There’s Something Fishy In This Story
Nothing about this situation passes the sniff test. The firm that David Axelrod solely owned until going to work for Pesident Obama, is raking in the dough to provide advertising for Obamacare. Although Axelrod no longer is employed by his former firm, they still owe him $2 million dollars to be paid in installments.
Timothy Burger of Bloomberg.com reports:
Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul.One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.
This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, that is seeking to build support for a health-care overhaul, said the coalition’s spokesman, Jeremy Van Ess…
…Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until he sold his interest after Obama’s victory, government records show. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, which it’s due to pay in installments beginning Dec. 31. Axelrod’s son, Michael, still works there. He didn’t return a phone call. The firm’s Web site continues to feature David Axelrod’s work on the Obama campaign…
…At the White House, Axelrod’s role in the health-care debate ranges from Sunday talk show appearances to meetings with House and Senate lawmakers.
Van Ess said HEN is now dormant. PhRMA and three other members of HEN, plus the Washington-based Federation of American Hospitals, have created another coalition, Americans for Stable Quality Care, which last week announced a new $12 million ad campaign to promote health-care overhaul. GMMB and AKPD are also working on the new coalition’s ads.
Here we are just eight months into the Obama Administrations tenure in the White House and the stench of corruption fills the air. This past week alone we have this uncovered about Axelrod and George Soros cashing in on Obama’s decision to lend Petrobas $2 million of our tax dollars for offshore drilling in Brazil. Michelle Malkin had better get moving on the sequel to her latest book, Culture of Corruption.
August 19, 2009
Tags: Barack Obama, Corruption, David Axelrod, heal, Health Care, Health Insurance, National Healthcare, PHARMA, Radical Left, Socialism, Universal Health Care Posted in: Politics
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