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- Chicago aldermen have used their newly expanded, taxpayer-funded expense accounts to hire relatives, lease expensive vehicles and pay for downtown parking, according to a Tribune analysis.
The money -- up to $73,280 for each of the 50 City Council members -- comes from a budget line that gives aldermen wide discretion to cover an array of expenses related to official duties. After years of aldermen crying poor, Mayor Richard Daley agreed to more than double those funds to $3.7 million for 2008 -- even as the city struggled with a growing budget hole.
The Tribune analysis of the 2008 expense funds, augmented by other public records and dozens of interviews, showed a broad range in what aldermen deemed necessary spending to do their jobs and serve their constituents. It also raised new questions about political patronage and nepotism on the public dime.
Yup. In the midst of a growing budget crisis and union contracts coming due, Shortshanks doubled the aldermanic expense accounts. Additionally, the aldercreaures got 6% raises for themselves, 5% raises for their staff and an increase in their "discretionary funds" that now total about $1.33 million per aldercreature.
But hey, share the pain, blah blah blah. 500 layoffs, blah blah blah. No hiring blah blah blah. Be sure you click on all the links in the Tribune article, and wonder aloud that we can't get a contract for almost 26 months now.
But hey, share the pain, blah blah blah. 500 layoffs, blah blah blah. No hiring blah blah blah. Be sure you click on all the links in the Tribune article, and wonder aloud that we can't get a contract for almost 26 months now.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
70 Comments:
For fuck sake, S.C.C. You have been telling this tale for how many YEARS now? And the Tribune is just catching on? Fuck them, the mayor, and the aldermen!
That's the payoff for approving his alderjerk selections. Has he hand-picked and appointed the entire boatload of spineless, punk, buyable morons yet???
seems like making cuts and sacrafices are for the little people only?are the aldermen on the boat or off the boat richie? selfish-greedy-bastards a new tarintino film about chicago politics
Apparently they aren't in "the boat." But hey, rubber stamps cost money.
What a bunch of fucking pricks. Enjoy it now because you'll all rot in hell. And I wish that was sooner than later.
Nothing new there....just business as usual for the Ali-Richie and the 50 thieves.
A lexus? Bottled water? city stickers? personal cell phones?
On the cell phone front, I will be filing a freeom of information request for Gingers cell phone records to see when she made the call to get Ruthie promoted and to get her government sponsored contracts.
Jody, you ball-less wonder, the info is there to indict Rugai and Wedster. Now call your people in Fibbie land and get it done. These two broads have clearly conspired to defraud the city.
Can someone explain who Ray D'Oronzo is? Alderman Zalewski pays this guy every month out of this bullshit fund. Can anyone enlighten me. Maybe we need to get to his office and ask?
SO NO ONE WOULD HIRE FAMILY TO WORK IN YOUR OFFICE?
CLINE?
PETERSON?
DIVINE?
MAHER?
CUELLO?
IS IT WRONG IF YOU MARY INTO CLOUT AND THEN SKYROCKET TOO THE TOP!
IS IT WRONG YOU R PUT ON TACT TEAMS EVEN BEFORE UR PROBATIONS UP...
AND WHY DO EXEMPTS NEED DRIVERS? ARE THEY TEXTING THAT MUCH TO NEED A 60,OOO $ PLUS A YEAR DRIVER W/ A GUN. HELL THEY DONT EVEN TYPE THEIR OWN REPORTS ANYMORE.
AND WHAT'S UP W/ ALL THIS MOVIE DETAIL STUFF IN THE DAILY BULLETIN THEY SEEM TO BE SWEATING WHAT THEY DO. COULD IT BE THE ELTON JOHN CAPER/// SETTING UP A DEFENSE FOR THE GRIEVANCE CMON 1 DAY OF TRAINING GIVE ME A BREAK!!
What are the license plate numbers on the vehicles that the "pigs" lease for themselves? Then we can FOIA the City to find out how many red light and parking citations they have non-suited on these vehicles!
Remember they are royality and as such the laws do not apply to them.
and wonder aloud that we can't get a contract for almost 26 months now.
WHY??
Because we are a bunch of idot sheep that dont stick together! And it will never change. I, for one, through out my FOP newsletter when it comes in the mail. I dont vote on anything other than for anybody who runs against shortyshanks.
I we set it free....it will come back to us ten fold. Just stop!
No concessions, not now, not ever!
Dick and the 50 thieves pillage this city with impunity, then ask all others to bear the burden. Well Dick, fuck you and the coattail you rode in on. As an extra fuck you I've switched from taking time to money.
Take a look at some of the payees these assholes have made LARGE payments to.
Several of these aldershits have used these funds to pay off personal credit cards, personal car loans, make payments to themselves, the list of obvious abuses goes on and on.
Starting to seem like all that garbage being spewed about america's "government" by the most radical muslims is true. We just had no real reason to believe it, but it's obvious now that this government does the same thing ever other government does, take advantage of it's constituents, take their profits and redistribute that wealth to their friends and family.
It's nothing more than the ruling class creating laws to protect them so they can continue taking from the middle class and feeling good about themselves.
It ain't about governing. Governing is just another word for "I wanna control other people and take their cash" because I'm "ruling class".
INDICT Ginger & Ruthie or else the morale will continue to sink----do as I say, not as I do---mentality has to stop.
Jody make the call and get them indicted. NOW
A bunch of fucking thieves!
Public flogging and hanging was appropriate punishment fo such chicanery by so called public officials in a bygone era... Why not now?
This is unbelievable. FOP where are you. Definitely time for a change in unions. Bring on the Teamsters!
These thieving pricks have been up to the same shit for as long as I can remember. All this wasted money and the city crying poor. Now THIS:http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Chicago.city.closed.2.1129409.html
I wonder how many city workers with families had to be laid off to cover this "fund"?
MY STREET HAS HAD A GIANT POTHOLE FOR OVER A YEAR AND LAURINO 39th SPENDS OUR MONEY ON A CAR LEASE!!!!! Cut the Aldercreatures in half we dont need them or want them they do nothing. Just crokes like her Daddy
And Cops still dont have a contract
We have potholes that are 2 years old and these blood suckers are spending our tax dollars on bottled water, American Express bills and car leases. Take the freaking L like the rest of us, slimeballs! Maybe you might begin to understand our frustration with the city that doesn't work.
Increasing aldermanic expense accounts is part of the mayor's plan to get the aldermen in the boat on the 2016 debt guarantee.
In October, the mayor is going to sign a guarantee making Chicago taxpayers the ultimate guarantor of whatever loss is incurred if (when) Chicago becomes the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Daley needs aldermen to provide him with political cover by agreeing to the guarantee. The doubling of aldermanic expense accounts, especially during these difficult economic times, is a flagrant wheel-greasing by the mayor.
Look for additional pot-sweetening by the mayor in the next two months. This is all part and parcel of getting things done the Chicago (Daley) way.
Vote
Them
All
Out.
By having only 25 aldermen, the taxpayers of Chicago use save even more money because there would only be 25 aldermatic "yards" where the ward equipment is kept. Just think, 25 less yard bosses, secretaries, supervisors, heating and maintenance costs cut in half, 25 real estate parcels possibly developed for profit or public use??? But Daley would never have that happen, all those patronage slaves would be lost.
This is how the mayor get the "50 thieves" to turn on each other whenever Lil Dick wants a "special project" to slide through! For example, the Childrens museum where aldermen always sided with the one alderman if he decided he did not want the project in his ward. The other 49 turned on him like "rabid dogs" secretly told they would lose their "food bowl" if they didn't go along with Lil Dick, the "all powerful Pritzkers" etc.! Burnham rolls in his grave everytime Daley destroy another one of his masterful plans from a century ago!
and some of you nitwits go out there and do work why? cuz your gutless and to worried about being on management or some goofy ass team. the city cont's to treat the police like this b/c of people like YOU!
Heres how we can save a few bucks. Let's all chip in and buy Maggie Daley driving lessions. Apparently she never learned to drive and has to have police officers (so called) drive her everywhere.
And all you idiots keep voting for all these people each election. Especially Daley cause he is Irish so he must be great.
Yes, and they voted for the city workers and Exempt members to take 15 days of NO PAY and they are not required to take 1 day! Yep, that is the truth. They voted and did not vote themselves as a part of this requirement.
This is a part time job that pays them over $100,000.00 a year with benefits and a budget! This is bullshit!
Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. (27th) paid his mother, Dorothy Burnett, nearly $20,000 and said it was for work in his ward office on issues related to seniors, public housing and human services.
"I have no problem helping my mother," Burnett said. "That's my mother. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be here. ... If I could get her Mayor Daley's job, I would get her Mayor Daley's job."
OH MY GOD. WHAT THE FUCK? SERIOUSLY? I CAN'T BELIEVE IT........IT'S CHICAGO. YES, I CAN.
I like that Lexus LS460 Bernie Stone has
Many spend the money on political consultants. So let me get this straight. I'm paying for these inept, crooked scallywags to get a leg up on being re-elected, when I wouldn't vote for them if they were running against Weis. Only in Chicago, where white-collar criminals are our largest export.
Although Chicago is known for its fine Lake Michigan tap water, half of the City Council members purchased bottled water of one type or another with expense money. Burnett spent more than $1,200 -- more than any other alderman.
He said he keeps a water cooler that dispenses both cold and hot water in both his City Hall and ward offices, in part as a convenience to constituents. Having the cooler also helps ensure the maximum work out of his staff, because they do not have to leave for coffee or tea, he said.
YOU CANNOT BULLSHIT A BULLSHITER!!!
The whole daley clan is nothing but garbage and pieces of sh%$.
What a sawed of little runt of a mayor !!!!
Wow, the Trib, very much like an Alzheimer patient on a brief flash of clarity, has probably taken it self off the Shortshanks Christmas card list.
But the big question is, does that clarity remain a fleeting moment or is the Trib now going to take a stance with a growing number of folks and put the light on the problem? It could actually boost their ratings, I'd like to think that they would just do what is right.
OT: Milwaukee mayor hit with a pipe while helping a woman. Not only did he do the right thing, but he didn't have his security detail with him because he was not there on official business. Care to comment on this one from your Michigan beach home, Mayor Daley? Yep. Didn't think so.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32438972/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001
This is not suprising to me one bit. I wrote to Doherty myself a few months ago asking about furlough days and he blatantly lied to me about taking any. I showed him the e-mail where he contended he did, and he said that was a bureaucratic paperwork error or something.
Right now he's attempting to deny that a group home is going in at Canfield and Devon - looks like him and one of his lackeys are trying to skirt zoning regulations to get it. Perhaps this is a halfway house or some other way of getting vermin into our neighborhood? If it was a home for retards, it wouldn't be so hush-hush.
DON'T TRUST ANY ALDERMEN!
OT- this could get interesting.
Milwaukee mayor wounded after being hit with pipe
The mayor, who did not ask for security to accompany him to the fair because he wasn't on official duty,
But our mayor takes his detail out of town!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-us-milwaukeemayor-at,0,6852799.story
plenty of waste in city spending
50 aldercreatures
hired truck
wrought iron fences
assistant commissioners
again no money for the police
Every single day or night, there is a police officer somewhere in this cesspool of a city who has helped/benefitted/saved/intervened/in an individual's life whom that officer has never seen before.
No publicity, no glory, just doing the job.
If any of these aldermen had any sense of fairness (or balls) you would think that one of them, just one, would speak up on our behalf. They are the most pompous, full of shit, cowardly, thieving, group of crooks ever assembled.
Great picture of Bernie getting out of his tax payer paid chauffered driven Lexus heading to another tough day at work. Yeah you are really important Bernie, what a great leader you've been. Chicago would be lost without you. GIVE IT UP- RETIRE- GO AWAY.
Clout investigations for admittance to UIC, now to CPS elite schools?
How about "CLOUT" hiring and promotions to every city Dept.???
Especially Police and Fire????
"CLOUT" has ruined the Police Dept. and the Fire Dept.!!!
Get rid of Mayor and 25 aldermen, hire a city manager to run this place like a business!!!
Anonymous said...
What are the license plate numbers on the vehicles that the "pigs" lease for themselves? Then we can FOIA the City to find out how many red light and parking citations they have non-suited on these vehicles!
Remember they are royality and as such the laws do not apply to them.
8/16/2009 06:41:00 AM
Alderman zalewski from the 23rd ward keeps leasing top of the line new caddy,s his palte low number how did he get that 851! It is always a white caddy,with pip daddy zalewski on the way to the nearest bar or riverboat1
Anonymous said...
Can someone explain who Ray D'Oronzo is? Alderman Zalewski pays this guy every month out of this bullshit fund. Can anyone enlighten me. Maybe we need to get to his office and ask?
8/16/2009 06:04:00 AM
He is the former S&S boss for the 23rd ward, who keeps his mouth shut about (Bug eyes) JR who is in charge of the archer and laramie city clerks office making 110K a year doing nothing!
Go to: www.ChicagoTribune.com/councilexpenses to see how each of the 50 thieves spent your money. Click on their names.
Criminals, and utter, total Thieves, and the Feds are No Better. Political Puppets who can' catch a cold if it's politically incorrect. Bunch of Pussies..
Cut ALL Aldermans Salaries by 50%, and remove their Expense Accounts, [illegally obtained, without the vote of the Taxpayers] immediately. Then, fork that money over to the Police for a raise. The Cops deserve it, the Aldermen and City politicians Don't....
These pricks have to use as much money up that is allotted to them so that they can ask for an increase the next time!!
From burkes expense accout paid for from our city money,
Employees Wages $17,000.00
Robert S Molaro
Marianne C Wolf-Astrauskas
Dec. 30, 2008 $17,000.00
Total: $17,000.00
Wow is this not the wife of his overpaid cpd driver?
1:16 PM
A message to you and the "midget" haters. The most decorated soldier in World War II was Audie Murphy who stood only 5'4" soaking wet.
Make no mistake. Daley is the consummate asshole that has demoralized the CPD. However, you lose all credibility by making ad hominem attacks about his short stature.
Attack him as being the amoral, thieving, corrupt, shameless piece of shit bully that he truly is.
Just remember: “I resent insinuendoes.” - Richard J. Daley the Elder. I bet those nasty "insinuendoes" piss off his kids too.
To the unpublished softball who can't seem to differentiate between what we write and what our commentators write, you really need to chill out.
We didn't write a single word that you attribute to us. You also managed to post your rant in the wrong thread, so we'll spare you the double embarrassment of publishing such an off-base and wrong-footed criticism.
So while you brush up on your reading skills, know that the only thing we loathe is the political structure that sends us and thousands of others out to fight crime with substandard equipment, training and backup. Come back when you cool off.
Marianne C Wolf-Astrauskas
Dec. 30, 2008 $17,000.00
Total: $17,000.00
Wow is this not the wife of his overpaid cpd driver?
BINGO!!
Poor Bernie Stone needs a lexus to go to work! He has to go Downtown!!! Oh my God!! You Poor thing! Does he really think we feel for him???? I go to work on the west side in a ten year old car, my a/c is broke & in the winter I hope @ 2am it will start!!! But as long as my money has Bernie and the rest driving nice cars (or having someone else drive them) I'll feel so much better!!!!!!!!!
mayor needs to secure those unanimous votes for certain upcoming events. and also a straying eye for certain bedfellows and family to gain profit in said endevure ie property leasing and selling. so obvious, why doesnt some go getter reporter hit this rotten egg with a sledge hammer already. it will guarantee a national spot.
FUCK YOU RICHARD DALEY
The FIBUNE FINALLY DID A NEWS STORY
Anonymous said...
Marianne C Wolf-Astrauskas
Dec. 30, 2008 $17,000.00
Total: $17,000.00
Wow is this not the wife of his overpaid cpd driver?
BINGO!!
8/16/2009 11:33:00 PM
wonder if they paid taxes on that $17K
"From burkes expense accout paid for from our city money,
Employees Wages $17,000.00
Robert S Molaro
Marianne C Wolf-Astrauskas
Dec. 30, 2008 $17,000.00
Total: $17,000.00
Wow is this not the wife of his overpaid cpd driver?"
Sure is his wife -- she also works full time at the Cultural Center. You would not be surprised how often she organizes "ward events" when Ed shows up.
chicago taxpayers=soon very soon.
Did you know that Maggie Daley has her own city staff.PR prople, advance people and yes her own Chgo Police detail.
No one picking up after the Air and Water Show and the fest in Edison Park?
The rats will have a feast by Tuesday when the collections start.
Great planning you mutts.
Most aldermen have their own consulting firm and the only account that they have is themselves. Also, most aldermen list their homes as their office so the mortgage is paid with this fund. Finally, most of them do not live in the city.
What is it with the aldermoronsleasing cars on the taxpayers' dime? Give them CTA passes so they can interact more with their communities!
Anonymous said...
Did you know that Maggie Daley has her own city staff.PR prople, advance people and yes her own Chgo Police detail.
8/17/2009 10:31:00 AM
And her detail detsests her bitching constantly but the weak stay and be abused for the big sgt pension plan!
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Marianne C Wolf-Astrauskas
Dec. 30, 2008 $17,000.00
Total: $17,000.00
Wow is this not the wife of his overpaid cpd driver?
BINGO!!
8/16/2009 11:33:00 PM
wonder if they paid taxes on that $17K
8/17/2009 06:40:00 AM
daley fired her from a cush job,and oily eddie found another way to enrich his drivers,valets treasure!
Anonymous said...
"From burkes expense accout paid for from our city money,
Employees Wages $17,000.00
Robert S Molaro
Marianne C Wolf-Astrauskas
Dec. 30, 2008 $17,000.00
Total: $17,000.00
Wow is this not the wife of his overpaid cpd driver?"
Sure is his wife -- she also works full time at the Cultural Center. You would not be surprised how often she organizes "ward events" when Ed shows up.
8/17/2009 07:53:00 AM
She was fired supposedly but did she get her job back plus the bonus? this moaro was the same guy who threw his wife under the bus years ago in a ghost payrolling scam that was covered in chicago magazine, and burke is giving him more money? typical cowrad throws wife and she gets federal probation!
Blah Blah Blah and nothing changes!
Molaro has been steppin' and fetchin' for Burke since he was a kid. Literally.
Daley needs aldermen to provide him with political cover by agreeing to the guarantee. The doubling of aldermanic expense accounts, especially during these difficult economic times, is a flagrant wheel-greasing by the mayor.
Look for additional pot-sweetening by the mayor in the next two months. This is all part and parcel of getting things done the Chicago (Daley) way.
8/16/2009 08:47:00 AM
True Dat!!! The tax-paying imbeciles of this city continue to vote in this pond scum. Daley giving more to the alderthieves so that they help him by "voting yay" to continue the Olympic Fraud Games. VOTE ALL OUT NOW!!!!!!!!
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