Valerie’s father in law Vernon Jarrett was a nasty angry communist journalist in Chicago for years.
No reason to doubt she’s of the same ilk.
Vernon was also a close friend of Frank Marshall Davis, Obola’s (Two thumbs up to the inventor of that name for the Mahdi, so much so that I am hereby retiring “the Mahdi” and will hereafter refer to that thing as “Obola.”) mentor while Obola was rowing up in Hawaii, which is probably the source of Obola’s connection to the Chicago power structure.