Giannoulias, IL State Treasurer

[sandnsea]

This looks to be the result of a smear campaign due to an ugly primary in Illinois. Giannoulias is now the Illinois State Treasurer, and has been for a while. This has been fully vetted and fought out in the election a few years ago.

"Giannoulias says that banks don't do criminal background checks of prospective clients, his bank has never been accused of any wrongdoing by federal regulators, and he would explain all of that to Madigan, if the party chairman would return his phone calls.

"The federal government looks at every loan in our portfolio and we've done nothing wrong. From day one, people have said we'd done nothing wrong, but it's politics and people are gonna make stories up," said Alexi Giannoulias, (D)-nominee for state treasurer.

The rest of the Democratic party is supporting Giannoulias, including Senator Barack Obama, the political superstar whose campaign commercial helped Giannoulias defeat the Madigan-backed candidate in the Democratic primary, and state representative John Fritchey says Madigan should meet with Giannoulias to clear the air."

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4609432

[mopinko]

1. what brought this up?

i missed it.

[sandnsea]

2. A post yesterday

I had read this previously, but never seen it come up here. It did yesterday, so I figured I would post the rest of the story.

[mopinko]

3. a post saying

look at this corrupt guy that is attached to bo?
:eyes:

[sandnsea]

4. It was an article that was posted

And the guy isn't necessarily corrupt. He was attacked during the primary over this one loan. One loan doesn't make someone a mobster. The guy is now the State Treasurer of Illinois and has the support of the IL Dem Party. It was a campaign smear, that's it.

[mopinko]

5. he had the strong support

of the progressives in the party, just fyi.
they are desperate.