Did Rezko Arrange State Jobs for Obama's Pals?

The Obama camp isn't denying it.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, three names linked to Obama, including one person on Obama's campaign staff, appear on a list of 39 names of people for whom Rezko tried to land jobs with the Blagojevich Administration.  The Sun-Times contacted Obama's staff:

"We do not know how decisions were made to fill specific state positions, and we have no records of any individual recommendations we were asked to make or made," says Obama spokesman Bill Burton "But we do know that Tony Rezko, among others, was helping to gather names for the positions coming open with a new administration, and, if it is established any names came through our office, we would have no reason to doubt it."

Burton obviously knows something about the facts of the story, and he's not denying it.  "We have no records," he says, not "Nobody knows anything about it."

Assuming it happened, the next question is who was Rezko's contact?  If it wasn't Obama, did he or she communicate with Obama about the process?  If so, what was said?

Tags: obama, Politics, Primaries, rezko, Rezko trial (all tags)

Comments

7 Comments

Re: Did Rezko Arrange State Jobs for Obama's Pals?

Super delegates would have to put all of this into consideration.

This Rezko trial couldn't have come at a worse time for Obama , he was trying to knock her out before all of this happened.

Have you seen the newsweek poll out.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/119953

Interesting stuff

by lori 2008-03-07 10:22PM | 0 recs
Re: Did Rezko Arrange State Jobs for Obama's Pals?

Huh, yeah...

Ouch...

Another log on the fire...

by MediaFreeze 2008-03-07 10:58PM | 0 recs
Re: Did Rezko Arrange State Jobs for Obama's Pals?

He obviously knows something?  Do you have proof of this?

by Socks The Cat 2008-03-08 03:24AM | 0 recs
Ummm - yea

He's discussing what he knows in the quote.  Obviously, they knew this list was going to come out at trial, and Burton was already prepared to comment on it.

by Trickster 2008-03-08 09:03AM | 0 recs
Re: Did Rezko Arrange State Jobs for Obama's Pals?

I'm a Clinton supporter.  I don't see anything untoward here and I don't buy the logic of "He must know something."  The Obama campaign's response sounds eminently reasonable to me.

by mgee 2008-03-08 04:52AM | 0 recs
Read the article

There's no "logic".  He "must know something" because he's talking about what he knows.

by Trickster 2008-03-08 09:04AM | 0 recs
Re: Did Rezko Arrange State Jobs for Obama's Pals?

Rezko is fast becoming a slippery slope for Obama.

by grlpatriot 2008-03-08 10:20AM | 0 recs

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