Posted on 12/07/2009 2:21:01 PM PST by opentalk
....The plot thickens.
Rep. Schakowskys husband, Robert Creamer, used to be the leader of Citizen Action/Illinois. He also founded its predecessor, Illinois Public Action, in which Ms. Schakowsky served as Program Director. He runs a political consulting firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, which lists ACORN and the SEIU among its clients and which made $541,000 working for disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Creamer resigned from Citizen Action/Illinois after the FBI began investigating him for bank fraud and tax evasion at Illinois Public Action. He was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to five months in federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, plus eleven months of house arrest.
While in prisonor forced sabbatical, he called itCreamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007).
The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Sternthe most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White Houseand chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted that Creamers tome provides a blueprint for future victories.
In the book, Creamer draws lessons from decades of experience on the radical left, including the teachings of arch-radical Saul Alinsky, and several episodes from Rep. Schakowskys political career. He also lays out a Progressive Agenda for Structural Change, which includes a ten-point plan for foisting universal health care on the American people in 2009:
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
just watched Beck on that scumbag Creamer. Time to clean the stables-—it just keeps getting worse.
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