Posted on 09/23/2008 9:48:28 PM PDT by anglian
CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.
But it's not safe to live here.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
BOOKMARK
First CNN on Obama-Biden’s Bridge to Nowhere and now the failure of public housing on Obama’s coattails by Boston’s Liberal newspaper........hopefully I will be seeing an excerpt and deeper look at Will Ayers in a NYT column.
Wow, that’s good.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think this was Beirut in the nineteen seventies.
The Illustrated Results of Obama’s “Community Organizing”
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-gallery-results-of-obamas.html
But notice the date!
Looks like they could use some community organizing.
Darn, and I thought that this was an article from today. Yes, duped again. I was also duped by satire, AZConservative, that looked too real also.
It seems like the MSM like to show that they are “unbiased” until something actually happens and than they switch the relevant reporting. If I can recall, the 2000 copy of Boston Globe is where they reported about McCain’s injuries. Many newspapers can take lessons from their pasts.
Even if it was from July, it is good that you post this up along with the recent articles from today and yesterday.
A microcosm of the US economy after four years of Obama...
THAT is powerful.
If you read all the way to the bottom, someone says, ‘this is Obama’s Katrina”....great way to put it!
Looks like they now require a password to read the article.
Just tried again. Oh well. Seems to work fine now.
Via - Redstate/ Guess who benefited from this scam:
Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.
[. . .]
And although he has distanced himself from Rezko, Obama has remained close to others in the development community. Jarrett participates in the campaign’s senior staff meetings. And Obama chose another close friend, Martin Nesbitt, as his campaign treasurer. Nesbitt is chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, one of the key overseers of the shift toward private management and development.
Read the whole article. It is damning. Close friends, critical campaign fundraisers, and important supporters make a bunch of money off of government subsidized housing projects while the projects themselves fall into disrepair and the tenants suffer. Obama claims to know nothing about all this money being wasted and his friends bilking the system.
Instead of development and growth it is just another story of Chicago politics where the powerful and connected make money and poor people are left to suffer; where the government pours more and more money into projects with the same results. This is hope and change? This is Obama’s home turf. This is supposedly one of his passions.
And yet look what the people working on this issue are left to say:
Jamie Kalven, a longtime Chicago housing activist, put it this way: “I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community.”
They are left to hope that Obama’s rhetoric has more meaning than his actual actions and history. This is a recipe for disappointment and disaster.
Ignore his words and look at his record. That is the only way we can avoid a repeat at the national level where the stakes are even higher.
(Snip…)
Paul Johnson, who helped to organize the protest, said Obama must have known about the problems.
“How didn’t he know?” said Johnson. “Of course he knew. He just didn’t care.”
Obama’s legagacy . Easier to read.
Obama’s forgotten people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-YoB5mnZs
Okay, so now you want to judge people by their actual
accomplishments?
The whole time he was there...it was a ghetto.
And to this very day...it's till a ghetto.
WHERE'S THE CHANGE?!!
Cynthia, YOU can do something about it. Move.
Obama in SC Debates - Clinton alleges work with slum lord - Obama says he only did only 5 hours of work for a Chicago slum lord. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OECrIhiPYuI
I had to look at the source three times to believe it. Yes, this is from the Boston Globe! There are real reporters out there.
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