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[Beatrice1000]

This is good news indeed -- though I don't suppose Mr. Jackson will take this action against his "power" without a few choice comments -- I haven't seen his reaction yet....

** NYSE Bans Jesse Jackson, newsmax.com, 1/14/05 **

The New York Stock Exchange refused this week to allow the Rev. Jesse Jackson to hold his annual Wall Street Project fund-raising event on the Exchange floor, and is also rebuffing the one-time civil rights leader's annual demand for $100,000. In years past, business leaders & top government officials came out in droves to support the Jackson event, especially during the Clinton era – with many of them ponying up six-figure sums in the name of "minority business outreach."

In 1998, the debut year of the Project, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Securities & Exchange Chairman Arthur Levitt and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, along with Donald Trump, showed up to support Jackson's so-called "diversity agenda."

But as Investor's Business Daily noted earlier this week, with Jackson friend Richard Grasso no longer running the Big Board, the Wall Street Project gravy train has chugged to a halt. "Truth is," said IBD, "Jackson's been losing clout and credibility for some time. He's no longer a star, no longer untouchable." Even former Jackson shakedown conquests like Toyota and NASCAR are beginning to distance themselves from the reverend.

"The NYSE cutoff is a dramatic step that puts the individual companies that bankroll Jackson on the spot," noted Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center, in comments to CNSNews.com. "It is a lot harder for the Verizons and PepsiCos to argue that there's nothing wrong with supporting Jackson's groups."

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[shawa]

Has there ever been an investigation into where all his shakedown
money really goes? Is there an audit trail?
He and his family seem to live high on the hog for a guy who has
never held a real job.
Just what kind of salary does he take from his shakedown activities?

[Beatrice1000]

[blue9t3]

Im not so sure MLK was the intended target.


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[GenrXr]

BOR has been subjected to 7 IRS audits and openly challenges the IRS to give him another, but alas his yearly request for the IRS to audit Jacksons organizations falls on deaf ears. Although BOR in my opinion lost tons of credibility over his treatment of the SVPT's, he does do some good.
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"An activist is the person who cleans up the water, not the one claiming its dirty."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Founder of Conservative Philosophy

[GM Strong]

Je$$e Ja¢k$on has been running his extortion racket from the beginning. He is a Crook with flair. Most of what he says about himself is out and out lies. Liberal media and politicians have pandered to this guy for years and he has sucked millions from the taxpayers.

The book is a good read. It will also horrify you that this man has been untouched where others including his half brother are serving long prison sentences. It's who you know how smoothly you run your racket. Je$$e Ja¢k$on is for Je$$e and nobody else.
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8th Army Korea 68-69

[wwIIvetsdaughter]

As a "minority" Jackson claims to represent, let me say this: Jesse Jackson is a poverty pimp and a mafia shake down artist. His "Rainbow Coalition" is a fraud and just what church does this reverned preach at ?

[GM Strong]