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THE UNREPENTANT LIBERTARIAN on Monday, March 02, 2009 10:23:51 AM
After frantically having tried to stuff his administration with as many tax cheaters as possible, Obama now turns to corrupt local politicians to fill the remaining positions. His new office on urban policy is headed by Adolfo Carrion, the borough president ("mayor") of Bronx in New York City. In that capacity Carrion demanded cash from firms and colleges who wanted to build something that required a change in zoning or other types of administrative action by the borough president's office.
The man who is President Obama's newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers' money, a Daily News probe found. Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important zoning changes, records show. Most donations were organized and well-timed. In one case, a developer became a Carrion fund-raiser two months before the borough president signed off on his project, raising more than $6,000 in campaign cash. In another, eight Boricua College officials came up with $8,000 on the same day for Carrion three weeks before the school filed plans to build a new tower. Carrion ultimately approved the project and sponsored millions in taxpayer funds for it. Carrion resigned as borough president effective Sunday and begins his new job as director of the White House Office on Urban Policy Monday.
With such ethical standards, Obama should offer Governor Blagojevic the job as chief ethics czar of the administration. And why not hire
Jason Blair as press secretary?