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Thanks, hoosiermama. Good find; I had forgotten about these posts, even though the thread is bookmarked... twice.
....niters.
PART I: Obama, Blan-o, Eric WHitaker health care ties :
PART II: Obama, Martin Nesbitt real estate ties.
From:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/obamas_pal_eric_whitaker_his_t.html
By the Sun-Times Watchdog team
Dr. Eric Whitaker and Sen. Barack Obama go way back.
Their friendship began when they were graduate students at Harvard University. Now, Whitaker is one of Obama’s closest advisers.
Whitaker, 43, of Chicago, often travels with the presidential hopeful on the campaign trail and has vacationed with him in Hawaii. There’s talk Whitaker could be in line for a federal appointment if Obama becomes president.
Five years ago, Obama, then an Illinois state senator, gave a “glowing’’ reference for Whitaker to Tony Rezko, the now-convicted political fixer who helped Gov. Blagojevich find people to run state agencies. Blagojevich hired Whitaker to be the state’s public health director.
Obama has said that’s the only time he can recall talking to Rezko — who was a major campaign fund-raiser for him and for Blagojevich — about getting anyone a state job.
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Whitaker had been a rising star at Cook County’s Stroger Hospital, known for a program he created that went to barbershops to educate black men on preventive care.
“I did not seek any position and was stunned when I was asked to interview for the IDPH director position,” Whitaker, who declined an interview request, said in a written response to questions. “My first encounter with Tony Rezko was when he called and told me to come in for an interview approximately one week after I had already been interviewed’’ by three other Blagojevich advisers.
As state health chief, Whitaker spent millions on programs that used churches to educate minorities about AIDS, breast cancer and preparing for public health emergencies, a program hailed nationwide.
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Whitaker left the state payroll a year ago and joined Obama’s wife Michelle as a high-ranking executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center. When he was hired, U. of C. was seeking permission to expand its children’s hospital — one of five expansions the university sought from the state while Whitaker was health director. All were approved by the planning board. Whitaker and the U. of C. said he had nothing to do with those approvals.
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ANY OF THESE NAMES RING A BELL?
Martin Nesbitt
Martin Nesbitt lives and/or works in Chicago, IL
Nickname: Marty
Martin Nesbitt personal relations:
Anita Blanchard - spouse
Barack Obama - friend
Craig M. Robinson - friend
Other current Martin Nesbitt relationships:
Chicago (IL) Housing Authority - chairman
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art - trustee
Muckety List of Most Networked in Chicago, 2008 - in top 100
PRG Parking Management - president
Pritzker Realty Group - VP
Martin Nesbitt past relationships:2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign - fundraiser
LaSalle Partners - partner
Related to above...
FROM:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301904_pf.html
...Michelle, for the flight from Chicago to St. Paul, Minn., were half a dozen of their closest friends, a biracial cross section of the city’s business and professional elite: Martin Nesbitt, a parking lot magnate; Valerie Jarrett, a prominent businesswoman; Eric Whitaker, an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center; and John Rogers, the founder of an investment fund...
...Some were mainly social friends from Hyde Park, their Chicago neighborhood. Some have played a major role in Obama’s campaign, including Penny Pritzker, a billionaire Hyatt hotel heiress and Obama’s national fundraising chairman; James Crown, son of Chicago billionaire Lester Crown and another prominent member of the local Jewish community; and David Axelrod, who has been Obama’s Chicago-based political adviser and confidant since his U.S. Senate campaign in 2004.
...Whitaker founded “Project Brotherhood,” a barbershop-based program aimed at improving the health of black men, and served as a senior physician at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, now known as John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital
...Another important group in Obama’s life consists of the Chicago progressives who have mentored him throughout his career. The leader of this group is Abner J. Mikva, a retired federal judge, White House counsel and congressman from Chicago who has known Obama for 20 years, and who often is described as a father figure to the senator.
...Mikva has quietly helped guide Obama since his Harvard Law School days. He encouraged his political aspirations, was an early advocate of his presidential run and has pulled numerous strings to help to ease the candidate’s path....
///As the stakes get higher, Obama’s friends have grown more cautious and protective — and in some cases have attracted controversy. Whitaker’s name surfaced as part of the scandal involving longtime Obama fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, because Obama had recommended his shy and studious friend to Rezko for a state job. The exchange took place after Rod Blagojevich was elected Illinois governor, and Whitaker applied for the head job at the state Public Health Department.
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Lot more names and informaiton at link.
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Begin at # 202 , see # 203 # 204, and down to end of page.
Thanks, hoosiermama. Good find; I had forgotten about these posts, even though the thread is bookmarked... twice.
....niters.