“Housing For The Needy Not The Greedy”

In view of latest developments in the Homeless Henrietta Hughes matter, Canada Free Press (CFP) is suggesting “Housing For The Needy Not The Greedy” as a more realistic slogan than “Hope & Change” for President Barack Obama. Obama’s Homeless Woman of Ft. Myers, Florida Stimulus Package Promotion fame is in reality a Real Estate Investor. Courtesy of the Colombo-like detective over at www.sweetness-light.com, you can view online the Property Records of Henrietta Hughes. The public record from Lee County shows how in 2003, Hughes transferred over $124,000 and change when she quit the claim deed on her house to the ownership of her son Corey Hughes.

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The Property Records Of Henrietta Hughes According to Lee County, Florida property records: 6/18/01 Property (Lot 19, Block 35, Unit 9, Sec. 20, Twnshp 44S, Range 27, Lehigh Acres Subdivision) purchased by Henrietta and Corey Hughes 10/10/03 - $124,400.00 lien release due to payment in full to Henrietta and Corey Hughes. 8/9/06 - Quit claim deed signed by Henrietta Hughes granting full ownership to Corey Hughes. No transactions since for either Henrietta Hughes or Corey Hughes which means that Corey Hughes still owns the property. Taxes current (paid) on 1/1/09. There are a number of mortgage lien holder transfers between 2001 and when it was paid off in 2003. This is normal as liens are often sold (think one mortgage holder buying out another). What is interesting is how this lien for $124,400.00 was paid off in less than 28 months. More...

Obama, who lights on the White House garden patch about as long as the bumble bees light on summer roses, doesn’t have time for Living in a Truck, Part Two. In scenes straight out of television’s Queen for a Day, in a wavering voice Hughes tapped Obama for a kitchen and bathroom. Her current homestead at the time of the Fort Myer Town Hall for both she and her son Corey, she said, was a truck. “We need something more than the vehicle and the parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom,” she told Obama. Obama gave her a kiss on the cheek telling her, “We’re going to do everything we can to help you, but there are a lot of people like you.” He said his staff would meet with her after the Town Hall. After the meeting, as the media swarmed Hughes for interviews, people handed her business cards and cash. At last count, Homeless Hughes was living rent free in a house afforded her by Chene Thompson, wife of Florida Republican House Rep Nicholas Thompson. The Housing For The Needy Not The Greedy slogan was coined by former Canadian Cabinet Minister Andy Brandt as the hallmark in the course of another housing rip-off. Then Toronto Councillor Jack Layton, now Canadian New Democrat Party (NDP) leader, had been living in a three-bedroom, taxpayer-subsidized, downtown Toronto co-op with his wife Olivia Chow, then Toronto school board trustee, now MP and his mother in law. A group of single mothers, led by late municipal government activist Lynn Lake, began a noisy daily protest in front of Hazelburn Co-op where the Laytons, both being paid roughly $120,000 between the two of them from the public purse, part of it tax-free as elected politicians, had to enter and exit. The single mothers, with toddlers in strollers, came equipped with a ghetto blaster playing the song “Hit the Road Jack” and attracted the attention of the feisty Toronto Sun, who wrote in an editorial, “Hazelburn protesters are right on, “Hit the Road, Jack”. Layton, who argued that he was only living in the co-op honouring its mixed income policy, moved out of Hazlelburn, but not before Brandt had coined the phrase, “Housing For The Needy Not The Greedy”. Political opponents call Layton, who travelled to Denver to attend the DNC, “Canada’s Obama”. Henrietta Hughes has become part of Obama’s urban legends and Housing for the Needy has become an ACORN-driven political agenda. Is anyone other than CFP wondering about the latest gig of 19-year-old Julio Osegueda, a student majoring in communications at Edison State College, since the Fort Myer Town Hall. Osegueda, who quizzed Obama about better employee benefits, described himself as a four-year McDonald’s employee, making him 15 years of age when he was hired by the hamburger giant. Meanwhile, the latest Henrietta Hughes news missed out, by a week, the poorly watched 2009 Academy Awards.