Alegre's Corner

Illinois stands out as a state famous for corrupt politics. For generations, patronage and pay-to-play politics have been raised to an art form by state and local politicians. The state's last governor is in jail for racketeering. The current governor is under federal investigation for allegedly giving jobs and no-bid contracts to campaign supporters, more than 200 of whom have given the governor checks for exactly $25,000.

Check out Alegre's Corner. The whole blog is great but you should especially read
How I Got My Democracy Bond Money Back From the DNC .

How she got her money back is interesting but also see how the entire DNC organization and staff is moving to Chicago to become part of that corrupt stinking machine. Every dime you send is going to buy corrupt political favors of the Rezco/Farrakhan/Wright kind.

They got rid of Hillary (and Bill) through the use of sexist slander, race baiting and victim playing with the help of the media mother haters/father lovers. Now they will turn the democratic party into the hypocrite's organized crime party. Everything for sale and if you protest you will get burned.

We are on our own kiddies, unless Hillary decides to organize a third party for Center Democrats.

Big Money Rules, Brought to you by Fools.

And here is Anglachel on the subject:

Sunday, June 15, 2008
Logistics

If the DNC has already relocated to Chicago, as reported by the commenter Molly in the Hillary Clinton Forum, then the plan to move was approved months ago.

I've been involved in the merger of two good sized US corporations. It's not something that can be done at the drop of a hat. Costs have to be scoped, budgets established, plans made, landlords current and prospective contacted, vendors hired, bills paid, accounts closed in DC and opened in Chicago, equipment purchased, staff relocated, reassigned and/or terminated, letterhead and business cards printed, signage created, phone service changed, and that's just the stuff off the top of my head.

I'm not buying the claim that it was a recent decision, quickly executed. Who knew about the merger and when did they know it what remains to be unearthed. Not a word of this was out in the blogs or in the news before this week thatI am aware of. How did such a major logistical operation remain under wraps?

This casts the repeated insistence that Florida and Michigan not be allowed to change the outcome in a new light. If the DNC had agreed to relocate, but Obama lost the nomination, that would have made for a lot of explaining as to the DNC itself taking sides. It also makes the silence of top party leaders over the brutal treatment of Hillary by the press more explicable - they needed her to lose in order to give their own machinations some cover.

Over the last few months I have tried to express my concerns for what the Obama campaign is doing to the Democratic Party. While I am a dyed in the wool Hillary supporter, my objections to what Dean, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Obama, et. al., are doing to the party are swiftly growing larger than whether or not Hillary was treated fairly in the campaign or even whether she was cheated out of the nomination. We are talking about a hostile takeover of the party.

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