Obama Quid Pro Quo timeline, IL senate seat, SEIU assisted, Valerie Jarrett
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Quid Pro Quo Timeline
Negotiations to sell his old senate seat
Monday November 3, 2008
BLAGOJEVICH: “Andy Stern and Tom were in my office Monday”
Source: 11/07/2008 4:11 P.M. wiretap
Obama left a phone message with Tom Balanoff of SEIU
Obama called back later that night.
“Tom, i want to talk to you with regard to the Senate seat,” Obama told him.
“I would much prefer she (remain in the White House) but she does want to be Senator and she does meet those two criteria,” Balanoff said Obama told him. “I said: ‘thank you, I’m going to reach out to Gov. Blagojevich.”
Source: SunTimes article
Tuesday November 4, 2008 (Election day)
BLAGOJEVICH: “Balanoff Tuesday night told me that Barack had called him Monday night”
Source: 11/07/2008 4:11 P.M. wiretap
Thursday November 6, 2008
BLAGOJEVICH: “I like it though. I like him. I’ve got Balanoff today.”
Source: 11/06/2008 12:13 P.M. wiretap
“Balanoff then described a Nov. 6, 2008 meeting he had with Rod Blagojevich to recommend Valerie Jarrett for Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
Blagojevich responded that he was in “active discussions” with the Madigans about appointing Lisa Madigan and was holding out for a legislative package with the House speaker.
“I said that could be months. He said, ‘Yeah’. I said Valerie Jarrett, I don’t believe she has that kind of time,” Balanoff testified.”
Source: SunTimes article
Friday November 7, 2008
BLAGOJEVICH: “So they met this morning. Okay. Doug called on behalf of Balanoff. Like, he’d like to see me again as soon as, you know, at my earliest convenience.”
BLAGOJEVICH: “He’s gonna resign his seat Tuesday or Wednesday. They’re gonna start puttin’ pressure sayin’ there’s an urgency for that, that, um, lame duck session”
BLAGOJEVICH: “Um, didn’t know quite what to make of my request. Uh, Barack rea-, really wants to get away from Illinois politics”
HARRIS: “Well, what also makes it important if they want her, a, a symbol of they want her, is that they, they, they took the Balanoff meeting right away.”
BLAGOJEVICH: “Right away, that’s right.”
BLAGOJEVICH: “That’s right. The very next morning.”
Harris: “Balanoff said I met and they said, okay, come on in. (Laughs).”
BLAGOJEVICH: “Correct, and here comes Alexi.
HARRIS: “With everything else goin’ on right now, this was an important, you know, to take five minutes of his time, so fast, so early, you know.”
Source: 11/07/2008 10:46 A.M. wiretap
Sources:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/blago/2010/06/tom_balanoff_obama_called_day.html
http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/hot/us_v_blagojevich.html
Sheryl Crow uneducated comments, Tea party movement, Elitist remarks, Getting Out of My Comfort Zone, Couric interview, Citizen Wells open thread, June 30, 2010
Sheryl Crow uneducated comments, Tea party movement, Elitist remarks
From a Katie Couric interview in Glamour Magazine.
“KATIE COURIC: What do you think of the Tea Party movement? Because that is the specific sort of group of people who would say we’re out there, we’re getting involved in the process and—
SHERYL CROW: I think our system is broken in ways that can’t be fixed at this moment until we get some kind of campaign finance reform and we get people in office who—I think perhaps everybody starts off in office being altruistic and thinking they’re going to make big changes, and then they see the big dollars coming in. I don’t know what it is at the most fundamental level that…you know, what’s first, the chicken or the egg? But I appreciate the fact that those people are out there and that they are fired up.
My main concern is that it’s really fear-based. What’s coming out of the Tea Party most often, especially if you go onto YouTube, and you see some of the interviews with these people who really don’t even know what the issues are, they’re just swept up in the fear of it and the anger of it. They’re not sure what they’re angry at; they don’t understand what’s happening on Wall Street. They haven’t educated themselves, but they’re just pissed off. And I understand that, I’m pissed off too. But knowledge is power, and anything less than that when it comes to anger can be dangerous.”
Read more:
http://www.glamour.com/magazine/2010/06/sheryl-crow-tells-katie-couric-this-is-my-year-of-getting-out-of-my-comfort-zone?currentPage=3
To: Sheryl Crow
From: Citizen Wells
Your comments are elitist and you accuse others of what you are guilty of. Not being educated. If you really want to get out of your comfort zone, contact me and ask questions and seek the truth.
Wells
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