PART 1: Connecting more dots. I was triggered by the "John Podesta's uncle was a dentist" post. Follow me down the Podesta trail.

This post is in response to this thread by https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1881572

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Found this jewel of info about the good doctor from Mattoon. Bill Podesta It's his obit. (someone else found this too) Interesting past.

He had seven great-grandchildren. Dr. Podesta graduated from Livingston High School. He attended McKendree College and graduated from St. Louis University Dental School in 1934. In 1976, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern Illinois Uni versity. In 1934,

Doctor Podesta came to Mattoon to begin the practice of Dentistry and became an active supporter and volunteer in the community as well as -in the field of Dentistry. June 16, 1941, D o c t' o r Podesta entered the V V Dr. W.L. "Bill" Podest, 1942 v Army as a Lieutenant in the Dental Corp. While awaiting orders he was officer in charge of entertainment at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and, for a short time, was President Ronald Reagan's commanding officer. Among thirteen dentists chosen to head Plastic Eye Programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, he was Director of the Plastic Eye Program in the Pacific Ocean Theatre.

While in the Army, Dr. Podesta was awarded several commendations including the Bronze Star. In February 1946, Dr. Podesta received his discharge from active duty but continued ican Legion Matron of the She was actively for the past 50 Memorials (sic) (someone else found this too)

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/84770910/

Obit excerpt from a co-worker mentioning podesta

He began his dental practice in Casey which operated from June of 1964 until June of 1969. Chester also opened a dental practice in Effingham in 1967 until he retired in 1995. He was instrumental in developing the dental hygiene and dental assisting programs at Lakeland College in Mattoon, along with Dr. Roger Dettro and Dr. William Podesta and also served on the active committee there. Chester was a life member of the B.P.O.E. Elks organization.

http://www.bauerfh.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1440306&fh_id=13010

Connection to schools

Dr. William L. Podesta Drive dedication (March 18, 1999): Acting on a Board of Trustees’ resolution passed four months earlier, the road encircling the campus was named in honor of a local citizen who had volunteered a great deal of his time, energy, and resources to LLC throughout his life. Dr. Podesta’s generosity to the school included gift of land, assistance in creating the Dental Hygiene program, and financial gifts to be used for student scholarships. Prior to a dedication reception, speeches were given by Jim Bennett (member of the LLC Foundation Board of Directors) and Dr. Greg Yount (Podesta’s friend and school supporter) and the Drive’s ribbon was cut by two of Podesta’s daughters (Mrs. Willie Podesta-Young) and Mrs. Toni Galbreath) and one grandchild (Mrs. Margaret Podesta-Young.)

http://archive.is/1q9gA

Another poster found Willie mentioned in connection to Omaha Nebraska. She is worth checking into.

Podesta Mattoon. I've heard that term before. Let's connect some more dots.

First, Wikileaks. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42881

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/90 Obama's Energy Department announced this month that it would spend more than $1 billion to restart a carbon-capture demonstration plant in Mattoon, Ill. Here are the search results for Mattoon in Wikileaks. 75 results. https://search.wikileaks.org/?query=Mattoon&exact_phrase=&any_of=&exclude_words=&document_date_start=&document_date_end=&released_date_start=&released_date_end=&publication_type%5B%5D=6&publication_type%5B%5D=26&publication_type%5B%5D=2&publication_type%5B%5D=27&publication_type%5B%5D=30&publication_type%5B%5D=4&publication_type%5B%5D=28&publication_type%5B%5D=46&publication_type%5B%5D=10&publication_type%5B%5D=20&publication_type%5B%5D=24&new_search=False&order_by=most_relevant#results

We need to look through these and see what relationships are revealed. For both the town of Mattoon and the lobbying firm of Podesta-Mattoon.

web search results

As a lobbyist, Hastert worked on, among other specialties, technology issues. Piggybacking on that, his older son, Joshua, hit Washington soon after Denny became Speaker in 1999. Voila! The pierced-tongued owner of a record store in DeKalb called Seven Dead Arson became a lobbyist focusing on technology and defense issues. Josh started his new gig, working for mp3.com’s lobbyist who had been an aide to former House Republican Minority Leader Bob Michel, a close colleague of Josh’s father.

Josh then moved to a small firm, Federal Legislative Associates, that lobbied on tech issues. Moving on up, he was soon hired by lobbying firm, Podesta Mattoon, headed by two old friends of his father’s—Tony Podesta, a fellow Illinoisan, and, with Hastert, a student government leader in the 1960s, and Dan Matoon, a close friend/advisor of Hastert’s who ran his first congressional campaign. In 2006, while his father was still holding the Speaker’s gavel, Josh was hired by Google as part of a team of Podesta Matton lobbyists. 

In a conversation with Jonathan Franzen for The New Yorker, Josh held up his father as a model—they both love small business—and, as a lobbyist, he told Franzen, he’d be helping “smaller defense contractors…who are taking on the Big Four contractors.” (Josh would later become a registered lobbyist for Lockheed Martin.) He had promised not to lobby his father but didn’t extend the promise to other congressmen. “I never introduce myself as ‘Joshua Hastert, son of the speaker,’” he told the Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet. He didn’t have to. A website promoting his skills touted his “long-standing relationships with numerous offices on Capitol Hill and in the administration.”

http://archive.is/yGdyu