Posted on 10/12/2008 2:54:18 PM PDT by NCjim
Recognize a name here among the beneficiaries of taxpayer dollars?
As Chicago (and Illinois, for that matter) reels from a fiscal crisis resulting in a cutback of services and layoffs of thousands, Mayor Daley spends many millions on public relations and image building.
One of the beneficiaries is Marilyn Katz. Where have I heard that name before? She is a bundler for Barack Obama, a person with a radical past (head of security for the Students for a Democratic Society-SDS-fromm which Bill Ayers' militant Weathermen group splintered).
She was also the prinicpal organizer of the now famous 2002 antiwar rally in which Barack Obama spoke against the Iraq War. And she serves on his finance committee as well as hosting fundraisers for him and donating thousands of dollars to the cause.
She traveled to the Democratic convention, serving as a member of the credentials committee. She has links to Bill Ayers . She makes herself readily available to provide spin to downplay the Ayers-Obama relationship (see today's superb Chicago Tribune article by the intrepid columnist John Kass):
One friend of Obama and Ayers is former '60s radical Marilyn Katz, now an Obama fundraiser, strategist and public relations maven. She's often a go-to quote for reporters to knock down the Ayers-Obama story.
"What Bill Ayers and [former Black Panther, now U.S. Rep.] Bobby Rush . . . did 40 years ago has nothing to do with [the presidential campaign]," Katz was quoted as saying in the Chicago Sun-Times in April. "[Ayers] has a national reputation. He lectures at Harvard [University] and Vassar [College]."
What that story and many other pro-Obama articles gloss over is that during the violent protests of the 1968 Democratic National Convention here, Katz was the security chief for the radical Students for a Democratic Society. She once advocated throwing studded nails in front of police cars, back in the SDS days when the group was alleged to have thrown cellophane bags full of human excrement at cops and cans of urine and golf balls impaled with nails.
How things change.
Under this Daley, her firm, MK Communications, has many city deals, and one involves public relations for the Chicago Police Department's community policing program. From nails to contracts, the Chicago Way. Apparently, irony was not a '60s thing.
Now, as Daley prepares to lay off more than 1,000 city workers, he's given Katz and other public relations firms five-year contracts that could pay them as much as $5 million each for consulting, advertising and promotion.
Getting in good with Daley hasn't been bad for business. She also lists as her clients Daley's Chicago Housing Authority, Daley's City Colleges, Daley's city Law Department, and Daley's Departments of Aviation, Environment, Housing, Human Services, Planning and Development, Public Health, Public Works, Streets and Sanitation, Intergovernmental Affairs, Special Events—the list goes on.
Fired workers-the little people? Services being shut down? Infrastructure crumbling? School kids ripped off?
Ahh..who cares..as long as the public realtions machine and image building can flourish in the hands of people who make it their job to create illusions and delusions?
Sorry it was a copy and paste, I will try to modify it.
She looks like Mama from “Throw Mama From the Train”
A friend shared this letter (can’t confirm it’s authenticity), but it raises some very serious issues that I myself have wondered about. I’m sure many of you have as well. Here goes, typo’s and all: To All My Friends, this is very important, please take the time to read it.
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since then. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking “where did the money come from for Obama”.
I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans. I started looking into Obama’s life. Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. “Barry” (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan.
During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a “round the world” trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. My question - Where d! Id he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap! To say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe.
After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. A year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York. By “chance” he met Antoin “Tony” Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association”. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans?
After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented “Rezar” which Rezko’s firm. Rezko ! Was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with “seed money” for his U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy? On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was “sacked” after the press found out he was having regular contacts with “Hamas”, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will “Take care of things”.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those “small” Internet campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East? And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on “This Week” with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, “My Muslim faith”. When questioned, “he made a mistake”. Some mistake!
All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008. Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our “intelligent” members of the press been reporting this? A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - “Beware of the enemy from within”!!!
This is from a poster at a non-political forum I frequent and not from me, I thought I should share it though.
And this is a quote from Abraham Lincoln:”Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, quickly tried and hanged!!!”
Here’s a bit more ...
Where are Chicago’s infamous war-protesters 40 years later?
EXCERPT
What did you accomplish?
Katz We have a congressional delegation that was forged out of
‘68Danny Davis, antiwar, civil rights; Luis Gutierrez, Young Lords;
Jan Schakowsky, consumer and antiwar advocate. It was the ending, for
better or for worse, of an illusion which all of us children of the
‘50s grew up withthat the U.S. was a total democracy and that our
foreign policy was benign. It changed the way power was shared and
policy was forged in this country.
Kurshan I think that ‘68…did make it more difficult for the U.S. to
militarily move wherever it wanted in the world. Our goal was really
to make sure that there wouldn’t be another Vietnam, and that we have
not succeeded in doing, clearly. So on the one hand, I feel like we
were able to put a brake on; on the other hand, we’re still dealing
with the same nefariousness.
James What it accomplished was bringing people together. You have to
take the whole city; you have to look at [antisegregationist] Al Raby
and the demonstrations around the schools, and the Willis Wagons
[portable classrooms reportedly used to perpetuate segregation], the
emergence of the Black Panther Party and on to the election of Harold
Washington. And now Obama.
Bookmark!!
See this one, it’s good.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104020/posts
Everyone is out to destroy Palin - but it’s Obama’s past we should examine
I am really starting to believe this is all coordinated. I am not normally a tine foil guy, but I keep going back to how is it that a US terrorist has an article published on 9-11. HE obviously had to ok the interview and i really would like the ACTUAL records of conversations. I’d be willing to bet he wanted the article published that day. Hell that could have even been the signal to the terrorists.
Think about why all these people are the ones who screamed about US Citizens having their calls listened too when they’re speaking with terrorists or suspicious people overseas. Is it possible that these people (Ayers, etal) are so full of themselves that they worked with Islamic terrorists to help take down the country? Enemy of my Enemy and all?
There are just SOOOO many weird connections, so many unanswered questions. Do these journalists who HAVE TO KNOW this stuff is out there think that they are doing their children any good? Do they think they’re doing their parents proud? How about their spouse? Are they above the collapse of a country? Are they immune from the blue shirts?
Attention Journalists - If you don’t investigate Obama all the way, do you journalists know what you’re getting? Will you be so happy your editors pulled this whitewash when Obama arrests you for disagreeing with his policies? Or when you don’t print exactly what he wants printed? The thought police are at the gates and they will be knocking on your door because you let them in. I call you uneducated, ignorant and criminally negligent. You don’t deserve the freedom you are taking away from your children. Disgraceful.
May 2008
2008 Race for the White House: David Axelrod, the Man With Obama’s Game Plan
EXCERPT
It is also a Chicago thing. To a jaundiced eye from the East, Carl Sandburg’s “city of big shoulders” is an unexpected locus of optimism — a community whose leading citizens believe fervently in civic progress and the ameliorative power of politics. “Chicago is a place where the impossible becomes possible,” argues Marilyn Katz, a public relations consultant and political operative who has worked with Axelrod for 30 years. “We don’t have New York cynicism.”
Thank you.
**Marilyn Katz.**
Is she realated to Vera Katz, the ex-dimocrat mayor of Portland, OR?
Millions in "corporate welfare" at the expense of "the little guy"? Democrats? In Chicago?? I don't believe it! It has to be a Republican trick!!
Say it ain't so, Big-O!
That’s one helluva big bra those gals dobie dobie do be burning!
LOL...I think they believe they are doing some kind of ‘incantation’. She was a member of some wierd group that tried to ‘levitate the Pentagon’....LOL..No joke...to this day she believes they ‘pulled it off’. Just read an article she wrote about it while I was googling around.
She might make a perfect Secretary of State in Obama’s administration.....lol
Didn't they try the same thing at the Denver Mint during the Democrap Covention? With the same spectacular results?
lol..really? That is too funny!!
Somehow I missed that stunt during the dem convention. Hysterical....lol..
‘Shake the money out and give it to the poor’
Good lord..they already have been given houses, cars and $5000.00 credit lines that have essentially brought the entire world economy to it’s knees by a very efficient ACORN/Democrat/Obama ‘shakedown’ of the US Treasury. They want more?
>>They want more?<<
If you’ve got it, they want it.
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