Bobby Rush faces mortgage foreclosure
Cross posted on Marathon Pundit.
Congressman Bobby Rush, D-Chicago, may be looking for a new home. Not voluntarily, however.
From NBC 5.com:
Chicago congressman Bobby Rush is the target of a mortgage foreclosure lawsuit.
The suit alleges Rush has failed to make payments on his South Calumet Avenue home since July.
The three-story 3,400-square-foot home is valued at $215,000.
Rush and his wife run the Englewood Community Development Corp. and the congressman has used political campaign funds to support the church where he is a pastor, NBC5 reported.
Rush calls the foreclosure action "a challenge that has been rectified."
Interesting. Chicagoans send this guy to Congress to manage taxpayers' money, but he can't seem to manage his own funds. About about that church of where he's a pastor: Wouldn't its acceptance of political funds violate--assuming it has it--its tax exempt status?
The South Side congressman does know the value of money: Rush is a big proponent of slavery reparations, as you'll read here and here.
13 comments:
John, a church's tax exempt status doesn't prohibit it from receiving funds from a political committee, only making contributions.
Now that I've set that straight, how about removing the accusation?
Look forward to your post regarding Tom DeLay's money management skills.
Keep up the probing journalism.
Actually the transfer of political funds from his campaign committee to a church would not effect the tax-exempt status of his church as to the church it is simply a charitable contribution.
Politicians donate to local charities all the time.
Yeah, but you could argue that Rush's motives are a potentially illegal attempt to launder campaign contributions into a salary from the church.
That's if (and probably only if) he drew a salary from the church.
There's nothing wrong in paying the preacher, but that might violate Congressional rules limiting outside income.
I know he's not the only minister in Congress so pastoral salaries may not be treated the same as other occupational income.
You also forgot to mention that his wife works for Topinka, which is either a symptom of the bipartisan political combine that's at the heart of everything that's wrong in Illinois, or just good politics on the Republican's part and why JBT will likely beat Blagojevich next November.
Sheehan's dirty tricks people are good. rememeber when they had LeRoy Martin eating at an ex-con's place for breakfast and saying that he was his friend. The 19th ward is the king of dirty tricks.
Maybe Bobby Rush needs to listen to those Tony Robbins tapes again.
Gotta love Republicans -- first Democrats are godless heathens, then if you find one who's contributing to a house of God, he must be up to no good.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Bobby Rush fan, and I think his attacks on Tom Dart and Barack Obama were way off mark.
But the friends of George Bush are making a mint off of everything from the war in Iraq to Bird Flu, American contractors are bribing Iraqi officials, and the security forces we trained are allegedly executing Sunni Muslims, yet your idea of rooting out public corruption is to connect the dots about Rush's motives for giving to a church when you don't even know if there are any dots?!?
Have you guys figured out how NASA faked the moon landing yet?
I'd just like to point out the difference between using a commercial bank to finance your residential property, and getting a loan from the state for hotel properties. Congressman Rush missess 3-5 monthly payments. The state hasn't received a payment on the Marriott Renaissance (or whatever the new name is...) since August of 2003. Which one should be in foreclosure?
And it took Blago until this month to even take them off the state employee travel reimbursment list?
Having said my piece on that, 'laundering' funds from your political campaign chest to your church seems like it would be too transparent to hide 'dots' to connect. Taking reportable contributions from a campaign fund and giving them to your church seems to have it exactly backwards - if selling influence is the goal.
I'm not an attorney, but the whole thing is pretty fishy.
The accusuation I made, was put in the form of a question.
My main beef with Rush is his push for slavery reparations.
Regarding Rush's wife working for Topinka potentially being the catalyst for her winning...are you high?
Rush has never been less relevant than he is today. His ties to Topinka are more likely to hurt her with Republicans than to help her with Dems.
I wrote about this on my blog. This should be embarrasing. He must not know how to manage his money.
http://itismymind.blogspot.com/2005/11/bobby-rush-has-issues-paying-his.html
If people are really angry about this, then take a look at the upcoming primary election. Phillip Jackson is running against Bobby Rush, perhaps a wake up call for the district? Who knows.
Check out his website
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