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Title: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: thundley4 on February 17, 2009, 12:53:23 PM

(http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172009/photos/po033b.jpg)
Emanuel: "Oversaw" Freddie Mac's antics, then got donation from Freddie's PAC.
"NEWS broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) - and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel's previously undislosed ethics problems.

One issue is the work Emanuel tossed the way of De Lauro's husband. But the bigger one goes back to Emanuel's days on the board of now-bankrupt mortgage giant Freddie Mac.

Emanuel is a multimillionaire, but lived for the last five years for free in the tony Capitol Hill townhouse owned by De Lauro and her husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.

During that time, he also served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - which gave Greenberg huge polling contracts. It paid Greenberg's firm $239,996 in 2006 and $317,775 in 2008. (Emanuel's own campaign committee has also paid Greenberg more than $50,000 since 2004.)

To be fair, Greenberg had polling contracts with the DCCC before - but each new election cycle brings its own set of consultants. And Emanuel was certainly generous with his roommate."NY Post (http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/rahms_rent_is_just_the_tip_of_ethics_ice_155536.htm)

Will this sh*t ever end with the Dems?

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: Flame on February 17, 2009, 03:57:52 PM

Quote from: thundley4 on February 17, 2009, 12:53:23 PM

Will this sh*t ever end with the Dems?

That was a rhetorical question, right?

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: md11hydmec on February 17, 2009, 04:25:55 PM

in a short answer....no....

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 17, 2009, 04:27:39 PM

Quote from: Flame on February 17, 2009, 03:57:52 PM

That was a rhetorical question, right?

Nope...just an echo.....echo....echo....echo

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: Carl on February 17, 2009, 04:35:18 PM

Arrogant sense of superiority + no moral absolutes = democrat.

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: debk on February 17, 2009, 05:31:38 PM

This keeps up....they are going to run out of "spin" stories... :whatever:

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: Baruch Menachem on February 18, 2009, 06:20:16 PM

The average democrat dosn't care how venial, corrupt, or even downright evil the demo candidate is.  Only how venial the Republican is.

We have had a murderer in the senate for 40 years now.  And Robert  Byrd.

Title: Re: RAHM'S 'RENT' IS JUST THE TIP OF ETHICS ICEBERG
Post by: jinxmchue on February 18, 2009, 07:00:28 PM

These jackholes are going to make the Clinton Crime Syndicate seem like the Girl Scouts.