Posted on 09/04/2015 9:56:31 PM PDT by This_far
Long before Jim Messina became a trusted aide to President Barack Obama and one of the most powerful men in Washington, he was just a simple boy from Boise. Now, after working in politics for just over a decade, he lives in a lavish D.C. estate. How this happened is a classic Washington Cinderella story.
Raised in Idaho by a single mother, Messina moved to Washington in 1995, in his mid-20s, to take a job as a legislative aide for Max Baucus, the conservative Democratic senator from Montana (now ambassador to China). Baucus supported George W. Bush-era personal and corporate tax cuts, and other policies favored by the Wall Street firms, pharmaceutical companies, and lobbyists, from whom he raised so much money.
Up until 2002, Messina was still largely unknown. But that year, when managing Baucus’s Senate re-election campaign, he released one of the more homophobic ads of modern political times. It featured footage from a 20-year-old TV ad for a hair salon run by Baucus’s opponent, Mike Taylor
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Jim Messina: Obama Insider To Help Social Democrats Challenge Merkel (fixing German elections)
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Most commie-wannabe ‘RATS are filthy rich with other people’s money these days. Screw the cause, show me da money!!!
People forget. Saul Alinsky was never about power. It was extortion from the beginning. It works as extortion. It don’t work for governing the U.S.
Thanks This_far.
Raised in Idaho by a single mother, nuff sed
Jim Messina ...appears to be one of 0zero’s gay mafia but cannot tell for sure
That was my first thought - he’s got to be a fag.
As gay as the ace of spades
As gay as Reggie Love
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