Posted on 03/08/2010 8:22:06 AM PST by maggief
Rahm Emanuel has been accused of a lot of things during his political career, but today one outgoing congressman may have topped all insults.
“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” disgraced Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY ) said during a radio show, -- the radio diatribe is posted on Real Clear Politics.com. “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”
(snip)
"Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel," Massa said on the program. "I was a congressman in my first eight weeks; I was in the congressional gym, I went down and I worked out and I went into the showers ... I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, and he starts poking a finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget.
"Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?"
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
http://www.legistorm.com/person/Joseph_Racalto/12882.html
Worked for Barney Frank for years.
(only background—not implying or accusing)
Good thinking!!!
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-racalto/11/453/613
Joseph Racalto’s Experience
Chief of Staff
Congressman Eric Massa
(Government Administration industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Chief of Staff to Congressman Eric Massa
Senior Policy Advisor
Congressman Barney Frank
(Government Administration industry)
November 1996 — December 2008 (12 years 2 months)
Hopefully, this helps some more dems grow a pair and stand up to these thugs running their party.
(no link)
ARTS ETC. GREEN & GLOVER UNDERCOVER
Washington Times, The (DC) - Monday, April 6, 2009
Author: Stephanie Green and Elizabeth Glover, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
EXCERPT
Rep. Eric Massa , New York Democrat, recalled that as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, he “was busy rowing in the icy Annapolis waters, while all my nonmilitary friends were in Cancun getting tanned.”
“Among other things,” quipped his legislative director, Ronald Hikel .
veromi.com
Hikel, Ronald S
73 Potsdam, NY
Available
???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqDmAbCRgfM&feature=youtube_gdata
Question on Medicare from Ron Hikel
Mr. Ron Hikel, the Executive Director of the MINCOME, is delighted Dr. Forget is taking a fresh look at the project’s impact.
“As somebody who devoted three or four years of his life to making this happen, I was disappointed that the data were warehoused,” says Mr. Hikel. “There was basically no product that could be used in the national policy debate.”
Mr. Hikel, now legislative director for U.S. Congressman Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), says Dr. Forget’s research is immensely relevant in Canada and the United States, where he intends to use her analysis as part of the ongoing health care debate.
“It has to do with the impact that larger social conditions have on one’s health condition and the need for health care.”
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/40308.html
> Ron Hikel from Congressman Eric Massa’s staff, and patient testimony.
> This briefing is intended to educate members of the House of
> Representatives, and their staff. It is the first LCGHC-sponsored
> briefing.
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> Call your Congress person’s office, and ask for a commitment that s/
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>
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>
> Tom Knoche
> Healthcare-NOW
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http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/tag/lcghc/
DSA Joins Health Care Coalition
Posted on January 9, 2009 by dsalaborblogmoderator
by Frank Llewellyn
DSA National Director
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has joined the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care (LCGHC). The Leadership Conference is a clearinghouse and umbrella coordinating organization for groups promoting comprehensive reform legislation to guarantee health care for all Americans. The Leadership Conference helps member organizations utilize their respective [...]
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/03/was-massa-pushed-out-of-offices-so-that.html
If Massa is correct, then the allegations made by legislative director Ronald S Hikel (pictured above) would need to have been coerced by the Democratic leadership to create a situation that would remove Massa from office.
It turns out Mr. Hikel does in fact have a past of shady deals in relation to the Obama Administration. Pamela Gellar at Atlas Shrugs uncovered Hikel as a possible front man funneling foreign money into Obama’s campaign during the 2008 elections. Mr. Hikel’s LinkedIn page confirms that the Massa staffer is the same Ron Hikel in Pamela’s piece.
Mr. Hikel is also an investor in Health Care, a longtime political health care consultant, who has connections that seem to indicate that Massa’s allegations might hold water. If Obamacare passes, what would you bet that Mr. Hikel gets a nice job working in whatever federal bureaucracy is established?
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/obamas-foreign.html
Obama’s Foreign Contributions: Who is Ronald Hickel?
Follow the money ...
Interesting. Very interesting.
From what I understand there is no formal complaint as of yet?
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/ronald-hikel.asp?cycle=08
Same Ronald S Hikel? Father/Son?
Not poor if he gave over 10,000 in 2008
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $1,000 07/31/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $-1,000 07/31/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $1,000 07/31/2008 G OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO ONTARIO, ZZ
99999 Self-employed/Management Consultant $1,000 07/31/2008 P OBAMA VICTORY FUND - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald S Mr.
TORONTO, CANADA,
Self Employed/Management Consultant $1,000 07/08/2008 P CHRIS DODD FOR PRESIDENT INC - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $250 04/01/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $-250 04/01/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $250 04/01/2008 G OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $2,300 02/29/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $-550 02/29/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $550 02/29/2008 G OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
TORONTO,
Self employed/Management Consultant $250 02/25/2008 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
CORNING, NY
14830 Self/Consultant $2,050 09/18/2007 G MASSA FOR CONGRESS - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
CORNING, NY
14830 Self/Consultant $250 08/28/2007 G MASSA FOR CONGRESS - Democrat
Hikel, Ronald
CORNING, NY
14830 Self/Consultant $2,290 06/22/2007 P MASSA FOR CONGRESS - Democrat
Dodd too?
LOL!
I am confused. Well, more confused.
Need to look into Ron a bit more.
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/press/top/2001/03/2001-03-30-02.html
March 30, 2001
MILTON SUSSMAN NAMED DEPUTY MINISTER OF HEALTH
Premier Gary Doer today announced the appointment of Milton Sussman as deputy minister of health, effective April 1.
Sussman takes over the post from Ron Hikel, whose interim contract expires March 31.
Sussman has an extensive background in management in the not-for-profit sector. Most recently, he was vice-president of long-term care and services to seniors for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA). Prior to working with the WRHA, Sussman was the chief executive officer at Ten Ten Sinclair Housing Inc., an organization that promotes, supports and develops independent living for people with physical disabilities.
His volunteer work includes membership on Manitoba Health’s advisory committee on self-managed care, the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities, the National Access Awareness Committee, the Canadian Child Day Care Federation and numerous other boards.
“I believe the creative approach, problem-solving skills and dedication to community service that Milton Sussman brings to this position will serve Manitobans well,” said Doer. “His resume reflects both a personal and professional commitment to working towards improving the lives of his fellow citizens.
“I also want to thank Ron Hikel for his hard work in the department over the past 11 months. We were fortunate to have access to his expertise and assistance in helping to map out strategies to improve Manitoba’s health care system.”
It is the same Ron Hikel
http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/shows/200910/20091018.html
Whole Show hour-by-hour
The Sunday Edition for October 18, 2009
Michael’s Essay
Micheal shares his thoughts on “end times”. In this week’s essay reflects on the unfortuante fate of the Myans, the Aztecs and why we humans are on constant end of the world alert.
Poverty... A Conversation with Hugh Segal
It’s a problem that may never go away. “The poor,” or so the Bible tells us, “will be with us always.” But the idea that poverty itself is an intractable issue does not excuse governments from trying to address it. And for decades, politicians and policy makers have tried in many different ways to reduce if not eliminate it.
Over the course of this season at the Sunday Edition, we want to talk about poverty - why does it exist in one of the richest countries on earth, how big a problem is it, and what can be done about it? But poverty is a problem that’s increasingly difficult to define. In this country, we can’t even agree on how to measure it.
Statistics Canada can tell us the unemployment rate, the gross domestic product and the consumer price index. But what Stats Canada won’t - and can’t - enumerate is a poverty rate. And that’s because the politicians haven’t agreed on exactly what poverty is. Senator Hugh Segal is expending much of his political capital on keeping poverty on the national agenda. And he’s not only one of the few national figures devoted to this issue - he’s one of the even fewer Conservatives to take up the fight. Senator Segal joined us from a studio in Kingston.
Mincome
As the Senator mentioned - back in the 1970s, an ambitious experiment in social engineering was conducted in the province of Manitoba. It was called Mincome - as in minimum guaranteed income.
The study involved some residents of the city of Winnipeg - but what made Mincome so audacious was what happened in a small farming town about 300 kilometers northwest. From 1974 through 1978, Dauphin, Manitoba was a town with no poverty. Every one of the nearly 13,000 residents of Dauphin and the surrounding area was eligible to receive a guaranteed annual income. The information gathered throughout the project was supposed to help policy makers evaluate the plan to see if the program should be expanded. But when the funding dried up, the project ended. And the data remained unexamined - in hundreds of boxes which were put into storage. Nearly thirty years went by before anyone started to analyze Micome.
Ron Hikel was the Executive Director of Mincome. He now works for US Congressman Eric Massa and was in our studio in Washington, DC. Evelyn Forget is a professor in the Community Health Sciences Department at the University of Manitoba. She’s the one who tracked down the Mincome papers, decades after the conclusion of the study. And she’s completed her first analysis of the data. She was in our Winnipeg studio.
Massa was a NO vote. Ron Hikel, former Acting Deputy Minister, Manitoba Health (socialized medicine) is reported to be the person making the allegations against Massa.
Consider this:
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/466261
Ron Hikel, a Toronto consultant who tried to set up a fundraiser here, says it would still be productive for Obama to get know Canada better before the election.
“In addition to all the standard reasons – trading and defence partners, longest border, etc., etc. – I would say the Canadian society demonstrates the success of several of the key values that distinguish him from McCain and other garden-variety politicians,” Hikel says.
“These include a less-sharply partisan political atmosphere; the more intelligent use of the state to advance social cohesion; greater racial, cultural and religious tolerance; and a generally more civil tone” to our daily life.
How did I miss that.????
Must be the excitement...
sw
Congressman (in shadow): “I kept trying to get Barney to talk about fixing Fannie and Freddie, but he was only interested in MY fanny.”
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