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Why did Alice Palmer choose Obama as her successor? What impressed
her enough to support the young left wing lawyer?
Palmer began working at Malcolm X College in Chicago in the late '60s. She
received her Masters degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
Campus and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University where she later
became Director of African American Student Affairs.
Palmer, with her husband was also inviolved in the Chicago based Black
Press Institute. It was as a representative of this organisation that Palmer
served on the executive board of the US Peace Council from 1983 to 1985.
Known Party members included Rob Prince, Sara Staggs of the Chicago
Peace Council, Frank Chapman of the National Alliance Against Racial and
Political Repression, Pauline Rosen of Women's Strike for Peace and
Council executive director Mike Myerson.
The US Peace Council was affiliated to the Soviet controlled and funded
World Peace Council.
In June 1986, the Black Press Institute contributed an article, “An Afro-
American Journalist on the USSR,” to the Communist Party USA’s
newspaper People’s Daily World. The article detailed how Alice Palmer had
recently attended the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and had been greatly impressed by the Soviet system.
“We Americans can be misled by the major media. We’re being told the
Soviets are striving to achieve a comparatively low standard of living
compared with ours, but actually they have reached a basic stability in
meeting their needs and are now planning to double their production.”
“The Soviet government and people have always sides with the Africans in
South Africa and Namibia against apartheid…. I saw this, too, at the Patrice
Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow, where students from
underdeveloped countries are trained to become engineers, doctors,
nurses, teachers, agricultural specialists and skilled workers. There is no
brain drain going on; the students receive a free education and then return
to use their talents to build up their own countries.”
By the mid '90s Palmer was involved in another leftist organisation the
Illinois Public Action (IPA). Ostensibly a consumer group IPA was one of
Illinos' leading leftist pressure groups. Communist Party members Bea and
Frank Lumpkin were prominent as were several DSA members including
board meber Quentin Young. Other key activists included Bill McNary and
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, both later key obama allies.
In 1995 Alice Palmer decided to relinquish her Illinois State Senate Senate
seat to run for Congress. Barack Obama served as Palmer's chief of staff
during the campaign, but Palmer failed badly, losing the three way race to
Jesse Jackson jnr.
According to Wikipedia
Jackson Sr. approached Alice J. Palmer with a deal where they supported
her for Congress and she support Junior for her seat in the Illinois State
Senate, but Jackson Jr. did not agree with that plan...he decided to run for
the seat. Palmer ran and endorsed Barack Obama for her old seat.
Jackson has a lengthy relationship with Barack Obama. The two have
collaborated on issues, stood together against the party slate on certain
reform-minded candidates and sought each other’s advice. Additionally,
Jackson's sister Santita was a close friend of Michelle Obama and served
as a bridesmaid at the Obama wedding.
In 2007 Jesse Jackson's wife Sandi, stood successfully for the Chicago City
Council-backed by the Communist Party.
After losing to Jackson, Palmer decided to restand for her State Senate
seat and asked Obama to stand aside-he refused.
This caused a huge rift and Palmer's friend Timuel Black was called in to
mediate. He was unsuccessful, but ended up becoming a friend and
supporter of Obama's. Unsurprisingly Black himself was accused of
Communist Party membership when he joined the Army during World war
T w o . t o d a y h e s e r v e s o n t h e advisory board of the Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism with Gus Newport.
Palmer resolved to run against him (and two other opponents who also had
declared their candidacy) in the 1996 Democratic primary. To get her name
placed on the ballot, Palmer hastily gathered the minimum number of
signatures required. Obama promptly challenged the legitimacy of those
signatures and charged Palmer with fraud. A subsequent investigation
found that a number of the names on Palmer's petition were invalid, thus
she was knocked off the ballot.
Obama knocked out the other two candidates by the same method,
eventually winning the Democratic primary by default.
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