Now I know how the Clintons felt about the Whitewater investigations back in the 1990s. The Republicans spent about $50-million to dig up dirt about Clinton deals in Arkansas and came away with much ado about not much.
Tony Rezko is my Whitewater.
What is it about land and politicians and developers? Mix them all together and someone makes a lot of money, someone goes to jail, and someone gets hounded by the press and maybe even dogged by a special prosecutor for years. Tony Rezko was a developer on the South Side of Chicago. He helped me buy some land. He raised some money for a few of my campaigns.
That’s it. What else is there to tell besides my 13 page interview with the Chicago Tribune. What more do people want?
Apparently, more. Alright, so Tony roughed up some people a few times. He’s a developer in Chicago. It happens. Alright, so Tony had a few local politicians in his pocket. That doesn’t mean I was in his pocket.
If there’s one thing a young politician learns in Chicago it’s that you don’t turn down an offer to help your campaign from a guy in a black stretch limo whose name is ‘Tony.’
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