Posted on 04/26/2014 10:13:09 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Illinois Democrats are backing off an effort to give $100 million in a push to land President Obama’s presidential library and museum -- following accusations of voting “shenanigans” and nasty Chicago-style politics, not to mention the state’s dire financial situation.
A Democrat-led House committee approved the money last week at an out-of-town hearing in Chicago with no Republicans in attendance. They instead relied on a procedural move that allowed them to use votes from a previous meeting.
“What they did last week was under-handed and sneaky and offers further proof that they no longer can be trusted with taxpayer money,” said House Republican Leader Jim Durkin.
State GOP Rep. Dwight Kay said his previous vote shouldn’t count because he was only a temporary member of the committee, beyond Democrats breaking their own House rules.
“This is typical Chicago politics at work,” he said. “The Chicago Democrats knew I wouldn’t support spending $100 million that we don’t have on a presidential library, so they decided to violate their own rules and cast my vote anyway.”
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His golf score cards would need a pretty big room...
If we increase taxes on poor people, perhaps that will drive them out of the state. I see that as a win win situation.
They ought to try to build Obama’s Library of Lies in Maryland. A solidly Democrat state, Maryland didn’t mind wasting $125 million dollars on failing to implement ObamaCare. I’m sure the state legislature won’t mind spending another $100 million plus to build a monument of lies for Obama in deepest, darkest Baltimore.
It may have a Bathhouse for tourists and Barry.
The whole thing is a gimmick meant to gin up Democratic voter turnout in November. The House Dems do not care if it passes or fails so long as it helps them score points with minority voters. The Illinois Democrats fear that they could lose several races this fall and they are trying all kinds of stunts to rev up their leftwing base. Another gimmick is a proposal to amend the Illinois Constitution to safeguard voting rights to avoid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. When was the last time a polling place judge or a voting registrar asked for a person’s sex preference?
The upside is that at Illinois has always had good state's attorneys....and at least they indict, prosecute and imprison crooked governors. One reason is that there is quite a number of genuine watchdog and good-government groups around the state.....particularly in and around Chicago and Cook County.
All this is indicative of where and how community organizer Barack Obama learned his political trade, i.e., the ins-and-outs of hard-ball Democrat machine politics....except that his presidential corruption is smoother, more refined, more sophisticated, more hidden and more covered-up than that of the inept gubernatorial foursome that ended up in the slammer.
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Leni
Wow..no wonder Illinois politics are so screwed up...Vote from any location and use votes from another meeting...
Every single one of these dirt bags should be removed...
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