Glass houses and all
Aug. 3rd, 2010 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A quick memo to the friends of Mark "no, really, I was at Valley Forge!" Kirk: attempting to smear Alexi Giannoulias over the fact that his bank okayed a loan to Tony Rezko is nice, until you realize that Rezko also gave Kirk and a whole bunch of other people (quite a few of whom are fellow Republicans) money from his slush fund.
On the other hand:
The loan was made on Feb. 14, 2006 — a month before Mr. Giannoulias won the Democratic primary for treasurer. He had left the bank several months earlier to run for treasurer, and there appears to be no proof he had anything to do with the loan, which was repaid.
The point of this, of course is not to back Giannoulias over Kirk (I voted for David Hoffman in the Dem primary and may very well go third party come November), but that anytime a gaggle of politicians like Joe Birkett (not exactly the best of character witnesses, due to a certain wrongful prosecution he was involved in) start singing the Peter Pure aria, you might want to try to find out who paid for the score to that particular opera in the first place.
But just for comic "she said what? relief, I give you Phyllis Schlafly. And I don't want her back.