Posted on 03/12/2014 5:19:03 AM PDT by rellimpank
When a government program is botched from the outset, everything about it becomes suspect.
If money from the program flows to an elected official’s husband, you have to wonder — even more than you might usually wonder.
If a teen hired by the program gets caught up in a murder rap, you can’t help but wonder why that teen was ever hired.
When a government program is poorly executed at the outset, as was an anti-crime program set up by Gov. Pat Quinn, the benefit of the doubt fades fast.
In August 2010, just before a tough election that pitted Quinn against Republican state Sen. Bill Brady, the governor announced the launching of an ambitious anti-violence effort. He was responding to a very real problem — that was one bloody summer in Chicago — but the $55 million Neighborhood Recovery Initiative program his administration quickly launched in October 2010 was rife with problems, according to a scathing audit released late last month by the state’s auditor general.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Not even a smidgeon of corruption!
—yep—Chicago as usual-—
Did you see this?
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