01/14/13
One of President Barack Obama’s earmarks has come back to haunt him--a $100,000 state grant that he obtained for a community garden in Englewood, on Chicago’s South Side, while he served in the state legislature. Like other Obama earmarks and crony projects--such as the Grove Parc housing project, exposed in a rare case of mainstream media vetting in 2008--the garden project failed. Now, the state wants its money back.
The Chicago Sun-Times brought up the Englewood project in 2008, noting that it had never been completed. Today, it reports that a garden has been developed on the site--by two non-profit groups not connected with Obama’s earmark, at a cost of less than $10,000. Attorney General Lisa Madigan began an investigation--with the support of the Obama campaign, reportedly--and determined that the state should recover the funds.
Not much has happened since then--but the Englewood earmark was hardly alone. In his short state and federal legislative career, Barack Obama left a long trail of earmarks. They included subsidies for a variety of state and local special interest groups, including an infamous $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Hospital, where Michelle Obama’s salary more than doubled after her husband took office in the U.S. Senate.
Fail: Obama's Chicago $100K Earmark
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