Alexi Giannoulias: All Audacity, All the Time

It had all seemed so perfect just a few months ago—The dashing and urbane Alexi had burst on the political scene only four years ago spending millions of his parents money to win statewide office in his very first foray into politics. He shot hoops with his role model and political patron, Barak Obama. He had wealth, charisma, connections and unbridled ambition and a solidly blue state in which to make all his dreams come true. (read the rest here)