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Who is Valerie Jarrett, senior White House advisor to Barack Obama?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-valerie-jarrett-senior-white.html ^

Posted on 01/27/2009 6:01:11 PM PST by Orange1998

Certainly she is a long-time friend of and fundraiser for Barack Obama. But her ties to failed and fraudulent real estate deals in Chicago are of the most concern.

Problems including the fact that many of the approximately one thousand housing units were "uninhabitable" and were condemned by federal authorities. Grove Parc Plaza, one of the largest residential housing complexes in Barack Obama's state senatorial district, has been at the center of a variety of scandals.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: obamaregime; valeriejarrett
Why am I not surprised.
1 posted on 01/27/2009 6:01:11 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

She is also Iranian.


2 posted on 01/27/2009 6:07:31 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: autumnraine

Name one administration official who is not tainted somehow.


3 posted on 01/27/2009 6:09:43 PM PST by bergmeid (Watchin' Obrother self-destruct)
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To: Orange1998
We're off to a roaring start.

The next 4 years of scandals will make the Clintons look like saints.

4 posted on 01/27/2009 6:20:55 PM PST by ryan71
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To: Orange1998

Who is she? Just another Chicago crook.


5 posted on 01/27/2009 6:37:21 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Orange1998

Just one of the boys.

6 posted on 01/27/2009 6:42:59 PM PST by They'reGone2000 (<--- Forwarding address: Galt's Gulch)
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To: autumnraine

Not true, she is an American daughter of a Dr. from Chicago and she was born in Iran while he was working there.


7 posted on 01/27/2009 8:09:36 PM PST by VeryConservativeOldGuy
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To: autumnraine

http://www.muckety.com/Valerie-B-Jarrett/4675.muckety

Valerie B. Jarrett lives and/or works in
Chicago, IL

Valerie B. Jarrett personal relations:
Barbara T. Bowman - mother
James E. Bowman - father
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. - great uncle
Michelle Obama - friend (she was the one who interviewed Michelle to be hired into Mayor’s staff)
Linda Johnson Rice - friend
Desiree G. Rogers - friend
Susan S. Sher - friend

Other current Valerie B. Jarrett relationships:

2008 Obama-Biden transition team - co-chair
After School Matters - director
Chicago (IL) 2016 Olympic Committee - vice chair
Chicago (IL) Metropolitan Planning Council - governor
Chicago Urban League - director
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce - director
Commercial Club of Chicago - member
Joyce Foundation - director (foundation which Obama was on that is one of the major gun control agenda foundations)
Local Initiatives Support Corporation - director
Muckety List of Most Networked in Chicago, 2008 - in top 100
Museum of Science and Industry - trustee
Navigant Consulting, Inc. - director
RREEF America, II - director
University of Chicago - trustee
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools - graduate
USG Corporation - director

Valerie B. Jarrett past relationships:

2004 Carol Moseley Braun presidential campaign - supporter
2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign - fundraiser
Chicago (IL) Department of Planning and Development - commissioner
Chicago (IL) Transit Authority - chairman
Chicago Stock Exchange - chair
Richard M. Daley - deputy chief of staff
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - board member
Habitat Company - chair & CEO


8 posted on 01/27/2009 8:11:24 PM PST by VeryConservativeOldGuy
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To: Venturer

She is the sole representative for the US going to the World Economic Summit in Davos instead of any of the high power financial types from the administration.


9 posted on 01/27/2009 8:11:25 PM PST by VeryConservativeOldGuy
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To: bergmeid

She is also the person who is likely Candidate 1 in the Blago indictment Fitz pushed forward.


10 posted on 01/27/2009 8:11:25 PM PST by VeryConservativeOldGuy
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To: Orange1998

http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2008_Oct_Valerie_Jarrett/

I’m sure this was posted at the time, but I’ll throw it up here. Good info even though a puff peice.


Senator Obama has one secret weapon in his wife, Michelle. The other is his chief confidante and valued adviser, Chicago businesswoman Valerie Jarrett. Just who is this hidden tower of strength? asks Jonathan Van Meter.

Photographed by Jonathan Becker.

One day in the summer of 1991, when Valerie Jarrett was Chicago mayor Richard Daley’s deputy chief of staff, the woman who worked in the office next door to Jarrett handed her the résumé of one Michelle LaVaughn Robinson. Robinson was a young lawyer at Sidley Austin, the fifth-largest law firm in the world, doing marketing and intellectual-property work in their headquarters nearby. The résumé highlighted the fact that the 27-year-old had grown up on the South Side of Chicago, had gone to Princeton and then to Harvard Law; what it did not point out was that her father, a city water-pump operator and Democratic precinct captain, had died of multiple sclerosis the year before, a shocking blow that led to a change of heart in the young lawyer about her choices in life. On the cover letter, someone at City Hall had written something like THIS WOMAN IS NO LONGER INTERESTED IN BEING AT HER LAW FIRM. SHE WANTS TO BE IN GOVERNMENT AND GIVE BACK. Susan Sher, the woman who worked in the office next to Jarrett, said, “She is made for you. This is exactly what you did.” Jarrett immediately picked up the phone and called the young lawyer in for an interview.

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11 posted on 01/27/2009 8:13:30 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: VeryConservativeOldGuy

Whatever happened to carol Mosely Braun???


12 posted on 01/27/2009 8:46:34 PM PST by jackofhearts (Unko bachana kaun chahega (Who will want to save them)??)
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To: jackofhearts

She was replaced for Sen by Peter Fitzgerald who was then replaced in the next election by ..................

Barack Obama.

Twice she attempted a short run for President and failed before Iowa in both cases and also spent time 1991 to 2001 as Ambassador to New Zealand.


13 posted on 01/27/2009 9:30:34 PM PST by VeryConservativeOldGuy
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