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Obama gave $75,000 in government grants to his relative’s group
Another taste of the “change” Obama says our country needs. Which is just a fancy new populist way of saying “Chicago-style quid pro quo.” Or just good old-fashioned nepotism. Take your pick.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife’s cousin, records show.In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago’s South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 grant for the group’s youth services followed the next year.
The group’s executive director when the grants were awarded was Capers Funnye, a South Side rabbi and Michelle Obama’s first cousin once removed.
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Funnye noted that Blue Gargoyle got similar grants from another state legislator who had no family ties to the group.“There was nothing funny, nothing below board,” Funnye said. “Everything was done according to whatever guidelines the state of Illinois had in place.”
But guidelines were practically nonexistent.
At the time, Illinois legislators were handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants. The money was part of a deal that legislative leaders cut with the governor to approve a major public-works program.
Each legislator could award money to favored groups and projects with basically no oversight. The grants were known as “member initiatives” and were similar to the congressional “earmarks” often criticized in Obama’s presidential campaign against Republican John McCain.
Obama awarded about $6 million for everything from literacy programs and park improvements to drill team uniforms and jazz appreciation events.
If Obama had any character, he should have recused himself from the vote involving a relative petitioning him for grant money. His record demonstrates he has no problem voting “present” when it’s politically expedient for him to avoid culpability.
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