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Bob Creamer
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Basic facts
Organization:Democracy Partners
Role:Partner
Location:Chicago, Ill.



Robert "Bob" Creamer is a partner in the Chicago office of Democracy Partners, a national progressive political consulting firm, and a former consultant to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign.[1][2]

Creamer resigned from his work with the DNC in October 2016 following the release of a video from Project Veritas that allegedly showed Creamer's involvement in discussions of voter fraud tactics and methods to incite violence at political rallies for 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.[1]

Career

Creamer earned an undergraduate degree from Duke University and later "did graduate work at the University of Chicago." He began working for Chicago’s Citizens Action Program, a grassroots political group, in 1970 and went on to found the Illinois Public Action Council, now known as Citizen Action Illinois, in 1974. He worked as the director of Citizen Action Illinois for 23 years before establishing Strategic Consulting Group, a political consulting firm, in 1997. Strategic Consulting Group later became a part of Democracy Partners, a progressive political consulting firm for which Creamer worked as a partner as of October 2016.[2][3][4]

Through his role at Democracy Partners, Creamer worked as a general consultant to Americans United for Change (AUC), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that seeks to challenge what it calls on its site "far right conservative voices and ideas." He was also the head of Democracy Partners' Mobilize program, a field effort for trained protestors that worked with both AUC and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Following the October 2016 release of a video from Project Veritas that allegedly showed Creamer's involvement in discussions regarding voter fraud tactics and methods to incite violence at political rallies for 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Creamer resigned from his work with the DNC.[1][2][5][6]

Creamer is a contributor to The Huffington Post and the author of Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win. He is the husband of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky ((D)-Ill.).[1][2]

Noteworthy events

Project Veritas Action voter fraud investigation
Project Veritas Action
•Project Veritas Action
•James O'Keefe III
Individuals in videos
•Scott Foval •Bob Creamer
•Aaron Black •Zulema Rodriguez
Organizations in videos
•Democracy Partners
•Americans United for Change
•People For the American Way
•Alliance for Retired Americans

Voter fraud investigation videos

In October 2016, Bob Creamer was featured in a series of undercover videos by James O'Keefe III and his investigative organization Project Veritas Action (PVA). PVA taped a number of Democratic operatives appearing to describe illegal voter registration activity as well as methods for agitating then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters at rallies. In an article outlining the first videos PVA released on October 17 and 18, 2016, Time reported:[7]

“ In one video, a contractor seems to brag about sending homeless and mentally ill people to harass Republicans. Someone identified as a Democratic National Committee staffer appears to claim credit for pushing Republican contender Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago toward violence. In another, consultants look like they are describing a plan to bus voters across state lines and registering immigrants in the country illegally to vote.[8] ”

In its report on the video's release, NPR noted that PVA had a history of releasing edited videos in past undercover investigations, saying, "The videos are edited, and O'Keefe and Project Veritas have a history of selectively — and at times misleadingly — editing their videos. While they have previously posted raw footage, they have not done so with these latest stings."[9] Andrew Seaman, chair of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), further criticized Project Veritas Action's methods, telling The Washington Post, "James O’Keefe is not an ethical journalist if we look at his actions in the context of [the SPJ’s ethics code]. ... He obviously has an agenda, goes directly to surreptitious reporting methods and has a history of distorting facts or context."[10]

The videos allegedly showed Creamers' involvement in discussions with Scott Foval, the former national field director of Americans United for Change, regarding tactics to spur violence at political rallies for 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The videos also allegedly showed Foval discussing potential voter fraud tactics to bus voters into right-leaning states. Following the October 2016 release of the Project Veritas videos, Creamer resigned from his consulting position with the Democratic National Committee.[1][7][11]

2006 prison sentence

Creamer was sentenced to five months in federal prison in 2006 for $2.3 million in bank fraud and tax violations in related to public interest groups that he operated during the 1990s.[1][12]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 CNN, "Dem operative 'stepping back' after video suggests group incited violence at Trump rallies," October 18, 2016
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Democracy Partners, "Robert Creamer," accessed October 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia of Chicago, "Community organizing," accessed October 19, 2016
  4. ↑ Citizen Action Illinois, "About us," accessed October 19, 2016
  5. ↑ Americans United for Change, "Contribute," accessed October 19, 2016
  6. ↑ Americans United for Change, "About us," accessed October 19, 2016
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Time, "Everything We Know About the Latest James O’Keefe Video Sting," October 18, 2016
  8. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  9. ↑ NPR, "Sting Video Purports To Show Democrats Describing How To Commit Voter Fraud," October 19, 2016
  10. ↑ The Washington Post, "Is it okay for James O’Keefe’s ‘investigative reporting’ to rely on deception?" October 19, 2016
  11. ↑ The Hill, "O'Keefe claims another scalp with new video," October 18, 2016
  12. ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Two local Democratic operatives lose jobs after video sting on voter fraud," October 19, 2016
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