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While we’re all waiting to find out who takes Indiana, here’s something fun. Massachusetts Governor/Obamawannabe Deval Patrick’s pro-Obama stump speech includes a misremembered claim that his Obamism goes back to a $5,000 donation in the mid-1990s:
An Associated Press check of records on file in Springfield, Ill., where Obama served in the Legislature for six years and his campaign committee filed its finance reports, didn’t find a donation, and a separate search by Patrick and his campaign staff since last week failed to find any evidence of it.
Nonetheless, Patrick said he remembers writing a $5,000 check to Obama in the mid-1990s, a hefty sum that would have jibed with the punch line of his story, most recently — and most publicly — recounted in a four-paragraph testimonial he penned for Obama in last week’s Time magazine. The issue proffered a list of the world’s 100 most influential people, including Obama.
“When at last he decided to run for the Illinois Senate, he called to ask for my help and I was eager to give it,” Patrick wrote. “’I’ll contribute at the max,’ I pledged. ‘Deval,’ he said, ’in Illinois there is no max.’ I said, ’Brother, I’m sorry, there has to be a max.’”
It’s always possible I guess that in Chicago, there isn’t always full accounting of checks that don’t go into campaign funds. Anyway, it’s a new twist. Last time, Patrick misremembered not paying.
In 2006, the Democrat acknowledged helping to pay for a DNA test for a convicted rapist after previously saying his only involvement in Benjamin LaGuer’s bid for freedom was writing supportive letters to the state Parole Board. Patrick, then a wealthy corporate attorney, said he couldn’t always remember which causes he supported financially.
In case you don’t have your TV on, by the way, Obama-leaning Lake County, including Gary, was holding up the show and raising eyebrows with its delayed results. It could have swung the thing, though it looks like she’s taken it. CNN is finally projecting her the winner at 1:15 a.m. The eye gouging goes on. And all I need to do is a minor update to this.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:16 am on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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