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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 26, 2014, 09:40:18 PM
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SPRINGFIELD — A state audit released today criticizes the spending and management practices of a $55 million, taxpayer-funded anti-violence program for Chicago and Cook County that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn launched in 2010 as he was engaged in a tough election campaign.
The report by Auditor General William Holland said the program was "hastily implemented," failed to target some of the highest crime neighborhoods in Chicago and relied on recommendations from Chicago aldermen and community organizers rather than a more objective process to select which community organizations should get funding.
The audit said the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, tasked by Quinn to run his Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, failed to keep careful track of how money was spent and that some of the community organizations involved did not live up to the requirements of their grants.
Quinn unveiled the violence prevention effort in the final few months of his 2010 campaign for governor as he searched for a way to galvanize votes in Chicago neighborhoods that he needed to turn out in a close election for his first full term. He defeated Republican state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington by winning only Cook and three other counties.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-25/news/chi-state-audit-criticizes-quinn-antiviolence-program-20140225_1_state-audit-auditor-general-william-holland-quinn
Typical democrat using public funds to buy votes.