Culture of Corruption… IL State Workers Forced to Attend Pelosi-Jackson Dinner on Taxpayer Dime
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 4:35 AM
It’s the Chicago way…
State workers were forced to attend a Pelosi-Jackson Jr. dinner.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announces her endorsement of incumbent Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters. (Chicago Maroon)
Whistle-blower documents reveal that Illinois state employees were forced to attend a Jesse Jackson Jr-Nancy Pelosi dinner on the taxpayer dime.
The Daily Caller reported:
Documents and a whistle-blower affidavit obtained by The Daily Caller charge that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., and Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., participated in an unethical — and possibly illegal — effort to force 76 employees of an Illinois state agency to engage in political activity on the taxpayers’ dime.
According to the whistle-blower, Rev. Jackson also encouraged the government employees to load first-generation and low-income college students up with student loan debt — because Democrats in Congress, he allegedly promised, would eventually pass laws to forgive that debt later. “[T]hose people will continue to vote Democratic,” Jackson Sr. said, according to the whistle-blower.
On March 3, Pelosi flew to Chicago to endorse Rep. Jackson Jr., 17 days ahead of a heated March 20 Democratic primary he later won. Pelosi was scheduled to make the endorsement at a press conference later in the day, after she participated in an hour-long “forum” hosted by the elder Jackson at the headquarters of his progressive Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
Pelosi politicized that forum, jumping the gun and endorsing Jackson Jr. earlier than planned.
“One of the reasons I am here, and I will do this following this wonderful meeting, is to publicly state my endorsement of Jesse Jackson Jr. for re-election,” Pelosi said at the Rainbow PUSH forum. “I do so with great pride. I remember when he came to the Congress with a great name and a great tradition of his parents. But he came and he made his own mark in the Congress from his own generation.”
Adam Andrzejewski, chairman of the For The Good of Illinois PAC and a former 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate endorsed by Polish Solidarity movement founder Lech Walesa, told TheDC that a state government agency forcing workers to go the event was likely illegal. Even if it failed to violate any specific law, he said, the activity was undoubtedly unethical.
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Calamity Jane commented:
I’m not surprised at the allegations….But, I guess it is just another day at the “shop” for the Dems.
SoLongSong commented:
They’re so evil it’s almost cartoonish, and would be funny – if there weren’t so many sheep that read these comics and think they’re the norm.
Sasja commented:
No wonder little Jesse is hiding out. Oh, wait. He’s bipolar. The Mayo Clinic says so. Just another day of corruption in the house of dhims.
Finncrisp commented:
What’s ethics got to do with it? Democrats abandoned that position with abandon some time ago. Once they bought into MUD – Marxist Utoipian Delusion; there is no lie too big to tell, no boundary of decency too high to scale, and no taxpayer too poor to fleece.
blackbush666 commented:
Do symptoms of bipolar disease include federal indictments and secret waitresses girlfriends? Poor jesse.
Bruce commented:
… According to the whistle-blower, Rev. Jackson also encouraged the government employees to load first-generation and low-income college students up with student loan debt — because Democrats in Congress, he allegedly promised, would eventually pass laws to forgive that debt later. “[T]hose people will continue to vote Democratic,” Jackson Sr. said, according to the whistle-blower. ….
There you have it. Creating dependency is a Democratic political policy.
kato commented:
A good photo of two mentally ill criminals.
Pelosi is the most demented woman in American politics and Jackson is your run-of-the-mill subprime grifter.
CommieJuice commented:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. – PERFECT examples of 0bama’s Democrat party. These two wonderful people represent all the values of the modern liberal. They both should be the face and main speakers on everything Democrat. I can’t think of a single issue we could ever agree on, but to me that makes them perfect opposition to everything right and just.
donh commented:
Oh …and the sympathy news story about JJ suffering from Bi Polar disorder hits the news just hours before this corruption story breaks…how conveniantly pre-emptive….just a coincidence right ? Another example of how an omnipotent big brother is using its power over information to merge reality with hollywood studio art . The media is now a government staged twilight zone of fantacy projection . This whole JJ illness is some kind of Blago bribery scandal mangement.
anti-bho commented:
Not only a no-good bustard, but a CHINTZY no-good bustard…..
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Patty commented:
She is a thief. She has deprived many for a few.
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California : Endangering People to Protect Fish (Nancy Pelosi has a lot to answer for)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/endangering_people_to_protect.html
Nancy Pelosi Compares Republicans to Bacteria
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/07/nancy_pelosi_compares_republicans_to_bacteria
Nancy Pelosi accuses Republicans of trying to kill children with E. coli. Republicans don’t want to spend money to protect children from the E. coli bacteria, said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a campaign event Monday [8/6/2012] in support of a Democrat running for a Florida congressional seat.
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Restless commented:
I’m a state employee in Illinois, and all state workers are required to take an “ethics test” each year. State law specifically prohibits ANY use of taxpayer dollars to endorse political campaigns. It also prohibits state workers from using their positions to encourage or discourage political activity outside of work. The annual ethics test always includes examples like this Jackson-Pelosi episode, and our test makes it clear that such activities are illegal.
stuart commented:
Restless #19 Let me guess. If you pass the ethics test you are fired.
Sorry, but I lived in your wretched state once upon a time. I still remember trying to re establish my drivers license after I returned from Viet Nam. The DMV examiner made it perfectly clear I had no hope of passing the test unless a fifty dollar gratuity was involved, and this after I had spent hundreds of hours driving a duce and a half under combat conditions. I failed to be in possession of the required fifty so I failed. Then the tax commission started sending me letters demanding taxes on money earned overseas in a combat zone. This was in the early 70s. If anything its gotten much worse. I bailed out nearly 30 years ago. I don’t know how anybody can live in Illinois.
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