug use, Rev. Wright and William Ayers and yes another company General Dynamics. Obama is not clean like Jesus the way he and the blacks want you to think! The people of North Carolina need to remember this on 6 May the primary. There is no way a person should vote for Obama the way he has looked down his nose at us.
