Post by 141fe on Aug 9, 2010 7:26:52 GMT -5
More obama corruption;
I changed the title and added a link it gets better (or worse)
NEW and IMPROVED! See the part about SENATOR obama
pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true
www.morgancountycitizen.com/?q=node/14811
By: Fred Johnson; Columnist
The story of Shirley Sherrod is all over the news, but the real story is untold and it begins in 1997 when 400 African-American farmers filed a lawsuit against Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture claiming that the USDA treated black farmers unfairly in loans and disaster payments.
Eager to put this behind them before the elections of 2000, the Clinton Administration settled with the farmers in 1999 for $50,000 apiece. After the consent decree was announced, the USDA opened the door to other claimants and received an additional 22,000 claims and approved over half of them for their $50,000.
After those were paid another 70,000 black farmers claimed that they were not only discriminated against, but they were not notified of the windfall that awaited them. In 2008, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa sponsored a bill, with Illinois Senator Barack Obama as co-sponsor, to settle with the 70,000 by paying them $1.25 billion.
In February of this year, the $1.25 billion was tucked into the defense appropriations bill to pay those 70,000 farmers. Evidently, this was another case of: “You have to pass the bill to know what is in it.”
The payments were under the radar and not reported by the mainstream media. Now Shirley Sherrod enters the story. The American Thinker magazine reports that the largest payment from the $1.25 billion went to Shirley Sherrod’s New Communities Incorporated farm that received some $13 million. Shirley and her husband were also paid $330,000 for pain and suffering.
In addition, the FCC awarded New Communities Incorporated a radio station license in Albany, Ga. So the question for the Obama Administration should be why was a USDA employee the largest benefactor of the $1.26 billon settlement from the USDA? Of course, she is not employed by them anymore after being summarily fired. But she has been offered another job with the USDA that she has not accepted. We owe Andrew Breitbart a debt of gratitude for bringing this bizarre story to the light of day.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,597324,00.html
Fred Johnson is a member of the Morgan County Republican Party
I changed the title and added a link it gets better (or worse)
NEW and IMPROVED! See the part about SENATOR obama
pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true
www.morgancountycitizen.com/?q=node/14811
By: Fred Johnson; Columnist
The story of Shirley Sherrod is all over the news, but the real story is untold and it begins in 1997 when 400 African-American farmers filed a lawsuit against Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture claiming that the USDA treated black farmers unfairly in loans and disaster payments.
Eager to put this behind them before the elections of 2000, the Clinton Administration settled with the farmers in 1999 for $50,000 apiece. After the consent decree was announced, the USDA opened the door to other claimants and received an additional 22,000 claims and approved over half of them for their $50,000.
After those were paid another 70,000 black farmers claimed that they were not only discriminated against, but they were not notified of the windfall that awaited them. In 2008, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa sponsored a bill, with Illinois Senator Barack Obama as co-sponsor, to settle with the 70,000 by paying them $1.25 billion.
In February of this year, the $1.25 billion was tucked into the defense appropriations bill to pay those 70,000 farmers. Evidently, this was another case of: “You have to pass the bill to know what is in it.”
The payments were under the radar and not reported by the mainstream media. Now Shirley Sherrod enters the story. The American Thinker magazine reports that the largest payment from the $1.25 billion went to Shirley Sherrod’s New Communities Incorporated farm that received some $13 million. Shirley and her husband were also paid $330,000 for pain and suffering.
In addition, the FCC awarded New Communities Incorporated a radio station license in Albany, Ga. So the question for the Obama Administration should be why was a USDA employee the largest benefactor of the $1.26 billon settlement from the USDA? Of course, she is not employed by them anymore after being summarily fired. But she has been offered another job with the USDA that she has not accepted. We owe Andrew Breitbart a debt of gratitude for bringing this bizarre story to the light of day.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,597324,00.html
Fred Johnson is a member of the Morgan County Republican Party