Rahm Emanuel's Best Friend a BP Advisor - Free Apartment Rent & More

I call anyone who gives you free rent for 5 years in Washington D.C a friend or a potential briber, unless the giver was the victim of you, an extortionist. Or, maybe this is just the normal Chicago style quid pro quo. You give me something; I give you something back from someone else's money; but first you show my boss respect with a gift -- money. Oh yea, we will let you off the hook if you do something wrong but be sure to support our green program.

Andrew Malcolm reports in the Los Angeles Times:

In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet way the inner political circles intersect, protect and care for one another in the nation's capital. And Chicago.

We already knew that BP and its folks were significant contributors to the record $750-million war chest of Barack Obama's 2007-08 campaign.

Now, we learn the details of a connection of Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayoral wannabe, current Obama chief of staff, ex-representative, ex-Clinton money man and ex-Windy City political machine go-fer.

Shortly after Obama's happy inaugural, eyebrows rose slightly upon word that, as a House member, Emanuel had lived the last five years rent-free in a D.C. apartment of Democratic colleague Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and her husband, Stanley Greenberg. . . . Remember this was all before the letters BP stood for Huge Mess. Even before the Obama administration gave BP a safety award.

Now follow these standard Washington links if you can:

Greenberg's consulting firm was a prime architect of BP's recent rebranding drive as a green petroleum company, down to green signs and the slogan "Beyond Petroleum."

Greenberg's company is also closely tied to a sister Democratic outfit -- GCS, named for the last initials of Greenberg, James Carville, another Clinton advisor, and Bob Shrum, John Kerry's 2004 campaign manager. According to published reports, GCS received hundreds of thousands of dollars in political polling contracts in recent years from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Probably just a crazy coincidence. But you'll never guess who was the chairman of that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dispensing those huge polling contracts to his kindly rent-free landlord. [Yes, Rahm Emanuel]

It is time for Rahm Emanuel as a minimum to be moved out of the White House and over to to DNC headquarters with no taxpayer money supporting his operations. Or, he needs to be removed and sent packing back to Chicago.

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