Elect Peraica?
Sure, it'd be nice to have someone in there who's going to be a thorn in the side of the Machine.
What office is he running for again?
What office is he running for again?
- Cook County State's Attorney
And who's in charge of Cook County?
- Stroger, John Daley, "Hog Balls" Beavers - the Machine
And who approves the Cook County State's Attorney's Office budget?
- The Cook County Board, and believe us, they aren't about to be tossing any extra money toward Peraica to investigate the Machine OR itself. We'd actually expect a round of "belt tightening" to keep Peraica in check should he win.
Everyone, and we mean EVERYONE who is interested on Chicago, Cook and Illinois politics is REQUIRED to read "Boss" by Mike Royko. In it, he tells the story of how Ben Adamowski, a former ally of the original Mayor Daley converted to the Republican party after Daley shouldered him out as a potential threat to his power. Adamowski ran and won the State's Attorneys race on the platform of dismantling the Machine.
Royko outlines how Adamowski's first job was to hire hundreds of qualified attorneys to run the day to day business of the office - dope pinches, battery offenses, murders, rapes and various licensing offenses. That's the primary job of the office. And the lawyers have to be trustworthy - not loyal to the Machine.
Then there are the investigators, many, if not most of which were on loan from the Chicago Police Department (think Detached Services). Most of the people we know from Detached Services are heavier than shark poo. How many of them are trustworthy enough to not to be beholden to someone in the grasp of the Machine?
Adamowski eventually achieved fame by exposing.... wait for it ....
Royko outlines how Adamowski's first job was to hire hundreds of qualified attorneys to run the day to day business of the office - dope pinches, battery offenses, murders, rapes and various licensing offenses. That's the primary job of the office. And the lawyers have to be trustworthy - not loyal to the Machine.
Then there are the investigators, many, if not most of which were on loan from the Chicago Police Department (think Detached Services). Most of the people we know from Detached Services are heavier than shark poo. How many of them are trustworthy enough to not to be beholden to someone in the grasp of the Machine?
Adamowski eventually achieved fame by exposing.... wait for it ....
- The SUMMERDALE Scandal!
That's right! Adamowski achieved his greatest acclaim by jailing policemen who were running a burglary ring! And he allowed Daley the Elder to bring in a civilian, professor, non-police officer to run the Department and "reform" everything so that Daley won the next election in a landslide as a "reformer" and as a bonus, Daley's pick for Cook County State's Attorney, Daniel Ward defeated Adamowski in a bruising election rife with fraud, ghost votes and miscounts that all seemed to benefit the Machine.
Are we saying don't elect Peraica? No. Anything that shakes up the political order is good in our eyes.
But don't expect miracles when someone else is pulling the strings.
UPDATE: post clarified about the CCSA investigators. Back in Adamowski's day, they were usually cops, but today they're retired cops.
Are we saying don't elect Peraica? No. Anything that shakes up the political order is good in our eyes.
But don't expect miracles when someone else is pulling the strings.
UPDATE: post clarified about the CCSA investigators. Back in Adamowski's day, they were usually cops, but today they're retired cops.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Peraica, from jumpstreet was calling "saw n a quarter stroger" on his shit when he wanted to dump all the ASA's and nurses at the hospital,etc. Right when he first started, he wanted to get rid of the real workers(because of their hi salaries)and start stuffing all his friends and relatives in their. BTW, I recently heard that the absolutely useless, brain-dead BC/BS-CPD liason Shaniqua or Snaneatha wtf her name is, the one that screws up everyones health insurance, is a stroger appointment. Any truth to this?
THE BLUE POET SAY:
My wife and I just went to Indiana to purchase items for a garage we are building.
The tax savings more than paid for the gas for my truck, lunch, and a few items at the Lions Den!!
You go old boy!!!!
thank you Toddler.
P.S. Playrev Wright looks like one of the Mills Brothers!!
He might be a freaking nut...But He's our nut! He's got my vote!
As far as I know there are no CPD assigned to the State's Attorney's Office. there was one guy who was Devine's driver but he recently went back to CPD.
Investigative reporters should look into the claims Anita Alvarez made in the television advertisement aired prior to the primary.
It is my understanding that the women of River Forest claim that the advertisement is packed with falsehoods and they are willing to talk about it.
The Author, and piece of shit scumbag attorney, Robert Cooley who's book "WHEN CORRUPTION WAS KING" is currently in Hollywood due to a major motion picture being made about this book.
Cooley was the rat fink attorney who got caught dirty and ended up being the MOLE and wearing a wire during the Graylord Investigation. It was about attorneys and judges at Cook County courts taking bribes for everything including murder trials. Many Judges and Attorneys went to jail as well as a few committing suicide before they had to convict them.
I can't wait for a Hollywood movie that will paint Old Man Daley and his Midget Mayor Son the way they should be painted. And I am NOT talking about a Finnegan Paint Job!
Daley will probably stroke out when this movie comes to Chicago. I wouldn't be suprised if the Alderman vote to ban this movie from being filmed in Chicago as well as being shown here.
An the great part....Just in time for the Olympic Committee to see how corruption is king here.
An the great part....Just in time for the Olympic Committee to see how corruption is king here.
3/16/2008 04:50:00 AM
Don't expect the Olympic committee to be put off by corruption. They do not care, and in fact, welcome it because it makes money for them. The Olympic committee is a group of international investors who have NO allegiance to any country, and they have no moral or political guidelines. Their god is MONEY.
Why do you think they have picked Chicago? Daley is running a corrupt regime that puts the world's worst third-world dictators to shame. Hugo Chavez couldn't do it better!
Take a look at what's going on in China as they prepare for the Olympics. Dozens of workers have died on the job because they use unskilled labor (paid 7 dollars a day.) No, you won't see it in the news because the workers are threatened not to talk to the press about the British-designed construction sites. The Olympics could care less as long as they get paid!
What's going to happen in Chicago? Lots of Olympics-designated property has already been bought up or optioned by Daley's financial backers. When the final approval is scheduled, the construction contracts will go out to the selected no-bid winners. (Even if they go out to bid, the real numbers won't matter; the chosen few get the contracts.) Who pays for all this? The CPD, CFD, Teachers, and other city pension funds get to "invest" in the Olympic village, and this is where the Daley people get the PAYOFF!
The funniest (worst, really) part? It'll all be done right under No-Clue-Jody's nose! God MUST be a comedian!
None of the investigators are from detached services. Although, most of them are former/retired CPD.
Well, at least I've seen Peraica
say on TV(ch11) that he's pro 2nd
Amend, and thats good!
Speaking of which: Say what u want about CRIMEFILE; he just put up a kick-ass post about the stuttering prick's "NO GUNS FOR ANYONE IN AMERICA" tirade last week.(w/U-TUBE). Now the whole free world can see the dictatorship we live under. HEIL dALEY!!!!!!!
(the ovens are being heated for the unclouted as we speak..)
I cannot vote for that chickie the Dems put up. Not for racial or sexual reasons. I congratualte her for being the first female hispanic to get that nom. She will get steamrolled by the big boys and WE will be her favorite targets.
I doubt Perica will give us a pass, but maybe WE won't be his #1 enemy.
Do you really think he'll be able to touch Daley? No way. So the next best thing will be cops. If you want the CCSAO coming after ya on a daily basis, then yes, elect Peraica. That guy has a hard on for himself - and any way he can help himself, he's going to do so -bet on it. Cops make headlines and he's into headlines.
"shark poo"........That's pretty soccer mom SCC. I'm beginning to think your a female copper.
i'm voting for Tony
he is the ONLY decent choice.
he is a thorn in the democratic combine.
we need change in our government, QUICKLY!!
lets all do the right thing. always vote the incumbent out.
I dont care for Peraica, but if it would be a way to see D. O'B from felony review go...Im all for it
"My wife and I just went to Indiana to purchase items for a garage we are building.
The tax savings more than paid for the gas for my truck, lunch, and a few items at the Lions Den!!
3/16/2008 12:15:00 AM"
Will northwestern Indiana become the next midwestern region to see an influx of honest, hardworking citizens within the near future?
I've been wondering about this for years.
Real estate prices are lower, taxes are lower, thus, the costs of goods and services are lower, the region is ripe for residential and commercial expansion, the commute into the city is about the same as from southeastern Wisconsin, the cities of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Gary are substantially no different than the those areas of the city being 'gentrified' for the past few decades, and there's plenty of open, never developed land available south of 80/94.
The growing populations of Munster, Schererville, Dyer, Merrillville, Highland, St. John, Griffith, and even Hobart, Lake Station, New Chicago, Crown Point, Portage and Valparaiso, are examples of what is coming.
Add to that CC and northwestern Indiana is beginning to look at least as good as southeastern Wisconsin.
And the eastern shores of Lake Michigan are that much closer.
As for the cost of the commute, there's the Metra Electric Line running along the south lakefront, if one wants to avoid putting miles on the beater.
Maybe now is the time to think seriously about where that second home is going to be bought or built.
Off Topic:
St. Laurence High School was robbed at gunpoint on Friday. A male black with a handgun walked into the cafeteria after lunch and robbed a worker of the lunch cash. Escaped in a car driven by another male black.
God bless Bob Cooley...He did more for this city than anyone in the last 50 years!
It's a real shame that Tony Peraica did not win the County President seat - he almost did which in and of itself is quite an achievement in this Machine county.
Any sane voter (tax payer) of Cook County will vote for Peraica for Cook County State's Attorney.
"Do you really think he'll be able to touch Daley? No way.
3/16/2008 10:51:00 AM"
He'll be able to 'touch' Daley, alright, and pussified fucks like yourself are wetting their panties at the thought.
Peraica will start with the little 'piggies', following the federal pattern of twisting the knife until the little piggies squeal, working his way, ever closer to the big hogs.
He'll use both criminal and civil law and, short of literal assassination, there will be nothing Daley can do to stop him.
That is, if Peraica can win the State's Attorney's office.
That part of the equation is up to us.
If you're not registered to vote, get registered.
If you are registered, vote on Election Day.
If you do nothing else, vote for Peraica, just to see the hogs and piggies sweat blood.
Peraica will start with the little 'piggies', following the federal pattern of twisting the knife until the little piggies squeal, working his way, ever closer to the big hogs.
And maybe he will magically gift Illinois with the kind of brute force anti-corruption laws the feds have. And maybe the County Board will gift Peraica (who swears to target them) with the kind of cash it would take to "actually" go after the Chicago Machine.
Wake up kids, Peraica is a fraud. His lack of criminal experience shows through when he thinks he can mount these major investigations.
Then he wants to slash his payroll - meaning he will have fewer investigators and attorneys to do the work.
The best shot at exposing corruption in this town is, has always been, and will always be on Dearborn Street.
Go ahead and vote for Tony, but don't go on and on about how he is going to go after TS and City Hall.
PERAICA'S GOT MY VOTE!!
Tony Peraica's campaign was over before it started.
3/16/2008 03:48:00 PM
Dude. First? Ease off the 'roids. You're clearly fucking losing it, and second? You are HIGH if you think Peraica is (a) smart enough to pull off 1/10th of what you think he can; and (b) in it for the long haul. Peraica has NO interest in being the CCSAO for any other reason than using it as a stepping stone to a bigger office. Why else would someone with NO prosecutorial experience and an extremely limited knowledge of law want this job? Because L. Madigan is too entrenched in the AG to be unseated and this is the next best, high profile position available. He will make a name for himself on the backs of YOU - the police.
Wake the fuck up.
OT:
This BS concerning Hussein's racist church is ridiculous. If anything in the world points out the real racists it has to be this. Can anyone legitimately argue that if a M2 candidate attended an equivalent church that preached white pride, and tried to claim he just didn't agree with that part, that he would not be absolutely villified and his candidacy immediately ruined? So why is it that racial separatism is wrong for whites and ok for blacks.
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberalism.
I was once told by an old time wagon man in 011. Nobody ever got in trouble for doing nothing. Just answer your calls, do only the minimum required. Do not go out of your way to get any activity for king daley and jfed. Let the homicides sky rocket this summer. But most importantly, remember not to drink off duty because jfed will not grease you before he jams you up.
RAT ALERT!!!
PPO RAWLS IS A RAT!!!
-giving the heads up on your fellow co-worker.
In the academy PPO RAWLS ratted on another class mate in regards to a state test. We all know that we used to have study guides but not state tests or answers.
RAWLS is the same PPO who complained about teachers at the academy and claimed that he was a former cop in the burbs.
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Anyone who doesn't believe Peraica is his own worst enemy isn't taking a good look at this moron.
After his conduct following his loss to the Machine last year, I would never waste another vote on his pompous ass.
Real estate prices are lower, taxes are lower, thus, the costs of goods and services are lower, the region is ripe for residential and commercial expansion, the commute into the city is about the same as from southeastern Wisconsin, the cities of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Gary are substantially no different than the those areas of the city being 'gentrified' for the past few decades, and there's plenty of open, never developed land available south of 80/94.
Better bring your radiation counter with you before you purchase your 40 acres in NW Indiana. They have little to no oversight over pollutants, which is why they dump so much of it into the lake and land in NW Indiana. No thanks.
TO 03/16/08 1234PM. YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD. MY SISTER AND HER HUSBAND JUST MOVED TO LOWELL IN. ANOTHER UP AND COMING SUBURB, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE HOUSE YOU GET FOR 180,000.00 PLUS NICE SAFE COMMUNITY , EVERYBODY HAS A JOB AND SPEAKS ENGLISH. ALSO SALES TAX IS JUST 6%.
Cooley was, is and will always be a piece of shit. I remember in the mid 80's when he came into 019 and tried to trick bag the guy in the license office into trying to get a liquor license...what a prick.
"Better bring your radiation counter with you before you purchase your 40 acres in NW Indiana. They have little to no oversight over pollutants, which is why they dump so much of it into the lake and land in NW Indiana. No thanks.
3/17/2008 08:26:00 AM"
Now that's funny.
What, you think you were born to never die?
It's the quality of life that's important, not the quantity; didn't your mom and dad ever teach you that?
I guarantee that those last few years you might squeeze out of your existence won't be years you really want to be alive, though the medical industry will appreciate you allowing them to prolong your pain filled existence for their profit.
Be brave and live for the sake of living, not just to put off death for a little longer, you can't outrun the 'Grim Reaper'.
"extremely limited knowldege of law"?
LOL
Tony's an attorney and owns a law firm.
Who's the DemocRAT plant?
3/17/2008 08:13:00 AM
It was a kind euphemism for "as dumb as a fucking post." But, in the future, we'll all be sure to spell it out for you, genius.
Attention Illinois Gun Owners: Your Action is Needed Today!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Stand Up and Make Your Voice Heard!
Rabid freedom-hating zealot, Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin and the Cook County Board are conducting a telephone poll where callers can voice their opinion on ordinances which would close all gun shops as well as ban and confiscate most firearms owned by citizens of the county.
WE MUST NOT STAND IDLE!
THE FUTURE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN COOK COUNTY
AND ILLINOIS DEPENDS ON IT!
Please take the time to call-in TODAY and make your voice heard that you oppose these onerous attacks on our Second Amendment freedoms. You do not have to be a resident of Cook County to vote. To vote in the telephone poll, please call 1-312-603-6400 and select Option #1 when prompted. At the next prompt, select Option #1, again. When prompted to vote on the gun control ordinance, press #2. Finally, please forward this alert to your friends, family, and fellow gun owners and urge them to do the same.
Hey SCC this from the ISRA web site. Put yourself on thier web alert and keep us informed!!
In response to "U R Dumb",
It's simply ignorant and asinine to claim someone who is an attorney and owns their own law firm as being "completely ignorant to the law.."
If you can't see how you're coming off as a troll then so be it.
As for now having to dish out personal attacks and insults.. well that further shows your caliber of intelligence and tact.
Have fun voting for Alvarez, for the Machine.. I am sure we all can easily deduce that you probably owe your job to it.
Tony's an attorney and owns a law firm.
Who's the DemocRAT plant?
That person probably should have said "extreme lack of criminal law knowledge and experience"
But hey, not like he is running to be Chief Prosecutor or anything.... CPD has a boss with 0 experience as an P.O. and everyone loves him.
To 3/16/2008 12:15:00 AM
It doesn't rhyme.
"It was a kind euphemism for "as dumb as a fucking post." But, in the future, we'll all be sure to spell it out for you, genius.
3/17/2008 02:19:00 PM"
Like he won't be able to hire attorney's that meet your high standards if intelligence.
In the 'future', "we'll all be sure to spell it out for you," ass sucker.
Peraica wants that CR list made public. I am sorry, I cannot vote for the guy, even though I am conservative, on that basis alone.
Earthless said:
It's simply ignorant and asinine to claim someone who is an attorney and owns their own law firm as being "completely ignorant to the law.."
Why? I assume you haven't had the pleasure of watching the steady stream of solo pracs that walk the halls of every courthouse. There is no magic mantle of legal knowledge that you get for hanging out a shingle.
Pass the bar, and you too can "own" your own firm. It's just that simple.
No insults, no personal attacks - I just think you are putting way too much stock in his firm. You also miss the glaring fact that he is a PI lawyer, and not a prosecutor.
Of course you may also have noticed that this was the first open primary in recent memory, which means the Machine did not annoint any candidate.
"Of course you may also have noticed that this was the first open primary in recent memory, which means the Machine did not annoint any candidate.
3/17/2008 10:31:00 PM"
Don't you recognize the 'Kansas City Shuffle' when you see it?
The Democratic Primary for this office was stacked to appear to be open.
The fact that several different factions were vying for the nomination doesn't equal it being an 'open' primary, just the typical squabbling between the black and white factions, with Alvarez as the insurance policy, should the 3 machine whites split the vote enough to give the black, Stroger/Beavers candidate the win.
Alvarez is dependable enough to be bought and to continue to leave the machine's frauds ignored.
If for no other reason, Peraica, as a Republican, will at least add some spice to the mix, even if you don't believe he's exactly the crusading reformer he portrays himself to be.
His animosity towards both the black and white factions of the Democratic Stealing Machine alone is reason enough to give him a shot at the job.
And the fact that his candidacy is 'inspiring' so much vitriol from the machine minions shows how much damage he is perceived as being capable of doing.
If you're part of the machine, you'll be touting Alvarez and slinging mud at Peraica.
If you're not, work too get Peraica elected and at least there will be a chance of upsetting the smooth and steady flow of our tax dollars down into the bottomless hole of the machine's gullet.
Like he won't be able to hire attorney's that meet your high standards if intelligence.
Is your point that it is okay to elect a guy with no experience because there is the hope that he would use that lack of experience to hire the right people to tell him what to do?
Hasn't that argument been put to death already?
Go to Tony's website - even HE isn't pretending he has the chops to run the SAO.
Who are you kidding? No clue Jody is probably an investor. Wake up people! Birds of a feather.....
The populations of Valparaiso and Chesterton, Indiana have increased in excess of 40% over the last decade. I just read that in an entreprenaur mag at the Drs office. They've got the South Shore Line Train, pulls right into downtown Chicago about 6 or 8 times per a.m.
The government monitors pollution, not the state. If Indiana's full of pollution, Mayor Daley told some of his gangster friends from Waste Mgmt. to go dump it there. He probably gave them a city truck to dump it with. Peraica has nothing to do with the list of POs on CR list. Nice try though Anita. Go flip your tortillas they're burning on one side.
Heres a thought: Do you think if Mayor Daley and his weirdo brother Bill(what's up with that creepo anyway?)and Bill Clinton and Loud Hillary Clinton hadn't stood up on that stage at the Michigan Avenue Hilton Hotel 9-10-12???? years ago, yelling and expounding and screaming about how great and wonderful NAFTA was gonna be, How it was gonna make America the greatest country in the world, How EVERYONE would have a job, do you think if those four, who invented the whole NAFTA BULLSHIT THING,(why?)would have just shut the fuck up and done the jobs that they were supposed to be doing that we wouldn't even be in this terrible recession??? That was the day all those out of state laborers off-loaded tractors and farm equiptment and drove it right down Michigan Ave. It was a beautiful sight. I couldn't figure out why the reporters hadn't written anything when Hillary was calling Obama a liar, but my bro. told me it's cause the media is very liberal and doesn't want to remind voters Dems, specifically Clintons and Daleys invented Nafta. St. Xavier College in Evergreen Pk gave Daleys big award reception for nafta work just two wks ago. are they all blind!!!!!
boy some of you people with your conspiracy theories really need some mental help. You're not even worth commenting any further about. Signing out of this moronic blog.
Like he won't be able to hire attorney's that meet your high standards if intelligence.
3/17/2008 08:46:00 PM
Sure. That's exactly what everyone wants - a person SO unqualified for the position, they have to rely on hiring someone else to make sure they don't completely muck the whole thing up. It's voters like you who have ruined this county by perpetually placing the unqualified in office.
It's simply ignorant and asinine to claim someone who is an attorney and owns their own law firm as being "completely ignorant to the law.."
Simply because someone "owns" there own firm, a feat that in an of itself is not difficult, does not mean they are automatically a good attorney and know the law. Anyone who passes the bar can "own" their own firm; would you trust your case to Joe Shmoe, esq. simply because they "own" their own firm? Probably not. You'd want the best and TP is far from it...
"Sure. That's exactly what everyone wants - a person SO unqualified for the position, they have to rely on hiring someone else to make sure they don't completely muck the whole thing up. It's voters like you who have ruined this county by perpetually placing the unqualified in office.
3/18/2008 12:22:00 PM"
You're so fucking transparent.
What you've just described is substantially the entire city and county Dumbocratic elected government 'public servants', Dickhead Devine included, and you think anyone believes you want an honest, intelligent and aggressive County State's Attorney?
Peraica could be a fucking imbecile, for all I care, the fact that he's not a bought and paid for whore for the Dumbocrats or a scheming, bent thief and liar, like the above mentioned motherfuckers, is why I, and any who really want the beginning of an end to these cocksuckers cocksucking activities, will be voting for Peraica in the November General Election.
I don't need to remind you that you've got an appointment to suck some more Dumbocratic cock, do I?
Chop, Chop, your clout's roscoe awaits your tender lips.
"Signing out of this moronic blog.
3/18/2008 09:09:00 AM"
Bye Bye.
And give your clout an extra long suck for us 'morons'.
"You'd want the best and TP is far from it...
3/18/2008 12:26:00 PM"
And you figure that Alvarez is gonna do what, concerning the investigation, indictment and prosecution of all the boys who brought her to the dance?
What experience did king richard have when he decided to be the crook county states attorney? Remember when you democrats voted for him as he promised not to run for another position, and then he decided to run against Mayor Byrne, (who still was the best mayor to the police), thereby causing Mayor Washington to get in, (God rest his soul, as he was pretty good to the police). I plan to vote for Peraica, even if he does reveal my 10 CR'd name, along with my membership in the BIS.
Chop, Chop, your clout's roscoe awaits your tender lips.
There were at least three references to sucking cock in your post.
I won't ask if you won't tell.
And you figure that Alvarez is gonna do what, concerning the investigation, indictment and prosecution of all the boys who brought her to the dance?
You do realize that the CCSA is technically the lawyer to most of the county leadership, and that any prosecution of systemic corruption would HAVE to be handled by an outside agency both because:
1) There is a conflict of interest when the County's Lawyer prosecutes a County Official.
2) You, and people like you, would cry all the way to the bank about what an "inside job" or "sham prosecution" it would be if it didn't go exactly how you wanted it to, or worse turned its' eye on you.
That most citizens don't get the conflict is understandable, that an actual lawyer - and candidate - doesn't understand the law - well that's inexcusable.
"You do realize that the CCSA is technically the lawyer to most of the county leadership.....
...1) There is a conflict of interest when the County's Lawyer prosecutes a County Official....
3/18/2008 10:08:00 PM"
Gee, and all this time I thought the CCSA was 'technically' the lawyer representing the interests of the citizens of this county.
And that corrupt government officials, employees, appointees, etc., committing criminal acts were, by definition, no longer acting under the authority of their office and, thus, were, and are, no better than any other criminal.
And that the posted job description, seeking applicants for investigators for the CCSA's office, which includes a description concerning the investigation of political corruptions of all kinds, is just so much hooey.
But, according to you, the CCSA's responsibility is to act as the legal advocate for the very same individuals, entrusted with the authorities which they so blatantly abuse, and the citizen's interests be damned.
Wow.
Silly me.
OMG, Like DALEY knows or knew the first thing about the law when he was states atty. For gods sake, when he was mayor his aldermen ran through the art institute? (or some public exposition) taking down works of art because they didnt care for the artists renditions of the late mayor h. washington.
I reread this entire thread and didn't see any theories, just facts.
"Then he wants to slash his payroll - meaning he will have fewer investigators and attorneys to do the work.
3/16/2008 05:24:00 PM"
That's why this blog can be a huge tip provider.
"Is your point that it is okay to elect a guy with no experience because there is the hope that he would use that lack of experience to hire the right people to tell him what to do?
3/18/2008 12:09:00 AM"
So, who are your examples of people elected to office who are capable, in and of themselves?
Richard M. Daley?
Todd Stroger?
Lisa Madigan?
Dorothy Brown?
Ed Burke?
Bernie Stone?
Bill 'da hog' Beavers?
The list is practically endless.
Who ever gets elected/reelected in this city, county and state who IS qualified to 'get the job done'?
With 'get the job done' meaning something other than picking the pockets of the taxpayers and/or doing shit that so totally fucks up what the citizens really need left un-fucked up?
Review practically every aspect of government, on the city, county and state levels, and see what percentage of activities are actually helpful to the citizens, actually worth the tax dollars being expended.
Competent, honest and intelligent leaders, are not the rule, but the exception.
And why is this so?
Perhaps because people listen to the panderers touting against changes being made, changes in the people elected to governments, changes to the people employed by governments and changes to the people contracting with governments.
The electorate behaves as if it is an abused child, fearful of angering their abusers by uttering the slightest objection to the abuse.
Is this the fate of Democracy, to end with a wimper?
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