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The toilets are privately funded
Probably wasting 5,000 per toilet seat, 3,000 per chair, etc, etc
USA is most corrupt nation in the world
The toilets are privately funded
19 acres of public parkland leased for $1?
Public park freak sues to stop Obama Library, Crain's business news with the skinny:
Herb Caplan should know better than to fight City Hall, but when he spots what he considers a political fast one in Chicago, he just can't help himself.
That's why Protect Our Parks, a Chicago nonprofit he leads, is suing the city and Chicago Park District to stop the Obama Presidential Center from being built in Jackson Park. Caplan, 87, who once worked as a lawyer for former Mayor Harold Washington, calls the city plan to lease 19 Jackson Park acres to former President Barack Obama's foundation for $1 a "political manipulation" that breaks the law by handing over public land and tramples the city's legacy of open parks.
The federal lawsuit filed in May might seem a legal long shot, since the center is an ode to Obama, the city's favorite son. But Caplan's challenge forced the city last month to reveal that the Obama Center isn't quite the done deal that many Chicagoans think it is: The city hasn't reached key agreements or a lease with the foundation, and those pacts will require another new city ordinance to be passed sometime soon.http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...hicago-projectRetired lawyer Herb Caplan heads up Protect Our Parks, which successfully litigated against Latin School of Chicago's plan to remake a field in Lincoln Park a decade ago.
"build that library!!!!!!"
lol still triggering you
Trump golfing and numerous vacations at MaL and Bedminster are now costing costing taxpayers well of $200M, heading towards $500M, iow, one half beelyun by Jan 2021.
then add in the $100Ms revenues that Trash and family have pocketed from emoluments.
exemption granted for oceanfront property in Hawaii
https://www.propublica.org/article/o...ronmental-laws
background on the "beach house loopholes'
https://www.propublica.org/article/o...ouse-loopholes
Amy Coney Barrett slapped down the lawsuit:
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/obama...-barrett-trumpObama’s papers will live elsewhere; this $500 million project is not a presidential library but a museum celebrating the former president, overseen by the Obama Foundation, whose board is made up of a distasteful gang of financiers, with private equity well represented. As Wall Street Journal opinion writer James Freeman sardonically noted last week, Obama is impinging on “treasured green space to realize his vision of a self-tribute in stone and glass.” The groups fighting the project argue that it will wreak environmental damage on Jackson Park. They argue that the project will destroy much of the natural life in the park, including four hundred trees. They also say the tower will interfere with needed sunlight during the day, cause light pollution at night, and interfere with bird migration (the park is apparently a well-known route for birds).
The community activists also fear that the project will lure a large number of tourists and car traffic, disrupting what is currently a relatively calm and natural retreat. They also find the design of the project garish and vulgar, at odds with the aesthetics of the Frederick Law Olmsted–designed park, a historic 1893 World’s Fair site which was restored back to naturalistic parkland after the fair. The activists have presented alternative designs and traffic plans, but the Obama Foundation has ignored them — as arrogant multimillionaires tend to do when faced with suggestions from the little people.
In August, Amy Coney Barrett, then a Trump-appointed judge for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, struck a blow for her ruling class comrades, issuing an opinion that has been crucial in Obama’s fight against the community activists. She ruled that the coalition bringing the suit against the Obama project, Protect Our Parks, lacked standing to argue that the project would damage Jackson Park, because they could not argue that it would cause damage to themselves. In an extremely right-wing reading of the concept of “standing” which alarmingly eviscerates the idea of the public interest, she wrote, “The plaintiffs can’t repackage an injury to the park as an injury to themselves.” She even specifically rejected the plaintiffs’ arguments that they had standing to fight for the park as taxpayers.
more like.... Amy Commie Barrett
wrecking a Frederick Olmstead public park and the surrounding neighborhood to satisfy Obama's vanity
Mexico will pay for the library!
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