<b>The Advice of "Chief Advisor" Valerie Jarrett--- Malkin calls it: Do It Yourself Vetting</b>

Advice on “green energy” czar Van Jones--- HIRE HIM!
Advice on Healthcare--- DUMP and DECEIVE the POOR PUBLIC (in action, not word)
Advice on Public Housing for the Poor and Underprivileged--- SCREW EM! (in action, not word)

“Van Jones, we were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House, we've been watching him, really, for - he's not that old— but for as long as he's been active out of Oakland and all of the ways that he has - the creative ideas that he has and so now we have captured that and we have all that energy and enthusiasm in the White House”

<>Advice on Healthcare: Dump and Deceive the Poor Public (in action, not word)

Republicans on Capitol Hill are taking a fresh look at one of the seedier Chicago stories from Barack and Michelle Obama's past in ratcheting up the debate on Obamacare: the University of Chicago Hospital's "Urban Health Initiative," which Michelle Obama ran prior to her taking a leave of absence to campaign with her husband in 2007.

Because of the medical center's location on the South Side of Chicago, a large number of indigent patients, without health insurance, were using the hospital's emergency room for care. The nonprofit hospital, which in 2007 made more than $100 million in profits, largely because its beds and facilities were used by paying patients and those fully insured, paid Mrs. Obama to oversee the Urban Health Initiative program that identified indigent patients and then steered them to other area medical facilities. In fact, some of those profits came from Canadian citizens who traveled to the U.S. for medical procedures they could not get due to Canada's restrictive national health care programs.

It wasn't just Obama's wife who was involved in creating the program. Senior White House adviser and political strategist, David Axelrod, and his PR firm in Chicago were retained to develop a media campaign to encourage area residents not to use University of Chicago as a medical facility. Senior White House official, and Obama friend, Valerie Jarrett served on the board of directors of the hospital and approved the plan for the Urban Health Initiative, and the hiring of Axelrod. And on the recommendation of then Senator Obama, Dr. Eric Whitaker, was named director of the Initiative in late 2007, after serving as the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, a job he got after Obama recommended him to then Gov. Rod Blagojevich via another Obama crony, Tony Rezko, a fund-raiser for Obama and now a convicted felon on federal corruption charges. Candidate Obama thought enough of the program to tout it as an example of how health care reform should be done….

The resultant PR campaign was a study in Orwellian audacity. Chicago's inner city residents soon began hearing that UCMC's patient dumping program would "dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents" and that the medical center was generously willing to provide "a ride on a shuttle bus to other centers." Likewise, the people who ran the community hospitals to which these unwanted patients were being shuttled began to read claims in local media to the effect that the Urban Health Initiative was good for them as well. Dr. Eric Whitaker, the Blagojevich crony who succeeded Mrs. Obama as Director of the program, repeatedly assured gullible reporters that the financial impact on these hospitals would be positive: "The initiative actually is improving their bottom lines." The CFOs of those hospitals were no doubt relieved to learn that treating Medicaid and uninsured patients is profitable.

See also:
Michelle Obama’s Shady Involvement in Chicago Hospital’s “Patient Dumping” of the Poor Being Investigated
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2009/07/27/michelle-obamas-shady-involvement-in-chicago-hospitals-patient-dumping-of-the-poor-being-investigated/
U. of C. shunning poor patients?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article

Advice on Public Housing for the Poor and Underpriviledged: Screw em! (in action, not word)

Valerie Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.

The owner, a local nonprofit company called Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp....Woodlawn Preservation hired a private management firm, William Moorehead and Associates, to oversee the complex. In 2001, the company lost that contract and a contract to manage several public housing projects for allegedly failing to do its job. The company's head, William Moorehead, was subsequently convicted of embezzling almost $1 million in management fees.

Woodlawn Preservation hired a new property manager, Habitat Co. At the time, the company was headed by its founder, Daniel Levin, also a major contributor to Obama's campaigns. Valerie Jarrett was executive vice president.

Residents say the complex deteriorated under Moorehead's management and continued to decline after Habitat took over. A maintenance worker at the complex says money often wasn't even available for steel wool to plug rat holes. But as late as 2003, a routine federal inspection still gave conditions at Grove Parc a score of 82 on a 100-point scale.

“About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.”

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full

See also:
What the NYT’s 8,100-word Valerie Jarrett profile didn’t tell you http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/27/what-the-nyts-8100-word-valerie-jarrett-profile-didnt-tell-you/

Jarrett has surrounded herself with some rather unsavory characters who appear to be more like 'enforcers' than 'advisers.'

Strautmanis is one of Barack and Michelle Obama's closest friends, going all the way back to the beginning in Chicago. He has worked not only for the Obamas but for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

But here is an interesting tidbit concerning Strautmanis, in Jarrett's own words:

Obama describes him as a “utility man,” and campaign advisor and Obama family friend Valerie Jarrett says he’s the person you call when you need help with a delicate situation. “He understands the importance of the personal touch and that e-mails and phone calls are not always appropriate,” she said, talking about a specific example that she wouldn’t describe in detail…

http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m9d5-The-powers-behind-the-throne

Since moving to the White House, Jarrett has resigned her position as chief executive of Habitat Co., one of the Midwest's largest property-management firms. Her report shows she earned $550,000 in deferred compensation from Habitat Executive Services, plus a salary of $302,000 in 2008.

She also reported $346,687 in income from serving on seven boards, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Jarrett's most lucrative fee as a director was $146,643 from Chicago-based USG Corp., a building products maker.

Jarrett is also still receiving compensation from the Chicago Transit Authority, where she was Mayor Richard Daley's handpicked chairwoman from 1995 to 2003. She estimated $35,559 in deferred compensation as part of the CTA's supplemental retirement plan.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-white-house-wealthapr09,0,1573304.story

With one of the enemy's advance MIGs downed, pilot ejected, and all our fighters back safely, a post-mission de-brief back at the base:

Cognizant of it or not, IRONICALLY, AND THIS WILL DRIVE SENATOR OBAMA BONKERS, WE TOOK WHOLE SECTIONS OUT OF SAUL ALINSKY'S BOOK AND APPLIED IT WITH GREAT SUCCESS IN VAN JONES' CASE.

I wholeheartedly recommend we perfect these tactics and adopt them in the next cases: Mark, Cass, Valerie and the rest of the whole rotten statist, elitist crew in D.C. (and their replacements if they don't get the message the first time we, the People, are serious).

Sound familiar?:

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract (socialist organizations) or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

Here a whole bunch of research from Chicago thread Maggie did that will help connect who is who.

Kelly King Dibble, former IHDA executive director and relative of President Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett .”

http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Resources/career-services/events/real_world_speakers.asp

Kelly King Dibble
Kelly King Dibble is senior vice president and director of public affairs and government relations at Northern Trust. As Northern Trust’s senior public affairs officer, Dibble directs the company’s external government relationship strategies and activities at the municipal, state, and federal levels.

Prior to joining Northern Trust, Dibble served as the executive director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority since 2003. In this position, she was responsible for budgetary, operational, legislative, and policy objectives of the Authority, which has more than $2 billion in assets and 200 employees.

Dibble received her JD from Harvard Law School and holds a BA in economics and political science from Wellesley College. She is a board member of the Auxiliary Board of the Art Institute, Ounce of Prevention Fund, and South East Chicago Commission. She is also a member of the Visiting Committee for the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_obamas_and_their_mortgage_1.html

Kelly King Dibble has a long time friendship with Michelle Obama from the time they both worked at the Chicago Planning Dept, and she also worked for Rezko. Dibble went on to head the Illinois Housing Development Authority under Governor Blagojevich, with Rezko help. Dibble also hosted a fund raiser for Obama. More on Dibble here.

Dibble also was mentioned during the Rezko trial by Ali Ata. Dibble was a regular visitor to Rezko’s office while heading the IHDA (which is based in Chicago). She also crossed Rezko when she refused to hire a Rezko relative.

Dibble later resigned from the IHDA in Jan 2007 to take a job with Northern Trust, and is now Senior Vice President Public Affairs. So if Northern Trust is asked about the loan, Dibble will be in charge of framing the answers.

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Vacant land turns to gold for insiders - Buyers with clout cash in on parcels
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Sunday, November 20, 2005

Author: Ray Gibson and Robert Becker, Tribune staff reporters

EXCERPT

After entertaining proposals from a half-dozen builders, the city selected a developer, Historic Drexel Partners LLC, which ultimately built homes selling for between $800,000 and $915,000.

It is a company with close ties to Rezko. One partner is Michael Sreenan, a Chicago attorney who does corporation work for Rezko. The other partner in the venture is Andrew Dibble.

Dibble’s wife, Kelly King Dibble, is the executive director of the Illinois Housing Development Authority, a quasi-state agency charged with developing affordable housing. She had worked as vice president in charge of business development at Rezko’s company, Rezmar, before her appointment to the authority by Blagojevich.

Documents filed by Andrew Dibble with the city were faxed to City Hall using a fax machine in Rezko’s office. Sreenan, who said Rezko wasn’t involved in the project, added that since his office is in the same building as Rezmar, he frequently uses the company’s fax machine.

Shortly after Historic Drexel was sold the property, Andrew Dibble went to work for the state’s Capital Development Board, where he received $78,000 a year as the manager of construction. He has since left the post. His wife receives $137,000 a year at the housing authority.

Home prices escalated

In winning city approval, Sreenan and Dibble said the properties would sell for between $655,000 and $692,000. Sreenan said the prices escalated primarily because home buyers added upgrades for the new homes.

City officials said they selected Historic Drexel because it met the city’s specifications and because it offered $10,000 more than the parcels’ appraisal price.

“This set of respondents not only bid the most, but they offered to pay over the appraised value of the property. And there was no requirement for affordability,” Healy said.

But the Dibble bid wasn’t the highest. Another developer matched it, according to city records.

Historic Drexel’s project also had the support of Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th), who increasingly has tapped developers for campaign funds as parts of her ward rapidly gentrify.

Among her donors were Kelly King Dibble, Sreenan, the development’s architect and the contractor, who donated a total of $5,000 at an October 2004 fundraiser for the alderman.

“I supported the development,” Preckwinkle said of Historic Drexel. “I think the homes they built are beautiful.”

After Historic Drexel paid the city $275,000 for the six lots, it obtained a $3.3 million construction loan and built six new homes. One of the homes is the Dibble residence.

When the Dibbles went to record the sales price with the Cook County recorder of deeds, they declared they didn’t have to pay hefty real estate transfer taxes on the sale because they had paid less than $500 for the property and home, even though the couple paid $652,850, according to records.

After questions were raised by the Tribune, Andrew Dibble on Nov. 10 wrote city officials saying that while he had received initial legal advice not to pay a real estate transfer tax, subsequent legal counsel advised him to the contrary. Dibble now faces a transfer tax on the property of about $5,800.

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http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=1647&SearchResult=55&graph=MucketyMap?_r=DC

Ann Dibble Jordan, Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. personal relations:
Vickee Jordan Adams - daughter
Antoinette Cook Bush - stepdaughter
Valerie B. Jarrett - great uncle
Ann Dibble Jordan - spouse

“Many of us were able to introduce [Obama] in our workplaces,” says Alan S. King, a lawyer who studied for the bar exam with Michelle. “That expanded his base of support, raised his profile, and enhanced his fundraising efforts.”

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