Obama silent on earmarks as Ill. senator (BO critical of HRC for same info. he is withholding)

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_el_pr/obama_pet_projects;_ylt=AjaTZCRj7MDV8noZo.kzqNGs0NUE

Obama silent on earmarks as Ill. senator

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Sen. Barack Obama is open about the pet projects he's tucked into federal legislation, but it's a different story when it comes to the extra spending he added to state budgets while serving in the Illinois Legislature.

Public records reveal some of the projects he sponsored as a state senator, from literacy programs and park improvements to drill team uniforms and jazz-appreciation events. They add up to more than $6 million.

But that covers just two of Obama's nearly eight years in the Illinois Senate. State records don't detail his projects from other years, and his presidential campaign has not responded to repeated requests from The Associated Press for information.

While silent about Obama's spending in Illinois, his campaign has criticized Democratic presidential rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for withholding similar information about her years in the U.S. Senate.

[geek tragedy]

1. Maybe because he doesn't have those records.

State legislators don't have the archivists that US Senator has. Radical concept beyond the comprehension of Clinton supporters, I know.

[anamandujano]

3. Shredder?

[rodeodance]

5. so why silent?

[global1]

21. Obama May Not Have Archived His Days In The Illinois Legislature - But.......

here's a link to where you can search records of the Illinois Legislature and find out anything you want:

http://www.law.indiana.edu/library/services/sta_leg.shtml

This link is to STATE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY RESEARCH GUIDES ON THE WEB and if you go to the State of Illinois you will see that the state has complete records of its governments actions. There is an Illinois Register - just like there is a Federal Register. So - for you HRC supporters - the info is there if you care to research it out for yourself.

I laugh when I hear the HRC supporters think that all records of Obama's time in the Illinois legislature have vaporized or vanished because he's trying to hide something.

So - here it is HRC supporters - go dig up the dirt you think is there.

[anamandujano]

2. Good find. Glad they are on the case. He's such a hypocrite.

[tabatha]

6. Obama has released all his earmarks from his senate years.

Hillary has not.

[rodeodance]

9. ummm.. that so ? got milk?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. Where are his IL State Senate earmarks?The ones he claims to have lost? The ones Rezko got?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. make Obama release his earmarks! 1 pillar of his campaign is "transparency"

[tabatha]

7. Read #6.

[rodeodance]

8. so he says. so he says!

[papau]

10. Obama can not reveal his papers or actions because he "lost" all Illinois records

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Linky?

:shrug:

[Yes We Did]

11. You really wanna go there about hiding records? Where are those tax records Hillary?

[BigDDem]

13. drill team uniforms ????

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. What a monster! Clearly in the pocket of the Big Corporations!!!!!

:rofl:

Are they kidding with this shit? $6 million in the Illinois budget for drill team uniforms and literacy programs and park improvements! This guy is an animal!

:rofl:

[pocoloco]

15. Oh My Fucking God!1!

Obama sponsored literacy programs!11

Thank you rodeodance, this is series!!11

[alcibiades_mystery]

No, he "EARMARKED" literacy programs, so it's super duper baaaad!

:rofl:

[ProSense]

16. What's the controversy? That he was silent about

securing funds for "literacy programs and park improvements to drill team uniforms and jazz-appreciation events" as an Illinois Senator?

Or that, unlike Hillary, he fully disclosed his earmarks as a U.S. Senator?

[DemsUnited]

17. Obama releases all earmark requests. A full list available at

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_scoop_obama_after_initia.html#more

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. No, don't you see...he has to release his Illinois Senate earmark requests

That way, we'd know that he secretly funded Antoine bin Laden Rezko's Super-Killer-Laser-and-Airplane-Hologram-Device that really destroyed the World Trade Center, although he called this funding the "Kenwood Academy Advanced Science Curriculum Grant," because that's how these devious African Muslims do, gnaw mean?

;-)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. Obama can NOT release those IL earmarks....Rezko got ta few of them he ears

[JoFerret]

22. A distinct lack of purity

...he ought to be demonized. like Clinton.
But maybe he can be delivered from his sin like a homosexual.