Posted on 09/06/2009 5:33:18 PM PDT by thouworm
The Sound(?) Advice of "Chief Advisor" Valerie Jarrett
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)
Advice on “green energy” czar Van Jones: Hire him!
“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)
MICHELLE'S DUMPING DESIGNS
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….
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/27/profiling-obama
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.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
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/
Who “Advises” Valerie Jarrett?
Jarrett has surrounded herself with some rather unsavory characters who appear to be more like 'enforcers' than 'advisers.'
Meet Mike Strautmanis, Jarrett's Chief of Staff.
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
Valerie Jarrett’s compensation for her sound(?) advice
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.
Jarrett reported a money market fund holding between $1 million and $5 million.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-white-house-wealthapr09,0,1573304.story
I’m going to keep asking this question:
How long is it going to take the MSM to figure out they are being played like fools?
til they realize they can be replaced by any $10/hr clerical who can take dictation?
I wish I knew how to make a youtube video out of all the players from the past week..hussein’s cousin. WoW!
Thanks! I’m so glad you captured their exchange. I really like Pat Caddell and have liked him for some years now. He’s the only honest liberal I can name. You can see his pain and disgust on his face. Like us, he very worried about Obama and his administration and also about the radical takeover of the party he once loved.
I recorded all of Glenn’s shows last week and plan to agin this week, but it’s sure nice seeing it in print. Thanks again.
Pat’s doing his own research too. I expect he’ll be a regular guest of Glenn’s. Amazing when patriots come together.
Good over all:
Even the USSR had Pravda. Looks to me like NBC has the inside track, with the other alphabets auditioning. CNN and NBC’s little bastard, pmnbc, can broad cable; the old grey harlot owns the print.
I think that Mark Lloyd at FCC needs to go next.
I almost hate to write this on a public forum, but I fear that the Van Jones-Bill Ayres “thugs” might be planning to blow up “a” Fox News building in the near future or maybe I type.
U of C Medical Center University of Chicago Lab School connections
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[VALERIE JARRETT’s] The Network
[Valerie] Jarrett is most notably friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. They have been friends since Jarrett hired Michelle to work in the Chicago mayor’s office in 1991.
She is one of the most connected people in Chicago, and now national, Democratic politics. She is still close to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, whom she worked with for years, and she counts Chicago entrepreneur Penny Pritzker, Obama’s 2008 national finance chair, among her closest friends.
She is closely tied into Obama’s Chicago network. Her father mentored Eric Whitaker and Anita Blanchard at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Both are good friends with the Obamas, and Blanchard is married to Martin Nesbitt, another close Obama friend, who served as the 2008 campaign treasurer.
She served on the board of the University of Chicago Lab School with Michelle Obama, Martin Nesbitt and John W. Rogers, a friend and the former husband of Social Secretary Desiree Rogers.
Jarrett works directly with Tina Tchen both in the office of public liaison and on the White House Council on Women and Girls, which Jarrett chairs and Tchen is the executive director.
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Valerie_Jarrett
From:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2008/nov/obama-advisor-valerie-jarrett-linked-real-estate-scandals
According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama’s former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis
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As Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat Company Jarrett also managed a controversial housing project located in Obama’s former state senate district called Grove Parc Plaza. According to the Boston Globe the housing complex was considered “uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage...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.” Ms. Jarrett refused to comment to the Globe on the conditions of the complex.
I agree with all you said about Caddell. I taped (and transcribed a bit) all programs last week, BUT missed GB this week & will have to download; did not know he was continuing his expose. He’s becoming a National Hero in my book.
This is on Axelrod...BUT IIRC there are also links for J.
...By the late 1960s David Canter was publishing a small politically oriented Chicago neighbourhood newspaper Hyde Park Kenwood Voices. Canter’s partner and the paper’s editor was Don Rose, a journalist active in at least two Communist Party fronts....
David Canter’s late wife, Miriam Canter, was of similar mind. She was an active fundraiser for a defense committee for prominent medical researcher and secret Communist party member Dr. Jeremiah Stamler who was also under investigation by HCUA.
It was Don Rose (right) that hired a young political science student David Axelrod to write for “Voices”. It was Rose who mentored Axelrod and recommended him for the job at the Chicago Tribune which would launch his stellar career....
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With nine others, Canter approached Democratic Party congressman Harold Washington about standing for the Chicago mayoralty. Canter had known Washington for many years, not surprising as the congressman had ties to Chicago’s communists and socialists dating back until the 1940s.
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Don Rose and David Axelrod also worked for Harold Washington. Rose served as an adviser to the mayor, while Axelrod served as a campaign consultant.
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While Harold Washington died shortly after starting his second term, the coalition that elected him endured. The Chicago Communist Party was a key component of this alliance as was the Democratic Socialists of America. By the late 70s Don Rose had become close to the Chicago socialists as had Charles Hayes and Harold Washington himself.
Correction: taped the week before & missed all this past week; will go back to taping this coming week.
Tuesday he’s covering the school issue. A little lllate, since the speech will have taken place. But, he might have information on the players involved.
National hero in my book too! I’m serious when I tell you, I pray for his safety every night and for the safety of his family.
Thank you for pinging me to your information. I’ve enjoyed conversing with you. :)
Am bringing everything I have on V J from the Chicago Crime thread....Am not reading others until I’m finished...If there are duplicate, I’m sorry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24jarrett.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1
When you’re crossing a swamp as deep and wide as Chicago, it helps to have a navigator. Of course, a case could be made that VJ was the one who invited the Obamas into the swamp in the first place.
Whatever VJ’s role may have been, it’s clear that at this juncture, it “wouldn’t be prudent” to abandon this mentor and give her a reason to start airing her beefs on deep background with reporters like John Kass.
Ping to # 57.
what a snakepit! lot to read there...& untangle
BTW: I still have not figured out what IIRC means?
Link Jar to Washington to Axelrod:
Washington and his ties to CPUSA was the reason BO came to CHicago in the first place.
To: STARWISE; ETL
Jarrett was fanatical about African Americans registering and voting in mass for socially conscious candidates. He championed Harold Washington like a great warrior, and this March, from his hospital bed, wrote an article appealing to Black Chicago to turn out to vote for Barack Obama in the Illinois primaries. Obama astounded everyone with an incredible landslide victory as the progressive, Black candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. From his sickbed, Vernon Jarrett issued a clarion call, and the people responded.
I think Black Chicago was passionately in love with Vernon Jarrett...His unrelenting drive kept us reminded of a sense of purpose and helped to instill the courage of our convictions in struggle as a people. We will forever be indebted; we will never forget.
Indeed, Vernon Jarrett’s legacy is far from forgotten. Much of it lives on in the work of his daughter-in-law Valerie Jarrett.
from...
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-38-barack-obama-frank.html
If I recall correctly.
I’ve been all over Free Republic campaigning
to target Valerie Jarrett next.
Thank you Michelle Malkin for this excellent
piece of investigative work and documentation.
You see... I believe it will shake Obummer to the
core if his wet nurse is removed. Axelrod and the
Emmanuel brothers should go as well, but Jarrett
will be a psychological score, like losing his
Mother again. Jarrett is Obummer’s moral compass
and is completely infatuated with him.
Obama Aides Hire Defense Counsel for Blagojevich Probe (Emanuel, Jarrett)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156010/posts
TY & GOOD! One limitation of FR is the ability to centralize all data on a subject in one location. BUT, thankfully, there are Freeper Historians & Librarians who know where everything is, so we can collect & investigate.
I had started an Eric Holder thread & and am working on an Arne Duncan thread that I haven’t posted yet, but the Jarrett comment on Van Jones “so happy he is aboard...been watching since Oakland,” coupled with what has already been discovered about her ADVICE sent me over the top...thus the thread.
So many conspirators; so little time
Interesting:
Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2008
FROM:
uk.sys-con.com ...
Here is the list:
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT)
Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett (D-IL)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
President-Elect Barack Obama (D-IL)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
Former Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
DISHONORABLE MENTIONS
Former Senator John Edwards (D-NC)
Former Rep. William “Dollar Bill” Jefferson (D-LA)
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