The news about the Iowa winners you may not have heard

Democratic Party, Republican Party, Presidential Candidate

Written by Michael Vass

After the solid wins by Senator Obama and Mike Huckabee in Iowa yesterday, the one thing that can be sure is that increased scrutiny of their past is about to begin. To that end I am no different than most.

I was looking around and I did find some interesting facts. I can’t say they are horrendous items, but they are reported facts that should be known by citizens as they go to the primaries, and if they were to go to the election as well. You can determine if these items are important to you, but at least you will know.

[These items were found at Judicial Watch and I make no claim to their motivations or credibility.]

Mike Huckabee –

“According to The Associated Press: “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the governor’s office.” And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these ethics allegations? Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process down.”

Senator Obama –

“In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.”

In addition to the 2 winners of the Iowa caucus there are a few other items on 2 more Presidential candidates. One is on Senator Clinton, which I have covered previously in posts as the events unfolded or became known to the public. The other candidate is Rudy Giuliani who has discussed his actions with his then girlfriend and now current wife. He has stated that the costs, paid by the NYPD, were required as part of the normal protection provided to the Mayor of New York City. You can determine if that answer is good enough or not.

Senator Clinton –

“In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary’s top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.”

Rudy Giuliani –

“Giuliani came under fire in late 2007 after it was discovered the former New York mayor’s office “billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons…” ABC News also reported that Giuliani provided Nathan with a police vehicle and a city driver at taxpayer expense. All of this news came on the heels of the federal indictment on corruption charges of Giuliani’s former Police Chief and business partner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to accepting a $165,000 bribe…”

Now there are some items for you to mull over. I am still very angry over the Norman Hsu issue. The fact that a potential head of the Executive Office associates with a known fugitive of the law is bad enough, but the fact that she took $1million dollars from him is much worse. Add to that the attempt by her campaign to ignore, then minimize the amount of money donated and I have serious complaints.

As for Guiliani’s buddy the former Police Chief, I had no love for him or his tactics while Rudy was in office. It was under his time that the murder and attacks on Patrick Dorismond, Abner Louima and others occurred. Say 9/11 as fast and as often as you can, but unjustified murder and torture are just as prominent in the minds of most New Yorkers.

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