While our new President Barack Hussein Obama is so assiduously doling out cash to save homeowners who can't, or won't, pay their mortgages, maybe he can bail himself out as well. He owes the city of Chicago more than $1.7 million, and, while the city is struggling under a $50 million budget shortfall, the President of the United States is more than 90 days delinquent.
"The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,'' Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city's Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. "We're reaching out to them this week."
Wow, maybe things really are bad when the President can't even keep up on his bills. Think he can use this in his next speech, just to show how he's really one of us? Apparently he's hoped his way through all of his spare change... and now he's coming after yours.
The city spent $1 million on police protection for the rally. The Office of Emergency Management and Communications racked up more than $120,000 in expenses, including $19,500 paid to police official Neil Sullivan to quarterback election night logistics.
In late October, Mayor Daley assured that the cash-flush Obama campaign would reimburse the city for every penny spent on the rally. "We have a financial crisis," he said at the time. "The City of Chicago could not afford $2 million on this because we're gonna be laying off people, cutting back. That [cost] would really be unfortunate. . . . It's a huge cost to the City of Chicago.
"This is not a presidential visit. . . . This is a political event, and they've agreed to pay for all those services -- all the expenses of that. ... It's costly, but they raised quite a bit of money. There's no [shortage] of money in that campaign."
Hmmm... could our new President just be a deadbeat?
The day after the Nov. 4 election, Daley was asked again whether the Obama campaign would pay up.
"Yeah. I don't know why you're so negative. ... What is this? He just won for president, and you say, 'He's not gonna pay his bills,' " the mayor said then.
Sun-Times Article Here
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