Today they are saying that the only contact occured with Ephriam(O's chief of staff) and it was to give a list of possibles who could fill Obama's seat and hold the party until election time 2010. This is not unusual to me for someone to recommend someone that can do their job. There was then also talk of the seat that Abram himself would be vacating and this is possibly what we've discussing. Which has nothing to do with Obama then.
It was said he wanted to figure out to find a way to have something to do with that appointment too but the house of Congress does that and he has no say so. Play to pay isNOT o.k. when it involves money. It's one thing to do it to form political alliances if it is to the benefit of the place you represent but to do it blatantly for monetary gain sucks. Either way Chi towns' politics is strange as I've seen a list of things this morning on the weeklys that made me shake my head.