According to an October 19, 2008 story in Politico.com, presidential candidate Barack Obama spends more face time with an Illinois policeman who has been on Obama’s payroll since 2004—but no one, even inside the Obama campaign knows what the policeman and Obama confidante really does.The mystery man is Michael Signator, shown above, third from left.
He's the star of bulletins chronicling Barack Obama's movements, one of only a few nonrelatives to consistently get time with the Democratic candidate for president and a trusted confidant who has shared some of the most pivotal moments of Obama's career with him.
Yet journalists who have followed Obama's campaign for the better part of two years don't know what he looks like, staffers who have logged countless hours traveling with Team Obama didn't even know he works for the campaign and there's never been a story in a major media outlet about him.
For “security reasons,” Obama's presidential campaign refuses to reveal the details of Signator's role.
Reached by telephone, he declined to comment on his relationship with Obama and his family, and asked how Politico obtained his telephone number. He directed inquiries to the Obama campaign press office and explained, "I can't do any type of interview at all. I apologize. I'm sorry, and please just disregard this phone number, because I can't take any calls."
The campaign press staff — which at first denied that Signator worked for the campaign, then discouraged Politico from writing about him — declined to set up an interview.
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