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ACORN’s People’s Platform
But in Little Rock, Hillary Clinton joined the male-dominated Rose Law Firm. The decision, she wrote in her memoir, was partly economic, an effort to secure the family’s finances while Bill Clinton pursued a career in politics.
Although she continued to do free legal work for some groups, her new career occasionally put her at odds with constituencies with whom she’d traditionally been aligned. In the late 1970s, a community group won a major victory with the passage of a Little Rock ballot measure regarding utility rates. The proposal aimed to make the rates more affordable by creating a fixed price for the first 400 kilowatt hours of consumption, so low-income customers could have power for their basic needs, said Wade Rathke, the founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the group behind the measure. The measure would have forced large utility users, such as businesses, to pay more.
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She did FREE LEGAL WORK for Wade Rathke, start up of ACORN. ACORN Started in Little Rock.
Wade Rathke, Chief Community Organizer
Obama headed up Project Vote who hires Acorn to do voter registration work on its behalf Project Vote got the Clintons INTO the White House
Obama and Clintons aren’t strangers at all.
Rezko and the Clintons
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Our Sen. Kennedy?
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, December 14, 2008
Author: Michael Sneed, The Chicago Sun-Times
Tipsville . . .
Is Chris Kennedy , the son of the late, great U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a possible entrant on the list to fill President elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat?
- To wit: Sneed hears Kennedy’s name has been wafted into the inner circle of Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, who would be the guy who chooses Obama’s replacement if Gov. Blagojevich resigns.
- Quoth Dem politico Jay Doherty , a Kennedy confidant: “It would give Pat Quinn the answer to the puzzle before him if he becomes governor.”
- The upshot: Word is Kennedy, who is also the nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, a major Obama supporter, is likely to accept if asked.
- Hmmm: Wouldn’t that be something: An offspring of the legendary Kennedy line as a senator from Illinois? Stay tuned.
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The question WHO is unasked…either because the media are too much in the tank or are too intellectually slow to perceive. Again: WHO DO THE LEADERS…PRESUMABLY DALEY AND MADIGAN…PREFER ULTIMATELY AS THE NEXT SENATOR? Lisa Madigan? Maybe but maybe not. There is every reason to suppose that she and her poppa want her to be governor which is a far better position for future eminence. My good friend and City Club President Jay Doherty proposed Chris Kennedy earlier, the son of Bobby Kennedy and the highly regarded manager of the Merchandise Mart. The sudden burst of publicity for Caroline Kennedy in New York would argue that, paired with Chris and old Teddy, it would be more than a surfeit of Kennedys in the Senate. But Caroline seems to have nearly self-destructed.
The question continues: who do the ruling Illinois Dem leaders prefer for the next governor, Pat Quinn to name? Frankly (this is a personal view) as I know Chris Kennedy I don’t think from a purely liberal Democratic perspective it would be too bad (although we would agree on virtually nothing). But I suspect there is someone else in the wings-not Chris Kennedy, not Lisa-but someone else. WHO? That must explain why the furor over Rolland Burris, a very average man but certainly not the empty suit some anti-Blago Dems and their media camp-followers maintain.
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Jay Doherty, head of the Haymarket Group and president of Chicago’s City Club;
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Elected Officials
Haymarket provides political and governmental support to elected officials at every level of government - city, county, state and federal. Haymarket’s political client history includes:
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# Chicago Finance Committee Chairman Edward Burke Cook County States Attorney Dick Devine
# llinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald
# Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke
# Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin
# County Commissioner Mike Quigley
# Secretary of State Jesse White
# Senator Carol Moseley Braun
# Congressman Luis Gutierrez
# Congressman Danny Davis
# Congressman Patrick Kennedy
# Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
# Senator Edward Kennedy
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Tireless president has City Club riding high after 100 years - Jay Doherty has boosted club membership to more than 1,000 for the first time since 1954.
Chicago Sun-Times - Friday, September 26, 2003
Author: Steve Neal
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Doherty, a liberal Democrat, was the chief fund-raiser for the late Mayor Harold Washington and has close ties to the Kennedy family. Doherty is president of the Haymarket Group, a public affairs consulting firm, whose chairman is former Washington adviser Thomas P. Coffey.
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After college, Doherty got his first political job as advance man and traveling aide to 1976 Democratic presidential hopeful Sergeant Shriver. It was through this campaign that Doherty began his long association with the Kennedy family. After the Shriver campaign, Doherty was hired as director of communications for the Kennedy -owned Merchandise Mart.
In 1980, Doherty pitched in to help Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ‘s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. For the last two decades, he has coordinated Kennedy’s Midwestern fund-raising. He has also organized events for the senator’s son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), and for former Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) and his sister, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
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Jesse White Inspires Kids, Amazes Adults And Never Lets Up
Chicago Sun-Times - Sunday, April 24, 1994
Author: Zay N. Smith
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A little glory, at least, will come White’s way this November when he receives the national Robert F. Kennedy Golden Eagle Award for outstanding efforts on behalf of young people.
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Philly/Street/ WHite Cooruption
On June 28, 2004 the federal probe of corruption at Philadelphia’s City Hall bore its first fruit, when prosecutors handed down a fifty-six count indictment. City Treasurer Corey Kemp was accused of selling his office for a handful of cash and some tickets to the Super Bowl and the Mayor’s friend Ron White for corrupting Kemp.
FOX:
The indictment alleges that in 2002 and 2003, attorney Ronald A. White made payments to then-Treasurer Corey Kemp (search) to influence which financial services companies were selected to handle bond transactions for the city.
FBI:
The recent death of political power broker Ronald White should not cause total disruption to the case of city corruption brought against him and several other associates of Mayor John Street four months ago.
White, who died last Thursday of pancreatic cancer, emerged as a central figure in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into corruption in Philadelphia’s government after the FBI placed an electronic monitoring device on his office phone. They monitored conversations in which White, a powerful attorney, and former City Treasurer Corey Kemp openly conspired to allow White to make major decisions on city business matters in exchange for monetary and other benefits.
Ron White died of fast moving pancreatic cancer before the trial. ...