Jeff Binkley -> All wrote:


 JB> http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/1184049,CST-NWS-
 JB> watchdog25.article

 JB> Obama grant being probed
 JB> $100,000 DEAL | State to charity: What happened to garden money, other
 JB> cash?


 JB> September 25, 2008

 JB> BY CHRIS FUSCO AND DAVE MCKINNEY


 JB> A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state
 JB> Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime
 JB> campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney
 JB> general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about
 JB> whether the money might have been misspent.

 JB> The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-
 JB> Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B.
 JB> Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the
 JB> Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project
 JB> for the blighted South Side neighborhood.

So he's not *JUST* a moron, he's a criminal, too.

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