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Obama’s housing record, part five - View from a constituent, Beauty Turner
A College Psychology Professor’s Observations About Culture, Mental Health, Sexual Identity, and Rel ^ | October 31st, 2008 | Warren Throckmorton

Posted on 11/01/2008 2:43:47 PM PDT by enough_idiocy

Beauty Turner is a long time public housing activist in the South Side of Chicago in the district where Barack Obama served as Illinois state senator. She is also a free lance writer, covering issues of concern to residents of the district. Respected in her community, she will be a featured commentator for WPHK in Chicago on election night. As a resident of public housing in the area where Obama cut his political teeth, she has been a long time observer of the Democrat candidate. She is the host of Beauty’s Ghetto Bus Tours, where visitors to Chicago can see the projects first hand. Despite being an anti-war activist and having liberal leanings, she is quite critical of Barack Obama.

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008; housing; nobama; obama

1 posted on 11/01/2008 2:43:48 PM PDT by enough_idiocy
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To: enough_idiocy
Obama's "community organizing" left Chicago neighborhoods in ruins.

Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy

"About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."


2 posted on 11/01/2008 5:28:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do.)
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To: TigersEye

The man this nation and much of the world is acclaiming as singularly capable and trustworthy with the future of our Constitution has accomplished absolutely nothing of substance in his life except an impressive illusion.


3 posted on 11/01/2008 10:10:30 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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