CHICAGO, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The McCain campaign Thursday tried to dredge up a real estate deal that enabled Democrat Barack Obama to buy his Chicago mansion.
Former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., joined forces with McCain campaign adviser Ed O'Callahan to urge reporters to investigate the 2005 transaction in which Obama bought his house and the wife of convicted real estate developer Tony Rezko bought an adjoining yard. Obama has said he could not afford to buy both the house and the yard, and he later acquired a 10-foot strip from the adjoining lot to augment his property. He has called the acquisition "boneheaded."