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GO_People
08-19-2009, 02:41 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV3dLt6wmZH4

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.

So the President's senior advisor is the sole shareholder in the company getting a $343.3 Million contract to handle the health care propaganda.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26240.html

It revolves around two separate $12 million ad campaigns advocating Obama’s health care plan that were produced and placed partly by AKPD Message and Media, a firm founded by Axelrod that employs his son and still owes Axelrod $2 million.



Sweet deal. Leave a multimillion dollar firm to take a job in the government. Sell the firm (where your son still works) and magically, the firm gets a multi-million dollar government contract that will cover the money the firm still owes you.

Cue the "halliburton outrage" from the progressives in 3....2....1

Great Dane
08-19-2009, 02:44 PM
Always a hidden agenda in the world of politics....

:thumbdown:

desmom
08-19-2009, 03:28 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV3dLt6wmZH4

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.

So the President's senior advisor is the sole shareholder in the company getting a $343.3 Million contract to handle the health care propaganda.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26240.html

It revolves around two separate $12 million ad campaigns advocating Obama’s health care plan that were produced and placed partly by AKPD Message and Media, a firm founded by Axelrod that employs his son and still owes Axelrod $2 million.

Sweet deal. Leave a multimillion dollar firm to take a job in the government. Sell the firm (where your son still works) and magically, the firm gets a multi-million dollar government contract that will cover the money the firm still owes you.

Cue the "halliburton outrage" from the progressives in 3....2....1

Company getting a $343.3 Million contract to handle the health care propaganda? :confused: The article says they got $343.3 million to handle advertising for the presidential campaign.

The firm gets a multi-million dollar government contract? :confused: From your 2nd link, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26240.html
"Healthy Economy Now paid AKPD and GMMB to produce a $12 million national ad campaign echoing White House talking points supporting the health care overhaul.

jmo