Robert Creamer (political consultant), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American political consultant
Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1947
Place of Birth: United States of America, United States
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Robert Creamer (political consultant)
- Robert Creamer is an American political consultant, community organizer, and author.
- He is the husband of Democratic congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the Congressional Representative for Illinois's 9th congressional district.
- His firm, Democracy Partners, works with progressive electoral and issue campaigns and has 32 partners located throughout the United States.He has been a progressive strategist and political organizer for over 50 years, beginning in the Civil Rights and anti Vietnam War movements of the 1960s.
- He worked as an organizer with Saul Alinsky's last major project in Chicago.
- Later he founded and then lead Illinois's largest coalition of progressive organizations and unions for twenty-three years.
- Creamer became a political consultant in 1997, and served as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee during the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Presidential election campaigns.Over the last decade, he has worked with many Democratic leaders in American politics, working closely with the Obama White House to enact their agenda, and also with House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.Creamer published "Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win" in 2007, in which he detailed a road map to electoral and issue campaign victories for progressives in the W.
- Bush era.In 2005, Creamer was one of the architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security.
- He has also been a consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, increase the minimum wage, and pass progressive budget priorities, pass and defend the Affordable Care Act, oppose right wing judicial nominees, and pass comprehensive immigration reform.In 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to tax violations and $2.3 million in bank fraud in relation to paying checks with insufficient funds, to fund his public interest group in the 1990s.
- He repaid the funds, and was convicted and sentenced to five months in prison at Terre Haute and eleven months house arrest.Creamer stepped down from his consulting position with the Democratic National Committee in October 2016 after a video released by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas included undercover footage of a subcontractor to his firm discussing a scheme to pay people to incite violence at rallies for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
- The footage showed a Project Veritas operative posing as a potential donor, discussing fraudulent voting arrangements.
- Creamer did not endorse the methods discussed and voiced concern to the potential donor that these efforts would be tantamount to voter fraud.
- The subcontractor was immediately fired.
- Creamer and Democratic Party spokespeople subsequently described the conversations as "hypothetical" and denied that the tactics described had been used.
- In June 2017, Creamer, and Democracy Partners filed a lawsuit against O'Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas, seeking a million dollars in damages for various violations of DC and Federal law.
- The case is currently pending in Federal Court in Washington, DC.Since the November 2016 election he has helped coordinate activities that are part of the Resistance to the policies of Donald Trump and has focused particularly on defeating attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, opposing the GOP Tax bill, protecting "Dreamers", and defeating GOP court nominees.He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and appears periodically on cable news programs and the BBC.
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