Jesse Jackson Jr, filho do ativista de direitos civis reverendo Jesse Jackson, está sendo apontado como o "candidato nº 5", no centro da investigção sobre a "venda" da cadeira de senador pelo governador de Nova York, Rod Blogojevich.
A questão é que Jackson é um membro importante da campanha de Obama e sua família é bastante próxima de Michelle Obama.
As notícias são de que Obama havia dito inicialmente ser inapropriado fazer comentários a respeito das acusações que pesam sobre o governador.
Jesse Jackson Jr, the son of the civil rights campaigner, was yesterday named as the mysterious "Candidate 5" at the centre of the investigation.
Mr Jackson, 43, was a key member of Mr Obama's presidential campaign team and Mr Obama's wife Michelle has close personal links to the Jackson family.
Mr Blagojevich stands accused of attempting to 'sell' Mr Obama's vacant Senate seat.
After initially saying it would be "inappropriate" for him to comment fully on the scandal, Mr Obama, who built the foundations of his successful White House run in Chicago, called on Mr Blagojevich to resign.
The danger for Mr Obama, who built the foundations of his successful White House run in Chicago, is that the scandal could trigger investigations on the scale of the Whitewater probes about an Arkansas land deal, which dogged President Bill Clinton and his aides for years.
Republicans highlighted Mr Obama's pledge for greater transparency in government as they called for him to detail all contacts with Mr Blagojevich and emailed past quotations from him speaking supportively of the now disgraced governor.
Mike Duncan, Republican National Committee chairman, said in a statement: "President-elect Barack Obama's carefully parsed and vague statements regarding his own contact and that of his team with Governor Rod Blagojevich are unacceptable."
In a Tuesday interview with the Chicago Tribune, Mr Obama declined to answer a question about whether he was aware of any conversations between his advised and Mr Blagojevich, including the new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who took over his seat in Congress in 2003.
"It's an ongoing investigation," Mr Obama said. "I think it would be inappropriate for me to ... remark on the situation beyond the facts that I know."
Mr Jackson, a prominent ally of Mr Obama's during the presidential campaign, told Chicago reporters that he did not know if he was Candidate 5 and had been told that "I am not a target of this investigation".
Patrick Fitzgerald, the US attorney overseeing the Blagojevich investigation, said prosecutors "make no allegations that he [Mr Obama] was aware of anything".
In taped conversations, Mr Blagojevich described Mr Obama as a "m---------er", lamenting that his aides were "not willing to give me anything except appreciation" even if he did appoint a candidate of the president-elect's choice.
quarta-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2008
Jesse Jackson Jr
Jesse Jackson Jr, filho do ativista de direitos civis reverendo Jesse Jackson, está sendo apontado como o "candidato nº 5", no centro da investigção sobre a "venda" da cadeira de senador pelo governador de Nova York, Rod Blogojevich.
A questão é que Jackson é um membro importante da campanha de Obama e sua família é bastante próxima de Michelle Obama.
As notícias são de que Obama havia dito inicialmente ser inapropriado fazer comentários a respeito das acusações que pesam sobre o governador.
Jesse Jackson Jr, the son of the civil rights campaigner, was yesterday named as the mysterious "Candidate 5" at the centre of the investigation.
Mr Jackson, 43, was a key member of Mr Obama's presidential campaign team and Mr Obama's wife Michelle has close personal links to the Jackson family.
Mr Blagojevich stands accused of attempting to 'sell' Mr Obama's vacant Senate seat.
After initially saying it would be "inappropriate" for him to comment fully on the scandal, Mr Obama, who built the foundations of his successful White House run in Chicago, called on Mr Blagojevich to resign.
The danger for Mr Obama, who built the foundations of his successful White House run in Chicago, is that the scandal could trigger investigations on the scale of the Whitewater probes about an Arkansas land deal, which dogged President Bill Clinton and his aides for years.
Republicans highlighted Mr Obama's pledge for greater transparency in government as they called for him to detail all contacts with Mr Blagojevich and emailed past quotations from him speaking supportively of the now disgraced governor.
Mike Duncan, Republican National Committee chairman, said in a statement: "President-elect Barack Obama's carefully parsed and vague statements regarding his own contact and that of his team with Governor Rod Blagojevich are unacceptable."
In a Tuesday interview with the Chicago Tribune, Mr Obama declined to answer a question about whether he was aware of any conversations between his advised and Mr Blagojevich, including the new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who took over his seat in Congress in 2003.
"It's an ongoing investigation," Mr Obama said. "I think it would be inappropriate for me to ... remark on the situation beyond the facts that I know."
Mr Jackson, a prominent ally of Mr Obama's during the presidential campaign, told Chicago reporters that he did not know if he was Candidate 5 and had been told that "I am not a target of this investigation".
Patrick Fitzgerald, the US attorney overseeing the Blagojevich investigation, said prosecutors "make no allegations that he [Mr Obama] was aware of anything".
In taped conversations, Mr Blagojevich described Mr Obama as a "m---------er", lamenting that his aides were "not willing to give me anything except appreciation" even if he did appoint a candidate of the president-elect's choice.
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