{"id":246577,"date":"2010-01-29T12:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:44:59","slug":"durbin-%e2%80%98unaware%e2%80%99-of-giannoulis-bank-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246577","title":{"rendered":"Durbin \u2018Unaware\u2019 of Giannoulis Bank Woes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s THE subject of\u00a0 political chatter in Illinois. So&#8230;it&#8217;s hard to understand how Senator Dick Durbin has missed the front page stories&#8230;Chicago talk-radio&#8230;and all the television news coverage about Broadway Bank&#8230;it&#8217;s financial troubles&#8230;the FDIC consent order&#8230;and how all of it has become a BIG problem for Alexi Giannoulias.<\/p>\n<p>Broadway Bank is the Giannoulias family business&#8230;founded by his late father. Giannoulias worked at the bank as a loan officer before getting elected State Treasurer. Questions about bank&#8217;s recent money-losing ways have dogged the Giannoulias&#8230;who has long been the front-runner in the Democratic Primary contest.<\/p>\n<p>But catch this exchange this morning in Chicago between Fox News Channel producer Ruth Ravve and Senator Durbin&#8230;because he says he&#8217;s not up to speed on the hottest story in the biggest primary race:<\/p>\n<p>Ruth: \u201cHow will the banking scandal  affect Alexi Giann\u2019s campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durbin: \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about  that, I\u2019m sorry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruth: \u201dReally? You must have read  about it in the papers or seen it on TV?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durbin: (shaking his head no)\u00a0 \u201cI  voted, I was an early voter.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not endorsed.\u00a0 I leave it up to the voters of  the state to make that decision\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then Durbin walked away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s THE subject of\u00a0 political chatter in Illinois. So&#8230;it&#8217;s hard to understand how Senator Dick Durbin has missed the front page stories&#8230;Chicago talk-radio&#8230;and all the television news coverage about Broadway Bank&#8230;it&#8217;s financial troubles&#8230;the FDIC consent order&#8230;and how all of it has become a BIG problem for Alexi Giannoulias. Broadway Bank is the Giannoulias family business&#8230;founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}