Thursday, December 04, 2008
Connected Demoted
Long rumored connection confirmed by the Sun Times. Finally:
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A cousin of Michelle Obama was one of four police supervisors recently kicked off Supt. Jody Weis’ command staff.
[...] Michelle Obama’s cousin is Michael Shields. Barack Obama referred to the Shields family in an ABC-TV interview the day before Thanksgiving:
“Michelle’s from Chicago, so she’s got cousins everywhere. You walk down the street, you’ll bump into a Robinson. Or a Shields.”
Shields, the former deputy superintendent of strategic deployment, was bucked down to a lieutenant at the Belmont Area headquarters at a far lower pay scale.
Well, that explains a lot. Like how someone who might have cost the city tens of thousands in settlement money continued to be promoted and protected.
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/search?q=obama
A freeper from Chicago freepmailed me that Michelle babysat for Jackson children through out high school and spent a lot of time with them. She is close to one of the daughter, Jacki, who is eleven years her junior.
Both families are from the Friendfield Plantation area of SC, but I've not been able to actually make definite biological connection.