White House sending support to Chicago Mob Linked Giannoulias

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Following the hug and the shout-out President Obama gave Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias at a downstate Quincy event a few weeks ago, the White House is poised to shower a little more love on the beleaguered former banker.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan — a frequent hoops buddy of Giannoulias and the president — and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina are planning back-to-back visits to Illinois to campaign for Giannoulias in June.

As late as the morning of the Quincy event, reporters were pestering Giannoulias with questions about whether President Obama was giving his former close friend the cold shoulder following some rough hits in the press for Giannoulias when his family’s Broadway Bank was taken over by federal regulators and sold to MB Financial.

No word yet on whether Chicago Mob associate John D'Arco Jr. will campaign for Alexi Giannoulias