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2014-04-23 Government

Illinois Dems use under-handed maneuver to fund Champ library.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 $100 mil? Heck, all they need is one little display case to hold his autobiographies and his personal copies of "Das Kapital", "The Communist Manifesto", and "Rules for Radicals." Oh, wait. I forgot the Obamacare Wing. Never mind...

Posted by PBMcL 2014-04-23 01:36|| 2014-04-23 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Potential Presidential Library?

You mean Outhouse, don't you?
It would have the same stink.
Or is that the idea?

Curiousity, who would go? People who reallly had to poop?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-04-23 02:32|| 2014-04-23 02:32|| Front Page Top

#3 $100M won't get you much for a gubmnt building in Illinois.

About 45-55% goes for the actual construction costs and the rest to the 'fees', 'studies' and payola for local/state/union (interchangeable and co-existent in Ill.) agencies.

To top it off, wage and procurement rates for 'public works' in the Chicago area are about double the rates for the surrounding areas and the work will have to be performed 'Union Only' with only the highest craft-rate utilized (see 'payola' above).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-04-23 08:30|| 2014-04-23 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I recommend contacting ValJar and Tony Rezko. That $100m [less local fees and payoffs] should at least buy a nice vacant lot or old warehouse. We've got to start somewhere.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-23 08:44|| 2014-04-23 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I've no problem with putting the Library in Chicago. It's got to go somewhere.

I want it in the Roseland neighborhood, currently one of the most dangerous in all of Chicago. I figure with all the security, etc, putting the library there would clean up a good 4 to 6 blocks in every direction. Now THAT'S urban renewal!

And notice no community activists would be required, though undoubtedly many would be paid.

Posted by Steve White 2014-04-23 10:47|| 2014-04-23 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I say let it go to Hawaii, where Champ wants to retire. Fewer locals to visit and who - on a vacation to Hawaii - would bother to add that to their itinerary?

There must be some 'Roseland'-type neighborhoods in Honolulu.

Posted by Bobby 2014-04-23 13:05|| 2014-04-23 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Wrong. Save your money Chicago

The Obama Presidential Library has been built and dedicated in Florence Montana.

But both the Montana Democrats and Republicans object !

How do I know, the internet told me so, but I has to go to Maine's WCSH TV website to find out.

Posted by Caribbean Pete 2014-04-23 14:26|| 2014-04-23 14:26|| Front Page Top

#8 That's actually a pretty good, albeit expensive as hell, idea Doc W.

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-23 16:07|| 2014-04-23 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Build in Kenya.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-04-23 17:22|| 2014-04-23 17:22|| Front Page Top

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