Capers Funnye
As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife’s cousin, records show.
In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago’s South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 grant for the group’s youth services followed the next year.
The group’s executive director when the grants were awarded was Capers Funnye, a South Side rabbi and Michelle Obama’s first cousin once removed.
Worthy causes, all. But there was little or no oversight for this money. America, keep an eye on how your money is spent. You do not want it to wind up in the pockets of Obama’s friends and family, or his crazy pastor, or domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers.
And people, the guy’s name is pronounced Fun-nay.
Capers Funnye - Video
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October 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Not the clearest example of nepotism. I would offer up some cases from Alaska:
Sarah chose a high-school pal to head Alaska’s Division of Agriculture at a $95,000 salary. Among her flimsy qualifications, the woman, a former real-estate agent, claimed an affection of cows.
She put another childhood friend in charge of a money-losing, state-subsidized creamery that was supposed to shut down until Palin reversed the decision. As The Wall Street Journal reported, the doomed dairy cost Alaskans more than $800,000 in additional losses before it was finally closed.
Her legislative director was in the same junior-high band with Palin. Another old classmate was operating a Mailboxes, Etc. franchise when the governor appointed him head of the state’s economic development office.
She billed the state more than $17,000 as ”per diem” expenses — for 312 nights she spent at her own home.
Source: Miami Herald - Carl Hiaasen
October 7th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Are there any indications of impropriety?
As a young man who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and attended quite a few interesting events at the Blue Gargoyle (which is on the Univ. of Chicago campus) I’d be interested in knowing… you know… like real details.
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