Posted on 06/16/2018 2:53:43 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The Center still has a series of approval steps to go through, including a federal review, but has also faced a lawsuit by Protect Our Parks, which alleged that the city was engaging in a short con shell game to get the 12-story museum and library built on parkland.
The lawsuit argued that while the purpose of transferring the land was to house the official Obama presidential library, the center will not include his presidential papers, only a digital copy.
"Defendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way, known as a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab, one that will endure for centuries to come, regardless of future changing public park needs and increasingly consequential environmental conditions, the lawsuit said.
But the Obama Foundation and Chicago officials have pushed back on that narrative, saying that the center will be an enormous benefit to the local community.
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After Illinois foisted this fraud on the rest of us.....
Blame Alan Keyes and the Chicago Tribune. Theyre what brought us Obama.
That and the Illinois Republican Central Committee.
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His latest. “My Father Was A British Cittizen. LOL”
No problem ... just pass a “favorite son” tax.
What’s Rahm Emanuel, Danny Davis and Obama’s cut from this?
To accurately represent Zero it can't have balls.
Golf or otherwise.
Obama’s cut? No way to tell, but rest assured he is being paid far far too much by some other vermin.
Absolutely.
Yep!
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