Black Plague
07-12-2008, 06:10 AM
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1050869,CST-NWS-garden11.article
As a state senator, Barack Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer who failed to deliver on a plan to create a botanic garden in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods.
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7405/071108gardenscstfeed200py2.jpg
"Kenny B. Smith, a onetime campaign volunteer for Barack Obama, can't explain exactly how he spent $100,000 of taxpayers' money on a garden that was never built. He is standing at the site Thursday. The inset shows the botanic garden site in 2000. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044293/posts
I mention that because the Chicago Sun-Times has done a terrific article looking at what happened after Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer to create a botanic garden in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods. The result? The money's gone, the volunteer says he doesn't have the paperwork to prove he spent it properly, a landscape architect from the Illinois Green Industry Association who found no evidence of the work that Obama's volunteer said he did, and the site is strewn with weeds, garbage and broken pavement.
As a state senator, Barack Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer who failed to deliver on a plan to create a botanic garden in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods.
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7405/071108gardenscstfeed200py2.jpg
"Kenny B. Smith, a onetime campaign volunteer for Barack Obama, can't explain exactly how he spent $100,000 of taxpayers' money on a garden that was never built. He is standing at the site Thursday. The inset shows the botanic garden site in 2000. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044293/posts
I mention that because the Chicago Sun-Times has done a terrific article looking at what happened after Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer to create a botanic garden in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods. The result? The money's gone, the volunteer says he doesn't have the paperwork to prove he spent it properly, a landscape architect from the Illinois Green Industry Association who found no evidence of the work that Obama's volunteer said he did, and the site is strewn with weeds, garbage and broken pavement.