“Change” Candidate Obama Used Earmarks To Shower Millions On His Buddies
Including Rev. Michael Pfleger and, ironically enough given his recent threat to castrate Obama, Jesse Jackson:
He also pumped cash into St. Sabina Catholic parish, the South Side church whose pastor is the Rev. Michael Pfleger, the outspoken supporter whose comments in a May sermon about Obama’s former Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, landed the priest in trouble with Cardinal Francis George. St. Sabina got $100,000 to help rebuild its community center.
And a venture capital fund linked to the Rev. Jesse Jackson — who apologized last week after making a crude remark about the Democratic presidential hopeful — got $200,000, thanks to Obama.
In all, Obama doled out more than $3.6 million in state grants in just the last half of his state legislative career, records show.
Ed Morrissey points out one egregiously cynical example of Obama’s largess:
Englewood [Chicago suburb] got $100,000 for its botanical garden even though it was outside of his state Senate district. Obama needed votes from the neighborhood when he ran for Congress — but after he lost, he reneged on a promise to complete the project. Nothing but a plywood gazebo and a field of weeds sits on the garden plot now.
A rather sad commentary for someone who is campaigning as the “change” candidate.
