Posted on 10/07/2008 1:58:42 PM PDT by NYC_BULLMOOSE
Chicago New Party Update
by Bruce Bentley
About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates. The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are 300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in 1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The NP’s political strategy is to support progressive candidates in elections only if they have a concrete chance to “win”. This has resulted in a winning ratio of 77 of 110 elections. Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.
The political entourage included Alderman Michael Chandler, William Delgado, chief of staff for State Rep Miguel del Valle, and spokespersons for State Sen. Alice Palmer, Sonya Sanchez, chief of staff for State Sen. Jesse Garcia, who is running for State Rep in Garcia’s District; and Barach Obama, chief of staff for State Sen. Alice Palmer. Obama is running for Palmer’s vacant seat.
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Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).
Obama Campaign’s National Network Separate from the Democratic Party.
Senator Barack Obama is building a national organization separate and apart from the national Democrat Party apparatus–at least in any state where the outcome of the November election is at all in doubt.
In state after state, the Obama campaign, in a break with tradition, has opened up its own offices–which largely push Barack Obama, and only Obama–apart from the Democrat Party’s own offices in those very same communities.
Yahoo is scrubbing 0bama articles, too.
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Gotta be something that will send him to Prison out there
for all this cover-up,,,
Just keeps growin’...:0/
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is running to gain the Democratic ballot line for Illinois Senate 13th District. The 13th District is Alice Palmer’s old district, encompassing parts of Hyde Park and South Shore.
Mr. Obama graduated from Columbia University and promptly went into community organizing for the Developing Communities Project in Roseland and Altgeld Gardens on the far south side of Chicago. He went on to Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a law degree. In 1992, he was Director of Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration campaign that made Carol Moseley Braun’s election to the U.S. Senate much easier than it would have been. At present, he practices law in Judson Miner’s law firm and is President of the board of the Annenberg Challenge Grant which is distributing some $50 million in grants to public school reform efforts.
What best characterizes Barack Obama is a quote from an article in Illinois Issues, a retrospective look at his experience as a community organizer while he was completing his degree at Harvard:
“... community organizations and organizers are hampered by their own dogmas about the style and substance of organizing. Most practice ... a ‘consumer advocacy’ approach, with a focus on wrestling services and resources from outside powers that be. Few are thinking of harnessing the internal productive capacities, both in terms of money and people, that already exist in communities.” (Illinois issues, September, 1988)
Luckily, Mr. Obama does not have any opposition in the primary. His opponents have all dropped out or were ruled off the ballot. But if you would like to contribute to his campaign, make the check payable to Friends of Barack Obama, 2154 E. 71st, Chicago, IL 60649. If you would like to become involved in his campaign, call the headquarters at (312) 363-1996.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011230212457/www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/celebration/obama.shtml
Barack H. Obama ‘91
Barack Obama, D-Chicago, is the Illinois State Senator for the 13th State Senate District representing areas of Chicago’s South Side. He earned his A.B. in political science from Columbia University in 1983 and then spent five years working as a community organizer, first in Harlem, then in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and was a member of the Executive Board of the Black Law Students Association. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, in 1991.
In 1992, Senator Obama served as Illinois Executive Director of PROJECT VOTE!, an effort that added over 100,000 newly registered voters in Illinois. That year, he also joined Miner, Barnhill and Galland as a civil rights attorney and was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He is currently in his second term as state senator, having been reelected in 1998. His term runs through January 2003. Additionally, Senator Obama still works with the firm Miner, Barnhill and Galland and is also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches constitutional law.
Senator Obama lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois’ seat in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year.
In 1993, Senator Obama was named by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of “40 under 40” outstanding young leaders in the City of Chicago. He is the recipient of the 1995 Legal Eagle Award from IVI-IPO for his work in bringing Illinois into compliance with the National Voter Registration Act (Motor-Voter). His commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio and published in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, which was published by Random House in August 1995.
Senator Obama serves on the boards of several organizations including the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where he is chairman, the Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, and Public Allies.
Senator Obama is married to Michelle Obama. They have one daughter, Malia Ann Obama.
Franklin D. Raines ‘76
Franklin D. Raines has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae, the largest non-bank financial services company in the world, since January 1, 1999.
The Fannie Mae Board of Directors designated Mr. Raines as the successor to James A. Johnson in April 1998. From May through December 31, 1998, Raines served as Chairman and CEO-Designate.
Mr. Raines stepped down as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and a member of the President’s Cabinet on May 20, 1998, after two years of service. He was the President’s key negotiator in the talks that led to passage of the bipartisan Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and was the first OMB director in a generation to balance the federal budget.
From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Raines was Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae, in charge of the company’s legal, credit policy, finance, and other corporate functions.
Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Raines was with Lazard Freres & Company for 11 years where he was a general partner. Before joining Lazard Freres, he served from 1977 to 1979 as Associate Director for Economics and Government in the Office of Management and Budget and Assistant Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff.
Mr. Raines currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Fannie Mae, Pfizer Inc., America Online, Inc., PepsiCo, Inc., the Enterprise Foundation, and the National Urban League. Formerly, he served as a member of the congressionally mandated Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces. He has also served on a number of federal and state public policy advisory groups regarding tax equity, education, poverty, and welfare reform.
Mr. Raines has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of The Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Raines is Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was previously President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He was formerly a Director of the Harvard Alumni Association and was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government from 1984 to 1987.
Mr. Raines earned his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1971 and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1976. He also attended Magdalen College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Mr. Raines is married to Wendy Farrow Raines (A.B. Harvard ‘78) and has two children: Laura and Andrea.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000916205152/http://www.politicallyblack.com/audio22300.htm
What initially attracted you to politics and public service?
Well, I’m not from Chicago, originally. When I was in college back in the early 80’s the major issue at that time was divestment from South Africa. I became deeply involved on my campus (Columbia University) in that issue. While working on that issue I became increasingly concerned that even if we’re focusing internationally there was a whole host of issues that needed to be dealt with locally.
I remember at that time there was a slogan “Think Globally, Act Locally.”
That’s exactly right. I became interested in figuring out how I could call upon my talents to do organizing and mobilizing on the grassroots level to revitalize urban communities. After college I looked around and discovered that it was actually a lot harder to find a job doing well than it is finding a job making money. So, I worked as a community organizer in Harlem for about six months based at a city college in New York they had an urban program. But I wasn’t getting much training there. The people that I was working with, they weren’t much more experienced than I was. It turned out that there were a group of churches here in Chicago who had started a community organization to deal with some of the structural problems that existed in parts outside of Chicago. The steel mills had closed, a lot of home foreclosures were taking place, a lot of working class jobs had been lost and the economy was in the tank, so these churches decided that they had an obligation to try and address these social issues, not only out of a ministerial concern but also out of a recognition that the churches as an institution were going to be deeply impacted if their memberships were losing jobs, moving out of the area, etc., — but they didn’t have much money, so the only person that they could hire was an inexperienced 25 year old who was willing to accept a $13,000 a year salary. They agreed to hire me. I came out here and I organized in low-income communities. For three years I worked with church lay people to try and transform the community. We organized around housing issues, around public school education issues — to set up job training programs, college-prep tutorial programs for children. After about three years, I realized (1) that those three years had been the best education that I had ever had. It was wonderful to see the capacity of ordinary people to do extraordinary things as they were engaged in organizing. I also realized that I needed a lot more training to understand how the system functioned. A lot of the problems that we were trying to deal with locally, like job creation, were impacted by decisions being made on the other side of the globe or were being made downtown and a lot of the times we couldn’t mobilize the degree of power locally that was needed to have an impact.
Why run for Congress – now? There are some who believe that the Democratic Party may take back control of the House of Representatives this election year and if they do so, Rep. Bobby Rush will be poised to assume a key committee role. Why do you feel that now is the time for you to run?
Let me go back and give you a sense of how I got involved and elected. As a civil rights attorney, I also ran something called Project Vote that registered politics in the first place — as I was working over 100,000 new voters in Illinois.
That was in 1992.
That was in ’92. It helped Bill Clinton get elected (to the White House) and Carol Mosely Braun get elected (to the U.S. Senate). At that time, I wasn’t considering the electoral politics. I was mainly interested in figuring out how we could mobilize voters to get them more involved in the political process. For four years, then, I practiced law. When this State Senate seat came up — some supporters asked me to run and I said that I would talk it over with my wife (Michelle). I took the plunge. I’ve now been in the State Senate for four years. My assessment down in the State Senate is that we need to transform the political culture of the African-American community. We have what I call a reactive politics as opposed to proactive politics. We have a tendency to wait until tragedies or problems occur: shootings on the corner, job layoffs, Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) demolition. We’ll wait until CHA is about to be demolished or we’ll wait until there been a series of shootings and then we’ll react. What we appear to lack in the African-American community is a strong agenda that is generated from the grassroots level and serves as the basis for holding elected official accountable.
Do you think that the lack of a strong agenda generated from the grassroots level is something that is characteristic of the politicians who have come through the civil rights era?
I don’t think that it is characteristic of all politicians who have come up through the civil rights era. I do think that we live in a different period where the problems that we confront now are deeply rooted structural problems that aren’t amenable simply to protest. I think that what is true is that if you look a the problem of economic development in the African-American community, we can protest all we want, but unless we are able to effectively train our human capital, make sure that our schools are working, make sure that when we pressure companies to deliver capital into the community that we have companies and entrepreneurs who can take advantage of that capital, unless we have that structure in place, protest alone is not going to do much. That isn’t to say that we still do not have to apply strategies of old occasionally that becomes necessary, but it seems it has to be complimented with a proactive agenda for change that is currently lacking and the bottom line is that I think that Cong. Rush in his seven years as a congressman has not displayed the ability, the capacity to put together that kind of proactive agenda. I think that he represents a reactive politics. With respect to the issue of seniority, when I go to churches and talk to people I say seniority is good, but seniority is only as good as the vision of the person who posses the seniority. Having somebody with seniority who is simply happy to be in Congress and is responding to various special interest groups and is in a position to use his seniority to protect his seat or reward his friends, but isn’t actively engaged in trying to figure out how we’re going to change the situation for the average African-American in the community – that kind of seniority is not the kind of seniority we need.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000916205152/http://www.politicallyblack.com/audio22300.htm
90th General Assembly
Summary of SR0110
Legislation:
Senate Sponsors: OBAMA.
Short description: 11/1/97-ISLAMIC COMMUNITY DAY
Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Declares November 1, 1997 to be South Shore Islamic Community Center Day.
Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE
Last action date: 99-01-12
Location: Senate
Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 0 SENATE - 0
END OF INQUIRY
http://web.archive.org/web/20010818164556/www.suba.com/~outlines/current/election/mckeon.html
November, 1996
13TH DISTRICT
Democrat: Barack Obama. Supports gay rights, same-sex marriage; increased AIDS funding, abortion rights, affirmative action. Endorsed by IFHR, IMPACT, IVI-IPO, Illinois and Chicago NOW, Personal PAC.
Republican: Rosette Caldwell Peyton
Harold Washington Party: David Whitehead
http://web.archive.org/web/20010712111741/yacgi.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/
Restaurant spices congressional campaign
A general manager of the Hyde Park restaurant Medici, Kirsten Schley, is demanding that the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) remove her likeness and the restaurant’s name from Rush leaflets and billboards. The INC. Column reports that Schley is angry the pictures were displayed without her permission and that supporters of Rush’s challenger, state Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago), are threatening to boycott her restaurant in retaliation.
Rush campaign spokeswoman Maudlyne Ihejirika calls it a “simple misunderstanding,” adding that she would “not be surprised if (Schley) was being goaded into this by one of our opponents.”
The Chicago CRA Coalition, a group of leading community development organizations from across the metropolitan area, is calling on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a bipartisan committee of both houses of the Illinois General Assembly, to support predatory lending regulations issued today by the Governor and state mortgage regulators. The group is pressing each of the 12 members of JCAR to publicly announce their support for the rules prior to JCAR’s vote on the regulations early next year.
The proposed rules constitute a significant proposal that can help curb many of the lending abuses so rampant in the subprime mortgage market. The rules generally adopt the City of Chicago’s definition of predatory lending, with the significant improvement of classifying single-premium credit life insurance as abusive. For loans defined as high-cost, the proposal prohibits the following practices:
“The ball is clearly in JCAR’s court,” said Brenda Grauer of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. “The Governor has stepped up and offered substantive regulations. We will not stand for the same back-room deal making that occurred with the Committee’s rejection of the payday rules. Too many communities are being devastated by predatory lending.”
Foreclosures by subprime lenders increased to almost 5,000 in 1999, up from a trickle in the early 1990s. These foreclosures lead to abandoned buildings, lower property values, crime and destabilized neighborhoods.
Organizations interested in stemming the tide of predatory lending are urged to contact members of JCAR and ask them to commit to support these regulations. Other members of JCAR include Senators Burzynski (D-Sycamore), Karpiel (R-Roselle), Madigan (D-Chicago), O’Daniel (D- Mt. Vernon), and Rauschenberger (R-Elgin) as well as Represenatives Cross (R-Yorkville), Novak (D-Kankakee), Rutherford (R-Pontiac), and Woolard (D-Marion). Addresses and phones can be found at www.legis.state.il.us/commission/jcar/jcar_members.html.
For more information contact: Dan Immergluck, Senior Vice President or Malcolm Bush, President, Woodstock Institute: (312)427-8070
Also contact: Brenda Grauer or Ira Rheingold, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago: (312)347-8638; John Lukehart, Leadership Council for Metrolpolitan Open Communities: (312)341-5678; Joyce Probst, Chicago Rehab Network: (312)663-3936
The Chicago CRA Coalition is convened by the Woodstock Institute and includes organizations such as the Chicago Rehab Network, the Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations, the National Center on Poverty Law, the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, and the Chicago Community Loan Fund among its dozens of participants. The Woodstock Institute is a 27 year-old applied research and technical assistance organization specializing in community reinvestment and economic development.
I wonder how JCAR voted?????
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Thank you, Polarik. Very useful information.
Actually over the past four days I have enountered many of my bookmarked favs disappearing! At first I thought I must be imagining it but day after day after day is not coincidence especially when all the bookmarks have one thing in common, Obama! The stories are disappearing at an alarming rate so this weekend I have set for myself the task of going through the long thread from the beginning and saving as much as is still viable!
In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate<<<<
Interesting find, thanks for sharing it.
10th Annual Ramadan ...
and participate in a reflection session led by State Senator Barack Obama. ...<<<
Good find.
Important to know, thanks for the google warning.
Is Yahoo also removing them?
interesting find!
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