190 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyOn June 13, 2007, the Sun-Times reported that as a state senator, “Obama wrote letters to city
and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than
$14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.” In the Sun Times, Novak
reported that the deal included $855,000 in development fees for Rezko and [ex Obama
employer and alleged public housing abuser Allison] Davis, while Obama was still working at
the Davis law firm, for a bid on a project that was “four blocks outside Obama’s state Senate
district.” Although the law firm represented several companies owned by Davis and Rezko
when Obama wrote the letters, the firm did not represent New Kenwood in the deal. According
to the Sun-Times, Davis and Rezko instead hired a firm owned by Mayor Daley’s brother
Michael, “to help them get $3.1 million from bonds issued by the city of Chicago.” (Pringle, op-
ed news)MICHELLE OBAMA’S FASHION SHOW OF GRAFT
Michelle Obama joined her husband in eagerly cavorting in the cesspool of the bipartisan Illinois
Combine. Michelle was the guest of honor at a veritable fashion show of graft; among those present
was Patti Blagojevich the consort of the overlord of the entire bipartisan Illinois Combine.
‘In the November 2007, Chicago Magazine, James Merriner described a “fashion show” that
took place in the first week in November 2006, to benefit St Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
which he said, “attracted little if any media coverage, which may have been exactly as its organizers
and sponsors had hoped.” “The invitation to the affair,” he wrote, “offered a veritable guidebook to
political influence in Illinois, much of it centered on one St. Jude benefactor, Antoin ‘Tony’
Rezko.” “Just three weeks earlier,” Merriner pointed out, “Rezko had been indicted on charges of
extorting kickbacks from businesses seeking contracts from the Blagojevich administration.” The
“fashion show” was chaired by Rita Rezko, co-chaired by the Governor’s wife, Patti Blagojevich,
and Michelle Obama was a special guest that day, according to Merriner. Two weeks after the
“fashion show,” on November 17, 2006, the Sun-Times reported that Blagojevich’s wife Patti got
nearly $50,000 from a real estate deal in late 2002 involving Rezko. (Evelyn Pringle,
opednews.com)
VALERIE JARRETT, FRIEND OF BARKY
Michelle Obama had in fact been an integral part of the Illinois Combine even before Barky. It
was Michelle who introduced Obama into the secrets of the machine:
‘Obama’s ties to the corrupt Daley machine began when he was dating his wife Michelle and
she brought him into the fold. Valerie Jarrett, the deputy chief of staff to Mayor Daley, hired
Michelle as her assistant in 1991.... Obama’s introduction into the “Combine” came when his
wife Michelle was hired by Jarrett in the early 1990s, and served as Jarrett’s assistant in Daley’s
office and followed her to the Department of Planning and Development.’ (Evelyn Pringle,
opednews.com)
During the 2008 primaries, Valerie Jarrett was listed by Newsweek magazine as part of Obama’s
standard traveling entourage. Valerie Jarrett played a key role in introducing both Obama and
Michelle into the higher levels of the Combine:
‘Daley made Jarrett the chairman of the Chicago Department of Planning and Development and
Michelle worked as her assistant in that Department during 1992-93. From there Michelle
moved up the political tiers to the University of Chicago and ultimately got an overnight pay