Posted on 09/06/2009 5:33:18 PM PDT by thouworm
The Sound(?) Advice of "Chief Advisor" Valerie Jarrett
Advice on “green energy” czar Van Jones--- HIRE HIM!
Advice on Healthcare--- DUMP and DECEIVE the POOR PUBLIC (in action, not word)
Advice on Public Housing for the Poor and Underprivileged--- SCREW EM! (in action, not word)
Advice on “green energy” czar Van Jones: Hire him!
“Van Jones, we were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House, we've been watching him, really, for - he's not that old— but for as long as he's been active out of Oakland and all of the ways that he has - the creative ideas that he has and so now we have captured that and we have all that energy and enthusiasm in the White House”
<>Advice on Healthcare: Dump and Deceive the Poor Public (in action, not word)
MICHELLE'S DUMPING DESIGNS
Republicans on Capitol Hill are taking a fresh look at one of the seedier Chicago stories from Barack and Michelle Obama's past in ratcheting up the debate on Obamacare: the University of Chicago Hospital's "Urban Health Initiative," which Michelle Obama ran prior to her taking a leave of absence to campaign with her husband in 2007.
Because of the medical center's location on the South Side of Chicago, a large number of indigent patients, without health insurance, were using the hospital's emergency room for care. The nonprofit hospital, which in 2007 made more than $100 million in profits, largely because its beds and facilities were used by paying patients and those fully insured, paid Mrs. Obama to oversee the Urban Health Initiative program that identified indigent patients and then steered them to other area medical facilities. In fact, some of those profits came from Canadian citizens who traveled to the U.S. for medical procedures they could not get due to Canada's restrictive national health care programs.
It wasn't just Obama's wife who was involved in creating the program. Senior White House adviser and political strategist, David Axelrod, and his PR firm in Chicago were retained to develop a media campaign to encourage area residents not to use University of Chicago as a medical facility. Senior White House official, and Obama friend, Valerie Jarrett served on the board of directors of the hospital and approved the plan for the Urban Health Initiative, and the hiring of Axelrod. And on the recommendation of then Senator Obama, Dr. Eric Whitaker, was named director of the Initiative in late 2007, after serving as the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, a job he got after Obama recommended him to then Gov. Rod Blagojevich via another Obama crony, Tony Rezko, a fund-raiser for Obama and now a convicted felon on federal corruption charges. Candidate Obama thought enough of the program to tout it as an example of how health care reform should be done….
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/27/profiling-obama
The resultant PR campaign was a study in Orwellian audacity. Chicago's inner city residents soon began hearing that UCMC's patient dumping program would "dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents" and that the medical center was generously willing to provide "a ride on a shuttle bus to other centers." Likewise, the people who ran the community hospitals to which these unwanted patients were being shuttled began to read claims in local media to the effect that the Urban Health Initiative was good for them as well. Dr. Eric Whitaker, the Blagojevich crony who succeeded Mrs. Obama as Director of the program, repeatedly assured gullible reporters that the financial impact on these hospitals would be positive: "The initiative actually is improving their bottom lines." The CFOs of those hospitals were no doubt relieved to learn that treating Medicaid and uninsured patients is profitable.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
See also:
Michelle Obama’s Shady Involvement in Chicago Hospital’s “Patient Dumping” of the Poor Being Investigated
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2009/07/27/michelle-obamas-shady-involvement-in-chicago-hospitals-patient-dumping-of-the-poor-being-investigated/
U. of C. shunning poor patients?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article
Advice on Public Housing for the Poor and Underpriviledged: Screw em! (in action, not word)
Valerie Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.
The owner, a local nonprofit company called Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp....Woodlawn Preservation hired a private management firm, William Moorehead and Associates, to oversee the complex. In 2001, the company lost that contract and a contract to manage several public housing projects for allegedly failing to do its job. The company's head, William Moorehead, was subsequently convicted of embezzling almost $1 million in management fees.
Woodlawn Preservation hired a new property manager, Habitat Co. At the time, the company was headed by its founder, Daniel Levin, also a major contributor to Obama's campaigns. Valerie Jarrett was executive vice president.
Residents say the complex deteriorated under Moorehead's management and continued to decline after Habitat took over. A maintenance worker at the complex says money often wasn't even available for steel wool to plug rat holes. But as late as 2003, a routine federal inspection still gave conditions at Grove Parc a score of 82 on a 100-point scale.
“About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.”
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full
See also:
What the NYT’s 8,100-word Valerie Jarrett profile didn’t tell you http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/27/what-the-nyts-8100-word-valerie-jarrett-profile-didnt-tell-you/
Who “Advises” Valerie Jarrett?
Jarrett has surrounded herself with some rather unsavory characters who appear to be more like 'enforcers' than 'advisers.'
Meet Mike Strautmanis, Jarrett's Chief of Staff.
Strautmanis is one of Barack and Michelle Obama's closest friends, going all the way back to the beginning in Chicago. He has worked not only for the Obamas but for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
But here is an interesting tidbit concerning Strautmanis, in Jarrett's own words:
Obama describes him as a “utility man,” and campaign advisor and Obama family friend Valerie Jarrett says he’s the person you call when you need help with a delicate situation. “He understands the importance of the personal touch and that e-mails and phone calls are not always appropriate,” she said, talking about a specific example that she wouldn’t describe in detail…
http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d5-The-powers-behind-the-throne
Valerie Jarrett’s compensation for her sound(?) advice
Since moving to the White House, Jarrett has resigned her position as chief executive of Habitat Co., one of the Midwest's largest property-management firms. Her report shows she earned $550,000 in deferred compensation from Habitat Executive Services, plus a salary of $302,000 in 2008.
She also reported $346,687 in income from serving on seven boards, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Jarrett's most lucrative fee as a director was $146,643 from Chicago-based USG Corp., a building products maker.
Jarrett is also still receiving compensation from the Chicago Transit Authority, where she was Mayor Richard Daley's handpicked chairwoman from 1995 to 2003. She estimated $35,559 in deferred compensation as part of the CTA's supplemental retirement plan.
Jarrett reported a money market fund holding between $1 million and $5 million.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-white-house-wealthapr09,0,1573304.story
Have you ever visited the ChicaGO Crime Thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2151323/posts?q=1&;page=1
Am going through it now collecting VJ stuff....You’re welcome to pull other information on your subject....Hopfully I’ll get it indexed soon, but I do have a general idea where certain materials are so if you’re looking for a specific subject ask.
Liz for POTUS!
This is going to sound strange, Maxine Box says, but 50 years later, she can’t forget it: Barack Obama’s mother used to crack her knuckles...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004164387_brodeur05m.html
Local News | Memories of Obama’s mother | Seattle Times Newspaper
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Obama File 38 Barack Obama, Frank Marshall Davis, Vernon Jarrett-One Degree of Seperation
Obama File 37 here
Why did Barack Obama move to Chicago? Why did he choose a city famous for its corruption and distrust of outsiders as a launching pad for his political career?
Did Obama’s boyhood mentor, life long communist Frank Marshall Davis influence that choice?
Obama admits he was inspired to first move to Chicago in 1983 by the election of the city’s first black mayor Harold washington. Obama even unsuccessfully wrote away for a job in Washington’s administration.
Frank Marshall Davis had lived in Chicago for many years until moving to Hawaii in 1948. He had been active in Chicago’s post War Communist Party while Harold Washington was a left leaning young law student. Had the two ever met?
Possibly not, but there was only one degree of seperation.
Frank Marshall Davis was involved in Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center “a meeting place for young African American writers and artists during the 1940s”. An outgrowth of the Federal Art Project, the Art Center was a hangout for Communist Party members and sympathisers including Richard Wright, Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins and Arna Bontemps.
Another center regular was a young journalist named Vernon Jarrett. (((Valerie Jarrett’s father)))
Davis and Jarrett also worked together on the black run newspaper, the Chicago Defender.
MORE HERE
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-38-barack-obama-frank.html
Yes; I will need to find source, but I just read that he so influential that he made somewhat of a “deathbed” plea (don’t remember if he was very ill or actually dying) to voters and I think the quote was “and the voters responded.”
Sounded quite dramatic if I recall, & which election? have to find out; Illinois Senate or US Senate? It is probably on one of the 80 tabs I still have open.
LucyT, Thanks for the ping. Thouworm, Thanks for the wealth of information! The evil Chicago connections just go on and on and on...
Definitely connections there I discovered researching on FRED NERK’s
work. Will need to find also.
ANY REAL ESTATE CONNECTION WITH THIS COMPANY?
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FROM:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160366/posts
The body of Steven L. Good was found in his Jaguar on Monday. The car was spotted in a parking lot of a wildlife preserve in Kane County, Illinois, just outside Chicago, authorities said.
No note was found, and police say they do not know how long the 52-year-old had been in the vehicle.
Good was the chairman and chief executive officer of Sheldon Good & Co., a major U.S. real estate auction company.
... In his role as chairman of the Realtors Commercial Alliance Committee,
Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLEPRINT ARTICLE
CHICAGO (Map) - CHICAGO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — The auction is going global in commercial real estate sales. Sheldon Good & Company Auctions International (www.sheldongood.com), the world’s largest real estate auction company, and its Chairman and CEO, Steven L. Good, today announced the first of a series of auctions to be conducted under a five-year agreement between Sheldon Good & Company and the Urban Land Institute. The total auction series is slated to generate $100 million in sales.
The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a non-profit organization with offices in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and London. Its stated mission is “to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.” ULI advocates progressive development, covering topics such as sustainability, smart growth, compact development, place making, and workforce housing.
The ULI was founded in 1936 and currently has over 39,000 members. More than 20% of the members work in government, academia, or public-private partnerships. Most of the rest are involved in the real estate and urban development industries.
The organization makes several awards annually, including the ULI Awards for Excellence, the Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Student Competition, the J. C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, and the ULI-Kenneth M. Good Graduate Student Fellowship
You’re welcome, NorwegianViking.
I’m lost will get back as soon as I finish connecting.....THen will start connecting dots.
Obama and Clintons aren’t strangers at all.
Hillary did FREE LEGAL WORK for Wade Rathke, start up of ACORN. ACORN Started in Little Rock.
Wade Rathke, Chief Community Organizer ACORN hires 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
Indicted political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko and Aiham Alsammarae, who served as Iraqi Minister of Energy following the 2003 U.S. invasion, were classmates at the Illinois Institute of Technology and one-time business partners for a proposed power plant and a planned security company in Iraq. The upcoming fraud trial for Rezko, political patron to Sen. Barack Obama...
ALSAMMARAE. AL SAMARE. ALSAMARE. AL SAMARE. THAT'S HIM ON THE RIGHT BEHIND BLAGO.
I agree.Time to nail Valerie Jarrett. She is the voice of the president and time to remove the voice and his ability to function.
Who is Valerie Jarrett, senior White House advisor to Barack Obama?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-valerie-jarrett-senior-white.html ^
Certainly she is a long-time friend of and fundraiser for Barack Obama. But her ties to failed and fraudulent real estate deals in Chicago are of the most concern.
Problems including the fact that many of the approximately one thousand housing units were “uninhabitable” and were condemned by federal authorities. Grove Parc Plaza, one of the largest residential housing complexes in Barack Obama’s state senatorial district, has been at the center of a variety of scandals.
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2008_Oct_Valerie_Jarrett/
Link to a background peice on Valerie Jarrett. It is a puff peice, but has some good info.
With a little luck she’ll get nailed by FItzpatrick before we get her:
FROM:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176560/posts
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1407352,CST-NWS-davis01.article
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed records on dozens of low-income housing projects built over the last 30 years by indicted businessman William F. Cellini, convicted political fund-raiser Tony Rezko and City Hall insider Allison S. Davis.
...snip...
has built or managed thousands of apartments paid for by the state agency. Among them: Lake Shore Plaza, 445 E. Ohio, which is the only Cellini project specifically mentioned in the subpoena.
....snip...
n all, Rezko got more than a dozen deals from IHDA, often with the help of Davis’ law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, a small firm that specialized in helping developers get government funding for low-income housing.
Obama was a lawyer with the Davis firm. The president has said he did six hours of legal work in 1995 on one of the deals now under scrutiny by the grand jury, helping Rezko and his business partners — Bishop Arthur Brazier and the Rev. Leon Finney — turn an abandoned nursing home in Hyde Park into low-income apartments.
Six years later, Rezko’s company stopped paying the mortgage. IHDA foreclosed on the property in 2001, as Rezko’s low-income housing empire began to collapse, falling into physical and financial ruin.
...snip...
Among those was a senior citizen building he and Rezko built at 4801 S. Cottage Grove, just outside the Illinois Senate district Obama then represented. Though the project was outside his district, Obama wrote letters in 1998 to IHDA and city officials, urging them to give Davis and Rezko government funding for the project. Obama has said he didn’t remember writing the letters, which he has called “form letters’’ sent out by a staff member
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS-——> VERNON JARRETT
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BARACK H OBAMA——————> VERNON JARRETT
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VALERIE JARRETT (d-in-law)—> VERNON JARRETT
The Jarrett Connection. Proof That Obama’s Hawaii and Chicago Communist Networks Were Linked?
“Trevor Loudon at New Zeal has done extensive research and has obtained unrefutable evidence. A must read for ALL AMERICANS! It is a long piece but the documentation is included.”
The above acknowledgment uses (and links) Trevor Loudon’s research and builds upon it here: (whole thread must be read, including comments section and below because it contains additional research):
For historical context (truly essential) see the original post and the extraordinary research done by FRED NERKS here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts
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Agree; did you read last paragraph of exerpt from Malkin’s book in Post #92? Ethics waiver necessary in advance of Malkin’s book?
Wonder for how many years they have been planning & gearing for Olympics in Chicago? $$$$$
CHeck the property that VJ owns vs the Olympic area.....Also BO house in the area for the olympic....Good profit.
=====================================With a little luck the FED will arrest her first.
Unrelated/but related Blank-O also connected to Olympic (may be the end goal of all the pay for play they’re all involved with):
VIA:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2210478/posts?page=2
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained documents from the office of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich as result of an Illinois Freedom of Information Act lawsuit related to federal investigations of Blagojevich, who was removed from office in January for attempting to “sell” President Obama’s Senate seat, among other charges.
The documents include federal subpoenas issued to Governor Blagojevich’s office related to a number of individuals connected to President Obama and the national Democratic party, including:
— Valerie Jarrett: Once labeled “the other side of Barack Obama’s brain” by CBS news, Jarrett remains a close advisor to President Obama. Obama recently tapped Jarrett to chair his newly formed White House Council on Women and Girls. Jarrett was widely rumored to be a candidate to take over Obama’s senate seat.
— David Axelrod: Axelrod, Obama’s top campaign strategist, now serves as a senior White House advisor. During the campaign, when asked about the search for a replacement for Obama’s Senate seat, Axelrod told Fox News Chicago, “I know [Obama has] talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.” He later retracted the statement.
— David Wilhelm: Wilhelm, a former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and campaign strategist for Bill Clinton, served as an informal advisor to the Obama campaign. He was also a superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
— J.B. Pritzker: Obama named Mr. Pritzker’s wife, Penny, to serve on his recently formed 15-member Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Penny Pritzker previously served as the Obama campaign’s National Finance Chair.
Judicial Watch filed its original Freedom of Information Act request on November 27, 2006. Blagojevich’s office claimed the subpoenas were exempt from disclosure. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on January 16, 2007, in the Cook County Illinois Circuit Court. Governor Pat Quinn’s office finally released the grand jury subpoenas on March 4, 2009.
The grand jury subpoena requesting documents on Jarrett, Axelrod and Pritzker is dated December 8, 2008. The grand jury subpoena that concerns David Wilhelm is dated April 13, 2007.
“We now have confirmation that top Obama White House officials are caught up in a federal grand jury investigation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It would be helpful if President Obama kept his promises of transparency and finally released all documents related to this scandal.”
In January 2009, Judicial Watch obtained documents specifically regarding Blagojevich’s contacts with President Obama and his transition team.
The documents include a December 3, 2008, letter from Barack Obama following a meeting with Blagojevich as well as a November 17, 2008, letter signed by former Presidential Transition Team co-chairs Valerie Jarrett and John Podesta providing Blagojevich with a list of transition team contacts.
Judicial Watch Litigation Director Paul Orfanedes also testified to the 21-member Special Investigative Committee that recommended Blagojevich’s impeachment to the Illinois House of Representatives
Starwise has a great post here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2151323/posts?q=1&;page=412
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