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(Racist) Judge duns U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) for delinquent loan, taps his congressional pay
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 15, 2018

Posted on 03/17/2018 1:37:51 PM PDT by Zakeet

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush must give up 15 percent of his congressional salary to begin repaying more than $1 million he owes on a delinquent bank loan to his now-shuttered Englewood church, a judge in Chicago ordered Wednesday.

Cook County Circuit Judge Alexander White ordered the garnishment of more than $2,100 a month from the South Side Democrat’s $174,000 annual federal pay in what was another setback for the longtime congressman-turned-pastor who once promised that the house of worship he founded would help rebuild Englewood.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bankloan; bobbyrush; chicago; garnishment
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... the poor Rat can hardly get by on the $12,325 per month Congressional salary that the racist judge let him keep ...

1 posted on 03/17/2018 1:37:51 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

It will be interesting to hear what Mr. Mushmouth has to say about that. Could he possibly find a way to blame this on the president too? He’ll probably just say he’s being targeted because he’e black. That usually does the trick.


2 posted on 03/17/2018 1:42:09 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

It’s Jesse jackson’s fault. Jesse the father of several bastards reneged on his pledges to the church.


3 posted on 03/17/2018 1:47:35 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: Zakeet
A Federal (Obola appointee) judge overturning this ruling in 3...2...1...
4 posted on 03/17/2018 1:48:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: lee martell

What a forlorn looking debtor?


5 posted on 03/17/2018 1:50:43 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Zakeet

Is every black Democrat in Congress a crook? It’s a serious question.


6 posted on 03/17/2018 1:52:35 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Zakeet

Stealing money from a church is near the top of the “I wouldn’t dun dat if I was you” list as far as I’m concerned. Then again, it sounds like this church may have just been a tax-fraud scheme to launder money.

Eeny meeny miney moe
Catch a (Democrat) by the toe
If he hollahs make him pay
15% every day.


7 posted on 03/17/2018 1:53:25 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: stevem

The guy is a puke.


8 posted on 03/17/2018 1:53:31 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Zakeet

Maybe he can get the Rush Card from Russell Simmons!


9 posted on 03/17/2018 1:53:41 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Zakeet

It’s racist just to force this black man to pay back his loans. What a world we live in!


10 posted on 03/17/2018 1:57:41 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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To: NohSpinZone
Is every black Democrat in Congress a crook? It’s a serious question.

Don't be a racist. I'll fix it for you. Either

Is every Democrat in Congress a crook? It’s a serious question.

OR

Is every one in Congress a crook? It’s a serious question.

11 posted on 03/17/2018 1:59:21 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Zakeet

Where in the article is about racism


12 posted on 03/17/2018 1:59:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Zakeet

It will be overturned. Separation of powers.

Judge can’t make him do anything.


13 posted on 03/17/2018 2:00:14 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: Zakeet

And why is Reprehensible Sharpton still wandering around while owing the US millions in taxes?


14 posted on 03/17/2018 2:01:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Zakeet

Appearances can be deceiving, but this dude looks like he’s low wattage, running dim.


15 posted on 03/17/2018 2:02:38 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: Zakeet

My bank takes my entire allowance to pay off a loan.

2100 a month is hardly depriving a congresscritter of subsistence...

Unless Rush thinks paying off a loan is only for the Little People.


16 posted on 03/17/2018 2:02:56 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Fore)
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To: NohSpinZone
THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK – MAKE THAT RACIST — CAUCUS /
barbwire ^ | Daniel Greenfield on 10 February / FR Posted by MarvinStinson

When Obama met with Farrakhan, it was under the auspices of the Congressional Black Caucus. It wasn’t the first or last time that the CBC had been caught in bed with the hate group leader. And CBC members have never been ashamed of their ties to a racist who had praised Hitler as a “great man”. “I’ve been to his home, done meetings, participated in events with him,” Rep. Danny Davis declared. “I don’t regard Louis Farrakhan as an aberration or anything, I regard him as an outstanding human being.”

The CBC won’t sanction Rep. Davis for saying that. In an age when statues are pulled down and classic TV shows are censored, some forms of racism are more equal than others. Not to mention sexism.

The Congressional Black Caucus had a front seat to #MeToo with the revelation that $220,000 had been paid out to a staffer alleging sexual harassment by Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), a former judge impeached for bribery whose girlfriend has been on his payroll to the tune of $2.4 million, and that Rep. Conyers (D-MI) had his own sexual harassment settlement. That scandal forced Rep. Conyers to resign and hand the seat to his son at the behest of his wife, Monica, who had been convicted of bribery. Corruption, fraud and bribery are ongoing problems at the Congressional Black Caucus.

After two decades of financial scandals, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) was convicted of running a fake charity and sentenced in December. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) was sentenced last December for bribery, fraud and money laundering. His son, Chaka Fattah Jr, was already in prison on unrelated bank fraud charges. Around the same time the wife of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Il) had wrapped up her prison sentence after her husband had ended his prison term a year earlier on fraud charges.

Hardly a year goes by without a criminal case involving a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Bribery and fraud, fake charities and money laundering to pay for the high life are familiar CBC themes . Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. bought a gold Rolex, Michael Jackson and Malcolm X memorabilia, and mink capes. Rep. Brown stole from poor children to pay for an NFL luxury box (won’t you take a knee) and a Beyonce concert. Chaka Fattah Jr. bought Hermes ties and a Ritz-Carlton condo.

These aren’t aberrations. They’re part of the culture of corruption at the Congressional Black Caucus. The year that Barack Obama, a former CBC member whose level of corruption outdid any of his former colleagues by climbing into the high stratospheric billions and using the Justice Department to run a massive slush fund, took office, every single House member investigated on ethics charges was CBC. A former study suggested that a third of CBC legislators had faced an ethics probe.

That’s what a culture of political corruption looks like. But the Congressional Black Caucus has consistently blamed all of its corruption troubles on racism. And CBC members would always play the race card. Rep. Corrine Brown had improbably claimed that Obama’s DOJ had targeted her because “I’m a black woman with a mouth.”

It’s the same old racist excuse. And racism is the usual cover story for CBC corruption.

When Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was accused of stealing a woman’s first class airplane seat, she claimed that it only happened “because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target.” The woman she casually accused of racism had no previous idea of who even stole her seat. And as a Democrat and a human rights activist was probably angry about her lost seat, not the politician’s race.

No one can be too surprised at a politician receiving preferential treatment at the expense of ordinary citizens. Especially a politician who had once allegedly howled, “You don’t understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.” It’s the eagerness with which CBC members shut down any conversations about their corruption with casual accusations of racism that is the real problem. The worst offender in the Conyers sexual harassment case wasn’t actually the congressman in question. It was another Black Caucus member who came to his defense by accusing his victims of racism.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) allegedly claimed that Conyers’ accusers were all white women. And suggested that the accusations were somehow racially motivated. Other CBC members threatened Democrats who criticized Rep. Conyers and there were suggestions that the calls for his resignation were racist.

“Do you go and stalk white people’s houses or just come to the black neighborhoods and stalk our houses?” Monica Conyers demanded.

The claim that Rep. Conyers’ accusers were “all white women” proved to be a lie. But it shouldn’t have mattered what race the women accusing a politician of sexual harassment were. Nor should it have mattered what race the passenger whose seat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee allegedly stole might have been.

The reflexive accusations of racism by Congressional Black Caucus members hurled at their alleged victims and at any attempt to bring them to justice is at the root of the CBC’s culture of racial corruption. The Caucus is a racially exclusive body. And it uses race and racism as weapons to protect its privileges of power. It doesn’t admit white politicians who represent African-American districts. “It is critical that its membership remain exclusively African American,” Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr. (D-MO) had written. Referring to a white Democrat’s membership bid from an African-American district, he declared that, “he does not, and cannot, meet the membership criteria unless he can change his skin color.” It’s the same familiar mantra of slavery and segregation but with a politically correct twist.

Rep. Clay has paid out nearly a million dollars in campaign funds to his sister’s law firm. “We supported the tradition that only African-Americans have been full members of the CBC,” insisted Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI), whose son and husband would be convicted on charges that included fraud and racketeering. Urban political machines have a long history of exploiting ethnic and racial solidarity to maintain their grip on power. The Congressional Black Caucus did not invent an original form of corruption. Tammany Hall went through various ethnic incarnations as one immigrant group made way for another.

The Congressional Black Caucus is not uniquely corrupt because it is black. But it uses racial solidarity and animosity to protect its insidious corruption. The CBC uses the idea of racial persecution to convince the African-American areas it preys on to turn a blind eye to its corruption. And it depicts its critics and victims, whether they are the women groped by Rep. Conyers or the poor children ripped off by Rep. Brown, as pawns or perpetrators of a racist conspiracy against black people.

The CBC’s merger of xenophobia and corruption is nothing new. But it’s a uniquely toxic tactic to utilize during a time of racial tensions. The Caucus styles itself as the “conscience of the congress”, but it has no conscience. It’s become a gang of thieves united by greed, racial solidarity and racial animosity.

The Congressional Black Caucus is uniquely destructive to black people and to the entire country. Its corrupt civil rights icons have long since become mirrors of the very thing they once fought against. And their accusations of racism are reflections of their own racism and their own

racial privileges. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Rep. Clyburn’s accusations show how the perniciously corrupt culture of the CBC’s racial solidarity has turned race and racism into unlimited justifications for their own abuses. The Caucus’ racism and corruption feed into each other in a vicious cycle that spurs its members to greater ethics violations and noisier accusations of racism. The corruption charges then become proof of racism. The more CBC members are arrested and jailed, the more the Caucus doubles down on the conviction that the only reason they were jailed is racism. And then it exploits that sense of racial grievance to justify even more corruption. This vicious cycle of racism and thievery in the CBC must be broken. Congress has a racism problem. Its name is the Congressional Black Caucus.

17 posted on 03/17/2018 2:33:43 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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Is Muslim terrorist money being funnelled into the DNC?

He's a pal of Ellison and Farrakhan, now meet the Muslim Congressman with a stranglehold on your safety and security.

Muslim Democrat Cong Andre Carson's Congressional Committees

NOTE--The DNC places a price on these committees---Congressman wishing to be placed on the committee pay up front.
Where did Muslim Carson get the money to get on these highly sensitive committees?

Is Carson funneling Islamic cash into the DNC?

Do Indiana constituents know Carson bought these seats?

<><>House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)

<><>Ranking Member: Emerging Threats Subcommittee

<><>Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Subcommittee

<><>The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is a committee of the United States House of Representatives.

The HPSCI is charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, which includes the intelligence and intelligence related activities of 17 elements of the US Government, and the Military Intelligence Program. Additional information about the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) can be found at link.

<><>Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

<><> Subcommittee on Aviation

<><> Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials

NOTE The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure oversees all modes of transportation: aviation, maritime and waterborne transportation, highways, bridges, mass transit, and railroads.

The Committee also has jurisdiction over other aspects of our national infrastructure, such as clean water and waste water management, the transport of resources by pipeline, flood damage reduction, the management of federally owned real estate and public buildings, the development of economically depressed rural and urban areas, disaster preparedness and response, and hazardous materials transportation.

<><>Subcommittee on Aviation---- The subcommittee has jurisdiction over civil aviation, including most aspects of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Transportation Security Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board.

<><> Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials The Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials exercises jurisdiction over the programs and activities of two U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) modal administrations, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

The Subcommittee oversees the passenger and freight rail safety and economic regulations including all federal laws and programs regulating railroad transportation, including railroad safety, rail infrastructure programs, economic regulation, railroad labor laws, and the non-revenue aspects of the federal railroad retirement and railroad unemployment systems.

The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee also includes overseeing all federal laws and programs regulating the safety of gas and liquid pipelines.

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ANALYSIS Usually Congressman choose committees that help their area and their constituency.
Does Indiana need copious amts of US intel and....plans for all of our critical infrastructures, that Carson opted for?

Let’s ask Indiana media: links to Indiana media https://www.in.gov/library/newslinks.htm

Top daily newspapers in Indiana, based on audited and reported circulation figures.
The Indianapolis Star – Indianapolis, IN – 134,113
The Times – Munster, IN – 85,806
South Bend Tribune –

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AND THIS--Obama State Dept Made Deal With Hillary Allowing
Removal Of Records--including "Muslim Engagement" documents
By RYAN SAAVEDRA, daiywire.com, December 15, 2017

EXCERPT Newly-revealed documents obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch reveal that the Obama State Dept allowed Secy of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin to remove sensitive documents that were not to be made public records (including official “Muslim Engagement Documents”).--SNIP--

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REVEALED: Three Democrats Attended Private Dinner With Iran’s President And Louis Farrakhan
dailycaller ^ | 02/09/2018 | PETER HASSON / FR Posted on 2/10/2018, 7:08:39 AM by MarvinStinson Three Democratic congressmen attended a private dinner hosted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in 2013, a new report reveals. Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Andre Carson of Indiana and Gregory Meeks of New York attended the private dinner, along with Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite....SNIP

18 posted on 03/17/2018 2:37:33 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: Zakeet
maybe the IRS should start dunning the thousands of their employees what owe back taxes
19 posted on 03/17/2018 3:40:29 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: goldstategop
2100 a month is hardly depriving a congresscritter of subsistence...

Only forty or so years of garnishments and he's in the clear.

20 posted on 03/17/2018 5:48:41 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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