Obama?s Early Campaigns Financed by Lobbyists

Heah you give plenty to big oil don't cha, if you didn't i bet we wouldn't.

buying a product = support for lobbying?????




i don't follow your reasoning!

You buy plenty of oil products right, why do you support the lobbyists you so despise? Cuz you don't feel like walkin? Not a good enough excuse for me.

You blame big oil for all your woes. Then you need a loaf of bread and you use your car which is designed to run on oil, make sense to you?

Ask me three times?

"how does buying gas mean i support oil lobbying?"

your wish has been granted.

make it four.

Newsmax.com ? Obama?s Early Campaigns Financed by Lobbyists



While Sen. Barack Obama takes great pride in having recruited more than 1.2 million donors to his presidential campaign ? many of whom contributed less than $100 ? he hasn?t always been a man in touch with the grass roots.


Indeed, his early campaigns for the Illinois state Senate were heavily financed by well-connected business leaders, lobbyists, trial lawyers, and labor unions, a Newsmax review of campaign finance records shows.


Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate in July 1995 with a $5,000 loan from Al Johnson, a prominent Cadillac dealer in Chicago who was a close crony of Jesse L. Jackson Sr.


Johnson boasted of having provided luxury cars to Jackson free of charge, as I reported in my 2002 book, "Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson."


Johnson added another $2,000 to the pot as a contribution to the campaign in September 1995, making him Obama?s single largest supporter.


Not all of the Friends of Obama campaign reports are available online through the state of Illinois Web site. While there is no specific record available showing that he paid off the $5,000 loan to Al Johnson, his June 30, 1997 financial statement shows that his campaign?s debts had been reduced from $12,494.38 to $3,637.01.


The connection to Johnson came through Michelle Obama, who reportedly had been close to Jesse Jackson and his family since childhood.


Obama?s only other contributor in the early days of his campaign was Tony Rezko, the Chicago slumlord and developer convicted in July on 12 counts of wire and mail fraud.

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Another convicted fraud. Time to change the subject to diebold, LOL.