Just how cheap can you be? President Barack Obama has been absent from Washington, D.C. running around the nation raising money for re-election since he entered the Oval Office. Recently, he spoke at a gala dinner where attendees paid $40,000 a plate. Rubber chicken anyone? Obama has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and yet, according to reports, his organization is populated by a bunch of deadbeats. Who, trying to say it as delicately as possible, have shot the ‘finger’ to cities in Illinois and New Hampshire. Where’s the network news media?
An anonymous donor has agreed to pay a New Hampshire town’s extra security costs for 
President Barack Obama’s visit last Monday. Durham officials say they didn’t mean to raise a ruckus, but they didn’t have the money budgeted for police, fire and EMS services needed for President Obama’s visit, and the Obama for America campaign said they wouldn’t pay.
“Some people are very positive about the position that the town has taken to date, and others have been very critical. Some have expressed it as being ‘un-American’ the position we have taken, others feel it is the right thing to do, and campaigns, whoever the party, whatever the party, should pay the costs associated with the visit,” said Durham New Hampshire Town Manager Todd Selig.
Town Council Chair Jay Gooze says a local resident has stepped up to the plate offered to pay for town public safety costs up to $20,000 it cost the town to supply police, fire and EMS services — money that Durham did not have at its disposal. Although the Obama campaign clearly has the funds, it expected Durham to cover the bill.
This isn’t the first time Obama and his crew have shafted a town and left it waiting for reimbursement for the cost of “hosting’ the Anointed One. In 2008, then candidate Obama went to Springfield Illinois to publicly announce Joe Biden as his vice president choice for the upcoming election.
According to Springfield officials, the one-day event cost over $67,000 for security and other services. The Obama election staff paid a little over $12,000 and left town. Springfield has been trying to recoup the rest: $55,000–plus ever since. Unsuccessfully.
The Obama campaign says that decisions regarding expenses “are exclusively within the control of the appropriate government officials.” So, we guess, these two municipalities that are suffering economic woes due to Barack Obama fiscal policies are going to either lay people off or, maybe, raise taxes to foot the shortfall.
Aw, aren’t the Democrats great?
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