Posted on 09/13/2024 6:44:08 AM PDT by Salman
Convicted former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is ramping up an effort to get politicians to encourage President Joe Biden to pardon the former congressman before the Democratic president leaves office early next year.
Jackson, who served about 17 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2013 to conspiring to defraud his campaign fund of roughly $750,000, has enlisted the help of south suburban mayors from his former congressional district and also put out a general call on his Facebook page for others to write letters of support to Biden.
“If you would like to write a letter on my behalf on your (stationery), a church resolution, on official (stationery), please send to me in messenger because I have to upload it to the pardon office and to my file,” Jackson wrote in a Facebook post Sept. 6.
That was the same day NBC News reported nine south suburban mayors had sent a letter to the White House requesting Jackson be pardoned. Jackson shared the NBC story and a copy of the letter in one of his posts that day on Facebook. But neither Jackson, who served in Congress from 1995 until he resigned amid burgeoning controversies in 2012, nor the NBC story mentioned the letter was drafted with Jackson’s involvement and at his request.
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Seriously, the church? I think I read somewhere about thou shalt not steal.
BTTT
Jessie will have to get in line behind Hunter who’s first on Joe’s “Full Pardon” list. That’s why he decided to pled guilty, dad has it waiting on his desk.
Is grifter jackson jr. still collecting $8,000/month in federal disability? Poor thing was bipolar.
He’ll get it.
Hustler much improved over his father. The american democrat dream.
His old man crossed Obama by believing he’d waited his turn for the presidency… something about the sins of the father…
He might get it, too - they’re going to have to clear out the prisons to make room for the MAGA voters. As they’re doing in the UK right now.
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