The Chicago Tribune reports:
The executive director of the agency that oversees the state's troubled prepaid college tuition program called himself a "political victim" after a newly overhauled board moved to dump him Friday.
Only one day after Gov. Pat Quinn appointed five new members, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission placed Andrew Davis on paid leave. Davis, who has run the agency since 2007 and receives $198,000 a year, said he is negotiating the terms of his departure.
The Beachwood Reporter has
more:
"Davis recalls meeting Barack Obama by chance on LaSalle Street about four years ago.
"Davis then was a wealthy and politically connected securities broker and vice chairman of the Chicago Stock Exchange.
"Obama was a state lawmaker launching a U.S. Senate campaign in a field of seven Democrats. Obama asked for his business card, Davis said, and later phoned to set up a breakfast meeting.
"'He told me if he could get $5 million he could be the next U.S. senator,' Davis said.
"Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said in an e-mail that 'Senator Obama does not remember the details of meeting Andy Davis.'
"Records show Davis donated $12,000 to Obama in 2003 and his wife gave $12,000. Davis estimates that, as a member of Obama's Illinois finance committee during that race, he raised $50,000 more from friends and business associates."
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"Davis, now head of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, said he and Obama last spoke more than a year ago, when Obama phoned him from a military flight as part of a congressional delegation abroad."
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You'll want to read the whole article. Too bad the MSM is more interested in Sarah Palin's e-mails instead of the Obama-Blagojevich network.
