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Van Jones Resignation Letter/Statement
thinkprogress.org
| September 6, 2009
| Van Jones
Posted on 09/05/2009 9:47:33 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.
I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum - urging me to stay and fight.
But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
It has been a great honor to serve my country and my President in this capacity. I thank everyone who has offered support and encouragement. I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoczars; czar; jones; obama; resignation; third100days; valeriejarrett; van; vanjones
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I have no reason to believe that thinkprogress.org, one of the most radical communist sites in America, would distort or not print word for word this Van Jones statement.
If the site is blacklisted I'm sorry but I could not find this statement on any MSM article on the story. Gee, I wonder why? /s
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/06/van-jones-resigns/
To: PittsburghAfterDark
As I suspected, he pulled a daschle: resigning because of the “distraction.”
To: PittsburghAfterDark
So, his resigning has nothing to do with the dozens of video clips showing him expressing some extremely radical ideas. Jones is just the tip of a very large, and very ugly iceberg. They all have to go. I have to give Glenn Beck credit for keeping up the pressure on this clown, and lining up the others as well. Too bad the head radical doesn’t resign for the good of the country.
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:53:38 PM PDT
by
euram
To: PittsburghAfterDark
Take a hike you fool the people that matter know what scum you are..Lies is all you idiots know..Next will be the rest of the Czars that the commie President hired..then it will be him..I think Mr president had better find himself another job preferably in another commie country..Maybe his friend Chavez or Castro has a position for him..since he loves their health care system so much..
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:53:44 PM PDT
by
PLD
To: PittsburghAfterDark
They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. And those would be?
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:53:59 PM PDT
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:55:24 PM PDT
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
As I suspected, he pulled a daschle: resigning because of the distraction.He meant that the constraints of civilization are distracting him from his real work of turning the United States into Somalia.
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:55:40 PM PDT
by
Stentor
(.)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
...opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.LMAO!!!
Wow, what a scumbag! Good riddance to bad garbage.
To: PittsburghAfterDark
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:57:13 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
...vicious smear campaign against me...defending or explaining my past.What would his past have to do with a viscious smear campaign of lies?
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
As I suspected, he pulled a daschle: resigning because of the distraction. And like Daschle, he's going nowhere except behind the curtain.
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:58:07 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: PittsburghAfterDark
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posted on
09/05/2009 9:58:51 PM PDT
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: PLD
I noticed you called this on the other thread:
"I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead."
To: PittsburghAfterDark
I am not a communist! Please read my resignation letter at thinkprogess.org. Uh, ok Van!
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:00:15 PM PDT
by
gura
(R-MO)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. If these these things are so wonderful, why are we having "historic fights" about them? The only "historic" thing that I see happening is that America is turning its back on freedom and democracy and embracing communism and slavery.
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:00:44 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare! When "natural causes" just isn't good enough!)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
Mark Knoller of CBS on Twitter said it unprescedented to announce a resignation at midnight. Never been done.
Also, the statement did not say why.
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:00:45 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
THANK YOU GLENN BECK !
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:01:26 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to ... remain silent.)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
I would not be surprised if the resignation was actually orchestrated by Obama. he is searching for diversions right now, anything from the attention like the school speech fiasco, the sinking Obamacare cruise and not hardly talked about but may soon be the most talked about the upcoming court case next monday in California by Dr. Orly Taitz.
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:01:31 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:02:49 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: PittsburghAfterDark
I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum - urging me to stay and fight. Yes! You do that Jones. Please. Stay and fight. Change your mind tomorrow and stay and fight. Pleeeeaaaaasseee. Say and fight.
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posted on
09/05/2009 10:03:40 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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