Obama Citizenship

Chicago Politics: Emanuel is in Deep; an Iranian Senator?

By Phil

Via theobamafile.com, the Chicago Sun-Times posted an article about Chief of Staff-elect Rahm Emanuel’s role with BlogoGate:

President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had a deeper involvement in pressing for a U.S. Senate seat appointment than previously reported, the Sun-Times has learned. Emanuel had direct discussions about the seat with Gov. Blagojevich, who is is accused of trying to auction it to the highest bidder.

Emanuel talked with the governor in the days following the Nov. 4 election and pressed early on for the appointment of Valerie Jarrett to the post, sources with knowledge of the conversations told the Sun-Times. There was no indication from sources that Emanuel brokered a deal, however. …

After Jarrett took herself out of the running in mid-November, Emanuel submitted a list of suitable names to the governor’s camp that didn’t include her name.

Emanuel, who has refused to comment on the issue, is not accused of wrongdoing.

So, who is this Valerie Jarrett? According to a posting on freerepublic.com (and a reference to Iranian.com; see below)…

-Phil

Jarrett is a member of African-American and Chicago royalty. But her story and her life begin in the Middle East, not the Midwest. She was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, about 570 miles south of Tehran. Her parents moved to Shiraz, known for its poets, wine and flowers, as part of a program that sent American doctors and agricultural experts to developing countries to help jump-start their health and farming efforts. Her father was on the staff of the brand new Nemazee Hospital, where Jarrett was born. “Every memory from Iran is a very happy memory,” Jarrett told me in an e-mail [whomever the "me" is]

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).