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Connor alleges in his suit that his objections to the Rezko loan led to his dismissal from the bank in October 2007. He also claims that after Mutual Bank received the grand jury subpoena for the loan, bank officials tampered with the Rezko file and removed his report challenging the validity of the earlier appraisal. "If the FBI were to ask me about such matters, I would tell them the truth," Conner wrote in an Oct. 15, 2007, e-mail to a bank official eight days before he was fired, according to another exhibit.

A lawyer for Mutual did not respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit. Conner's lawyer, Glenn Gaffney, said the bank has not yet been served with a copy of the complaint and has not filed a response.

Conner's lawsuit suggests that there may have been other issues creating problems for him at the bank. While including a positive job-performance evaluation he received from the bank in December 2006, he also states in his lawsuit: "During the calendar year 2007, Conner had to overcome a non-disruptive health condition as well as repeated, ongoing and well-documented unprofessional and harassing conduct from a group of female co-workers, all of which was made known to Mutual Bank's management."

Other records in the lawsuit indicate that the medical condition Conner was referring to was a sleeping disorder. He said in an interview with NEWSWEEK that he had "no political motivation" in filing his lawsuit, adding that when he first challenged the validity of the appraisal on the Rezko property, "I didn't even know that Barack Obama had anything to do with the transaction."

"I was wrongfully terminated and I'm pursuing a case on that basis," he said in a telephone interview. "I talked to some Democratic lawyers who wouldn't touch my case. It's taken a great deal of perseverance and sacrifice on my part to see this case through to its filing."

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  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 11:00:36 PM

    The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I will not vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 10:25:21 PM

    In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama unintentionally revealed that he really is as radical as his early political mentors and acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi etc., (gee, there sure seem to be a lot of them) and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now there is absolute proof. In 2001, Obama, the "community organizer" turned legislator, said in an interview:

    "And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that,"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

    2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview.

    Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
    See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

    Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGnSAlqjoU

    See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

    Obama's ill-conceived programs will require him to tax, and his health care plan alone is a substantial hidden tax on all business, large an small. In reality, it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. He has to tax, because it is they only way he can pay for his massive social engineering experiments. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like Hoover and FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

    See e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/opinion/main4499465.shtml
    And
    http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx


    The democrats failed social engineering policies in the housing market are what brought us to ruin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
    Even Bill Clinton says so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE
    Obama and a supermajority of Democrats simply is not the change we need, nor is it change we can afford.

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