Posted on 03/18/2014 10:07:43 AM PDT by rktman
The first lady, her mother, her two kids, plus numerous White House aides and security personnel are going to tour China this month, but White House officials are refusing to say how much the taxpayers will pay for the trip.
However, they did say it would be a thrill for everyone on the trip, including for Michelle Obama’s top aide, Tina Tchen.
“It is a real honor and privilege, and I think we are all, here in the first lady’s office, quite excited about the upcoming trip,” said Tchen, just after she declared that “my parents emigrated from China in the late ’40s, so this … will be my fourth time returning to China but the first time, obviously, in a role such as this.”
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Tina Tchen is Michelle Obama's new chief of staff. The Chicago lawyer served under Valerie Jarrett as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, and will continue as executive director of its Council on Women and Girls. This is Obama's third chief of staff in two years; Tchen follows Susan Sher, who is returning to Chicago, and Jackie Norris, who was replaced in 2009 just four months after the inauguration.
White House officials are refusing to say how much the taxpayers will pay for the trip.
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Going to cost that much eh ???
She grew up in Beachwood, Ohio where she graduated from Beachwood High School, where she met Amy Rule, Rahm Emanuel’s wife
Tchen made 13 donations totaling $7,850 to various Democratic political campaigns in 2008. She was also an early supporter of Barack Obama’s run for the U.S. presidency, and was an effective fundraiser for his campaign.
“Going to cost that much eh ???”
Since we’re paying the tab, don’t we have a right to know?
Yet another “in your face” act that seems to have no consequences for the royal couple.
I seriously doubt this is what the founders had in mind.
You girls...don't worry about inconvenient babies here...you can only have one and they kill the rest for free.
if you have to ask you cant afford it...
:)
This woman really does think she's owed...but it's the other way around. She owes it to us to sit down, shut up and stay home.
:: Tina Tchen is Michelle Obama’s new chief of staff. The Chicago lawyer served under Valerie Jarrett as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement ::
More layers of “dis-involvement”.
Someome ask “Little Dick” Daly about the TRUCKS-FOR-HIRE scheme.
Yep!
“if you have to ask you cant afford it...”
I can’t afford to take myself on vacation. Why am I (are we) paying for hers?!
That does not look like a woman.
The Empress has no clothes.
“Tina” Tchen, a high-powered veteran lawyer at a premier *Chicago law firm, made her first foray into the public sector as the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, before taking over the role of chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama.
In the Office of Public Engagement, Tchen, reported to close Obama ally Valerie Jarrett , and advanced the president’s policies with interest groups through briefings, meetings and large events. As the first lady’s chief of staff, Tchen pushes Michelle Obama’s causes, which include ending childhood obesity and supporting military families.
*Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (1992 to 2009); Associate at Skadden (1984 to 1992)
Tchen was born outside of Cleveland, Ohio, to Chinese immigrants who were wealthy in their home nation. One of her grandfathers was an entrepreneur, and the other earned a law degree at DePaul University in the U.S. before returning to China to practice.
In 1949, her parents fled to the U.S. as communists approached Shanghai. Tchen’s father, Peter, had recently finished medical school, and her mother, Lily, had a student visa to study chemistry at Syracuse University. The two were engaged, and they married the morning they left China so Peter could leave with Lily. They brought only one suitcase to America, and eventually settled in Beachwood, Ohio, outside of Cleveland, where Peter Tchen became a psychiatrist.
Tchen has been a lawyer her entire life, but has always been involved in Democratic politics. She worked on Harold Washington’s Chicago mayoral campaigns in 1983 and 1987. She helped raise money for Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign and was one of his top bundlers during the 2008 presidential campaign.
When she moved to Springfield after college, Tchen began working with NOW to pressure Illinois lawmakers to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. She stayed active in the feminist group, becoming vice president of the Illinois chapter while at Northwestern University. While working with NOW, Tchen helped write the bill that changed the Illinois rape statute to include sexual assault and other abuse.
Tchen worked as an analyst for Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) before going to law school and began representing the Illinois agency in 1988 as an associate for Skadden. In 1995, she helped reform the state foster care program to close a loophole that paid foster parents of children already in their custody at the rate of other foster parents, providing an incentive for relatives to label family members as foster kids to get more money. “We had to do something to stem the tide,” said Tchen. “We’re draining resources from kids who are truly abused and in need.”
Tchen is also active in the Chicago community. She is on the board of the Chicago Public Library, the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago Foundation for Women, Personal PAC, the Chinese American Service League among others.
Community organizations are in desperate need of the pro-bono services of lawyers,” says Tchen, who also does a lot of official pro bono work for Skadden. “They need lawyers on their boards, they need lawyers to help them incorporate, they need lawyers to advise them when they have issues.”
Tchen was one of Obama’s top fundraisers during his 2004 Senate campaign, as well as during the 2008 contest. For the presidential run, she bundled more than $200,000 for Obama.
She is part of the Chicago Network, an invitation-only club of high-powered professional women. Valerie Jarrett , who is now Tchen’s supervisor in the White House, was a member, along with dozens of CEOs, lawyers, judges and congresswomen. “It exists to be what it is,” Tchen says, “which is a network.”
Well that makes it all worthwhile now, doesn't it! </sarc>
There’s that “nose in the air” like I’m listening to a Sunday morning sermon (only we don’t do anything so peasant-like as attending church) “look”.
Easily gonna be half a million based on the past “getaways”.
Criminal grifters all! They should be traveling to the nearest prison for a long “vacay”.
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