Posted on 12/07/2009 2:21:01 PM PST by opentalk
....The plot thickens.
Rep. Schakowskys husband, Robert Creamer, used to be the leader of Citizen Action/Illinois. He also founded its predecessor, Illinois Public Action, in which Ms. Schakowsky served as Program Director. He runs a political consulting firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, which lists ACORN and the SEIU among its clients and which made $541,000 working for disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Creamer resigned from Citizen Action/Illinois after the FBI began investigating him for bank fraud and tax evasion at Illinois Public Action. He was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to five months in federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, plus eleven months of house arrest.
While in prisonor forced sabbatical, he called itCreamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007).
The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Sternthe most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White Houseand chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted that Creamers tome provides a blueprint for future victories.
In the book, Creamer draws lessons from decades of experience on the radical left, including the teachings of arch-radical Saul Alinsky, and several episodes from Rep. Schakowskys political career. He also lays out a Progressive Agenda for Structural Change, which includes a ten-point plan for foisting universal health care on the American people in 2009:
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Beck is all over this right now...
****Beck is all over this right now...***
Robert Creamer CONVICTED FELON - attended the *crasher dinner*
Creamer wrote his plan in 2006, explicitly proposing that it be carried out in 2009, once a progressive Democrat is elected President and once Democrats could count on 60 votes in the Senate. It is curious that Creamer, sitting in prison, could have predicted the details and the timing of President Obamas legislative agenda so precisely.
... It is a radical agenda, making use of Rep. Schakowskys public profile, a network of far-left organizations, and Creamers old friends in the White House. It began in federal prison, and has unfolded exactly as intended, over the protests of thousands of ordinary Americans across the nation. It will not end with health care. It will continue until Mr. Creamers Alinskyite dream of radical change is realizedor until voters stand up and put a stop to it in 2010.
She is also “bats both ways”
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/
“Yes, and in 2000, another representative was added to the list, Jan Schakowsky, the Democratic congresswoman from Illinois. Turkish agents started gathering information on her, and they found out that she was bisexual. So a Turkish agent struck up a relationship with her. When Jan Schakowskys mother died, the Turkish woman went to the funeral, hoping to exploit her vulnerability. They later were intimate in Schakowskys townhouse, which had been set up with recording devices and hidden cameras. They needed Schakowsky and her husband Robert Creamer to perform certain illegal operational facilitations for them in Illinois. They already had Hastert, the mayor, and several other Illinois state senators involved. I dont know if Congresswoman Schakowsky ever was actually blackmailed or did anything for the Turkish woman.”
Amazing. Just amazing.
were in trouble
Ping to thread.
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Democrat consultant sentenced to prison
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Thursday, April 6, 2006
Author: Michael Higgins and Laurie Cohen, Tribune staff reporters.
Robert Creamer , a top Democratic consultant and the husband of U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), was sentenced Wednesday to 5 months in prison for using bad checks to prop up his struggling consumer group and for a tax charge.
Creamer, founder and former head of Illinois Public Action, also must serve 11 months of home confinement. But he escaped the longer sentence of 30 to 37 months suggested by federal guidelines.
Creamer, 58, of Evanston, apologized in court for his conduct but maintained that he had merely been overzealous in his support of a good cause.
I will never again allow my passion for that goal to overwhelm my good judgment or my respect for the law, Creamer said in a short statement after the hearing.
Schakowsky said in her own statement: More than anything, I am proud of who Bob is. ... He has been a constant crusader.
Creamer pleaded guilty in August to bank fraud and a federal tax charge. But his attorneys argued that he should not serve prison time because he didnt take the money for his personal use, covered the debts later and has led an extraordinary life devoted to social activism.
Prosecutors countered that Creamers arguments sounded more like self-promotion than true remorse. But U.S. District Judge James Moran agreed that Creamer was not like a typical bank-fraud defendant.
There was no intention to cause a loss, Moran said in court. Neither the banks nor the government suffered any actual out-of-pocket loss.
Moran said he also considered that the case against Creamer played out slowly after the check-kiting scheme was discovered in 1997, subjecting Creamer to an emotionally draining experience.
More than 200 people wrote letters of support on Creamers behalf, including U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Cook County Clerk David Orr, state Sen. Carol Ronen (D-Chicago), Chicago Ald. Joe Moore (49th), former State Sen. Dawn Clark Netsch and former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner.
Political consultant David Axelrod and Rev. Jesse Jackson also wrote letters on his behalf.
Creamers ties to the Democratic community are so deep that Moran considered recusing himself from the case. The judge, a former Democratic state representative from Evanston, said he had a potential conflict of interest because his son-in-law, political consultant Peter Giangreco, had worked with Creamer and Schakowsky and had sat on the board of one of Creamers organizations.
However, neither defense attorneys nor prosecutors voiced concerns about Morans connections to Creamer.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Joseph Ferguson said Wednesday that he was disappointed in the sentence and that prosecutors would consider whether to appeal.
But Ferguson expressed satisfaction that Creamer, despite having the benefit of that powerful network of individuals, is going to jail.
Creamer admitted in August that as the head of Illinois Public Action, he directed underlings to deposit insufficiently funded checks into various bank accounts, thus allowing the group to temporarily use money that it didnt have.
Prosecutors said Creamer used the tactic in 1993, 1996 and 1997, when the scheme was detected with Creamer owing $1.4 million to Cole Taylor Bank.
The tax charge stemmed from Creamers failure to make withholding-tax payments. Prosecutors dismissed 28 counts in exchange for the guilty plea.
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Real shocker...
BREAKING: The Convict Wrote Obama's Strategy For Passing Obamacare & "Democratization of Wealth"
Another from Obama's home state.
Not if we can force at least one or two true conservative republicans in the senate to make a big deal out of this.
That will be the key. How much will we all blow up our senators' phones and get them to talk about this so that the mainstream progressive media gets dragged kicking and screaming into reporting it?
If we can use conservative senators into checkmating the media into reporting on this, this bill is dead.
All part of the Obambi thugocracy.
I’ve heard ths same thing, but have not verified it.
The information in this link is interesting. Does it imply a possible foreign influence in this bill?
I am not up on this scandal
, When Jan Schakowskys mother died, the Turkish woman went to the funeral, hoping to exploit her vulnerability. They later were intimate in Schakowskys townhouse, which had been set up with recording devices and hidden cameras.
They needed Schakowsky and her husband Robert Creamer to perform certain illegal operational facilitations for them in Illinois. They already had Hastert, the mayor, and several other Illinois state senators involved. I dont know if Congresswoman Schakowsky ever was actually blackmailed or did anything for the Turkish woman.
sounds like this needs to be talked about also
That’s a good catch sir.
I’m not sure anybody are ‘up’ on this scandal given that it’s so new, and I really hope people who are eyeing this carefully will notice the same thing you have and investigate it further.
I am so outraged over this. I’ve already spoken to both of my senators’ offices and will continue to do so until I’m blue in the face. And continue after that too.
This whole thing is so dirty from top to bottom. All 2000+ pages.
Upon going back to see post 5, I can see this is a separate story. Whoops.
I’ll read about this, thanks for pointing it out otherwise I might have overlooked it.
Written in prison, just like Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”.
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