(AP) — ‘Shortcomings’ dog Jesse Jackson Jr. U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has largely avoided the public eye of late, said in a rare interview Saturday that he is a public servant, not a perfect one, and didn’t rule out a future run at higher office. Jackson, who has been dogged by links to […]
(Chicago Tribune) — After considering a run for city clerk, Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson instead will try to retain her 7th Ward seat on the City Council. Jackson withdrew from the clerk’s contest Tuesday, the last day to decide and the last day for challenges to try to knock candidates off the ballot. In the […]
(AP) — The House ethics committee says it will comply with a Justice Department request to take no action in an investigation of Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois. The committee’s announcement Tuesday follows normal practice when the department is concerned that a congressional inquiry would interfere with its investigation. The ethics panel is […]
(AP) — The House ethics committee says it will comply with a Justice Department request to take no action in an investigation of Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois. The committee’s announcement Tuesday follows normal practice when the department is concerned that a congressional inquiry would interfere with its investigation. The ethics panel is […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Two Illinois congressmen have paid their wives hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their campaign funds in the last decade, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. The campaign to re-elect Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has given wife Sandi Jackson’s company at least $315,000 for her work. Rep. Bobby Rush’s […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., whose career and personal life have been buffeted by political controversy in recent months, said Monday he would not run for Chicago mayor in 2011. In a statement, Jackson said he has “many friends and colleagues” that might run for the office and that he will not be making […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — It’s a story as old as time: adultery, anguish and atonement. Last Tuesday, when news broke of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extramarital relationship with a blond nightclub hostess — kryptonite in the world of the African-American woman — his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, inserted a little laughter into the public […]
(NYT) — Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr.may well feel that he is under attack after recent accusations, political and personal. Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., a student of the Civil War, may now see himself as Gen. George B. McClellan of the Union Army fighting off Gen. Robert E. Lee at Antietam, the bloodiest battle in American history. Read […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — The one-year deadline has passed for congressional ethics investigators to announce whether a probe into U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson will resume, and so far, the committee refuses to shed any light on the situation. The Chicago Sun-Times first reported last year that congressional ethics investigators began an inquiry into Jackson regarding […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — As we watch his once-promising story careen out of control, I can’t help thinking that one of the worst things that ever happened to Jesse Jackson Jr. was Barack Obama. Long before Obama caused a nation to swoon with his soaring red-state-blue-state Democratic convention speech in 2004, Triple-J, once upon a […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. directed a major political fund-raiser to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment to the U.S. Senate, sources said the fund-raiser has told federal authorities. The allegation by Oak Brook businessman Raghuveer Nayak counters public statements made as […]