Mark Kirk? The video at this link? It’s your next campaign ad.
“If I knew then what I know now, these are not the kind of people that we’d do business with,” he added, “but that’s not how banks work.” Asked again if he knew that criminal figures were the recipients of some of those loans, Alexi Giannoulias (D-IL) said again, “I didn’t know the extent of their activity.”
Yes. This was Alexi Giannoulias’s answer to the question of whether Alexi Giannoulias and his fellow bankers knew about the entire pimp, bookie, and mobster thing before they lent all that money to all those pimps, bookies, and mobsters. He didn’t know the extent of their activity. He said this. Twice.
In case you were wondering: this is not a good answer.
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PS: Mark Kirk for Senate. He’s not a doofus.
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Spartan4Life (Diary) Sunday, October 10th at 7:22PM EST (link)The Southern part mind you. The conservative part.
Kirk and Brady signs everywhere. If you didn’t know better you would think they are unopposed. Kirk killing Alexi with ads on TV. Especially the one with the mother saying Alexi blew their kids college savings while Treasurer. Very effective ad. I am guessing just based on the feel while there that Kirk is pulling away in this race.
Mostly Brady signs
southernilpat Sunday, October 10th at 8:21PM EST (link)Down here Kirk is mainly riding Brady’s coat tails. The enthusiasm is all for Brady – Kirk is mostly a “lesser of two evils” afterthought who will benefit from it.
I have yet to see a single Quinn or Giannoulias sign.
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ChicaGOP (Diary) Sunday, October 10th at 8:54PM EST (link)I live on the NW side of Chicago – the nice part all the police and firefighters live, so they can claim a city address – and I just saw my first Quinn sign yesterday. Still haven’t spotted a Giannoulias. A lot of Bradys, a few Kirks.
Also, the bulk of the signs that ARE up are for state reps, county commissioners and such, but the democrats aren’t putting “democrat” on their signs.
Again, this is in the city of Chicago proper.
The modern liberal is defined as one whose sense of guilt has exceeded his capacity for restitution – making it not only forgivable, but morally superior to raid someone else’s larder to pay his bottomless debt.
He’s not a doofus.
coldair Sunday, October 10th at 7:31PM EST (link)Well … actually … (cap & traitor)
But he does qualify under the “lesser of . . . (whatever)” category.
When I saw that today I thought the same thing:
throwback59 Sunday, October 10th at 7:56PM EST (link)There’s your next commercial.
Well, at least AG didn’t give an obvious “I had no idea” lie.
I guess Alexi was trying to say that he knew about the drug dealing, prostitution, loan sharking, stealing, arson & insurance fraud, but had no idea these mobsters were involved with murder, too.
exactly
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 1:08AM EST (link)Just like the Sub-Prime loan mess
banzaibob (Diary) Sunday, October 10th at 8:41PM EST (link)Lets see, you need to check the bonafides of the folks requesting the loan but you don’t. Then the “folks” default and stick the banks with excessive losses.
Can’t trace the money or ask for it back not that you want to do it anyway
Yep, sounds like the whole banking isndustry with the sub-prime mess.
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So let's Help Kirk Out!
dubsican (Diary) Sunday, October 10th at 9:10PM EST (link)He’s only ahead by a point or two in a deep blue state!! with one of the most expensive media markets in the country! Let’s help him (and while we’re @ it) Down State-Senator Bill Brady in their move to Reform Illinois!
http://www.bradyforillinois.com/
http://www.kirkforsenate.com/
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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Alexi is the worst candidate the Dems have
itsjoanne Sunday, October 10th at 10:25PM EST (link)and they definitely have some bad ones.
Indeed. I'd take Greene over Giannoulias....
acat (Diary) Sunday, October 10th at 10:31PM EST (link)Looking forward to voting for Kirk…..
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I call you and raise :)
mikerazar (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 6:24AM EST (link)I can’t think of ANY Democrat I’d choose over Alvin Greene.
We have a nation to save, people.
"I didn't know the extent ..."
Adjoran (Diary) Sunday, October 10th at 11:28PM EST (link)“I thought they were local guys. You gotta support your local entrepreneurial mobsters. Keep things in the family, so to speak. Had no idea they were operating across state lines at all – if I had, I would have turned them down flat. Trust me.”
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Go get a real job
powertothepeople (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 12:36AM EST (link)and stop being a pansy who sneaks on to others property to hang your sign. Now instead of anyone on this site looking at your site, we will simply ignore it as we find spammers to be lower than poo on the decency scale. In fact we find spammer to be lower than democrats on the decency scale and that is saying a lot considering poo recently passed the dems on the scale making poo a better thing than dems and now you, a spammer.
Can they be banned? nt
audax (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 4:37AM EST (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
Yes, it has already been done.
powertothepeople (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 11:14AM EST (link)N/T
Video.
reddogreport (Diary) Monday, October 11th at 8:07AM EST (link)I have a 1 minute video of the initial avoidance, followed by stuttering panic and then the final admission that Giannoulias knew who he was giving the loans to.
http://reddogreport.com/2010/10/giannoulias-admits-to-knowingly-giving-loans-to-mobsters/
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