CBS Evening News’ Sharyl Attkisson reports on an earmark for the wealthy Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
This project is listed in the 2008 Congressional Pig Book:
$1,648,850 for the Shedd Aquarium by Senate appropriator Richard Durbin (D-Ill), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), House appropriator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.). The aquarium’s website says the facility was a “gift to the people of Chicago from John Graves Shedd, president and chairman of the board of Marshall Fields & Company.” This aquarium receives 2 million visitors per year and has 36 corporate benefactors. At the end of 2004 (the last year for which information is available), the aquarium had a fund balance of approximately $200 million. Those are some liquid assets.
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America is being sold down the drain by crooked politicians like these!
When are we going to find candidates that really care about putting our country ahead of their greedy self interests?
[...] Fishing for Tax Dollars [...]
Now that is definately a fishy deal. I’ve been to the Shedd Aquarium with my kids several times and love it, but trying to put the tax payers on the hook for this deal is nuts.