Photo allegedly of Mike Signator, Vera Baker, who allegedly was the paramour of BHO and moved to Martinique suddenly, an unnamed campaign aide, and David Katz.
(Left Picture - from left) Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Crane explains control room operations to Exelon Director of Special Projects Rita Stols, Senator Obama staff members Mike Signator and David Katz, U.S. Senator Barack Obama
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Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Rogers are familiar Chicago names in Washington. But the Hyde Park neighborhood, especially the Lab School community, has also provided a bountiful harvest.
In addition to Kass, David Katz, the 26-year-old campaign photographer who has trailed Obama since late 2003—but declined to continue as documentarian in the White House—is the son of former Lab principal Lucinda Lee Katz.
Arne Duncan, a Lab alumnus recently confirmed as Obama’s Secretary of Education, is married to Karen Duncan, an Australian-born basketball player who served as athletic instructor at Lab for years.
Newly named “regulatory czar” and legal scholar Cass Sunstein sent his daughter to Lab while he was at University of Chicago.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan and inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander first met Obama during their days teaching in Hyde Park. And earlier this month, Susan Sher, a former Lab School parent and school board member, was hired as legal counsel for Michelle Obama (her son, Evan, is rumored to be headed for Washington, too).
Sher has been a longtime friend of the Obamas and served as an administrator, alongside Michelle Obama, at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
At least a dozen former Lab students worked on Obama’s presidential campaign, and some have been hired into the administration under Jarrett, whose own mother once taught at Lab.
The concentric circles don’t seem to bother Hyde Parkers. “I don’t think it’s the good old fashioned Chicago way,” says one Lab School graduate of 2000 who asked not to be identified when speaking about friends. “It’s more just talking and word of mouth and those you trust.” ~~~~~~~~ And 'who sent you?'