Chapter 873 Anne

That guy William was kind enough to repay his kindness. After receiving the phone call from Song Ya himself, he immediately began to encourage the "flock" in the constituency not to provide signatures to Alice Palmer, and he brought Aunt Susie together, Publicly endorse Michelle's husband's platform.

Both are well-known figures in the South City, but William and Alice Palmer have dealt with each other. Of course, the senior politician Alice Palmer has been friends with his former Pastor Allison for many years, and Michelle's husband, as a fledgling political amateur There is no such burden. From this perspective, it is not surprising that William chose to stand by Michelle's husband.

At the same time, as a black female politician, Alice Palmer's diehard supporters are mostly black aunts. The likes and dislikes of this group of people are greatly influenced by the church. She herself seems to be an active believer. William's "abandonment" gave Alice Palmer hit hard, no matter in terms of the progress of the signature gathering, the momentum of the campaign, and even her personal self-confidence. Coupled with Michelle's husband's extraordinary appeal to female voters, her base and fundraising have been seriously lost.

But it was not enough. She was only short of a few hundred co-signatures. How could she give up lightly at this time? The United States did not do a good job in the review of voter qualifications, and there was a lot of room for manipulation.

Two days later, Alice Palmer announced that there were only the last 200 signatures left, and she would be able to successfully qualify for the primary election tomorrow. She also prepared a rally and celebration for this.

What Song Ya didn't know was that all of this was planned by the campaign team behind Michelle and his wife. They were waiting for this moment. That night, the Illinois Election Commission authorized law enforcement officers to raid Alice Palmer's house. campaign headquarters, citing evidence of fraud in her signature-gathering process.

It seems that they got the handle as they wished. The next day, Alice Palmer’s celebration rally was transformed into a resignation conference. Re-enter the primaries.

The Illinois State Board of Elections followed the political tacit agreement and stopped bothering her.

"There is no need to carry the moral burden, but the political tricks are very slippery. To a certain extent, the couple has also begun to run sick..."

Song Ya, who learned the news, commented on Sloan with a smile.

"You were very successful in exerting extreme pressure on Alice Palmer, weren't you? Alicia?" Sloan took a sip of the wine with his big red lips, leaving a light lip mark on the wine glass.

"Us? I'm not involved in Peter's affairs..."

Alicia is really not very interested in politics. She just came back from New York to work on the inner city broadcasting company. "What's the next job APLUS? My law firm can help you with the Bahn chemical case lawsuit .”

"The Bahn chemical case? Where is it? There is no such case yet,

Do you want me to be accused? Alicia. "Song Ya interrupted with a joke.

"Ha, it's almost like this to a certain extent. I'm a lawyer." Alicia's brows and eyes were crooked in amusement.

"Don't talk about these spoilers today, let's enjoy the party to the fullest, two beautiful ladies." Song Ya touched the waists of the two beauties in evening clothes politely, "Sorry, I'll leave first In a moment, thank you for coming to Alicia."

After Dan Burton accused himself at the hearing, it was temporarily inconvenient to communicate with politicians publicly, so this time Michelle didn't mention asking herself to endorse her husband's platform, and she obeyed the rules so as not to cause trouble for them. Today Apart from Alicia, the people who came to the Highland Park party were basically employees of the Chicago music circle and their own businesses.

Don't break the law, don't break the law. On the verge of being caught for a foul, Song Ya tacitly doesn't bother the politicians, and the politicians also tacitly help out in various ways. A gratifying trend is that politicians are much more 'active' in their care for him than before. For example, Gore sent people to warn before the hearing, and Underwood asked Doug to persuade Nancy Pa in the middle of the hearing. Tricia, don't embarrass yourself. The commander-in-chief suppressed FBI director Frith afterwards, and did not provide the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with files involving his own stains. Peter Flock exerted influence on the Chicago prosecutors in the "place of origin", making those Reports from conservative whites go nowhere...

In the general election year, Song Ya felt that his relationship with the politicians was in a very "harmonious" moment before his generous money bag began to spread at the beginning of the year.

"It's not easy to deal with old Bane. The country club he often goes to is too difficult to get into. It's all white, all male, and the number of members is limited. When someone dies or quits, the club council will select a replacement from the applicants. Very old fashioned."

He left the two women because he saw the signal from Goodman from afar. While continuing his studies, he happened to deal with the internal and external hidden dangers of Chicago, the base camp. The past." Goodman said as he closed the study door.

"Is there a trusted messenger in that club?" Song Ya asked.

"The circle is very small, and the old men are basically in the retirement stage. They play golf, reminisce about the past, and take some time to manage low-risk investments... At present, please, the closest to our network is O'Grady's uncle, A former Northern Trust executive," Goodman replied.

"Sounds good? O'Grady can be trusted." O'Grady manages his hundreds of millions of stock funds, "I can easily transfer the funds placed in him, and he dare not be against me."

"His family relationship is very weak. O'Grady told me that he hasn't seen that uncle for at least three years." Goodman said.

"Well..." Song Ya thought for a while, "Let O'Grady try it first, has anyone else come? I'll tell him in person."

"not yet."

The two were chatting, Sloan knocked on the door and came in, and Gordon arrived.

"APLUS."

The director of A+CN, who had been severely repaired by himself in the air, was obviously a little upset. He hung his coat on the coat hook and said angrily: "I'm not a gang member, your bodyguard can't treat me like this .”

Song Ya looked at the old Mike outside the door and exchanged glances. He should have searched Gordon outside just now, not because he was afraid of bringing weapons, but because he was guarding against the recording device.

"Extreme times, Gordon was misunderstood, please sit down. Ms. Sloan, please sit down too."

In its business, Gordon is currently the most unstable factor, even if he is now locked in a cage, "How is A+CN doing recently?" Song Ya asked.

"We didn't watch it, and we couldn't get enough of the 24-hour programs. We had to buy some old news documentaries to play, because the migration time was brought forward!"

Gordon was not stupid enough to bring up the Bahn chemical case and the murder of a black man who made his boss an enemy in Charlotte, and concentrated on complaining: "Our new office space is not ready, and everyone has to be crowded on the first floor. In the building, that is to satisfy all the anchors and staff who broadcast continuously for 24 hours! After leaving Comcast’s free channel, the social attention of our program has dropped significantly, and the morale of the employees is very low. Someone has already told me Submitting your resignation."

"Sounds like a mess?" Song Ya sneered secretly admiring the other party's distress, and deserved it! The guy who dares to disobey me!

"If you hadn't let Comcast advance..."

"Uh, Mr. Gordon, let's not discuss this matter anymore, okay? We just agreed outside." Sloan interrupted his complaint.

"Then what should we do now?" Gordon lay down on the sofa, "I need an extra sum of money to rent a studio and stabilize the hearts of A+CN employees."

"The money will be transferred to A+CN's account on schedule," Goodman said.

"Then what should we do during this empty period?" Gordon asked: "A+CN is about to fall apart. Don't think I'm alarmist. The ratings are not as good as expected. It just so happens that at the critical moment when the popularity of MJ's divorce is soaring, we M-Fxxk was relocated by Comcast to Channel 88, which has few subscribers! Completely missed the opportunity to make a comeback! You must know that many employees of A+CN are for our first African-American 24-hour serious news station Those with great prospects willing to lower their salaries to join, those media elites have all retreated after seeing no hope..."

"Gordon, if you want me to say that this is all caused by your mistakes, maybe you should apologize to APLUS first." Sloan interrupted again.

Gordon sat and shook his head again and again. The proud top African-American media person finally gave in after a few minutes of persistence, "I can apologize, I'm sorry Mr. APLUS, I'm new to management, I overestimated myself. But now I hope You can pay attention to the difficulties in front of A+CN..."

"It's really a pity to miss the news about MJ's divorce, but it's too late to regret it. Everything will be fine when the 10 million channel promotion fee arrives, I promise."

This guy is still not convinced, Song Ya and Sloan exchanged glances with Goodman, "But before that, you have to survive Gordon on your own, I think this will help you deepen your memory..." He Parody what Jesse Helms cronies said to Sloan.

"You burned your own money for nothing just to teach me a lesson?"

Gordon was really dissatisfied, "Many of the law enforcement units in Charlotte are the Ku Klux Klan who is in league with Jesse Helms! Everything I do is a just cause! You are betraying the ethnicity! Bow to the ultra-conservative whites, really disappointing!"

"Damn it! Gordon! Stop testing my patience and if, I mean if you get me down again, get out of my business! I don't mind burning another liquidated damages, you know Who am I!"

Song Ya's patience ran out, and she yelled at him, "You must make a formal promise to me that you will never do this again, otherwise... I have already asked the governor's wife outside to prepare the legal documents for your dismissal, and you can do it now Can call a lawyer and today, in this house, we'll get it over with! I'm impatient to please an exec who's going to burn me $20 million for nothing, you're not up to par Gordon! You Do you know how much budget News Corp. invited Roger Ailes to organize FOX's 24-hour cable news station? Millions, only a few million dollars! So their studio had to be rented on the subway line Beside, the recording of the show will be interrupted every time the train passes by! That’s FOX, which is much richer than me! Don’t give me such a long-winded speech. I don’t know my blessings! Betray BET and then be my A +CN is swept away, do you want to maintain your status as a top African-American media person? Stop dreaming!"

After yelling, Gordon sank into the sofa with a gloomy face without saying a word, and the study fell into dead silence.

"Gordon, you have to make this promise today." Ms. Sloan poured Gordon a glass of wine, "APLUS was just a young man's angry words just now, and everyone likes you very much."

"I understand, I promise..." Gordon threw his neck back bitterly, "I promise I won't do anything out of line...I promise, I'm sorry APLUS, I apologize to you again."

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