Pushing feds to pay Don’s towering bills
The tiny town of Crawford, Tex., where Bush spent so much time at his ranch that it was dubbed the Western White House, was also spared.
But trouble arose in Kennebunkport, Maine, where George H.W. Bush had a summer home, also sometimes used by his son. In his first year in office, the coastal town griped about the $1,500 a day it cost when he was in town — not a small sum for a town of a few thousand people and a 17-member police force in 1989. Town Manager Jane Duncan said it was eating up half the town’s contingency fund, and local cops might stop assisting the Secret Service if they didn’t get federal money.
Bush weighed in at the time, saying the town should not be left footing the bill, but said paying it back required congressional action.
“There is no question that there is a security burden placed on this small community,” he said.
Later, the town police department was awarded a $27,000 homeland security grant, but by the time George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the home in 2007, that money was gone and the police chief was again scrambling to pay for “budget breaker” overtime costs, according to the York County Coast Star.
Deputy Police Chief Kurt Moses told the Daily News the town got federal assistance for a while, but the money eventually dried SUPPORTERS of Green Party candidate Jill Stein dropped their bid to force a statewide recount of Pennsylvania’s presidential election results. Stein’s lawyer revealed the news in a Saturday court filing that noted the candidate’s backers are “regular citizens of ordinary means” who cannot afford the $1 million bond demanded by a state court. up, leaving officials to pay “a lot out of our own pocket.”
Westchester County police departments also got $300,000 from Congress after Bill and Hillary Clinton bought a home there, but it was less than the $1 million they requested.
The NYPD has been in charge of external security at Trump Tower, with 50 officers on each daytime shift deployed around the building, and assisting Secret Service agents at security screening points for people wanting to approach the tower. It is also staffing barriers on 56th St. to keep out cars, and keeping watch from rooftops. Heavily armed counterterror teams are also on site, along with bomb-sniffing dogs and radiation pagers. Two of the five traffic lanes on Fifth Ave. have been closed.
“(The President) usually has some kind of a compound,” said Terry Sullivan of the White House Transition Project. “Reagan had a ranch, LBJ had a ranch. Kennedy had beach houses . . . . They provide an ob-