A Local Scandal Goes National

Hat tip to Marathon Pundit for this.... Tony Rezko laid a stink down on Illinois politics, and a lot of people yawned even though it is a major cluster of scandals that caused the stench. Governor Blagojevich. Barack Obama. Others. Now that Barack Obama is running for president, the Rezko mess takes on new meaning, has acquired much larger proportions, opens portals between the dimensions of local and national politics. Do not fool yourself: This is a Major Story. Today MP brilliantly writes: "...Rezko was a very early Obama supporter, he first met the future senator while he was a Harvard law student. But Rezko, who was the driving force behind what US Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald called "pay-to-play scheme on steroids," will continue to make news as the media--and the federal government--continue to mine more mud on Rezko.And today, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that a Rezko firm was hired to renovate his Chicago's house.Which is bad news for Obama. Every few weeks or so there will be one--or maybe more---Tony Rezko eruptions that will remind polital junkies of Obama's Rezko ties." The whole thing...