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Facts About Obama

                   
qgazette.com
Jul 16, 2008
        
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To The Editor: Well known facts exist regarding Barack Obama which may be legal but not beyond question. As chairman of Chicago's Health & Human Services Committee, he pushed through the Health Facilities Planning Act, reducing board members from 15 to 9, making votes easier to pass, and subsequently received money from board nominees. In December 2004, board members (friends of Tony Rezko, real estate developer and Chicago fundraiser, and nominated at Rezko's request) attempted to extort money from the CEO of Edward Hospital but the FBI wiretapped a board member's phone and caught evidence on tape. Despite the fact that the Chicago Sun- Times reported continuous stories about Rezko's indictments, he remained one of Obama's main fundraisers and Obama, in the midst of his run for the U.S. Senate, kept Rezko on his finance... [read full story]                    

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My assorted thoughts on the New Yorker Obama piece

marathonpundit.blogspot.com
Jul 18, 2008
        

Hendon, a filmmaker. I won't rehash Lizza's account of their run-ins, but he leaves out another point of contention--Obama is a South Sider, Hendon lives on the West Side of Chicago.But Lizza missed an intregal component of...

Facts About Obama (Letter to the Editor)

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Jul 18, 2008
        

One of our readers sent us her hard-hitting, fact-driven letter to the editor published in the Queens Gazette: Well known facts exist regarding Barack Obama which may be legal but not beyond question. As chairman of Chicago’s...