Ethics Violation Anyone?

I smell smoke over at ObamaNation HQ. Apparently David Axelrod is receiving checks from a firm he founded in 1985 and  sold after Obama’s election. PhRMA, the pharmaceutical lobby pushing for ObamaCare, recently hired Axelrod’s old firm AKPD Media. Hmm? Conflict of interest anyone? This story was originally posted by Bloomberg’s Timothy J. Burger. Let’s see what becomes of this one. The media will be sure to keep this on the hush…

Via Politico:

E-mails HRC spokesman Matt Lloyd:

“As the pharmaceutical industry spends hundreds of millions supporting a government takeover of health care — one which drug companies obviously believe will increase their profits, even as it raises Medicare premiums for seniors — some may wonder whether White House senior advisors earning millions of dollars paid for in part by the pharmaceutical industry represents the kind of change Americans can believe in.”

Obama Campaign Ad Firms Signed On to Push Health-Care Overhaul

By Timothy J. Burger

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul.

One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.