{"id":3719,"date":"2008-10-06T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2008-10-06T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T11:57:55","slug":"obamas-ethics-violationagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s ethics violation&#8230;again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/news\/2008\/oct\/06\/obama-sought-hud-grant-for-donors-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a> reports this morning that the hope and change candidate signed a ghost-written letter to the Bush Administration asking for $20-million grant for a supporter and development consultant and that the letter and the relationship wasn&#8217;t disclosed\u00a0 as required by ethics rules of the Senate;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Barack Obama, who vows to change Washington by trimming wasteful spending and disclosing special-interest requests, wrote the Bush administration last year to seek a multimillion-dollar federal grant for a Chicago housing project that is behind schedule and whose development team includes a longtime political supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama&#8217;s letter, however, was never disclosed publicly. In fact, the letter was ghostwritten for him by a consultant for the Chicago Housing Authority, which wanted the money &#8211; a practice ethics watchdogs have frequently criticized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this is why he&#8217;s trotting out the Keating Five scandal corpse to distract from his onw ethics shortcomings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports this morning that the hope and change candidate signed a ghost-written letter &hellip; <a title=\"Obama&#8217;s ethics violation&#8230;again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3719\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama&#8217;s ethics violation&#8230;again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}