See post early in thread for ties between BHO, Washington and CPUSA.
See post early in thread for ties between BHO, Washington and CPUSA.
Bookmark to read later. How can so much crime be in one city? Shocking!
http://news.muckety.com/2008/11/20/penny-pritzker-reportedly-passes-on-commerce-post/7191
(Penny) Pritzker first met the Obamas in the late 1990s when her son and daughter played in a summer basketball league at a Chicago YMCA coached by Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s brother, who introduced them.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1297550,CST-NWS-sweet25.article
‘She has this great ability to do things world class’
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Author: Lynn Sweet, The Chicago Sun-Times
Dipping into their close circle of Chicago friends to find the new White House social secretary, President-elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle named business executive Desiree Rogers to the job Monday.
Rogers , 49, is a former Illinois Lottery director, Peoples Energy chief and current president of Allstate Financial’s Internet play, who has been a major social and civic figure in Chicago for years.
Rogers will have one of the most important jobs in the East Wing — the domain of the first lady — which oversees the social events in the White House.
“She just has this great ability to do things world class,” said her former husband, John Rogers , another close friend of the Obamas who will be one of the Inauguration co-chairs. The Rogers have a daughter, Victoria, 18, a Yale freshman.
Desiree met Michelle Obama through John — he attended Princeton with Michelle’s brother Craig Robinson and later met Barack. Rogers would go on to become close friends with Valerie Jarrett, who grew up on the same block on South Greenwood Avenue as John Rogers .
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