Posted on 04/30/2014 9:51:44 AM PDT by Red Steel
President Obama may have represented Illinois in the Senate and he may consider Chicago his hometown, but some Illinois lawmakers still worry that the Obama Foundation, led by a Chicago friend of the president, might choose another state for Obama's presidential library. Perhaps Hawaii, where he grew up, or New York, where he went to college.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the president's former chief of staff, said the best way to secure the library is to make a big down payment.
"We're going to remind him oh-so-subtly this is where his wife and family are from, this is where his kids were raised, this is where he started his career. He should come home with his library and foundation," Emanuel said.
Last week an Illinois House committee voted to commit $100 million to help fund the library's construction.
There was just one problem -- Democrats held the vote without informing Republicans.
"There's no doubt they should not have done what they did," said GOP state Rep. Ed Sullivan.
Sullivan is the top Republican on the committee. He and his GOP colleagues called for a revote.
When it happens today, he will vote no.
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Mark my words...They’re going to move to Hawaii when this is over.
$100 million from taxpayers?
Damn straight.
Is Al Capone’ s vault still available?
The person who wrote that is borderline illiterate.
“Mark my words...They’re going to move to Hawaii when this is over.”
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I can’t say I blame them.
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After borrowing and spending more money then any politician in the history of mankind, it only seems fitting to borrow $100M more the State of Illinois doesn't have to memorialize Obama's feat.
why won’t this library be funded by private donations like the George W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton libraries?
Maybe it should be in either North Korea or Cuba or in Mecca...
I think they should build it in Indonesia.
Mombassa or Jakarta.
How dare you question public funding of this monument in honor of our Dear Leader. (sarcasm)
Or Benghazi
Why not Indonesia?
It’s where he was taught that the hideous caterwauling of the Imams call to “prayer” is “the sweetest sound on earth.”
the house I saw near he beach is within range of an off shore mortar
;-)
In truth...she dumped him in Hawaii and had a "boy" for him in Kenya. She really didn't give a damn as far as I can see.
Kenya, perhaps?
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