As predicted, Barack Obama named Valerie Jarrett as his senior adviser to the White House. I have no clue who Jarrett is other than she was senior adviser to Obama while he campaigned for president, and she co-chaired his transition team.
The mainstream media has already dug up dirt on Jarrett, but dirt doesn’t seem to stick to the Teflon Dems these days:
According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama’s former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.
(According to press reports, housing projects operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing project was “riddled with problems — including squalid living conditions…lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.”) Source
Now Rezko’s cooling his heels in the federal pen, while the ones who got away scott free will be running Washington in 67 days.
