Discussing the Illinois primary this morning on the “The Stephanie Miller Show,” Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois repeatedly said Mitt Romney won’t do well in her state because “midwesterners don’t like phonies.”
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who led efforts in 2009 to support would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, is continuing her campaign against the democratically elected government that replaced him. Schakowsky has circulated a letter among Democrats in the U.S. House
Robert Creamer–Democrat strategist, Obama 2008 campaign aide, and political architect of ObamaCare–argues that the new contraceptive mandate for Catholic institutions isn’t really about equality for women, or religious liberty. Rather, it is about population control. Creamer–like his wife, the pro-abortion Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) said that “investing in green technologies will produce” more jobs than the Keystone pipeline on Chicago’s WLS Radio Don Wade and Roma Show. She went on to say that “Republicans would rather have an issue than
This morning, Rep. Jan Schakowsky appeared on the Don Wade and Roma show on WLS-AM Chicago to comment on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Schakowsky praised the president’s green energy initiatives, claiming that the (recalled) Chevy Volt
Here is new video from RebelPundit’s continuing coverage of Occupy the Dream, an event held at the Peoples[sic] Church of Chicago, Sunday January 15th. The following video reveals the overwhelming and until now, unseen tone of the event. The event
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who infamously argued for the death of the private insurance industry, and whose husband drafted the political blueprint for Obamacare from federal prison, told Democrats at a rally today that they had to re-elect President Barack
Re. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), addressing Democrats and Occupiers at the “Occupy the Dream” on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Chicago, demands that the rich pay their fair share. Schakowsky’s husband, Robert Creamer, went to federal prison in 2006 on
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday to accuse former Blackwater (now Xe) chief Erik Prince of “attempted intimidation of a member of Congress.” [youtube vNJBzMpeZVE] The “threat”–which Schakowsky appears to have exaggerated
While addressing a gathering of the international communist front World Federation of Democratic Youth, in Lisbon Portugal, November 10, 2011, Young Communist League USA organizer Lisa Bergmann, boasted of communist leadership in the US “Occupy” movement and their desire to
Last month, Big Government reported that Occupy Wall Street activists were using “human shields”–veterans, women, the young, the old, and the disabled–in the hope of provoking police to use force against them and winning the “battle over images.” That initial
Yesterday, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky compared the Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who voted to subpoena White House documents relating to the Solyndra bankruptcy scandal to “birthers.” She apparently did not appreciate her collegues’ reasonable demands to see
Education Action Group attended the recent “Occupy Chicago” protest held in Chicago, IL on 10/10/11. While there, they bumped into the Communist Party USA. They had been marching alongside their close ally, Democrat Representative Jan Schakowsky.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D, Illinois 9th District), whose husband has been convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion, was recently interviewed by the far-left website “truthout” and served up some rather unsettling thoughts on economics and the role of government.
#OccupyChicago: thousands of anarchists, union members, and Democrats–and not one American flag. Just like the Tea Party! Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) was on hand. She addressed a mob outside the Hyatt Regency Chicago, where some activists apparently attempted to disrupt
During a radio interview Wednesday morning, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) made a startlingly candid statement about taxpayers and the wealth they earn and produce. It was her Joe the Plumber moment in that it broke the Democratic playbook rule about revealing
From WLS in Chicago: Schakowsky said that Americans don’t deserve to keep all of their money because we need taxes to support our society. “I’ll put it this way. You don’t deserve to keep all of it and it’s not
QUESTION: What do you do if you are a Progressive supporter of Israel, and your Progressive fellow travelers are proudly organizing the American wing of the Hamas Flotilla movement? ANSWER: Nothing. You are powerless to stop it. It’s called the
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) unwittingly highlighted the corruption inherent in congressional earmarks today, in an op-ed published in the Chicago Tribune. Calling for Congress to “raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires,” Schakowsky quoted a constituent who supports her: “Our country
Call it “The Schakowsky Conundrum.” Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky finds herself in the unfortunate position of battling the very Progressive movement she has done so much to help shape. You see, she is a Progressive Zionist, and that puts her
You can always count on Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky to maintain the level of #newtone we’ve all come to know and love in politics. After intervening on behalf of far-left protesters with possible links to various terrorist groups including Hamas,
Yesterday, Jan Schakowsky sat in on the Don Wade and Roma show on Chicago’s WLS 890 AM. The topic of the Obama White House banning a critical media outlet came up, and Schakowsky was asked if she would ever like
Rep. Jan Schakowsky sat in on the Don Wade and Roma show on Chicago’s WLS 890 AM and called Andrew Breitbart a “Sleaze bag”. She also acknowledged that she would have liked to ban BigGovernment.com from covering her re-election campaign.
Over the past month and a half, seven members of Congress–six of whom are members of the Democratic Socialists of America–have written letters to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama on behalf of radical extremists whose homes
We received an email invitation to the “We Are One” labor union solidarity protest from Alex Armour, Political Director, for Illinois 9th District Congress Woman, Democrat Jan Schakowsky and decided to attend. Alex was on hand and “one” with the
This past week’s “blood libel” comment from Sarah Palin brought forth the seeming unlikeliest of defenders, Alan Dershowitz, who, in an exclusive to Big Government, defended the former governor’s comments from her obsessed detractors. Conservatives are justifiably pleased that their
Our national print media is, generally speaking, hopelessly left-wing. The same is often true of the local press in many places, and the public rarely has recourse to an impartial alternative. Take, for example, the struggling Pioneer Press in suburban
This video, from a Rep. Jan Schakowsky ‘get out the vote’ rally in Chicago, got some attention for the interviewers questioning of Schakowsky on the constitutional basis for ObamaCare and the Democratic Socialists. Overlooked was a far more interesting, and
On Monday night, my opponent Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered this speech to Democrats at a restaurant in Chicago–with U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and Governor Pat Quinn in attendance: [youtube Km3gMoDnJew] All around the country, people are trying to replicate
On October 17, 2010, Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and her Republican challenger, Joel Pollak, faced off before a largely Jewish audience in Chicago to address Israel-specific foreign policy issues. After the forum was over, we attempted to ask both candidates
We attended the 3rd candidates’ forum between Democrat Congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky, and her Republican Challenger, Joel Pollak, in their hotly contested race for Illinois’ 9th district. There is a lot of content to process, but in the meantime, we bring
I’ve obtained an advance copy of Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, Stanley Kurtz’s meticulously researched new book on our president’s socialist roots. It’s no hatchet job. It doesn’t appeal to the prejudices of the reader,
Below is our full-length report on last Sunday’s Candidates’ Forum with Democrat representative, Jan Schakowsky, and her challenger, Republican Joel Pollak. [youtube y6PEQ5Q2yZ0] As you can see from the video, Jan Schakowsky’s campaign greets our challenging questions on Health Care,
Yesterday, at a candidate forum in Chicago held by the American Muslim Task Force, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) was asked point-blank about H.R. 3808 (the Interstate Recognition of Notarizatons Act). Her answer reveals exactly why Americans are frustrated with Congress,
The following video is a preview of our full report on the recent candidates’ forum in Illinois’ 9th congressional district between Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and her Republican challenger, Joel Pollak. After the forum concluded, the candidates mingled in the crowd
Fresh from lobbying for her friends at ShoreBank, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) is at the center of another Chicago bank scandal–this time involving the remnants of a bank with connections to convicted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, convicted fraudster Tony Rezko,
From The Hill: ShoreBank, a Chicago-area community lender praised by Democrats, was taken over by the government Friday and its assets sold. Chicago-area Democrats pushed hard for regulators to extend bailout money to the bank from the government’s $700 billion
$2.5 million of federal stimulus money went to an energy firm in the Chicago area that used the grant to build a new heating system for the headquarters of Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, located in
My family immigrated to America in the same year that South African police murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. The racist regime that destroyed him viewed him as a threat because of his simple credo: “I write what I like.”
Recently, Big Government told of a proposed fiscal year 2009 federal budget earmark intended for the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF), a Chicago-area nonprofit that went belly-up late last year. The article questioned why IL Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who introduced the