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Work related to Obama Presidential Center to cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $200 million
Fox News ^ | 6-16-18 (8 hours ago) | Adam Shaw

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; library; obama; obamalibrary; park
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To: SaveFerris

“After Illinois foisted this fraud on the rest of us.....”

Blame Alan Keyes and the Chicago Tribune. They’re what brought us Obama.

That and the Illinois Republican Central Committee.

L


41 posted on 06/16/2018 5:53:22 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: WashingtonFire

His latest. “My Father Was A British Cittizen. LOL”


42 posted on 06/16/2018 6:20:49 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Texas Fossil

No problem ... just pass a “favorite son” tax.


43 posted on 06/16/2018 7:34:27 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Texas Fossil

What’s Rahm Emanuel, Danny Davis and Obama’s cut from this?


44 posted on 06/16/2018 8:38:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Southern Magnolia
No building—needs something to really represent Zero: a golf course with extremely deep holes that you can never retrieve your balls from.

To accurately represent Zero it can't have balls.

Golf or otherwise.

45 posted on 06/16/2018 8:45:13 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Obama’s cut? No way to tell, but rest assured he is being paid far far too much by some other vermin.


46 posted on 06/17/2018 9:51:22 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: RedMonqey

Absolutely.


47 posted on 06/17/2018 9:52:12 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Yep!


48 posted on 06/17/2018 11:15:25 AM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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