Sunday, September 25, 2011

Chicago's Near North Side Obama stimulus campaign sign

Last summer the US Department of Transportation relaxed its requirements on what I call Obama stimulus campaign signs for road projects--they are now "encouraged" but not required.

Leave it to Illinois to be different. You can find this green ghoul on Hubbard Street adjacent to Orleans, on Chicago's Near North Side.

Despite the "stimulus" and these signs, Illinois' unemployment rate is 9.9 percent. There was no Recovery Summer II here. Quinn returns from a trade trip to China today with his entourage of 30--eight of whom were Quinn campaign donors. Leading the list on donors was John T. Coli, who heads Teamsters Joint Council 25. Quinn's campaign was the beneficiary of $400,000 in various Teamster funds, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The campaign never ends. And exactly what did Coli's presence on this trip add for Illinois businesses and workers? Perhaps he enjoys Chinese food.

Yes, Quinn announced some business deals in the Middle Kingdom--some pretty big ones which almost certainly had to be in the works before the Chicago Democrat's plane hit the tarmac in China.

Oh, does Lee County really need another wind farm?

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