“- Kelly King Dibble, former IHDA executive director and relative of President Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett .”
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Resources/career-services/events/real_world_speakers.asp
Kelly King Dibble
Kelly King Dibble is senior vice president and director of public affairs and government relations at Northern Trust. As Northern Trust’s senior public affairs officer, Dibble directs the company’s external government relationship strategies and activities at the municipal, state, and federal levels.
Prior to joining Northern Trust, Dibble served as the executive director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority since 2003. In this position, she was responsible for budgetary, operational, legislative, and policy objectives of the Authority, which has more than $2 billion in assets and 200 employees.
Dibble received her JD from Harvard Law School and holds a BA in economics and political science from Wellesley College. She is a board member of the Auxiliary Board of the Art Institute, Ounce of Prevention Fund, and South East Chicago Commission. She is also a member of the Visiting Committee for the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_obamas_and_their_mortgage_1.html
Kelly King Dibble has a long time friendship with Michelle Obama from the time they both worked at the Chicago Planning Dept, and she also worked for Rezko. Dibble went on to head the Illinois Housing Development Authority under Governor Blagojevich, with Rezko help. Dibble also hosted a fund raiser for Obama. More on Dibble here.
Dibble also was mentioned during the Rezko trial by Ali Ata. Dibble was a regular visitor to Rezko’s office while heading the IHDA (which is based in Chicago). She also crossed Rezko when she refused to hire a Rezko relative.
Dibble later resigned from the IHDA in Jan 2007 to take a job with Northern Trust, and is now Senior Vice President Public Affairs. So if Northern Trust is asked about the loan, Dibble will be in charge of framing the answers.
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Vacant land turns to gold for insiders - Buyers with clout cash in on parcels
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Sunday, November 20, 2005
Author: Ray Gibson and Robert Becker, Tribune staff reporters
EXCERPT
After entertaining proposals from a half-dozen builders, the city selected a developer, Historic Drexel Partners LLC, which ultimately built homes selling for between $800,000 and $915,000.
It is a company with close ties to Rezko. One partner is Michael Sreenan, a Chicago attorney who does corporation work for Rezko. The other partner in the venture is Andrew Dibble.
Dibble’s wife, Kelly King Dibble, is the executive director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority, a quasi-state agency charged with developing affordable housing. She had worked as vice president in charge of business development at Rezko’s company, Rezmar, before her appointment to the authority by Blagojevich.
Documents filed by Andrew Dibble with the city were faxed to City Hall using a fax machine in Rezko’s office. Sreenan, who said Rezko wasn’t involved in the project, added that since his office is in the same building as Rezmar, he frequently uses the company’s fax machine.
Shortly after Historic Drexel was sold the property, Andrew Dibble went to work for the state’s Capital Development Board, where he received $78,000 a year as the manager of construction. He has since left the post. His wife receives $137,000 a year at the housing authority.
Home prices escalated
In winning city approval, Sreenan and Dibble said the properties would sell for between $655,000 and $692,000. Sreenan said the prices escalated primarily because home buyers added upgrades for the new homes.
City officials said they selected Historic Drexel because it met the city’s specifications and because it offered $10,000 more than the parcels’ appraisal price.
“This set of respondents not only bid the most, but they offered to pay over the appraised value of the property. And there was no requirement for affordability,” Healy said.
But the Dibble bid wasn’t the highest. Another developer matched it, according to city records.
Historic Drexel’s project also had the support of Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th), who increasingly has tapped developers for campaign funds as parts of her ward rapidly gentrify.
Among her donors were Kelly King Dibble, Sreenan, the development’s architect and the contractor, who donated a total of $5,000 at an October 2004 fundraiser for the alderman.
“I supported the development,” Preckwinkle said of Historic Drexel. “I think the homes they built are beautiful.”
After Historic Drexel paid the city $275,000 for the six lots, it obtained a $3.3 million construction loan and built six new homes. One of the homes is the Dibble residence.
When the Dibbles went to record the sales price with the Cook County recorder of deeds, they declared they didn’t have to pay hefty real estate transfer taxes on the sale because they had paid less than $500 for the property and home, even though the couple paid $652,850, according to records.
After questions were raised by the Tribune, Andrew Dibble on Nov. 10 wrote city officials saying that while he had received initial legal advice not to pay a real estate transfer tax, subsequent legal counsel advised him to the contrary. Dibble now faces a transfer tax on the property of about $5,800.
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http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=1647&SearchResult=55&graph=MucketyMap?_r=DC
Ann Dibble Jordan, Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. personal relations:
Vickee Jordan Adams - daughter
Antoinette Cook Bush - stepdaughter
Valerie B. Jarrett - great uncle
Ann Dibble Jordan - spouse
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“Many of us were able to introduce [Obama] in our workplaces,” says Alan S. King, a lawyer who studied for the bar exam with Michelle. “That expanded his base of support, raised his profile, and enhanced his fundraising efforts.”
This may have been posted somewhere, but I haven’t seen it. I have been looking for a place to put it ever since I ran across it. IMO, it presents a timely portrait of the hypocrisy we are seeing in the administration. I posted the entire article, the meat starts about the 3rd paragraph. So, for the record:
Friday, March 07, 2008
Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood: An Inside Look at Hyde Park, Chicago
Now that we have ample time to consider exactly who Barack Obama is, I’ve been compelled to revisit my old stomping grounds: Hyde Park, Chicago. Known for being home to controversial figures like Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson and institutions like the University of Chicago, Hyde Park is also the most dense center for theological education this side of Rome. The prestigious University dominates the neighborhood economically, culturally and politically, having essentially taken the neighborhood over since the 1960s and housing thousands of students, professors and staff. And Hyde Park can boast to being one of Chicago’s truly unique cul-de-sacs, a mixture of history, beauty and eclecticism, an attempted safe haven surrounded by the seedier parts of Chicago’s South Side. But at its heart, Hyde Park is a paradoxical neighborhood, promising intellectual rigor and diversity on the exterior, but still falling prey to a tired ideology born in the 1960s on the interior. I couldn’t define Obama’s politics any better.
I recently lived in Hyde Park for 3 years while attending seminary, and generally enjoyed my time there. I taught guitar lessons at the University’s private school, I tutored professor’s students, and I studied theology with students from a host of schools. I got to know the neighborhood, and through work, many of its residents as well. To say the least, it is a very liberal neighborhood, standing out even in a liberal city like Chicago. There was certainly no shortage of visible support for prominent Democrats like Barack Obama, as when he ran against a hapless Alan Keyes in 2004. It was not uncommon to see pictures of Hyde Park residents posing with him at University or neighborhood events. And as I mentioned before, several African-American activists and politicians grace the neighborhood within blocks of each other, notably Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, and Carol Moseley Braun, who ran for president in 2004.
To me, this can offer wonderful clues about the neighborhood. Though the University did its best to polish Hyde Park’s image, I found the neighborhood to be heavy and defensive, a place of constant and unspoken tension, especially among the races. My wife, a friend, and my roommate all experienced this tension separately as eggs were thrown, guns were drawn, and bottles were hurled. There were frequent urgings not to walk along 53rd Street alone as gangs were choosing random white males to beat, presumably as part of a gang initiation ritual.
Suffice to say, the neighborhood was not a safe one. And who should have expected it to be? While million-dollar homes and condos were the norm in Hyde Park, poverty of the worst sort surrounded it on every side, save for Lake Michigan. This irony was what many conservatives have come to expect: the liberalism so often championed by professors, politicians and theologians within the street boundaries of Hyde Park and practiced by Chicago’s politicians did nothing to alleviate the real suffering around it. Consequently, the violence and tension spilled out into Hyde Park’s tree-lined streets. Even Carol Moseley Braun was not immune; she was mugged at her home before a University students ran off her attacker in 2006.
The predominant theology in this heavily theological neighborhood was liberation theologies of various stripes. (If you’re not familiar with the term, liberation theology is a highly political and social view of Jesus Christ and his redemption. It is championed by the poor and by minorities who hold poverty and oppression as virtues, for which Jesus had special appreciation). In Hyde Park, it was black liberation theology that was the norm, although queer (this is the politically correct term), Hispanic, feminist, and womanist theologies demanded attention as well. But the black liberation theology gives us the most real insight into Hyde Park’s most famous resident, Barack Obama. It is this theology that defined the culture of Hyde Park in the 1960s, a decade Hyde Park has had trouble leaving. And it is this theology that dominates his own church, several miles south of Hyde Park on 95th street. (Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, received his Doctorate from my seminary.)
To put it simply, Hyde Park is a racially-driven neighborhood. It prides itself as a neighborhood that fights white authority and prestige. Whites are seen as a great impediment to black improvement and the cause to the problems to begin with. It is whites who have invaded the neighborhood and populated its university, usually with presumed snobs who have the money to afford the U of C to begin with. Ironically, the academics that do this (as a professor, Obama would have be considered a part of this) do so with the financing and intellectual protection of the largely white university system.
And I believe this defines Obama as well. While he has shrewdly and masterfully run a campaign that transcends his race and plays into white guilt, he is at heart as racially-driven as his neighborhood of choice. His wife’s thesis demonstrated this, Obama’s controversial church demonstrates this, and if he is anything like Hyde Park and the general culture of the University, there’s no denying that race is one of his most notable motivators. You would think a neighborhood that was home to Milton Friedman for 30 years would have learned to think more objectively; in fact, Obama and company in Hyde Park are predictably and ideologically leftist.
posted by relieveddebtor @ 7:24 AM
Damn==I hate it when I post a link right after you...
:-)