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(30,058 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)So happy for the new parents and grandparents.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)He is obviously thrilled.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Yep -- she's going to be the apple of Grandpa's eye.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I can confirm that statement
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)vankuria
(904 posts)Wishing the family much love and happiness!
retrogal
(65 posts)So precious!
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Then he ran into a bit of legal trouble concerning some money that wasn't where it was supposed to be. Ed Mezvinsky. I always liked the guy what little I knew of him.
Grandmother is Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky a former congress critter from Pennsylvania. She was noted for taking a courageous stand on a controversial budget bill during the Clinton years.
eta pics if I can:
A much younger pic to see how much he looks like his son
Divernan
(15,480 posts)[div class="excerpt"
According to ABC News, Mezvinsky's downfall stemmed from an activity that has long been the subject of one of this site's most frequently-accessed articles, the ubiquitous Nigerian scam (also known as 419 fraud):
Despite being released in April 2008 after serving five years in prison, Mezvinsky remains on federal probation and still owes almost $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
An ABC News investigation revealed that Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from Iowa, had been caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams and began to steal from people to further his schemes.
"He was always looking for the home run. He was always trying to find the business deal that would make him as wealthy as all the people in his social circle," said federal prosecutor Bob Zauzmer. According to Zauzmer, Mezvinsky, who is now 72, will be on supervised release, the federal version of probation, until 2011.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/mezvinsky.asp#c670ll7ucVVw5rKs.99
Beginning in the early 1990s Mezvinsky fell prey to a wide variety of 419 scams. According to a federal prosecutor, Mezvinsky was conned by "just about every different kind of African-based scam weve ever seen."[10] In order to raise the funds needed to front the money for the fraudulent investment schemes he was being offered, Mezvinsky became, himself, a conman, tapping his network of contacts and dropping the name of the Clinton family to convince unwitting marks to give him money, he would call and say, Im spending the weekend with the Clintons..[11]
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/the-clinton-in-law-marjorie-margolies-100696_Page3.html#ixzz3Eackz3Hz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mezvinsky
As to his former wife, Marjorie Margolies, who just lost a primary bid to run for Congress,
she is profiled in a Politico article by a writer for Philadelphia magazine, as follows:
The Clinton-in-Law
(Headline)Marjorie Margoliess son married Chelsea Clinton. Is that enough to fuel her political comeback?
By SIMON VAN ZUYLEN-WOOD
December 04, 2013
Toni Goldberg defends Margolies as a career woman who was too busy to pay heed to her husbands schemes, but she says the judges indictment made sense to many at the time. Whatever decisions that were made in the marriage, their life, political life, social lifeMarjorie was the head guy, she says. And Ed adored her. And Ed just followed. (Margolies declined to comment on the Fenton lawsuit or the bankruptcy case.)
In 1997, several years after their first Renaissance Weekend together, Chelsea Clinton decided to attend Stanford University, where Marc was already enrolled. Rumors of romance followed. (The two officially started dating in 2005, though Goldberg says that they kept it undercover for many years before that. Another friend, Nancy Chasen, says that they were just best best best friends.) However close Chelsea and Marc were, Ed Mezvinsky tried to use their bond to his advantage. During his trial, it came out that he had tried to woo investors by touting Chelseas relationship with his son. When he thought it would help, a federal prosecutor told the New York Times.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/the-clinton-in-law-marjorie-margolies-100696_Page3.html#ixzz3EaUbInjd
(S)he filed for bankruptcy,[20] but failed to receive a discharge from her debts, based on 11 U.S.C. §727(a)(5). The court found Mezvinsky had failed to satisfactorily explain a significant loss of assets in the four years prior to her bankruptcy filing. The bankruptcy judge stated, in her published opinion, "I find that the Debtor has failed to satisfactorily explain the loss of approximately $775,000 worth of assets (the difference between the $810,000 represented in May 1996 and the $35,000 now claimed in her Amended Schedule B)." Sonders v. Mezvinsky (in re Mezvinsky), 265 B.R. 681, 694 (Bankr. E.D. Pa. 2001).
According to documents obtained by The Huffington Post, as Ed Mezvinsky's fraud was exposed, Margolies doubled her own salary as head of a small, largely taxpayer-funded charity into the six figures, attempted to have the charity renovate and lease a mansion in which she would live, billed the charity for her automobile lease and other expenses, and required charity staff to assist with her other responsibilities as a faculty member at a local university.
The Huffington Post earlier reported that over the past several years, Margolies was paid an unusually large salary given the size of her charity, Women's Campaign International, whose revenue in recent years was in the very low millions. In defending that salary in December, WCI noted that the charity's board of directors determines compensation -- not Margolies, who still runs the charity.
That explanation, however, elided one critical detail: For the first three years of WCI's existence, and at a crucial board meeting at which the decision about her salary was made, Margolies was herself the chairman of the (3 member) board.
treestar
(82,383 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Unfortunately, I never had the pleasure of being in her class, but she had the reputation of being pretty awesome.
minivan2
(214 posts)This is a thread of celebration and you come in with that useless fact.
treestar
(82,383 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)What exactly did that have to do with the joy of becoming a parent/grandparent? And are the sins of the father or mother supposed to be visited upon the son? Besides, if those two were Republicans, their actions would have been applauded.
I was wondering when the slamming would start...I just didn't think it would be here.
William769
(55,145 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)Congratulations to both families. There's no joy as sweet as the birth of a child.
JI7
(89,247 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Wishing them all happiness!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Thanks for posting.
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)That baby will not be wanting for love and attention.
Finally, some truly good news in the world for a change.
Congrats and best wishes to all.
catbyte
(34,374 posts)the Concerned About Charlotte PAC released a statement that said it was "never too early" beause she's already the "presumptive 2056 Democratic nominee..."
Congrats to all!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Very happy for the new family!
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)That is just lovely.. circle of life time for sure..
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,767 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)Humans melt hearts all around.
Lovely family photos. I know that look in "grammy & Papa's" eyes.
Congrats and all the best to the whole family.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)wants to see the birth certificate.
Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Congrats to the parents and the grand parents.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)that took time to point out the fact that this child would be eligible for the office by 2052. Clearly, it's on the minds of otherwise serious people.
I guess this is the first official photo of the campaign?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)japple
(9,821 posts)family!
madokie
(51,076 posts)Chelsea I like you, your baby, your mom and dad. The whole family actually. Husband too.
MFM008
(19,805 posts)Best wishes
trof
(54,256 posts)sheshe2
(83,746 posts)Thanks so much for posting them justin!
tblue37
(65,334 posts)I call them the larval stage of our species. They are so fascinating. During the first few months of life, you can watch them develop minute by minute--literally.
You can actually see the moment when the baby suddenly discovers her own hand. She will stare for a moment, puzzled and curious. Then she will accidentally move the hand, and the feedback from her own nervous system will kick in, and she will begin to suspect that there is some connection between her and this strange thing in her visual field. She will stare for a while longer, then another accidental movement and feedback response will seal the deal, and she will suddenly realize not only that it is part of her, but that she can actually make it move. For quite a long time after than, the new ruler of this strange appendage will entertain herself by making that weird thing move, waving it rather wildly at first, but then in a more controlled and contained manner.
The same thing happens with so many other aspects of awareness and physical control as the infant progresses through her first few weeks and months.
My favorite age for a baby is between 8 months and 15 months, because during that period they are such riotous clowns, finding the whole world hilarious, and eager to do things that will encourage everyone else to join them in their laughter and delight. But the first 3 months of life, the larval stage, is one of my favorite periods, too.
I ran a home daycare for 18 years and had a large role in raising 37 children--my own 2 plus 35 others. Most kids came to me at 2 weeks to 2 months of age, so I got to watch them develop from early infancy. It was such a wonderful opportunity to study infants and to watch how their individual personalities manifested themselves within the normal pattern of development.
On Edit: My first biological grandchild will be born next April. I have other "grandchildren," though--the children of kids who grew up in my daycare, and the child of my closest friend, who is in the same general age group as my own kids. I can't wait for my son's child to be born, though!
Catherine Vincent
(34,488 posts)mcar
(42,302 posts)Falling in love with their grandbaby. A long and happy life to Charlotte and joy to the family.
JEB
(4,748 posts)Congratulations on the bundle of joy. I was always told that each generation is an improvement over the last.
840high
(17,196 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)Thanks for your post, hrmjustin.
A long and happy life to the new Ms. Clinton.
Clearly she already has the power to make the world a better place.
Thanks again.
Love, Peace and Shelter.
~ littlemissmartypants 🙆
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)President Clinton, Justin!
Mahalo!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Great family pictures.
Exhausted, grateful new parents.
Thrilled new grandparents.
Congratulations to Chelsea who did all the laborin' and birthin'
and Mazel Tov to the rest of you.
It's clear that Charlotte will be loved and supported very much.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)R B Garr
(16,950 posts)whatever her husband's name is, lol. And congratulations to grandma and grandpa Clinton!
calimary
(81,220 posts)He's a FIRST-CLASS DICK. Actually wrote a column in the wrong-wing hate-rag National Review years ago, advocating for Chelsea Clinton to be killed because (GASP!!! HORRORS!!!) she could possibly grow up and get into politics, thus carrying on the legacy of the Clinton "taint." May he live the rest of his miserable life reaching for the Maalox bottle every time he wakes up in the morning, and looking over his shoulder - probably knowing that Beelzebub himself is following close behind him.
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2001/update022301.html
http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/USPolitics/chelsea1.html
NEVER FORGET, brothers and sisters.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)But whether that happens or not congratulations to the Clinton's for the new addition to their family.