Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty: "Tell the folks back home I’m sorry I let everybody down"

Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty: “Tell the folks back home I’m sorry I let everybody down”

It’s funny that Jesse Jackson Jr. thinks Chicago is “back home.”  I first met him in 1982 or so, when I believe he was a high school student at the one public high school in NW DC middle class yuppies would let their kids attend, or at least friends with my housemates who had gone to school there.  He showed up on the front porch of the group house I lived in on Northampton Street in Chevy, Chase, D.C., surly, looking for one of my housemates, upset that she didn’t answer the door and that I made him wait on the front porch.  His mother June has long owned a house at the corner of 4th and T in LeDroit Park.  And Jesse owns a multi-million dollar abode at 2034 O Street NW in DuPont Circle which has been on and off the market during his troubles.  Supposedly some of his purloined funds went to decorate it, and you can judge for yourself here it looks like they were well spent.