As I blogged last week, WakeUp Wal-Mart, the United Food & Commercial Workers funded group, kicked off an anti Wal-Mart bus tour last week. On Saturday, the bus rumbles into Chicago, specifically to St. Gregory High School, 1677 Bryn Mawr on Chicago's North Side at 3:00pm.
It's being called a town hall meeting. And it's featured speaker is my own congresscritter, Jan Schakowsky.
Jan's husband, Robert Creamer, won't be there. He's currently serving time at the Federal Correctional Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana. While running his now defunct consumer advocacy group, the Illinois Public Action Council, Creamer was kiting checks. Although Jan was not implicated in the financial misdealings, her ties to IPAC reach back to the 1970s. And Schakowsky was serving on IPAC board of directors while her husband was involved in that evil Republican practice of white collar crime.
Oops, Creamer is a Democrat like his wife. After his house-of-cards consumer advocacy group fell apart, Creamer worked as a political consultant for several high-profile Illinois Democrats.
But Creamer and Schakowsky are "for the people," and that's what counts, right?
Also scheduled to appear with Schakowsky are Paul Blank, former political director for Dean for America, and Chris Kofinis, former senior advisor for Wes Clark for President.
Not exactly a mainstream bunch.
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