Posted by
Mike Bates on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:13:21 AM
Today's Chicago Tribune
reports "Ex-lawmaker waives tuition for supporter's family: Molaro
OKs $94,000 despite children not meeting requirements." It begins:
Year after year, state Rep. Robert Molaro doled out
publicly funded scholarships to the family of a longtime political
supporter, ultimately giving the four children more than $94,000 in
tuition.
The valuable scholarships came with just one legal requirement: that
the students lived in Molaro's Southwest Side district.
The siblings signed notarized documents stating they did, while other
public records indicate they lived with their mother in Oak Lawn,
outside Molaro's district. Their father didn't live in the district
either.
The article, which runs about three-dozen paragraphs, doesn't mention
that Molaro
is - hang on to your hat here - a Democrat.
As documented repeatedly on NewsBusters, party affiliation is often
overlooked in news stories reporting improprieties by Democrats. Quite a
coincidence, isn't it?