Lawsuit filed to block ($500M) Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

Louisiana Weekly ^ | 6/18/18

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

The lawsuit was filed on Monday, May 14 by “Protect Our Parks,” a nonprofit organization that seeks a court order to “bar the Park District and the City from approving the building of the Presidential Center and from conveying any interest in or control of the Jackson Park site to the Foundation.”

In its complaint, Protect Our Parks accuses the Chicago Park District of an “institutional bait and switch.” The organization said the park district transferred public land to the Obama Foundation to house an official federal Obama Federal Library. But that purpose changed when Obama decided his center will not be his official library. Instead, the federal National Records and Archives Administration will run it in another location. In the lawsuit, Protect Our Parks called Chicago’s plan to lease public park space an “illegal land grab.”

The organization also said the transfer of park land to a non-governmental private entity violates the park district code. In addition, Protect Our Parks said the park district and the city will receive only token rent for the land and the Park District Act law “does not authorize the Park District itself to transfer valuable public trust land for virtually no compensatory return.”

[Libloather]

But later that day, Emanuel at an event called the lawsuit frivolous and said that the “notion that somehow this is not a presidential library, because the actual papers will be in New York…to me not only is frivolous, but means the people that filed this don’t understand the 21st century,” he added. “The good news is, the presidential papers will be in two places but there will be only one library, here in Chicago.” Emanuel said that the papers will be digitized.

Uh, oh. Digitized in NY. When does the Weiner get out?

[Sacajaweau]

This is more complicated. Obama made some kind of dirty deal with the Park people so he wouldn’t have to go through adverse possession....like every other President. It was a dirty deal and didn’t pass the smell test then and the smell is even worse now.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Kenyanesian Usurper deserves no monument.

[V K Lee]

Smell and mold, both to be avoided whenever possible. Many a home had to be destroyed due to this manifestation after the hurricane seasons in years past.

[hal ogen]

No shock here. The Greatest Fraud Ever and a traitor lies and cheats to get his way. What a bum. If there were justice, he would be before a jury for his many (and continuing) crimes.

[Vaduz]

Lawsuit filed to block ($500M) Obama Presidential Center in Chicago/

No problem 6 billion came up missing when he held office and it was never found?.

[M-cubed]

Build it In Kenya in the middle of nowhere...Ill buy the land....and any money left over from the $100 ill donate to FR

Problem solved

[FrankR]

Tell oblammer to get back the $500 million he gave to *Solyndra*, and we’ll discuss it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Does anyone know if the webbed part of the building is just an irregular style element or some stylized Arabic message? It’s kinda script-like, in lines, but I can’t make anything meaningful of it.

[okie 54]

Porta Johns which would be quite adequate for 0bungo’s center do not cost any n ear $500million even with a lifetime of cleaning tossed in

[hinckley buzzard]

The best part of all this is that Obama Center will gut one of the largest expanses of parkland in south Chicago— meaning he will take a park away from poor black people who live within blocks of his mansion but have no chance, without so much as a fare thee well.