I hadn't heard that before. Is that in "2016"?
If it was, I missed it.
I didn’t know that either.
I had read of the relationship between Valerie Jarret’s father-in-law and Frank, though. Its a close circle.
Paladin2, no it wasn’t in 2016 that I can remember. I believe it happened through Frank Marshall Davis’ friendship with Tom Ayers. Beck doesn’t explain but does emphasize it. I know that Arpaio found a mailman who delivered mail to Tom Ayers house in Chicago and remembers Mrs. Ayers introducing him to a tall, think young Black man, who he believes was Barack Obama (Soetoro at that time). She told the postman he was an exchange student and they were helping with his education (assuming the story is true) I see a number of references to Tom Ayers and Davis around the Internet.
I also see that Valerie Jarrett’s mother appointed Tom Ayers to the Erickson Group’s Board of Trustee, and Jarrett’s father-in-law worked for The Chicago Defender, as did Frank Marshall Davis (a communist newspaper).
There is a lot about Tom Ayers, Chair of Commonwealth Edison, now the biggest electric provider. But back then just the biggest operator of nuclear power plants.
During the Weathermen/underground days, I was active in Chicago’s Alinsky groups that were organizing against big business, including the utilities. Welfare recipients wanted to target Com Ed first, not Peoples Gas. The Alinsky organizers debated the upside and downside of doing so. Part of the debate was that Tom Ayers was on the left, but the establishment left...think European type establishtment left. But the organizers were most concerned about getting into the middle of the tiff between father and son. They consciously chose to stay away and target Peoples Gas. I’ve got to say, the People’s Gas protests were some of the most fun. Nothing accomplished..but exciting.
Repeatedly others in chicago decided whether to go after ComEd with the Tom-Bill father-son relationship a major consideration. Check out the early days of Pat Quinn and CUB before it was CUB.