Valerie Jarrett: The Next Van Jones---and Obama/Jarrett friend Marilyn "guerrilla nail" Katz

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 9-14-09 | Ben Johnson

[thouworm]

“We have kind of a mind meld,” Jarrett said about Obama. “And chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do.” Chicago tycoon Martin Nesbitt identified the source of Jarrett’s power in the fact that she establishes both Michelle and Barack’s “whole notion of authenticity.” Nesbitt relates she channels the Obamas’ inner voice, telling them: “That’s not you. You wouldn’t say that. Somebody else is saying that. Barack Obama wouldn’t say that.” Jarrett admitted to Vogue, “I kind of know what makes them who they are.”

Who is this person to whom Jarrett is so indebted – and who, we shall see, she calls a personal friend? Marilyn "guerrilla nail" Katz provided “security” for Students for a Democratic Society at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

That year (1983), Katz became an organizational entrepreneur herself, founding MK Communications, Inc., a public relations firm. Its clients include the ACLU, Amnesty International, Chicagoans Against War & Injustice, Harold Washington 1983-1987 Mayoral Campaign, Lloyd Doggett’s senate campaign, Human Rights Watch, Illinois Campaign for Choice, Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the socialist publication In These Times, the MacArthur Foundation, Mother Jones, National Community Development Initiative (for the Rockefeller Foundation), UAW Local 719, and numerous City of Chicago accounts.

Katz had a few other noteworthy clients: Project Vote, the ACORN-affiliated voter registry that first brought Barack Obama to Chicago as a “communist organizer”; the Habitat Company; The Joyce Foundation, on whose board Obama sat; and History Makers, which interviewed Valerie Jarrett, her mother, and her father-in-law.

And meet Obama/Jarrett friend

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After the inauguration, Jarrett successfully pushed to loosen restrictions barring officials from meeting with lobbyists, a rule enshrined in Obama’s executive memo on the Recovery Act, for fear other “legitimate” concerns – raised by “civil rights organizations whose directors happen to be registered lobbyists – will not be heard.”

Jarrett lobbied Obama to create the office of Chief Diversity Officer within the FCC, a position filled by Mark Lloyd, an Alinskyite and former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, who appears fixated on silencing conservative talk radio. Her intent, according to some, was to change policy by altering the structure of the FCC.

Jarrett also helped recruit Cass Sunstein, who believes in the Fairness Doctrine, has argued we should “celebrate tax day,” and believes animals should have legal standing to sue humans. (This is a growing movement on the Green Left.

And meet Obama/Jarrett friend, Marilyn "guerrilla nail" Katz

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Katz is not merely a friend of Jarrett’s but also both Obamas. The president met Katz through his first job at a law firm run by Judd Miner. The New York Times reports Katz “gave him entry into another activist network: the foot soldiers of the white student and black power movements that helped define Chicago in the 1960s.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36289

[rvoitier]

a ‘czar’ by the name of Jennings will melt this place down.

[thouworm]

After seeing one friend elevated to power, the graying radical tried to convince disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to appoint Valerie Jarrett to Obama’s open U.S. Senate seat. The Times describes Katz as “a friend” of Jarrett’s who encouraged Jarrett to step out of Obama’s shadow and “be the sun.” Katz tried to schedule lunch with the governor’s wife, Patti, to advocate for her friend’s appointment.

When that failed to materialize, Rod Blagojevich writes in his new book, Katz contacted the governor and “indicated that if I appointed Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate, the Obama people would help me raise money from their network of contributors across the country.” Federal investigators allege an unnamed individual suggested a three-way deal for Blagojevich to appoint Jarrett to the seat, take a position with the SEIU-affiliated “Change to Win” labor coalition, and then have President Obama bolster the organization.

Ultimately, nothing came of Katz’s overture. Jarrett opted to stay in the White House. (Why would she want a demotion?) http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36289

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hoosiermama; velveeta -- Ping to previous post

Susan Sher, who helped Jarrett recruit Michelle Obama to the Chicago mayor’s office before Michelle married the president, said, “I don’t think either of them [the Obamas] made major decisions without talking to her,” adding that Jarrett failed to appreciate “how incredibly instrumental she’ll be in virtually everything” in the White House.

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Education Dept? started writing a thread about Arne Duncan et al & never had time to get back to it.

[liberty75]

Check out Michelle Malkin's "Culture of Corruption" for more info on Jarrett and where she fits into the puzzle.

[freekitty]

Thinks a lot of herself; doesn’t she? And what authenticity? If you mean crook, cheat, liar and slumlord now we are talking.

[thouworm]

I suspect, perhaps, “black power” radical authenticity. She and Obama have a “mind meld.” And she is the one bringing so many of these “lets- abandon-all-reason” czars into the “family.”

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A timely book, isn’t it. I have read portions on Amazon, but I should pick it up.

I started another thread on Jarrett. We should try to bring all the Jarrett threads together. I will ask a Freeper who keeps long lists of threads if he has one on Jarrett.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333626/posts

[bray]

She is one corrupt commie:
http://www.brayincandy.com/id168.html

Pray for America

[thouworm]

TY for the url. I tried to find out what real estate she owns. There are about 6 ph #s for a Valerie Jarrett in Chicago, but I haven’t found what her RE holdings are.

Ever since I found this from Malkin’s book (see last parag of image), I have wondered about the Olympic 2016 connection to all these players.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333626/posts?page=92#92

[rvoitier]

Naw, I’m drawing a blank but he’s about a secular agenda pushing GBLT on kids.

[bray]

I am trying to find the connection between Christopher Kelly and Jarrett. He was tight w/Rezko and so was she. Wonder if he did work/money laundering on Jarrett’s projects?

Pray for America

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Not exactly an answer, but I just posted this on another thread bec I found it so interesting.....

interesting tie between Christopher Kelly & Eric Holder:

And that’s not all. As I recount in Culture of Corruption, now-Attorney General Eric Holder signed up to assist Blago in a casino license battle in 2004. The state’s gaming board had approved the construction of a disputed casino, overruling the recommendation of the board’s staff. Rank-and-file investigators had qualms over the casino developer’s alleged mob ties and over Blago’s appointment of a crony fund-raiser to oversee the state’s deal-making with the casino. The fund-raiser was…

…Christopher Kelly.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Rezko “held an option to lease a hotel site next to the proposed casino site.” Holder held a public press conference with Blago to announce his role as a special “independent” investigator into the matter. The dog-and-pony show produced no report, but Holder and his law firm had contracted to conduct the probe for a tidy $300,000. Somehow, the foul-smelling case slipped Holder’s mind; he failed to mention it in his Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/14/culture-of-corruption-blagos-dead-fundraiser-and-team-obama/

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now I’m drawing a blank; what is GBLT?

[Sicvee]

Isn’t it GLBT? Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender?

[rvoitier]

Gay sandwich?

No, umm, GLBT--gay lesbian bisexual transgender

[bray]

Kelly owned a roofing company that was a laundry machine that tied to Rezko. Rezko was tied to Jarrett in the slumlord industry. The 3 of them are likely tied together. How convenient that Jarrett now has the WH protecting her.