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The death of Jesse Jackson, who got his start lying about holding MLK’s body in his arms, shaking down companies with fake racism accusations to get franchises for his sons, and subsidize his affair and his out-of-wedlock baby, has given a boost to his criminal son.
Jesse Jackson Jr, a former Obama campaign co-chair, had been busted and sent to prison for making off with $750,000 in campaign cash and spending over $10,000 on Michael Jackson memorabilia, including $8,500 on two fedoras, not to mention $800 on a mink cashmere cape, is relaunching a campaign for his old House seat in Chicago, while exploiting his father’s death.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Jesse Jackson Jr told Sharpton on MSNBC (MS NOW) and remembered how amazing it was that “on any given Saturday, Michael Jackson might stop by.”
Jesse Jackson Jr didn’t specify if it was to molest one of the kids or ask for his fedora back.
Jackson Jr. told Sharpton that if Jesse Jackson were alive today, “he would stand against any kind of conflict with the Iranian people. He would have opposed the engagement that the United States under the president’s leadership had in Venezuela and the threats of big gunboat diplomacy that the president is advancing. He would have fought against ICE in our cities.”
Mostly though he would have threatened to block corporate mergers by accusing the companies of racism unless they gave franchises to his kids and funded his mistress through his ‘charity’.
“If I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to return to Congress,” Jackson Jr. told Sharpton without mentioning what it is that caused him to depart the hallowed House halls.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Chicago Alderwoman Sandra Stevens Jackson, who served as his treasurer, campaign manager and consultant, ‘redistributed the wealth’ from the ‘Jackson for Congress’ campaign to the poor and the needy.
$60,857 went to poor and needy nightclubs, $17,163 went to the poor and needy tobacco stores plus a lot of Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Jimmy Hendrix memorabilia, along with a mink cashmere cap, a cashmere cape, and a mink reversible parka.
Jesse Jackson Jr. had portrayed them as loving parents and asked the court to stagger their sentences so that one of them could always stay with the kids. Then Jackson Jr. managed to get early release after only two years in prison and then served his wife, who went to prison, with divorce papers over “irreconcilable differences”. The difference being she was in prison.
After $1.8 million in debt, former Rep. Jackson Jr. got out of prison and despite only being 52-years-old went back to living off taxpayers with $138,400 in workers’ comp and Social Security Disability Insurance after having been diagnosed with depression. He told reporters he wasn’t sure when he might get a job.
The good news is he’s now looking for a job. It’s in Congress.
But first the messy divorce case had to be settled. Highlightsincluded Jesse Jr’s wife demanding a list of all his “sex partners” while they were married and called a strip club owner and a bikini model who was described as a “social acquaintance” and Rev. Jesse Jackson, an expert on infidelity, as well as multiple police officers, as witnesses. Jesse Jr however claimed that he found something on her computer while she was in prison that made it “impossible for the marriage to continue.” By 2018, they finally settled the case of which “no aspects of the settlement will be public” because it would have inspired at least one BET series.
During the divorce, the former congressman explained that he couldn’t be expected to get a job because of the “emotionally draining” divorce case.
“He’s not a slacker,” insisted Jackson’s lawyer, claiming that the politician is totally disabled.
Now, Jesse Jackson Jr. is working on his congressional comeback after having presumably been cured of his total disability. There’s already one Jackson in Congress, Rep. Jonathan Congress, who claimed that white firefighters let black homes burn, was caught violating stock trading disclosure laws, and who endorsed Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign while quietly getting a $13,000 consulting contract from him and then his construction company got a $750,000 contract from a Pritzker’s state program. But at least no Michael Jackson fedoras or mink capes were bought with campaign cash. That we know of.
When Joe Biden was pardoning his crooked family members, Jesse Jackson Sr. pleaded with him for a “full and absolute pardon for your son, and for mine, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr” who had “devoted his life to what he refers to as his ministry – to public service, and to fighting for equality and equity in civil and human rights for all Americans.”
Considering Biden and Jackson’s history of philandering, it’s probably best not to inquire too closely into how Jesse Jr. might be the son of both men.
“I’m asking for it, but I didn’t ask just for myself,” Jesse Jackson Jr. insisted. “When I was elected in 1995 I had a big name, but I had no money. I didn’t realize quite the gravity of what it meant to live in Chicago and live in Washington. So to the tune of about $75,000 a year, I lived in my campaign. $75,000 a year to live in two cities — Chicago and Washington, to go to work every day, to not miss a vote in nearly 17 years as a congressman. Yes, I lived in my campaign fund and I owned my behavior for that.”
It’s tough when you have no money, even though your dad is a millionaire, and you’re trying to live on $75,000 a year while buying cashmere capes and mink caps (or is it cashmere caps and mink capes) not to mention Michael Jackson memorabilia and spending $17,000 at tobacco shops while just trying to get by as an ordinary working class congressman. Is that a crime?
(Editorial note: yes it is.)
“Lots of members of Congress find themselves in a similar situation. Some of them live in their offices. Some of them live literally in their cars,” Jesse Jackson Jr. complained. And some like Jesse Jackson Jr. owned a 1921 era D.C. townhouse off Dupont Circle valued at $2.7 million with 4 stories, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, with a rooftop deck with a jacuzzi and a copper roof.
In 2024, Jesse Jackson Jr claimed that he has a “ministry” and that he wants to “work in broadcast journalism” and wasn’t thinking about politics. But now he wants to get back to Congress on a promise to build a third airport in Chicago. “The one thing that is missing from this congressional district is access to the global economy”. With flights to Hong Kong.
Who in Hong Kong doesn’t want to experience daily drive-by shootings in Chicago?
His crooked philandering father’s slogan was “keep hope alive”. Jesse Jr’s is a “new hope”.
“I’ve cried enough. I’m divorced now. I’ve lost my home in foreclosure,” former Rep. Jackson insisted. Now he’s ready to take another try at the brass ring or the mink cape.
Among his campaign promises, Jesse Jackson Jr wants to “advance sensible criminal justice and prison reform” and supports “legislation to remove the check box that asks if job applicants have a criminal record.” Especially when they’re applying for a job in politics.
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