John Clemens " Jack " Ryan (born October 6, 1959) is a former US investment banker and politician who became a candidate in the US 2004 Senate race in Illinois. In 2000, he retired as an active partner at Goldman Sachs to teach at Hales Franciscan High School, a four-year-old Catholic private school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago.
His 2004 Senate campaign, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed prison documents derived from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The collection of the documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to take a public sexual act, caused Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign.
In March 2005, Ryan launched 22nd Century Media, a news media company dedicated to providing hyper-local news in both print and digital media formats.
In 2015, Ryan left Media 22nd Century to launch REX, a technology-based real estate service company working outside MLS to sell homes.
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Life and career
Ryan spent his childhood in Wilmette, Illinois, the son of Helen Marie (Bruns) and Donald Robert Ryan, a managing partner in a trade and clearing house. One of six siblings, he attended Trier Baru High School. He graduated from high school in 1977 and went on to Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and his JD from Harvard Law School, with praise. After this, he worked at Casa Juan Diego, a refugee camp for the Latins who fled from the Central American civil war. He worked for Goldman Sachs as an investment banker and eventual partner, first in New York City, and later in the Chicago branch.
In 2000, after Goldman Sachs became public, Ryan's net worth reached tens of millions. He retired from Goldman as a partner and taught for three years in Bronzeville, Chicago, parish school, Hales Franciscan High School. He left his teaching position to run for the Senate in 2004.
Beginning in 2005, he runs a news media company, 22th Century Media, which publishes fifteen separate newspapers and local websites in the Chicago area.
He currently runs REX, a technology-based real estate services company working outside MLS to sell homes. Ryan has dedicated wealth created from efforts to build homes and schools for children. As part of his social mission, for every 40 homes he sells, REX builds a home for someone who does not own it.
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Political platform
During the Senate campaign, Ryan is a supporter of tax cuts throughout the agency and lawsuit reform, reduction of federal spending, as well as supporters of equal opportunities in education.
2004 US Senate Race
Ryan hopes to successfully retire Peter Fitzgerald of the Republican Party in the United States Senate. On March 16, 2004, he won Republicans, pitting him with Democrat Barack Obama. However, after his divorce record which contained damaging allegations sealed and published, he withdrew his candidacy on June 25, 2004, and formally filed documents for withdrawal on 29 July 2004.
Controversially, in 2004, Ryan's staff had Justin Warfel (a campaign worker) following his opponent, Barack Obama, throughout the day and recorded everything he did in public on videotapes. The tactic backfired when Barack Obama and others, including supporters of Ryan, criticized this activity. Spokesman Ryan apologized, and promised that Warfel would give Obama more space. Obama said he was satisfied with Ryan's decision to make Warfel resign.
Campaign death
Ryan married actress Jeri Ryan in 1991; together they had a son, Alex Ryan, born in 1994. They divorced in 1999 in California, and divorce records were opened but their custody documents were sealed at their mutual request. Five years later, when Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, a local ABC affiliate, attempted to have the records released. On March 3, 2004, several major opponents of GOP Ryan urged the release of the recording. Ryan and his wife agreed to make their divorce records public, but made no record of general detention, claiming that the record of detention could be harmful to their son if released. On March 16, 2004, Ryan won the primary GOP with 36 percent to 23 percent against Jim Oberweis, who finished second. Obama won the Prime Democrat, with 53% to 23% against Dan Hynes, who finished second.
On March 29, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled that some records of Ryans prisoners should be opened to the public. The following week, on April 2, 2004, Barack Obama asked Democrats not to include them in the campaign. Ryan's campaign characterizes Obama's attitude as hypocritical, as people they suspect as Obama supporters have emailed reports about divorce records before Judge Schnider's decision, and urged the press to try to open it.
In May 2004, two polls were conducted across the state. The Chicago Tribune poll found Ryan trailing Obama 52% to 30% while Sun Times reported that he trailed Obama 48 percent to 40 percent in the US Senate race, according to Southtown polls every day out of 500 Illinois voters possible.
On June 22, 2004, after receiving a report from the referee, Judge Schnider released a file deemed consistent with Ryan's interest. In the files, Jeri Ryan alleged that Jack Ryan wanted him to sexually act with him in public at the sex club in New York City, New Orleans and Paris, even though there was no sex. Jeri Ryan described it as "a weird club with cages, whips, and other equipment hanging on the ceiling." The decision to release these files caused much controversy as it contradicted the direct request of both parents, and therefore reversed previous decisions to seal the paper in the best interests of the child, who had special needs. On the same day, Jim Oberweis, an opponent who defeated Ryan in the GOP primary, commented that if the allegations were true, "it will end the nomination."
Ryan's campaign ended less than a week after the arrest record opened, and Ryan formally filed documentation to withdraw on July 29, 2004. The same party leaders who called for Ryan's resignation chose Alan Keyes as Ryan's replacement in the race; Keyes lost to Obama, 27% to 70%.
Ryan's response
After his withdrawal from the US Senate race in Illinois, Jack Ryan has characterized what happened to him as a "new low for politics in America". According to Ryan, it was unprecedented in American politics for newspapers to demand access to sealed prison documents. Ryan opposed opening the seal of Senator John Kerry's divorce notes during the Kerry race against George W. Bush in 2004, and Kerry's divorce record remains sealed. Ryan then made a statement asking "Let me be the only one who has happened Do not ask Ted Kennedy's Do not ask John McCain Do not ask Joe Lieberman Stop it This is not good precedent for American society if you really want the best and the smartest to run. "
References
External links
- Ryan quit the Senate race at Illinois CNN, June 25, 2004
- The business website of the 22nd Century
- REX Real Estate Exchange business website
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