Posted on 12/31/2014 6:34:39 AM PST by KeyLargo
Chicago Obama library bids in trouble; foundation has 'major concerns' with U. of C. proposal
Posted: 12/30/2014, 12:45pm | Lynn Sweet
WASHINGTON — The Barack Obama Foundation has major problems with the University of Chicago bid for the Obama presidential library and museum and is uneasy about the bid from the University of Illinois at Chicago, leaving Columbia University in New York the front-runner for the project.
A source close to the foundation told me that the University of Chicago bid is in jeopardy because it does not own — and has no definite path to acquiring at present — any of the South Side sites the school proposed in its Dec. 11 bid. The land is owned by the Chicago Park District.
“There are major concerns with the three potential sites in the University of Chicago proposal given the fact that neither the school nor the City of Chicago control the sites,” the source said.
The jolt from the foundation, led by Marty Nesbitt, a friend of President Barack Obama’s, puts pressure on Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff. “The point is the city needs to solve the problem as much as the University of Chicago,” the source said.
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Wasn’t there a request for Zer0’s state senate files? Seems to me Judicial Watch was trying to get them and they were told the Illinois State Archives did not keep any of his files. Maybe the files are in Obama’s library.
And in other news:
Anti-Gun Rahm Emanuel’s Yard Sign Warns Burglars That He Has Armed Secret Service
10:35 AM 12/30/2014
Chicago Mayor and gun-control advocate Rahm Emanuel is protected in his home at all hours of the day and night by armed policemen, and a sign outside his house warns would-be burglars that armed Secret Service agents are standing guard.
After Emanuel’s son was robbed outside the mayor’s home last weekend, a Fox 32 news report stated that Emanuel, a member of Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has 24/7 protection from the Chicago Police Department.
Looks lovely in Kenya, best building there.
Come on in, sit down, take a load off.
Is it just me, or does it seem late for this lack of activity? They did the groundbreaking for the WJC Library in 2001 & the GWB Library in 2010.
Over leave a "load". 
Whites wouldn't go without an armed escort, and blacks wouldn't go because it's a library.
I want an obammy library on every MLK blvd in America.
NO books, just dvd’s and computers and a few magazines.
Where does the golf course and basketball court go?
“initial preliminary designs have a bank of urinals at the front entry to accomodate those that come to piss on the front step carpets” said the architect in his design summary
And the walls of that “library” would be plastered with gay porn.
Oops..... didn’t you hear?
MLK blvds are going to be renamed Big Al Blvd.
The only magazines should be Golf Digest and Ebony.
Put it at Columbia and hope that somebody stumbles onto his transcripts . . .
Or Indonesia, call it the BS library for Barry Soetoro. No actual papers, just computers with Photoshop so you can make up whatever you want.
Pssst! It's a bathhouse for guys who really like each other.
And here is the entrance:
I am sure they could fancy it up a bit for serious researchers.
He could put all his presidential papers next to the video shelf.
Why go, it will be permanently sealed anyway.
Rahm Emanuel's such a figgin' hypocrite... and jerk. None of us would need to own a gun if we had 24/7 Secret Service protection... effing liberal elite.
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