Walsh claims Duckworth finance chair paid-to-play in Blago administration

It seems like the Joe Walsh's strategy of connecting Tammy Duckworth to Rod Blagojevich is working, and widening. The Walsh campaign is reporting that it has discovered that Duckworth's campaign finance chairman, William Brandt Jr., was the beneficiary of an appointment to run the Illinois Finance Authority by Rod Blagojevich after Brandt's company donated $165,000 to Blagojevich's reelection campaign.

In a press release, Congressman Walsh stated, "...In Brandt's first meeting as head of the IFA, he fired the board's lobbyist for what was deemed a 'political decision' by Governor Blagojevich's office. This is not far off the path of Tammy Duckworth's actions, who as a fellow Blago appointee attempted to fire, humiliate and threaten two whistleblowers in the Illinois VA."

Walsh concluded, "The Duckworth for Congress campaign is a group of political insiders from the Blagojevich era," and called on her to "remove fellow Blago appointee William Brandt from her finance committee."

Also from the Walsh campaign comes the following ad: