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Congressman: Obama buying votes in Kenya
Pumping $23 million into measure advancing abortion, Islamic law
Posted: July 22, 2010
12:35 am Eastern
By Jerome
R. Corsi
The Obama administration is buying votes in Kenya, charges Rep. Chris
Smith, R-N.J., the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global
Health. WND reported
Monday the Obama administration has funded $23 million of U.S.
taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Agency for International Development to
support the passage of a Kenyan constitutional referendum Aug. 4 that
would increase access to abortions and authorize the operation of Islamic
law tribunals in the East African nation. In a statement issued by his office yesterday, Smith charged that
several Kenyan groups receiving AID money had been given specific quotas
built into their AID contracts requiring the grantees to each produce
20,000 "yes" votes for the Aug. 4 referendum. "A chart produced by U.S. AID's inspector-general shows that 60
sub-recipients got funds for activities that include transportation, fuel,
road shows, voter ID and 'yes' vote 'buy in' for professional elites,"
Smith said. "It is unconscionable that U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing a massive
one-sided political campaign thinly disguised as 'civic education' in
another sovereign nation," the congressman said. "It is a very bad
precedent and it is illegal." (Story continues below) In a separate development, President Obama's ties with convicted
federal felon Tony Rezko and his continued involvement in politics in
Kenya have surfaced once again in the ongoing effort of key Democrats,
including Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., to arrange a public-private bailout
for failed ShoreBank Corp. in Chicago. The developing ShoreBank controversy also has a Kenyan tie to Obama.
ShoreBank connections to Kenya Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner last week
extended until Aug. 6 the deadline for ShoreBank Corp. to win $75 million
from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program. That
amount would buttress a $150 million commitment made by an investor group
that includes some of the biggest names in U.S. finance, such as Goldman
Sachs, GE and Bank of America, to produce the capital needed for federal
regulators to allow the bank to stay open. ShoreBank is controversial for ties that extend back to letters
then-attorney Obama wrote to support real-estate development projects for
Rezko in 1998. ShoreBank is currently running
on its website a link to an ABC-7 television
report broadcast in 2006 during then-Sen. Obama's taxpayer-funded
Senate visit to Kenya that showed Obama in Kenya promoting ShoreBank's
microfinance program in Kenya. Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, at the end of her career worked in
Indonesia in a microfinance program financed by the Ford Foundation. Peter Geithner, the father of the treasury secretary, headed the Ford
Foundation microfinance programs in Asia at the time. Obama, Rezko and ShoreBank ShoreBank has received special attention from the Treasury Department
because its involvement financing home loans to low-income borrowers
allowed the bank to be classified as one of 800 "community-development
financial institutions." A
report by the Wall Street Journal revealed that ShoreBank troubles
also stem from loans made to fund condominium development in geographical
areas outside the bank's traditional focus on Chicago's South Side. Chicago
Sun Times reporter Tim Novak documented in 1998 that then-attorney
Obama wrote two separate letters, each dated Oct. 28, 1998, to Chicago and
Illinois state housing officials to support New Kenwood L.L.C., a Rezko
corporation, in its application to build a 97-unit apartment building for
senior citizens at 48th and Cottage Grove in Chicago. According to a report
by the DailyKos.com in 2007, Howard Stanback, who had ties as a
ShoreBank board member, was chairman of the Woods Fund when Obama served
on the Woods Fund board. The Woods Fund made investment of $1 million to Neighborhood
Rejuvenation Partners, a group reputedly linked to New Kenwood, fulfilling
a request made by Allison Davis, the former head of the Chicago law firm
where Obama worked when he wrote the two letters in question. Although the connections are complicated, Stanbeck and Davis each had
financial interests in Rezko's New Kenwood L.L.C., to the extent that
Davis reportedly collected some $700,000 in management fees involved with
the senior-citizen apartment building at 48th and Cottage Grove. ShoreBank has never disclosed whether Obama was compensated for the
microfinance project that the bank launched in Kenya. Last month, the White
House issued a denial that White House officials had met with
ShoreBank regarding support measures for the bank or that the White House
had pressured potential financial partners such as Goldman Sachs, GE or
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