Posted on 04/11/2017 5:55:43 AM PDT by simpson96
Three class days were cancelled to cut costs during the budget impasse, and union leaders are planning a rally to protest the school’s financial straits —but Northeastern Illinois University was planning to pay former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett $30,000 to speak at its commencement ceremony.
Those plans changed after a few university trustees objected —and the Sun-Times began asking questions. Northeastern said late Monday that a donor came forward to pay the five-figure speaking fee.
But at an April 6 board meeting, trustees approved an honorary degree for Jarrett —while learning that a contract had already been negotiated and signed to pay her $30,000 for her May 8 speech.
Just the day before, the school’s interim president said the university was in a “state of emergency” amid the 22-month budget impasse.
Hearing of Jarrett’s contract on April 6, at least one board member uttered “wow,” according to audio of the board’s meeting.
Another asked whether there could instead be a donation in her honor to a student scholarship.
“We could certainly try to negotiate that, but the contract has been negotiated and signed,” a board member said, while later arguing that not getting high-profile speakers to come to the university would send a message to first-generation minority students that their commencement is somewhat “lesser” —while saying that would be a “classist and elitist argument.”(snip)
“Since last week’s Board of Trustees meeting, we have identified a generous donor who will cover the cost for our Commencement speaker,” spokesman Mike Hines said in an email. “Valerie Jarrett is a role model for many of our graduating students as well as prospective students. We are pleased that she has agreed to be our Commencement speaker.”
When asked to elaborate on the donor or the timing, Hines said he didn’t “know the answers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
One look at how immature and dumb Hines' Twitter page is, has me wondering how he got the job - or maybe standards really have fallen that far at universities these days.
His latest post announces Jarrett as Commencement speaker thusly - "Well this is pretty cool..."
Valerie Jarrett reportedly is worth $13 million. Isn’t she rich enough? Couldn’t she do this on for free? It seems cheap to try to squeeze $50K out of a struggling college.
THE NUMBER OF GOVT CHECKS VALERIE IS CASHING ARE ADDING UP
EVEN IN THE DC SWAMP Valerie Jarrett STILL Received
A $36K Annual Pension For Part-Time Chicago Transit job
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/17/2016 | Chuck Ross / FR Posted by rktman
Chicago is known for its L-train. But it's the gravy train that White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett prefers to ride.
In addition to the $173,922 Jarrett earns per annum as President Obama's senior adviser, she is also paid an annual pension of $35,660 for the eight years she served as chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority, according to a Chicago Sun Times investigation.
Jarrett was appointed to chairman of the agency - a part-time position - in 1995 by then-mayor Richard Daley, whose brother, William Daley, served as Obama's chief of staff. Jarrett served as the former mayor's deputy chief of staff and was appointed to numerous other positions during his term. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Wonder how many transportation bonds were issued while Jarrett was at Chicago Transit? Her pension payout would pale against her hidden income from lucrative insider Chicago bond deals.
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In his final days in office:
<><> Obama appointed Valerie Jarrett and National Security Adviser Susan Rice to the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees
<><> Deputy Ntl Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was appointed to the tax-funded US Holocaust Memorial Council.
This trio can't live by do-goodism alone (smirk). We demand to know how many US govt checks this motley crew of incompetents hangers-on is cashing. (Payroll and pension checks.)
Its an old political trick to (a) pad pensions, and, (b) hand-pick people and put them on govt payrolls long after you think they're gone.
The trio's vouchers for reimbursement would also prove enlightening.
“Since last week’s Board of Trustees meeting, we have identified a generous donor who will cover the cost for our Commencement speaker,” spokesman Mike Hines said in an email. “Valerie Jarrett is a role model for many of our graduating students as well as prospective students. We are pleased that she has agreed to be our Commencement speaker.” (My emphasis.)
Top fixer, slum lord, communist controller of our first and only America-hating, Illegal alien, Islamocommunist, traitor POTUS. Yes, she's definitely one Hell of a "role model."
The Democrats do not know the meaning of the word “shame”.
Shame- a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
wordsmith
role model >>> roll model
Backroom manipulator
As advisor to Obama what was Jarett’s role of “advising” when he abused the “Bully Pulpit” during the Zimmerman trial. Which created the media narrative of a victim killed in cold blood by a white “Hispanic”. Which resulted in a score of racial assaults by black gangs seeking revenge and ending in deaths of innocent non blacks passing through black areas.
A sufficiently heavy millstone can be obtained for a few hundred dollars:
http://www.mainemillstones.com/prices.html
Chain and all would be under a grand.
Much better spent money for baby-killing tyrants than the speaking fees people like Clinton, Obama, Jarrett, etc. charge.
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