Morris Beverage III: Lake County’s Hunter Biden? Part 2
By C.W. of Lake County
Very public and powerful families (the shadowy “elite”) like the Bidens and the Beverages employ the services of professionals to perpetuate the family brand and to conceal the family infirmities. Perhaps the most infamous purveyor of propaganda in modern times is the Biden’s own Jen Psaki. Jen Psaki’s very public presence belies decades of her quiet cultivating of the dark arts of politics. Below is a brief background of Jen Psaki’s cultivating history.
Jennifer “Jen” Psaki is President Joe Biden’s first press secretary, but this is not her first job in the White House and culminates a long career as a spokeswoman for prominent Democrats.
After two years as chief spokeswoman at the State Department, she finished off Obama’s second term as White House communications director. Psaki comes to the Biden administration from WestExec Advisors , where she worked with a number of former Obama officials advising corporate clients on how to navigate the federal government. Psaki also previously served as press secretary for President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and as a consultant for Global Strategy Group.
After graduating from the College of William and Mary in 2000, Psaki worked on the re-election campaigns of a pair of Iowa Democrats, Governor Tom Vilsak and Sen. Senator Tom Harkin. She was Rep. Joseph Crowley’s (D-NY) communications director before hitting the campaign trail again to work for John Kerry’s presidential campaign as deputy press secretary. She was spokeswoman for Kerry’s wife and children, and his running mate, John Edwards. Psaki worked under Rahm Emanuel in the 2006 election cycle as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s press secretary for the Midwest and Northeast regions, developing a professional relationship with the future White House chief of staff. She joined Obama’s 2008 campaign early on as a deputy press secretary, and was quickly promoted to traveling press secretary, becoming Obama’s main spokeswoman on the road. After more than a year on the campaign trail, Psaki joined the White House after Obama’s victory as deputy assistant to the president and then deputy communications director until 2011.
Now, lo and behold, compare and contrast, gaze with amazement, the Beverage family’s professional purveyor of the dark arts, Lake County’s very own hometown girl, award winning Amy Sabath! Below is a brief background of Amy Sabath’s history.
Now pay close attention to the undeniable similarities between these two “pillars of society”.
Amy Sabath is the President of Sabath Consulting, where she collaborates with nonprofit and for-profit organizations across Ohio. Her areas of expertise include meeting facilitation, government advocacy, nonprofit board development, nonprofit development and marketing planning, capital campaigns, strategic planning, behavior styles, poverty simulations, conflict navigation, and special events.
Amy previously spent eight years at Lakeland Community College as the Executive Director of the Nonprofit & Public Service Center and Director of Government Relations. Before that, she was the Director of Development at The Fine Arts Association, where she successfully raised $3.5 million for their expansion and renovation capital campaign.
Amy’s consulting career spans over twenty years, focusing on political and nonprofit fundraising, strategy, and campaign management. Her distinguished political client list includes Governor Mike DeWine, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, Congressman Jim Renacci, Governor Mitt Romney’s Presidential Delegate Committee, Senator Jerry Cirino, and Senator Matt Dolan, among others. Additionally, she has worked with numerous nonprofits, school districts and library systems in northeast Ohio.
Throughout her career, Amy has shared her expertise by teaching at regional campaign schools and lecturing at various community organizations. She has dedicated her time to serving on several nonprofit boards, including the Salvation Army, Lake County Visitors Bureau, Lake/Geauga Habitat for Humanity, and Dare 2 Care. Amy is a Willoughby Rotarian, a sustaining member of the Western Reserve Junior Service League, and a volunteer at St. Gabriel Parish, where she serves as a Eucharistic Minister.
Amy’s work and dedication have been recognized through numerous awards, including the 2024 “Woman of Impact” Award from the American Heart Association and the 2014 Millie Teuscher “Woman of the Year” Award for her contributions to Lake County.
A graduate of Leadership Lake County (2017) and the JoAnn Davidson Ohio Leadership Institute (2010), Amy holds a BS in Communications and Media Production from Kent State University.
Now with over 20 years into Amy’s career, her last job at Lakeland Community College amounted to just one sentence, a whopping 24 words (25 if you count the ampersand). Let’s take a deeper look at what has NOT been said.
Amy Sabath between two prominent Democrats, Mentor’s Economic Director Kevin Malecek and Ohio Representative and Senator Kenny Yujo
Amy’s “career” at Lakeland Community College began when she and her fellow cool kid club charter member Kevin Malacek (what these cool kid club members have in common will be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. More on that later.) started working for Junior Beverage in 2017.
Amy was front and center covering events that, given Junior Beverage’s position as President, should have been covered by him. Diminishing skills? Perhaps. Fast forward to Amy’s last year at Lakeland Community College where she enjoyed the freedom to come and go as she pleased with no accountability, fueled by a $10,000 pay raise at the same time the College was seriously in danger of being shut down by the State of Ohio, a more than $32,000 expense account, and a College issued credit card. Who could ask for anything more? Well, that would be Amy. She wanted to create a cushy new foundation to be run out of the unused Holden Center (you know that white elephant across the street from Lakeland that was sold for less than the College owes? The building that was part of a lucrative lease and then purchased by the College? More on this later.). This foundation would employ her, and at the helm would have been none other than the return of Junior Beverage! All operating with no accountability back to the College or the taxpayers (remember, this is our tax money being spent here). Perhaps this was one of Amy’s “poverty simulations” while she “collaborates” on “behavior styles” to deal with “conflict navigation” and “special events”. We common folk just call it hitting rock bottom where there’s no 12 steps to climb out of this manmade disaster.
With all this baggage and traceable activity, you would think Amy would hush up and move on, but no, even though she was given a face-saving way out of the College when her “position” was eliminated (along with many other people) as being unnecessary to the operation of the College, she had to tell anyone who would listen she was “fired”, and that the Board of Trustees was out of control and didn’t know what they were doing.
And then along came the III [The Third], who Amy serves as a campaign asset and treasurer.
Now Amy has a history of attacking anyone who holds her accountable for her actions from condemning them, like, oh say, former now current Board of Trustees member Nancy Fellows (Yes, Nancy’s back on the Board as a Governor’s appointment because the Commissioners…well, more on that later), to getting a call from the police asking what was meant by a common phrase “aimed” at Amy (Yep this really happened.). All to what end? To achieve victim status.
Jen Saki and Amy Sabbath are skilled practitioners of the dark political art that is “strategically hijacking victimhood”.
History shows that Jen Saki had none other than Barack Obama as her master mentor, Amy Sabbath had now former Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor as her master mentor.
Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, in baseball she would be a switch hitter and her walk up music would be AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”. Clearly Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor is not playing on our team, based on if nothing else for her handling of District maps in Ohio.
Completely ignoring the fact that people choose to live where they want to and carving districts up to make elections “competitive and fair” is code talking, meaning “we will find a way” to get Democrats elected to office no matter what! Vilifying if not outright demonizing anyone questioning her legislating from the bench.
Amy Sabbath, had a wonderful friend and in the big city of Columbus in her mentor Maureen O’Connor.
As the president of the Lake County Visitors Bureau, Amy Sabbath led the misguided yet very successful belief that the Lake County Visitors Bureau a 501(c) (6) can look at Bed tax money as membership funds making the Visitors Bureau a governmentally funded private entity with millions of tax dollars flowing through it and no public accountability. Lo and behold there are 232,000 members? Perhaps we the people should bum rush their meetings to ask what role Dennis Eckart serves (remember Dennis Eckart is the guy that was paid $318,000.00 from Lakeland Community College for consulting). Oh wait, that only happens at ICE detention centers. You know protecting the rights of drug dealers, human traffickers, pedophiles.
Amy is very good at being the victim and avoiding accountability from public scrutiny. Being “relieved of responsibilities” to respond to public inquiries about public matters. Leaving it to others or ignoring inquiries all together. Why?
This article will now elaborate (class is now in session) on the concept of “strategically hijacking victimhood” as a form of strategically leveraging victimhood narratives. It is a subset of “strategic victimhood”, which is a relatively common political communicative strategy whereby individuals and groups claim victimhood status in contests over power and legitimacy to achieve politically meaningful ends.
Elite narratives reliant on hijacked victimhood do more than secure those crafting the narratives positions in power: they also “weaken and delegitimize” claims of actual victims. Certainly, hijacking victimhood is part of the communicative manifestation of grievance politics, or the “fueling and funneling of negative emotions and various blame-based political strategies”
At the heart of hijacked victimhood is a reversal of the victimizer–victim dichotomy, a new portrayal of moral orders, a teleological ordering of past and future harms. In this sense, strategic victimhood can be a routine part of politics, wielded by various groups in pursuit of very different ends. Those who claim victimhood for themselves hold considerable validating or legitimizing power over their opponents.
It also misuses an emotionally, politically and sometimes the legally loaded position of suffering, harm, and injustice to sow confusion about morality while posing as a victim. The sociopolitical identities of elite speakers and their targets, the presence of victimizers/victims, and the ordering of moral relations explicitly rewrite moral hierarchies.
Hijacked victimhood claims can absolve dominant groups of their political responsibilities or provide a moral justification for the future domination of marginalized groups. Worryingly, hijacked victimhood claims potentially undermine a sense of a legitimate opposition efforts at redress and justice by presenting the opposition as malicious and evil victimizers with anyone asking questions painted as their pawns and thus indirect victimizers, while empowering the defenders of dominant groups as protectors who remedy present harms or resolve future threats
while casting the political opposition as the morally polluted defenders of the victimizers.
The vocabulary of victimhood does not work as a single word but sets in motion a whole vocabulary of blame and praise that slots different actors into positions of “enemy” and ‘friend” and rallies people around these positions. What I mean is that, in announcing the victim, at the same time, we also attach responsibility to those actors who surround the victim: those who inflict pain on the victim, or the perpetrator and enemy, and those who alleviate the pain of the victim, or the benefactor and friend. Victimhood is, in this sense, a whole vocabulary of suffering
that conjures up a choreography of actors and puts value onto them according to what role they play in the political narrative at hand. Hijacked victimhood narratives especially work to vilify political “enemies” so that historically dominant groups can assume a legitimate moral high ground while weakening subaltern groups’ calls for justice, going so far as establishing the “Political Leader” as a “Victim- Savior” in the eyes of many.
In these ways, hijacked victimhood goes beyond being a weaponized “rhetorical maneuver”. Far more damagingly from a democratic perspective, hijacked victimhood muddles and even reverses reality (about the victim, victimizers, accomplices, etc.).
The weaponization of victimhood: the instrumental appropriation of claims to pain by political actors who neither speak from positions of systemic vulnerability nor serve the vulnerable in society The nefarious political work in the instrumentalization of victimhood is to grant validity to claims to suffering made by powerful voices while silencing the grievances of the less powerful speaking out about their suffering.
As you can see, there is a science base to political science, and the professionals use the dark art of politics with great effect. The professionals always find ways to take care of themselves even in the worst of times. Accountability is an illusion for the professionals. Like Val Valentino, “The Masked Magician”, who revealed the secrets of other magicians’ tricks, breaking the “magician’s code” and exposing their methods, we will be showing the rise to power of Morris Beverage III and his similarities to Hunter Biden. We will pull back the curtain on consults like Dennis Eckart pulling down $318,000 from Lakeland Community College in due time, even his ties to the Lake County Visitor’s Bureau (Thank you, Amy Sabath). Not to mention Amy Sabath’s role as the professional of service to the Beverage Family. Her $10,000 pay raise while Lakeland Community College was in crisis, her $32,000 expense account, and College credit card are just the tip of the iceberg.
More to come.
Editorial comments by Brian Massie, A Watchman on the Wall
We can confirm C.W. of Lake County’s statement that the Visitors Bureau is a 501 (c) (6), and the majority of their funding does come from the Lake County hotel bed tax with no public accountability. We challenged the Visitors Bureau in court in an attempt to get it declared a public body, therefore, subject to Ohio’s Sunshine Laws. Unfortunately, Judge Eugene Lucci did not agree with us, and basically said that they can use taxpayer funding without being accountable to the taxpayers.
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