Photo allegedly of Mike Signator, Vera Baker, who allegedly was the paramour of BHO and moved to Martinique suddenly, an unnamed campaign aide, and David Katz.
(Left Picture - from left) Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Crane explains control room operations to Exelon Director of Special Projects Rita Stols, Senator Obama staff members Mike Signator and David Katz, U.S. Senator Barack Obama
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Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Rogers are familiar Chicago names in Washington. But the Hyde Park neighborhood, especially the Lab School community, has also provided a bountiful harvest.
In addition to Kass, David Katz, the 26-year-old campaign photographer who has trailed Obama since late 2003but declined to continue as documentarian in the White Houseis the son of former Lab principal Lucinda Lee Katz.
Arne Duncan, a Lab alumnus recently confirmed as Obamas Secretary of Education, is married to Karen Duncan, an Australian-born basketball player who served as athletic instructor at Lab for years.
Newly named regulatory czar and legal scholar Cass Sunstein sent his daughter to Lab while he was at University of Chicago.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan and inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander first met Obama during their days teaching in Hyde Park. And earlier this month, Susan Sher, a former Lab School parent and school board member, was hired as legal counsel for Michelle Obama (her son, Evan, is rumored to be headed for Washington, too).
Sher has been a longtime friend of the Obamas and served as an administrator, alongside Michelle Obama, at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
At least a dozen former Lab students worked on Obamas presidential campaign, and some have been hired into the administration under Jarrett, whose own mother once taught at Lab.
The concentric circles dont seem to bother Hyde Parkers. I dont think its the good old fashioned Chicago way, says one Lab School graduate of 2000 who asked not to be identified when speaking about friends. Its more just talking and word of mouth and those you trust. ~~~~~~~~ And 'who sent you?'
U of C Medical Center University of Chicago Lab School connections
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[VALERIE JARRETT’s] The Network
[Valerie] Jarrett is most notably friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. They have been friends since Jarrett hired Michelle to work in the Chicago mayors office in 1991.
She is one of the most connected people in Chicago, and now national, Democratic politics. She is still close to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, whom she worked with for years, and she counts Chicago entrepreneur Penny Pritzker, Obamas 2008 national finance chair, among her closest friends.
She is closely tied into Obamas Chicago network. Her father mentored Eric Whitaker and Anita Blanchard at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Both are good friends with the Obamas, and Blanchard is married to Martin Nesbitt, another close Obama friend, who served as the 2008 campaign treasurer.
She served on the board of the University of Chicago Lab School with Michelle Obama, Martin Nesbitt and John W. Rogers, a friend and the former husband of Social Secretary Desiree Rogers.
Jarrett works directly with Tina Tchen both in the office of public liaison and on the White House Council on Women and Girls, which Jarrett chairs and Tchen is the executive director.
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Valerie_Jarrett
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