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Posted on 06/23/2026 6:54:58 AM PDT by PBRCat
The project was sold to the community – despite massive opposition from all sides, originally – as a huge influx of construction jobs for the community. When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a building project, that money doesn’t all go to an architect; the vast majority gets spread around among small businesses, employing building materials vendors and plumbers, drywallers and carpenters, electricians and glaziers, carpet layers and escalator installers.
This should have been a godsend for the area; it simply wasn’t.
According to the African American Contractors Association, there’s a long list of such small businesses who have been working on this place for years and haven’t been paid a cent. Adamson Plumbing, II In One Concrete, and a host of other contractors have overextended themselves in buying materials and paying their laborers, without ever being paid by the Obama Foundation.
Most of these contractors are under a non-disclosure agreement and are therefore unable to go on the record by name; they have to either wait and hope, or hire lawyers to sue. Numerous lawsuits against the presidential deadbeats are reported to be in the seven and eight figures, often allegedly caused by sheer incompetence by the Obama Foundation and their top tier of general contractors, due to sloppy specs and the countless change orders necessary to fix design errors.
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Obama Center visitors say project symbolic of ‘Black excellence,’ claim scandal-free legacy while Trump ripped
PBR cat you need to find somewhere else to post. Go away.
I apologize PBR cat. Stay, I was wrong. I meant plain talk.
Hope and Change.
Hope to get paid.
When they get paid it will be in change.
‘Black excellence,’
😂
I bet a lot of people got rich on that so called library. Looks like the Black Community got screwed—again.
I haven’t met a construction company that does not require progress payments and often up-front payments for materials. Were these guys just so enthralled by very idea working on the LightBringer’s monument that they just kept going and going hoping they would eventually get paid?
Or are they bad businessmen with poor business decision making skills?
I would like to know how this beast was funded?
All the while the libs/nutjobs howl about Trump’s ballroom that is funded with private donations.
Sorta like the man who had it built .
There’s a “soul food” restaurant not to far from me. I haven’t worked up the courage to try it yet.
Perhaps that’s an example of their “excellence.”
The obama picture looks like a bad horror movies opening scene. You know, one where the sewer monster snacks on the office staff but leaves the cute college girl intern alive for reproductive reasons.
According to Smithsonian Magazine Hussein’s “accomplishments” were:
2009 bailout of the auto industry,
2010 Affordable Care Act,
2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and
Paris Agreement on climate in 2015.
“There’s a “soul food” restaurant not to far from me. I haven’t worked up the courage to try it yet.”
Probably very good food, but I would watch carefully as they prepared it. Thank The Revrund Jessi Jacksonnn for that insight.
I go to a soul food restaurant occasionally. I get a hot link and a side of fried okra to go. Their fried okra is the best.
What a garish building! It looks like a mausoleum.
Even the grounds are hideous. And what is that monstrosity to the right?
That's for damn sure.
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