The Tale Of Jamie & Sarah Raskin, Dan Kildee, TARP, Trafficking Tiny Humans & Detroit Land Bank Authority

Gather round, my Dearies, for the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed shall tell the tale of Jamie Raskin and why he was mean to my Sweetie.

Once upon a time, Jamie Raskin had a campaign event with Alexandrian Ocasio-Cortez.

I have never in my life experienced a Negro Spirituals political campaign troupe singing to the tune of Klezmer music, but there is always a first for everything.

https://democracysummerpac.com/

Anyway, Jamie has this PAC to support his campaigns and those of his fellow colleagues, called Democracy Summer.

It looks like a trafficking tiny humans operation.

Democracy Summer is a one-of-a-kind political Democratic Fellowship that teaches high school and college students the nuts-and-bolts of political organizing, the arts of electoral mobilization, the critical issues of the day, and the history of progressive political change. Our mission in 2019 is to deploy Democracy Summer Fellows to help Democratic candidates win key elections in swing districts, especially to take back Virginia's state legislature and help call voters in pivotal special elections like North Carolina's 9th U.S. House District.



On may 26, 2019, Democracy Summer was not in good standing with the State of Maryland, until today, September 12, 2019.

Noah Raskin, of unknown relation with Jamie, is the Chief Financial Officer of ASCD, is listed in the Articles of Incorporation for the Democracy Summer Leadership PAC, inc.

Noah Raskin

Noah Raskin brings more than 20 years of diversified experience in the higher education and commercial construction industries. 
Drawing on his unique experience  working in large organizations and successful start-ups, Raskin oversees financial services, human resources, project management, administrative services (facilities), meetings and travel services, and IT operations and engineering.
He is dedicated to building a strong foundation through high-level analytics and implementing an obtainable strategic plan that focuses on ASCD’s global mission.
Raskin provides strategic, tactical, financial, operational, and business development expertise in achieving short- and long-term organization goals. He has earned a strong record of reversing financial declines and capturing significant cost reductions through process redesign and performance enhancement.

Max Maccoby

Max Maccoby incorporated Democracy Summer Leadership PAC.

Max has previously represented David Brock.

David Brock has a history with CREW.

Max has a history defending False Claims actions in Medicare fraud and TARP.

Jamie's wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin just so happens to also have a background in TARP because she sat on the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve when TARP was being laundered through the Treasury of the State of Michigan, through the Michigan Emergency Manager, to the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority, to the Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority, to the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Sarah was there for the creation of the first Land Bank in the U.S., the Genesse County Land Bank Authority, which captured all the foreclosed homes in Flint during the Water Crisis, spearheaded by Dan Kildee.

Land Bank Authorities Guide for Creation and Operation by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Sarah should know Don McGahn and Neil Barofsky, too.

Sarah Bloom Raskin

Sarah Bloom Raskin

• Governor, Board of Governors, 2010–2014

Sarah Bloom Raskin took office as a member of the Board of Governors on October 4, 2010, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2016.  She resigned on March 13, 2014.

Raskin received a bachelor’s degree in economics (magna cum laude) from Amherst College and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School.

During her career, Raskin has served both the public and private sectors. Early in her career, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress. She was later managing director at the Promontory Financial Group. She also served as the banking counsel for the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

This is not Jamie & Sarah's daughter,
but I bet she "Butina-ed" him.

Before her appointment to the Board of Governors, Raskin was the commissioner of financial regulation for the State of Maryland. In this capacity, Raskin and her agency were responsible for regulating an array of interconnected financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, mortgage servicers, and trust companies, among others. Under her leadership, the commissioner’s office played an early and multifaceted role in the state’s response to the financial crisis. This included reforming through legislation; regulation; examination and supervision; the foreclosure process; combating foreclosure rescue and loan modification scams; and elevating licensing, lending, and servicing standards.

Raskin is married and has three teenage children.

Speaking of children, Max Maccoby has a trafficking tiny humans trust fund called "Friends of the Orphans", which is generating about $20,000,000 a year in grants and tax exempt contributions, as reported in 2017, where about $10,000,000 goes to compensation of its officers who probably end up contributing to Jamie's and his rogue ass crew's re-election campaigns for the purposes of procuring votes on Judiciary and other stuff.

https://www.nphusa.org/

NPH USA, formerly Friends of the Orphans, transforms the lives of vulnerable children in Latin America and the Caribbean by supporting the homes, health services and educational programs of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters”).

Together, we help children overcome poverty and become leaders in their own communities. Founded in 1954, NPH is fully supporting nearly 3,100 boys and girls in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. An additional 3,200 community children receive scholarships, meals, health care and other support. More than 114,000 services were provided through community outreach programs in 2018.

And the moral of the story is, "Do not be mean to my Sweetie. Period."

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Ole' Roger Dodger Penske Is Postering A Public Defense In Detroit

Allow me to suggest visiting a few Detroit wine rooms for this one

I was wondering when Ole' Roger Dodger was going to come out the woodwork.

Yes, I love the concept of alternative sentencing, or, perhaps, in this case, a bit of psyoptic posturing for building a platform for a public defense, but hey, what do I know?

Fun at the Belle Isle Grand Prix

I know that someone should ask him out those rumors of uranium stock piles people in Southwest Detroit are chattering about.

And I do know someone should look into the Penske Foundation and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

I also know he is going to put on a really fun #colorevolution with a full cast of your Detroit characters for the #clownfest because he does the Belle Isle Grand Prix.

That is why I suggest visiting a few Detroit wine rooms for this one.

Penske Corp. donates $5M to Jefferson Chalmers through neighborhood partnership

Roger Penske, chairman of Penske Corp., center,
with Mayor Mike Duggan, left, and Councilman Andre Spivey
discusses plans for the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood. 

Detroit — For about 20 years the Lenox Community Center in the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood has sat vacant. Over time, the building has suffered water and property damage.

The center and a nearby park will be redeveloped with $5 million Penske Corp. is donating to the neighborhood through the city of Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund and Affordable Housing Leverage Fund Initiative.

Residents, officials with the city and Penske gathered Wednesday for the announcement at Norma G’s.

“We’re very grateful for this $5 million to be invested in such a significant asset in our community,” said Michelle Lee, a neighborhood resident and housing director for nonprofit Jefferson East.

“We need the Lenox center to be active. It will serve many families. … Seeing families and children being able to come into this neighborhood and have somewhere to go and participate in positive activities moving forward we’re very grateful for that.”

Lee said the center once housed Easterseals, which held summer programming in the building. In recent years, there have been local efforts to bring activity to the grounds of the vacant building, including butterfly and rain gardens. Each year, the community has a cider social at the Lenox Center Pavilion.

With Penske Corp.'s donation, there's more in store for the community center and Alfred Brush Ford Park, which sits along the Detroit River.

The company is among six other corporations committing $5 million over five years to city of Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund and Affordable Housing Leverage Fund Initiative.

Mayor Mike Duggan said Roger Penske, chairman of Penske Corp., approached the city to get involved in the neighborhood fund. 

“He was the only one who called us to say, ‘This is my level of commitment.’” Duggan said.

Duggan pointed Penske to Jefferson Chalmers, which he said is “one of the special and unknown neighborhoods in Detroit.”

“To me it’s amazing,” Duggan said. “Beautiful housing, open spaces and land where there used to be houses.

"A river at the south end, a commercial district that’s very underdeveloped at the north end. Abandoned apartment buildings that need to be renovated. You want to talk about an area that has the potential to come back enormously and has never had the resources. You should go check it out.”

Penske said Wednesday that he was amazed at the work already taking place in the neighborhood.

“You folks here obviously on your own collectively have put so much into it yourselves,” he said.

“That we could come in as individuals from the private sector, working public and private together.”

As part of the redevelopment, the Lenox Community Center will get a gymnasium.

Most of the improvements to the center and the park will begin March 2020 with a grand opening in September 2020. This summer, the park will receive lighting improvements through city bond funding. The Environmental Protection Agency will contribute to enhance wildlife habitat there.

Penske is known for his contribution to the city undertaking the Super Bowl XL in 2006. As the head of Detroit's Host Committee, Penske and the committee raised funds and prepared the downtown, which at the time had numerous empty storefronts, for the national event.

Penske said this work in a Detroit neighborhood “gave us a chance to show the community we wanted to give back to Detroit. … We want to be a part of you, want to be with you as partners and family.”

The announcement comes less than 24 hours after the city and state approve Fiat Chrysler's plans to invest $1.6 billion in expanding its Mack Avenue facilities with a new plant and investing $900 million to modernize its Jefferson North Assembly Plant. The plant expansion is expected to add 4,950 jobs.

“This is a pretty good week for this section of Detroit,” Duggan said. 

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