Posted on 12/19/2008 12:25:19 AM PST by hoosiermama
Edited on 02/09/2012 7:04:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Crime in Chicago has been in the news lately, but it is nothing new. Historically it dates back over a hundred years. From the tale of the Gray Wolves
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/540.html
The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a faction of its aldermen known as the Gray Wolves. So named because they were viewed as preying upon the defenseless public, the Gray Wolves were led by First Ward aldermen “Bathhouse” John Coughlin and “Hinky Dink” Mike Kenna, and Johnny Powers of the Nineteenth Ward. These elected officials were not only skilled at trading votes for favors, but once in office they excelled in making municipal decisions to profit themselves financially.
TO the present, it is a compelling historical subject.
“Please post links and information, or connections of dots to this thread. Keep chit chat to the minimum or in Freemail. THANKS!”
Link the entire thread here:
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Information on people in the neighborhood
Link the entire thread here:
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Information on people in the neighborhood
Thanks Got it. If you get time to read through the thread, pay particular attention to banking, real estate, medical and pay for play posts.
What do Obama, Tim Geithner, The Ford Foundation, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, China and Muslims have in common?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/what-do-obama-tim-giether-the-ford-foundation-fannie-maefreddie-mac-and-muslims-have-in-common
May 21, 2010 by weroinnm
Question: What do President Obama, Tim Geithner, The Ford Foundation, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, China and Muslims have in common?
This article and/or blog post seems to give us the eye-opening answer to this question-You Decide:
Obama’s mother, Stanley A. Dunham, worked for Tim Giether’s Father Peter Geither at the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is partnered with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac-Posted on Forum09.FaithFreedom.org-By Defendusx-On April 16, 2009:
http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=29858
These are pertinent excerpts from this blog post:
“Peter F. Geithner, Treasury Secretary Geithner’s father, worked for the Ford Foundation.
Peter was director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation, a New World Order (NWO) operation. Peter Geithner oversaw the “microfinance” programs developed in Indonesia by Ann Dunham-Soetoro, Barack Obama’s mother.
Note: As many of you may already know, the Clintons also have strong ties to the Indonesia Microfinance program. They have been to Indonesia several times to “take care of their business.” It is the hub of the New World Order micro-finance scheme. The same scheme that was adopted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to trigger the collapse of the housing market. It was first instantiated by Carter (a NWO puppet), and then made increasingly effective by Clinton (another NWO puppet) by removing almost all restrictions. The Ford Foundation is partners with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Did you know that when Son of Stanley was going to school in Los Angeles, he went with a Pakistani friend to visit his mother in Indonesia, who was working for Peter Geithner at that time. After this, he spent a couple weeks in Pakistan, before he abruptly transferred to Columbia in New York where Peter Geithner was headquartered.
A little more about Peter Geithner and his ties to known NWO operations:
Peter F. Geithner is an advisor to the Asia Center at Harvard University and a consultant to the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Rockefeller Foundation, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and other organizations. He serves on the boards of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the China Center for Economic Research (Peking University), the Center for the Advanced Study of India (University of Pennsylvania), Clemente (Holdings) Asia, Inc., and the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Peter Geithner’s obviously rather unconventional style, gives him a lot in common with Stanley Ann, considered to be a pioneer in the field of anthropological microfinance for underprivileged Asian women. Though from far different backgrounds, both parents afforded their sons with globe-trotting, exotic childhoods, culminating in Peter’s Son playing Robin to Stanley Ann’s OBatMan. Small world, huh?
According to The Atlantic, young Timmy Giethner’s experiences at Dear Old Dad’s knee in Asia, even in China during the Tiananmen Square uprising, greatly influenced his life choices:
“First, his Asia background. Geithner’s father, Peter Geithner, was a development specialist who opened the Ford Foundation’s China office – the first foreign NGO here, under a special agreement that continues to this day. That was just before Tiananmen Square, and the father was part of the Foundation’s difficult, but, ultimately, undoubtedly correct decision to remain engaged. Tim apparently also studied Chinese, was posted in Tokyo for Treasury, and focused on Asia studies as undergraduate and graduate student. This is all great background for Treasury’s international dealings in the coming years.”
Now you can see why China is lending us all this money for Socialist/Marxist agendas? China knows that if the US is to become Socialist/Marxist, our country will no longer lead the world in innovation and technology. China has their own plans for world “hemogany.” In fact, Chinese leaders know that Communism doesn’t work, and this is why they have adopted a simulation model of Western government through their “Strategic Modernization Objective.”
There is also a solid link between the Islamic Banking Cooperative, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, The Ford Foundation, Devon Bank of Chicago and the Bank of Indonesia (Stanley A. Dunham was a research coordinator at this bank and a program officer for the Ford Foundation).
Devon began selling Islamic home refinancing products for Muslims to Freddie Mac (see below).
“CHICAGOLAND, ILLINOIS – Devon Bank today announced it would begin selling its Islamic home financing products to Freddie Mac, effectively expanding opportunities for Muslims living in Illinois and nine other states to become homeowners while observing traditional Islamic restrictions on paying interest on mortgages and other types of debt. Based in McLean, Va., Freddie Mac is one of the nation’s largest investors in mortgages and Islamic home financing products.”
Note: These web sites contain more eye-opening information relating to this issue-You Decide:
Devon Bank and Freddie Mac provide Islamic home financing-Posted on Muslim-Investor.com:
http://muslim-investor.com/news/devon-bank-freddie-mac-islamic-house-financing.html
New discovery links Dunham aliases to Dunham front companies and real-estate transactions-Posted on Forum09.FaithFreedom.org-By Defendusx-On April 16, 2009:
http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=206&start=1580&sid=e3c19f543a7b3069b46d4cd3f8897b71#p29837
Housing Partnership:
http://www.housingpartnership.net/about_us/partners/
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Takeover to Prevent Bond Market Armageddon:
http://www.hoanewsnetwork.com/media/fannie_mae_freddie_mac_takeover_to_prevent_bond_market_armageddon.php
Note: These recent articles and/or blog posts relate to and/or support this issue-You Decide:
Democrats Have No Plan for Dealing with Fannie and Freddie; Ignore Republican Proposal-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover, Staff Writer-On May 21, 2010:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/66423
CHICAGO SCANDAL: Andy Martin links Barack Obama to the growing “ShoreBank” scandal in Chicago-Posted on Contrarian Commentary-By andymartinny-On May 20, 2010:
http://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/chicago-scandal-andy-martin-links-barack-obama-to-the-growing-“shorebank”-scandal-in-chicago/
Shoring Up Chicago’s Community Bank-Posted on The American Spectator-By The Prowler-On May 17, 2010:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/17/shoring-up-chicagos-community
Muslims & Others Exempt from Health Care Mandate-Posted on ChangingWorldViews.blogspot.com-By Sharon Hughes-On April 6, 2010:
http://changingworldviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/muslims-others-exempt-from-health-care.html
Note: These articles and/or blog posts relate to and/or support my blog posts-You Decide:
The Wall Street Bailout Bill Threatens Our Bottom Line!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-wall-street-bailout-bill-threatens-our-bottom-line/
Tyrannical Takeover of Our Financial Services Sector By the Federal Government!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/tyrannical-takeover-of-our-financial-services-sector-by-the-federal-government/
U.S. Debt to Hit $20 Trillion in 10 Years!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/u-s-debt-to-hit-20-trillion-in-10-years/
U.S. Racing Toward Debt ‘Shock’
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/u-s-racing-toward-debt-‘shock’/
White House Quietly Courts Muslims in U.S.!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/white-house-quietly-courts-muslims-in-u-s/
Rising Muslim Hopes from Obama’s Outreach May Backfire!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/rising-muslim-hopes-from-obama’s-outreach-may-backfire/
Drawing a Line in the Sand!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/drawing-a-line-in-the-sand/
Europe’s Looming Demise: Changes on the Continent Cloud Our Future!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/europes-looming-demise-changes-on-the-continent-cloud-our-future/
What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/
CIA Columbia Obama Cover Up!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/
New investigation into Obama background spells trouble ahead!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/new-investigation-into-obama-background-spells-trouble-ahead/
President Obama and ACORN Connection!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/president-obama-and-acorn-connection/
Were we forewarned about what to expect if President Obama got elected?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/were-we-forewarned-about-what-to-expect-if-president-obama-got-elected/
Nearly 80 percent don’t trust the government!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/nearly-80-percent-don’t-trust-the-government/
Ongoing Concerns With This President and His Administration!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/ongoing-concerns-with-this-president-and-his-administration-92609/
Extensive Research Into Senator Obama’s Background Completed on November 10, 2008:
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/extensive-research-into-senator-obama’s-background-completed-on-november-10-2008/
SHORE BANK
Bank Scandal Fallout: Fines, Suspension, Supervision for College Illinois Fund Adviser
B G ^ | Jan 13th 2012
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:47:05 PM by george76
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that Alvin Boutte, Jr., the adviser who encouraged the state to invest in Democrats’ beloved ShoreBank as it was failing, has agreed to pay a fine, to have his securities license suspended, and to work under “heightened supervision” in the securities industry for the next year.
The ShoreBank scandal erupted in 2010 as Chicago Democrats, particularly Rep. Jan Schakowsky, tried to bail out the bank using any means necessary–whether federal, state, or private money. The bank’s closure was delayed several times–evidence, critics charged, of preferential treatment from the Obama administration.
Eventually, under pressure from the Tea Party and the media, a bailout was averted and federal regulators moved in.
Curiously, the bank’s management was permitted to buy ShoreBank’s serviceable assets and reconstitute the failed institution as Urban Partnership Bank, while taxpayers were obliged to carry the cost of dispensing with the rest.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839248/posts
The Encyclopedia of Chicago: Communist Party
Chicago Historical Society ^ | by Randi Storch
Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2012 10:10:19 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
The American Communist Party was born in Chicago in 1919 and headquartered there until 1927, when its headquarters and newspaper, the Daily Worker, moved to New York.
In the 1930s, the Communist Party in Chicago reached its largest audience through organizing the unemployed and protesting evictions and cuts in relief. Black Belt organizers recruited protesters at Washington Park, while Communists in Back of the Yards built alliances with community activists like Roman Catholic bishop Bernard Sheil and Saul Alinsky.
During the Popular Front of the late 1930s, Communism’s popularity increased among artists, writers, and intellectuals. By the end of the decade, the party claimed approximately 3,000 members, exercised influence in cultural organizations, and published its own newspaper, the MidWest Daily Record.
In 1956 numbers and influence decreased further as Khrushchev denounced Stalin and the Soviet Union suppressed the Hungarian Revolution. After the 1989 disintegration of the Soviet Union, prominent party members split off and formed the Committees of Correspondence, which had its founding meeting in 1994 in Chicago. A small Chicago Communist Party remained at the close of the twentieth century.
Rules for Radicals - A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul ...
2 - Playboy interviews Saul Alinsky - 1972
Maggie your research is the best....Think you’ve hit the pay load with this information. Am adding it to the Chicogo Crime research thread.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/politics/major-obama-donors-are-tied-to-pepe-cardona-mexican-fugitive.html?_r=1
As recently as January of last year, one of Mr. Cardona’s brothers in Chicago, Carlos Rojas Cardona, arranged for the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor for Pepe Cardona, according to prosecutors in that state. None was forthcoming.
Last fall, Carlos Cardona and another brother in Chicago, Alberto Rojas Cardona, began raising money for the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Cardona brothers, who have no prior history of political giving, appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the world of Democratic fund-raising, Democratic activists said.
Although the two brothers live and work in Chicago, they maintain ties to Pepe Cardona in Mexico. Alberto Cardona operates an advertising agency in Mexico that has worked for political candidates backed by his brother, according to public records and Mexican news reports. Public records also show that the domain name for the Web site of a restaurant Pepe Cardona owns is registered to Alberto Cardona.
Obama campaign officials said most of the money raised by the Cardona brothers came from themselves and other relatives, donations of about $200,000. In addition, the campaign was identifying other donations, believed to total less than $100,000, that was bundled from other people.
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Whatever the family’s motivation, the president cannot pardon someone for state crimes. On Monday, Democratic fund-raisers who have had encounters with Alberto and Carlos Cardona expressed surprise upon learning about their family history. Manuel Sanchez, a Chicago lawyer who is deeply involved in Latino outreach for the Obama administration, said he first met them in December at a finance committee meeting for the president’s campaign in Washington.
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One of them, a long exposé in September by a Mexican magazine, Proceso, chronicled Pepe Cardona’s relatively swift rise to fortune and notoriety in Mexico after fleeing the American authorities. He obtained Mexican gambling licenses, and with help from investors in Louisiana, he started opening casinos in and around Monterrey, eventually becoming known as Mexico’s “casino czar.”
The article reported that Tango Media, an advertising company it said is owned by Alberto Cardona, worked on the campaigns of politicians favored by Pepe Cardona in communities where he owned casinos. It also said Carlos Cardona was involved in one of Pepe Cardona’s business deals.
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http://thegazette.com/2011/10/16/fall-from-grace/
Casinos connected to drugs, politicians
Gambling has boomed in Mexico in recent years.
Proceso has reported that the number of gambling enterprises went from 123 in 2000 to at least 790 in 2011. An estimated 12,000 people work in the industry.
Monterrey, the third-largest metro area in Mexico, has been the scene of escalating violence from rival drug cartels. Gunmen entered the city’s Casino Royale on Aug. 25, setting a fire that trapped patrons and killed more than 50 people.
“I follow the cartels, and they are extremely active in the casinos,” said George Grayson, a government professor at Virginia’s College of William & Mary. “The corruption in that segment of the economy is ubiquitous.”
Rojas-Cardona was in the middle of this web, according to the 2009 diplomatic cable released on WikiLeaks.
“A source familiar with casino operations in the area reported Ibarra was arrested after returning from a meeting with Juan Jose (‘Pepe’) Rojas Cardona, who is widely believed to have orchestrated Rogelio Garza (Cantu)’s assassination,” according to the cable.
Cantu, murdered in June 2009, was known as the “El Diablo” and “Czar of Strip Clubs” and owned a large casino and several strip clubs in the Monterrey area, the cable states.
“Since casino licenses are assigned by the federal government to specific individuals, Rodrigo (sic) Garza’s casino will no longer be able to operate, thus allowing the Rojas brothers to consolidate control of casinos in the Monterrey region,” the cable states.
The Rojas-Cardona brothers had close ties to the Beltran-Leyva drug cartel and to politicians in the National Action Party, according to the cable. Sources told the U.S. Consulate that the brothers illegally donated $5 million to two politicians and gave a helicopter and free advertising to a political candidate.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/22/2514751_p3/corruption-in-mexico-casinos-takes.html
Rojas-Cardona signed a plea agreement on the felony trafficking charge in June of that year, but by September he’d skipped bail and vanished.
In late 1998, federal prosecutors asked a judge to quash the arrest warrant and lift the indictment, a practice that sometimes indicates a defendant has become a federal informant.
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Rojas Cardona, Alberto
Chicago,IL 60611 Information Requested 10/28/11 $30,800 DNC Services Corp (D)
Rojas Cardona, Alberto
Chicago,IL 60611 Tango Latin, Inc 10/28/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, Alberto
Chicago,IL 60611 Tango Latin, Inc 10/28/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, Leticia
Brentwood,TN 37027 Self-Employed 12/2/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, Leticia
Brentwood,TN 37027 Self-Employed 12/2/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, V Carlos
Chicago,IL 60601 Tango Productions 12/1/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
Rojas Cardona, V Carlos
Chicago,IL 60601 Tango Productions 12/1/11 $2,500 Obama, Barack (D)
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http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticlePrinterFriendlyNLJ.jsp?id=1202425831872&slreturn=1
Obama’s Chicago friends take a shot at predicting the president-elect’s priorities
Lynne Marek / Staff reporterContactAll Articles
The National Law Journal
November 6, 2008
Chicago lawyers who have been longtime friends and supporters of President-Elect Barack Obama expect his legislative priorities will focus on healthcare, immigration and education. Obama is likely to push hard during his first year in office for “comprehensive immigration reform” that will let some 12 million undocumented residents stay in the U.S., said Manny Sanchez, who raised $10 million from the Hispanic business community for his friend’s campaign.
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(no link)
Hispanics flex political power - Dem candidates woo growing demographic
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, September 2, 2007
Author: Jennifer Hunter, The Chicago Sun-Times
EXCERPT
Loquacious lawyer Manny Sanchez has photos of the famous scattered throughout his office, propped up against the window sill, nailed onto the wall, sitting on his bookshelf — actor John Malkovich, quarterback Joe Montana, Hillary and Bill, and, in a central spot, one of Barack Obama , with Sanchez and his wife, Pat Pulido Sanchez.
Obama is lucky to have Sanchez, 59, as one of his local Hispanic champions. Not only does Sanchez know everyone, he is a superlative fund-raiser and schmoozer, with a network nonpareil. And he has been assembling a nationwide “kitchen Cabinet” of high-profile Hispanics to advise Obama .
Sanchez sensed early that Obama was going places. “I have been a Barack Obama supporter since he first campaigned against Bobby Rush,” he explains during an interview in his office. “If you get in on the ground floor, you might be remembered.”
Sanchez says Obama is “not a traditional Democrat, a member of the Democratic elite. He is an outsider like us, and he brings the potential for a new kind of leadership.”
http://www.sanchezdh.com/announcements/president-obama-gives-founding-partner-a-shout-out
05-Oct-2011
President Obama Gives Founding Partner a Shout-out
President Obama gave Founding Partner, Manny Sanchez and wife Pat a shout-out at the Cinco de Mayo White House Reception. Click on the following link to see video of the Cinco de Mayo event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHE96OcQHgU
President Obama Announces Members of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
http://southchicagoan.blogspot.com/2011/10/seeking-latino-money-to-bolster-obama.html
People with ties to the entertainment industry, or those in other professions who want to be able to say they checked out some Hollywood glamour, will show up for a party at the home of actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas.
AMONG THOSE WHO were supposed to show up was actor Eva Longoria and television hostess Giselle Fernandez, along with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and various attorneys from around the country who head powerful law firms.
Including one attorney from Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago – Manny Sanchez, who founded the law firm of Sanchez, Daniels & Hoffman, LLP.
Maggief:
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 9:20:36 AM · 57 of 57
gonna use this post to mark where I left off and ping you to the CHI Crime thread. working in the dark, under the covers LOL Just like when a kid.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-obama-campaign-donations-20120208,0,1683357.story
Most of the money raised by the brothers came from themselves or other family members. They collected less than $100,000 from other people — and those contributions also will be returned.
At the time of the donations, the brothers were not registered voters. Alberto Rojas Cardona, 42, registered in Illinois last month and Carlos Rojas Cardona, 50, does not appear to be registered, a Chicago Board of Elections spokesman said.
Alberto Rojas Cardona lives in a Gold Coast high-rise and Carlos in a luxury apartment building overlooking Grant Park. Alberto declined to speak with Tribune reporters. Messages left at Carlos’ home were not returned.
Manny Sanchez is a Chicago lawyer and Obama fund-raiser who helps raise money among Hispanics. He said he met Alberto and Carlos Cardona at an Obama National Finance Committee meeting in Washington last December. He was struck that he did not know the Chicagoans because “it is rare for me not to know a Latino supporter.”
According to records in the Illinois Secretary of State office, the brothers are Near North Side residents — living close to the Obama campaign Prudential Building headquarters. According to Federal Election Commission and state records, they run Tango Latin Inc. and an affiliate, Tango Productions, marketing and promotion firms.
The New York Times also reported that Carlos Rojas Cardona “arranged for the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor for Pepe Cardona, according to prosecutors in that state. None was forthcoming.”
Asked by the Sun-Times why the campaign vetters — who focus on major donors, not the million or so small contributors — did not pick up on the Cardona family, the senior official said, “it was very difficult to track down full information on this one. Obviously the New York Times put investigative resources into doing so. We don’t necessarily have, our vetters don’t necessarily have, that same ability to pursue that in the case of our 1.3 million donors. As soon as the questions were raised, we refunded the contributions.”
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Two non-registered voters, who raised over 200K for Obama and the DNC and had an ex-chairman of the Iowa DNC request a pardon for their fugitive brother from the Iowa governor, were members of the National Finance Committee meeting last December in DC where Obama addressed the crowd ... AND NO ONE KNEW WHO THEY WERE?!
Fishy indeed!
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/11/obama_top_fund-raisers_huddle_.html
Obama top fund-raisers huddle in Washington Dec. 12-13
By Lynn Sweet on November 21, 2011 2:33 PM | No Comments
WASHINGTON—The Obama team top fund-raisers—the National Finance Committee—hold their next meeting here on Dec. 12 and 13. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/obama-on-2012-this-is-going-to-be-tough/
Dec 13, 2011 5:56pm
Obama on 2012: ‘This Is Going to Be Tough’
Admitting his re-election is “not a slam-dunk,” President Obama today asked supporters to stick with him in 2012 because “this is going to be tough.”
“It’s understandable if people aren’t feeling as chipper as they were back in 2008,” given the state of the economy, the president said.
“There’s going to be some skepticism. There’s going to be some pushback,” Obama told members of his campaign’s National Finance Committee.
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http://www.politico.com/politico44/2011/12/obama-economic-fairness-at-the-core-of-race-107251.html
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
12/13/11 12:45 PM EST
The country still has a ways to go after facing a crossroads in 2008, President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he spoke to top donors for his reelection campaign.
“Back in 2008 we used to talk about this being a historic moment for America, that we were at a crossroads in our history,” he said at a midday event for members of the Obama campaign’s National Finance Committee at a Washington hotel. “We haven’t fully crossed the road, and in some ways 2012 is even more important than it was four years ago. The choices could not be starker.”
All money raised goes to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint account shared by the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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rsday, February 09, 2012 9:25:45 AM · 24 of 26
maggief to hoosiermama; MestaMachine; LucyT; STARWISE
A few more pieces of the puzzle ...
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/09/obama_defends_immigration_reco.html
Obama defends immigration record, curious about Chicago casino during Rich Daley, Danny Solis WH visit
By Lynn Sweet on September 11, 2011 2:42 PM | No Comments
WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama dropped in at Chief of Staff Bill Daley’s office on Friday, the conversation with visiting Chicagoans — including former Mayor Richard Daley and his son, Patrick — turned to how Mayor Rahm Emanuel was doing, why Chicago doesn’t have casino gambling and Obama’s own immigration record.
That’s the report I got from Ald. Danny Solis (25th), whom I ran into on Pennsylvania Avenue as he was leaving the White House on Friday with City Colleges of Chicago board chair and Cabrera Capital Markets CEO Martin Cabrera Jr., Evans Food Group CEO Alejandro Silva and United Neighborhood Organization CEO Juan Rangel.
I’ve been fascinated with the interlocking relationships among Chicagoans in the Obama White House since the beginning, which was made even more interesting when Bill Daley later took over from Emanuel as chief of staff. Solis has distinct and separate ties to the Daley brothers as a Chicago alderman and to Obama, whom he met when they were both young community organizers in Chicago.
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One thing, I guess, led to another and Obama offered up, Solis said, that his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, “goes once or twice a year to Vegas and really enjoys it.”
Solis and Obama met in the 1980s when Solis worked for UNO and Obama for The Developing Communities Project, both part of the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation network. “We used to go to the same trainings together,” Solis told me.
There is also another connection. Patti, Solis’ sister — who managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign until she was jettisoned — ended up in the Obama 2008 headquarters in Chicago as chief of staff for vice presidential running mate Joe Biden.
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The Chicagoans were in town for a dinner honoring the former mayor on Thursday night, hosted by Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan.
Sarukhan met with Daley in September 2009, when he was in Chicago. When I interviewed Sarukhan in April of last year, in advance of First Lady Michelle’s trip to Mexico City, he recalled his Chicago tour and his interest in a city with such an enormous Mexican-American community.
Bill Daley joined the dinner honoring his brother after Obama delivered his jobs speech before a joint session of Congress Thursday night. Solis said Mayor Daley suggested the White House visit Friday.
It was “a good friendly meeting among people who have known each other for a very long time,” Solis said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel_Foundation
The name “Gamaliel” refers to the Biblical wise man who was a teacher to St. Paul (see Acts 5:38-39; and Acts 22:3), whom Saul Alinsky considered to be the first great congregation-based organizer.
Gamaliel Foundation works in the community organizing tradition of Alinsky, ...
http://www.dannysolis.org/node/199
Ald. Danny Solis Voted Chair of the Hispanic Caucus
http://www.newsmax.com/BradleyBlakeman/Lobby-Obama-White-House/2011/12/28/id/422377
Lobby Group Provides Access to Obama White House
Wednesday, 28 Dec 2011 02:38 PM
By Bradley Blakeman
EXCERPT
Business Forward is officially a non-profit trade association formed after President Obama was elected. It was formed by former Obama staffers and supporters.
Its’ 2009 tax filing lists four directors: The CEO James Doyle, a liberal Democrat Obama supporter and the husband of Patti Solis Doyle, who was an official in the Obama presidential campaign. The corporate secretary and director David Sutphen, another big Democrat, whose sister Mona Sutphen is Deputy White House Chief of Staff; Erik Smith, an Obama supporter; and Rob Shepardson, who ran candidate Obama’s youth marketing agency.
Instead of simply forming a lobbying group, these relatives and Obama campaign officials formed a trade association. This is rather unusual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Sarukh%C3%A1n
Arturo Sarukhán
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Sarukhan graduated from El Colegio de México with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and received a master’s degree in U.S. Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where he studied as a Fulbright scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow. In 1988–1989, before joining Mexico’s Foreign Service, Sarukhan served as the Executive Secretary of the Commission for the Future of Mexico-US relations, a non-governmental initiative funded by the Ford Foundation to recast the Mexico-US relationship.[4]
Mexico promises increased efforts to return border-crossing fugitives
Ambassador tells Durbin his country ‘will never be a safe haven’
January 30, 2012|By Gary Marx and David Jackson, Chicago Tribune reporters
Mexico’s top diplomat in the United States has vowed that his government will redouble efforts to apprehend the growing numbers of criminal suspects who escape across America’s borders.
“You have my firm commitment that Mexico will never be a safe haven for fugitives fleeing justice in the United States,” Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan wrote in a Jan. 25 letter to U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.
Durbin received the diplomat’s letter late Friday and provided a copy to the Tribune on Monday.
Durbin has seized on the issue of border-crossing fugitives in response to a recent Tribune investigative series that found violent criminals were able to leave the country and remain at large because of an astonishing lack of coordination among U.S. Justice Department officials, county prosecutors and local police; a failure by these agencies to keep track of their cases; and inexplicable, years-long delays.
Penetrating the intense secrecy that surrounds America’s extradition program, the Tribune identified more than 100 international fugitives from northern Illinois who remain free today. Wanted on charges of homicide, rape and other felonies, those suspects fled to countries as far-flung as Nigeria, South Korea and India, but more than half found haven in Mexico, records show.
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http://www.thenews.com.mx/index.php/home/P01-19424.html
In Mexico, ‘justice is not politicized’
Poiré will be meeting with US officials in Washington
THE NEWS
WASHINGTON – Mexican Secretary of the Interior, Alejandro Poiré, denied accusations by Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) members on Thursday who said that the Mexican government has used the justice system for political purposes.
Poiré, who travelled to Washington to meet with Obama Administration officials, said that officials in President Felipe Calderón’s administration have never instructed any Justice Department official to act on political grounds.
“We categorically deny that there is any use of the justice system for political purposes,” Poiré said in response to questions about a travel ban issued to three PRI ex-governors of the state of Tamaulipas who are being investigated by the federal government.
“The Public Prosecutor is required to act according to any evidence that comes before him,” Poiré said. “We have a government that upholds the laws and respects the principal of checks and balances, especially when dealing with judicial cases.”
Poiré, who arrived to Washington on Wednesday evening, met with foreign correspondents from the Mexican media at the Mexican embassy where he was accompanied by the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan.
When asked about comments made by aspiring National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate, Josefina Vázquez Mota, that Poiré’s personal conversations had been recorded, Poiré responded that there never has been and will never be orders from the federal government to Justice Department officials to attack politicians from other political parties.
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He arrived at Washington on the same day U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s appeared in the House of Representatives where he testified about his involvement in the controversial “Fast and Furious” program.
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The Santorum Tsunami (braying)
Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:17:14 AM · 6 of 10
hoosiermama to bray
Have been relating it to a tag team wrestling match.
OTOH one little lady by the name of Trish Erickson (not sure of the spelling) could take Romney down with her feather pen. She has impeccable credentials and has been on many local radio programs. The MSM probably will not give her much notoriety. Her father served as a Bishop like Romney and she exposes all of his weaknesses. The book is available from Amazon in paperback and some freepers have bought multiple copies to share with their communities.
The book is titled: CAN MITT ROMNEY SERVE TWO MASTERS?
Better conservatives start the dialogue then leave it to Axelrod to use in the fall if Romney gets the nomination.
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Return of the Culture Wars: Can Mitt Romney Win Conservative Backing?
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:41:19 AM · 18 of 25
hoosiermama to BitWielder1
If her message gets out. One little lady, Trisha Erickson will bring Mitt down. Her credential are top drawer. Her father served as Bishop when Romney did. She exposes him for what he is. It’s available at Amazon in paperback. She has been on several local radio stations across the country promoting the book. Some freepers have bought multiple copies and distributed them in their communities. The book is titled: CAN MITT ROMNEY SERVE TWO MASTERS?
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Return of the Culture Wars: Can Mitt Romney Win Conservative Backing?
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:34:21 AM · 17 of 25
hoosiermama to Zakeet
not just NO
HELL NO!
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Day after losses, Romney says he’s better tea party candidate than GOP rivals
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:19:29 AM · 80 of 80
hoosiermama to Outlaw Woman
The idea came from a post that Santorum’s major donor, Thompson, had close connections with Romney. It was all laid out, but heaven knows where that post is now. Didn’t think it relavant enough to keep at the time. Now wish I had. One of those things that makes a person go HMMMMM.
It may indeed be a way of dividing the conservative vote, or it may be that this Thomposon characters knows Romney and wants to make sure he doesn’t get the nomination.
Hearing Sanatorum attack Romney, wonder if he even knows about the connection between the two.
Who knows?
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CHICAGO: CRIME KIND OF TOWN
Thursday, February 09, 2012 7:50:14 AM · 689 of 689
hoosiermama to MestaMachine; maggief
gonna use this post to mark where I left off and ping you to the CHI Crime thread. working in the dark, under the covers LOL Just like when a kid.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-obama-campaign-donations-20120208,0,1683357.story
Most of the money raised by the brothers came from themselves or other family members. They collected less than $100,000 from other people — and those contributions also will be returned.
At the time of the donations, the brothers were not registered voters. Alberto Rojas Cardona, 42, registered in Illinois last month and Carlos Rojas Cardona, 50, does not appear to be registered, a Chicago Board of Elections spokesman said.
Alberto Rojas Cardona lives in a Gold Coast high-rise and Carlos in a luxury apartment building overlooking Grant Park. Alberto declined to speak with Tribune reporters. Messages left at Carlos’ home were not returned.
Manny Sanchez is a Chicago lawyer and Obama fund-raiser who helps raise money among Hispanics. He said he met Alberto and Carlos Cardona at an Obama National Finance Committee meeting in Washington last December. He was struck that he did not know the Chicagoans because “it is rare for me not to know a Latino supporter.”
According to records in the Illinois Secretary of State office, the brothers are Near North Side residents — living close to the Obama campaign Prudential Building headquarters. According to Federal Election Commission and state records, they run Tango Latin Inc. and an affiliate, Tango Productions, marketing and promotion firms.
The New York Times also reported that Carlos Rojas Cardona “arranged for the former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party to seek a pardon from the governor for Pepe Cardona, according to prosecutors in that state. None was forthcoming.”
Asked by the Sun-Times why the campaign vetters — who focus on major donors, not the million or so small contributors — did not pick up on the Cardona family, the senior official said, “it was very difficult to track down full information on this one. Obviously the New York Times put investigative resources into doing so. We don’t necessarily have, our vetters don’t necessarily have, that same ability to pursue that in the case of our 1.3 million donors. As soon as the questions were raised, we refunded the contributions.”
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Two non-registered voters, who raised over 200K for Obama and the DNC and had an ex-chairman of the Iowa DNC request a pardon for their fugitive brother from the Iowa governor, were members of the National Finance Committee meeting last December in DC where Obama addressed the crowd ... AND NO ONE KNEW WHO THEY WERE?!
Fishy indeed!
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/11/obama_top_fund-raisers_huddle_.html
Obama top fund-raisers huddle in Washington Dec. 12-13
By Lynn Sweet on November 21, 2011 2:33 PM | No Comments
WASHINGTON—The Obama team top fund-raisers—the National Finance Committee—hold their next meeting here on Dec. 12 and 13. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/obama-on-2012-this-is-going-to-be-tough/
Dec 13, 2011 5:56pm
Obama on 2012: ‘This Is Going to Be Tough’
Admitting his re-election is “not a slam-dunk,” President Obama today asked supporters to stick with him in 2012 because “this is going to be tough.”
“It’s understandable if people aren’t feeling as chipper as they were back in 2008,” given the state of the economy, the president said.
“There’s going to be some skepticism. There’s going to be some pushback,” Obama told members of his campaign’s National Finance Committee.
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http://www.politico.com/politico44/2011/12/obama-economic-fairness-at-the-core-of-race-107251.html
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
12/13/11 12:45 PM EST
The country still has a ways to go after facing a crossroads in 2008, President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he spoke to top donors for his reelection campaign.
“Back in 2008 we used to talk about this being a historic moment for America, that we were at a crossroads in our history,” he said at a midday event for members of the Obama campaign’s National Finance Committee at a Washington hotel. “We haven’t fully crossed the road, and in some ways 2012 is even more important than it was four years ago. The choices could not be starker.”
All money raised goes to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint account shared by the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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Check out this thread:
Thanks STD for the tip.
(notice the reference to Noah Robinson. Name sake of JJ biological father)
Hmmmm I thought JJ was his only son. Looks like we have a connection to MO here if her Robinson family is indeed related.
COnviction twice of Noah Robinson
and more dots connected:
* (some salty language here/there ;-)
Fascinating!
Trying to keep all the information in one spot, so I’ve stolen all of your posts.....that’s the CHicago way....If a few freepers have gathered ALL this material from public records think what the FBI with wire taps etc COULD do.
Liberty feel free to share the frmail I just sent you with BD and SA.
Brown Deer would you mind making MO’s history live on this thread....Thanks.
Be aware that if you connect dots here all can read.
I’m approaching this from a little different angle than I’ve seen before, but that doesn’t mean I’m not duplicating someone else’s research. If this line is a no-go I don’t want to waste my time (or anyone else’s for that matter). :)
22 posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 7:11:52 PM by LibertyRocks
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To: LibertyRocks; Nachum; null and void; LucyT; butterdezillion
Ancestry of Michelle Robinson Obama
23 posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:33:00 PM by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: LibertyRocks
Search away. I have seen photos of Mooch-ell with Farakhan’s family, all around that Rev Wright social set. You’ll find plenty of stories. Such as the first wopper in this 5 things about Mrs R in People mag in Jan 2009- She would not “premanently” move into thr White House. Just to get the girls settled. HA! 3 1/2 years later, she’ still there. OK. It depends on what you mean by “permanent”. Like the travel office, until Hitlery arrived that is.
24 posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:48:17 PM by shalom aleichem
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To: LibertyRocks
Search away. I have seen photos of Mooch-ell with Farakhan’s family, all around that Rev Wright social set. You’ll find plenty of stories. Such as the first wopper in this 5 things about Mrs R in People mag in Jan 2009- She would not “premanently” move into thr White House. Just to get the girls settled. HA! 3 1/2 years later, she’ still there. OK. It depends on what you mean by “permanent”. Like the travel office, until Hitlery arrived that is.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20253448,00.html
25 posted on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:48:49 PM by shalom aleichem
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To: LibertyRocks
This little tale of 2 years past - Obamas attend a barbeque “around the corner” from their house at a Marty Nesbitt’s home which is across the street from Farrakhan’s home. The Fruit of Islam elite guard wants to take on the SS and media pool. I wish we could have seen that titanic duel. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/30/obama-in-chicago-secret-service-standoff-with-farrakhans-fruit/print/
I’ll definitely be reading this whole thread tomorrow and will add what I have. I might share some things only by Freepmail as we all know how quickly those rabbit-holes can develop.
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