What is Shortshanks Up To?
Mayor Richard Daley today proposed expanding the powers of the city's inspector general to include investigating aldermen -- an idea long opposed by City Council -- as well as taking away the hiring oversight duties currently held by the mayor's compliance office.
The proposed ordinance, which Daley will introduce at Wednesday's council meeting, would be a dramatic shift in the power struggle between City Hall watchdogs.
The move was endorsed by Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, who while appointed by the mayor is considered more independent than the Daley administration's Office of Compliance.
Ald. Bernard Stone, 50th, said he opposes Daley's plan to give the inspector general the ability to investigate council. [...]
“If (Daley) wants to have (the inspector general) oversee hiring, that’s the executive branch and that’s OK with me,” Stone added. “The executive branch should not be able to oversee the legislative branch, because the executive branch can use it to blackmail the legislative branch. That’s the same thing J. Edgar Hoover did to Congress.”
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
76 Comments:
Why bother? the 50 sheep all follow the criminals every wish anyway! Nothing but 50 cowards with no spine who will never oppose their master1
Potholes, unplowed streets, parking meters leased to Middle Easterners, prisoners released to prey on the public again, criminals not prosecuted, taxes raised, bottled water taxed, services cut, deals cut, sanctuary city during a war on terrorism, closing Meig's Field illegally, unfunded pensions, nephew stealing pension money for real estate schemes, son inspecting sewers, buying hospitals for a failed Olympic bid, worst public schools in the nation.
This is the legacy of the Democrats in Chicago and Illinois. When's the election?
Olympic dream gone. Nothing to do but eat your young.
Considering the aldercreatures who have been caught and sentenced to the shithouse, it seems like a good idea. Those dickheads need to be put on a shorter leash.
Anonymous said...
You guys, Illinois passed a law that allows Peoples Gas and ComEd to charge those who pay their bills the expense of those who don't pay theirs. What is going on in this world? How can this be legal? Who voted on this?
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=32992
2/08/2010 09:21:00 PM
It's called communism. Welcome to the People's State of Chicago
*************TO SCC************
I have been waiting for divine intervention regarding Bill Cozzi, and did not realize that God had rowed the boat ashore, right up to our very own feet in the voice of Father Nangle.
I don't know why I didn't REALLY read it in the FOP December issue, but our chaplain wrote the following:
"I am always very angry and profoundly disgusted at what happened to him (meaning Bill Cozzi). I know what he did; frankly, that’s what police work looks like sometimes: physical, messy, emotion-charged and subject to endless analysys.
And frankly, I wonder what has happened to the power of 13,000 (more or less) police officers, that one of their own could be treated like this and there’s no demonstration of outrage other than the rants and support…on the internet."
Now if that isn't a sign, I don't know what is--we've got 10 days until the 18th.
I'm begging you to consider another post. Bill is our responsibility--all of ours. Let's show our support on the 18th. Father Nangle has so much as nudged us into action. He's probably shaking his head in amazement that nobody really picked up on his article. Thanks.
He is trying to portray himself as a clean man. He knows there is not a snowballs chance in hell that the city council would approve this nonsense.
stone is also worried about the fact that he lives out of the city against city of chicago employee rules------
The same thing happened in L.A. with the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac. It's like the Inspector Generals Office is giving respect to the west coast. The east coast doesn't understand and called Biggie in his limo. The next thing you know flavor flave shows up. Now things are getting very confusing.
Re-election.
Shorty is on the way out, or the Aldermen think he is.
The Aldermen are starting to get worried about something, maybe federal indictments. Daley wants another tool to control them and keep them in line.
Daley the reformer !!
Just as Obama is suddenly now trying to sound like a Republican, Daley wants to appear like a reformer. His plan is to probably throw a couple of his flunkie Alderman under the bus to feed the rage of the voters. They will be sent to a State Prison and immediately released by a Quinn early release program and collect fat retirement checks for the rest of their useless lives.
DALEY MUST GO !
OT
The Browns released the troubled wide receiver on Monday, wasting little time after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that Stallworth would be reinstated following the Super Bowl.
Stallworth was suspended for the 2009 season by Goodell after he pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Florida. He spent 24 days in jail.
Good thing he was a NFL player and not a policeman, more typical bullshit.
Stone is a pompous ass. I remember when Evanston didn't play ball with him back in the 90's when they built that strip mall on their side of Howard street. What does he do? He uses tax payers money to place a metal guard rail right down the middle of Howard street. It extended the length of the strip mall. This way, motorist could only exit traveling west on Howard.
His excuse was the mall would increase local traffic on the Chicago side streets. He stated that the people living around there didn't want the mall. I worked up there at the time and talked to some of those people and they were all in favor of that mall. I found no one who could tell me that Stone talked to them about it before he put up the barrier.
4 months later, again at tax payer expense, the barrier came down. That's because they found a novel way of insuring that traffic would not increase on the side streets. They made them all One-way emptying out onto Howard so no traffic from the mall could travel on them.
It's the old look at the right-hand while the left-hand takes your wallet ploy.
Keep the IG busy digging up dirt on the 50 thieves, the IG finds something, instant media fodder.
Ignore the man behind the curtain.
Anonymous said...
The same thing happened in L.A. with the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac. It's like the Inspector Generals Office is giving respect to the west coast. The east coast doesn't understand and called Biggie in his limo. The next thing you know flavor flave shows up. Now things are getting very confusing.
2/09/2010 02:50:00 AM
I was thinking the same thing.
At least glacé has a nice watch.
This is an easy one. Former IG Hoffman will be running against Daley in the next mayoral election. Daley is attempting to remove one of Hoffman's issues from the future campaign.
A phone call brought a rumor that there is a new award being developed called the 'headquarters service' award or something. It will be for anyone who has worked in hq, but the kicker is that there will be a 'special pin' like a star or something that will also be awarded if the person at hq also spends at least 14 days a year 'deployed' to the street.
Now Daley can say he's the reform mayor - he's behind the inspector general 100% Something tells me he feels Hoffman's footsteps nearby.
Who cares ? David Hoffman will be the Mayor in 2011 .
Off Topic
Anyone who lives on 1631 bt enjoy 3 project buildings 3601-3609 N Oconto. Five families of Kings from 26th street projects. Thanks section 8! Wear your baseball cap to left when you drive or walk by with your families you'll be fine.....
Ohh yeah... My block has more Sec 8 then yours: 3733 N olcott, 3838 Osceola, 3735 osceola, and the search wrt they just did 3716 olcott. Hey we're neighbors
Now if that isn't a sign, I don't know what is--we've got 10 days until the 18th.
I'm begging you to consider another post. Bill is our responsibility--all of ours. Let's show our support on the 18th. Father Nangle has so much as nudged us into action. He's probably shaking his head in amazement that nobody really picked up on his article. Thanks.
2/09/2010 01:08:00 AM
===
Is the hearing on the 18th HERE? And is it for appeal, or for relocating him?
He is trying to save his ass by handing over the ass of another!
This is "whiter Bulger" Daley's final dance and this IG idea is his way of getting the most votes he can , even from those who hate him! It is a sort of a sick "mea culpa" act to make the poor voters think he really does want change while whispering to his "50 Thieves," "don't worry it will be businesss as usual as soon as I can get this "schmuck IG" in my pocket! Daley hates this Shakman decree "crap" so he figures this will give him more "under the table" power to maneuver and hire friends and relative's kids and take care of all those who have stuck by him for the past 20+ years! Cal him what you want, but he and his "crew" are geniuses! The O'Lympics bid was to big for them to handle and out of their "control" (though everyone made some money and got to travel free,) so "Ali Baba Daley and the 50 Thieves" are returning to what they know best, "Chicago" style elections! The new and improved "Twenty First" Century Daley Machine! "Be afraid, be very afraid!"
"Now if that isn't a sign, I don't know what is--we've got 10 days until the 18th.
I'm begging you to consider another post. Bill is our responsibility--all of ours. Let's show our support on the 18th. Father Nangle has so much as nudged us into action. He's probably shaking his head in amazement that nobody really picked up on his article. Thanks.
2/09/2010 01:08:00 AM"
How about we collect 10,000 signatures on a petition, like we sign all the time to keep cop-killers in jail to release Bill Cozzi? Maybe Father Nangle can present them to the court himself.
Maybe we should imply, if not spell out that this is a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in Jody Weis.
Ideally, Bill gets a full pardon so he can get his job back and Jody resigns and takes Masters and Brust with him.
Stay safe, like the man says, we've got 10 days until the 18th.
Da Mayo is doing this because he knows Hynes is going to run against him. Hynes was going to announce this type of reform as part of his platform. Da Mayo heard about it and decided to get the jump on him to get those libral lakefront votes back! That is why Hynes declined the Lt. Gov spot. Like him or not a change from Da Mayo is needed and whoever can knock him out can have the spot for 4 years then vote him out. Then maybe Demoracry can return to Chicago!
This is just another way for him to "look" like he's doing something to clean house but he's really putting the thumbscrews to the aldercreatures. Underlying message to aldercreatures? "Keep voting in line with me or i'll set the dogs [inspector general] on you." pretty transparent, actually.
he s just trying to be ''above it all''. its really just bullshit spin damage control 101. lets hope that the sheeple that vote has a memeory span of more than 1 hour. i wonder if the aldermorons will buy into this? and give themselves a standing ovation.
OT...but somebody please save us from Henny Penny. Our station is falling apart (leaky pipes, no working computers, filth everywhere) and she had a sergeant on days paint her office for her. Fuck all the POs...as long as HER office is nice and pretty. There is a list of other new stunts she's pulled but I don't want to bust anyone out. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE send her back to where she came from. We'd be better off with Chief Wigam any day!
He doesnt need the alderman anymore. He knows hes a shoe in for next election, and this move is just covering his tracks to make sure by showing the public that hes "fighting" corruption. The only reason to be Mayor anymore is to feed his ego. Hes already sold the citys most valuable cash cows being the Skyway and the meters.And stole who knows how much through bad deals and payoffs. All of his crew have made hundereds of millions at taxpayer expense. He will die in office. The voters vote the way they are told. Look at the idiots that voted for Cohen. Just because the machine pushed him.
This way the council will shoot it down and he can play reformer.
Daley knows the aldercreatures will never vote in favor of this ordinance.
Bernie Stone should be investigated. He is old school all the way and will be replaced in the next election. VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT
Off topic: Word is, McCotter didn't leave the Job willingly.
WEISel/Masters wanted somebody's
head for "Phillygate." Initially it was to be Gross, but Aunt Bea spoke up for him ('he's got small kids, don't demote him!'). It was decided by W/M that McCotter would have to go, which he did. Another decent boss gets tossed aside, while the actual asshole who snapped the notorious pix gets to hang onto the WEISel's short hairs.
I will march for Cozzi if someone organizes it. Let's stop writing about it on the blog and someone get it organized. Contract/Cozzi Rally 2010! Get the ball rolling SCC. All it takes is someone to organize it.
OT. WGN reports that Patrick 'Bat' Daley has been activated. I guess the Army needs a Russian speaking bagman.
Comed and Peoples Gas makes hard working citizens pay for their service stolen by criminals.
When criminals attached wires to our meters where I live on 16th and Central Park, Comed refused to refund the money we paid for power going to the abandoned building next door where stalkers hid in and lived illegally and then when someone bought the building and the remodeling crew used the power, stolen power to repair the building.
I had to catch the meter reader and show him the wires stealing power after Comed repeatedly refused to come out and investigate.
By the way, got no response from Quinn when I emailed him about the situation.
Patrick Daley redeployed by Army to undisclosed location
OK HE'S GOT A TWO YEAR RESERVE OBLIGATION!
BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A IN-ACTIVE RESERVE ENLISTED, WITH A NON-CRITICAL MOS ( JOB ) BEING RECALLED.
SO I CALL B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T !!!!!!!
Is junior talking to the G-MAN ??????
Is Mayor Richard the lessor about to announce he ain't gonna make MAYOR a life time job !!!!
I'm sayin
I'm calling the The Mayor gone by years end and many alder-thieves askin for a continuance on their next court date.
only time will tell !!!!
kind of funny that the leader of the free world ( obama ) is makin alot of moves to counter the up-coming trial of ROD BLAGO.
Could it possibly have anything to do with Ike's snitching? Does Richie know of more alderman that are going down soon? Maybe by putting this into place now he'll have something to tell the press when 4 or 5 get scooped up by the feds in the coming weeks/months. He'll look like he's been doing something about the corruption before the indictments came down.
OT ***Breaking News***
Mayor Daley's Son Called Back To Army Duty
Mayor Richard Daley today said that his son, Patrick, has been called back to active duty in the U.S. Army.
"He's been redeployed, and so he will serve his country just like every other son and daughter of this country who does the same thing," Daley said.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st
/2010/02/mayor-daleys-son-called-back-to-army-duty.html
OT--BILL COZZI
From what I understand after talking to a couple of people, Bill is really having a rough time in LA. I don't need to say anymore than there are a lot of Aryan gangs in that hellhole. They don't like him.
PLEASE WRITE TO HIM--WE ARE THE ONLY LIFELINE HE'S GOT.
DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'VE NEVER MET HIM--I HAVEN'T & I WRITE ALL THE TIME. He looks forward to cards and letters.
He could not watch the superbowl as it is dangerous for him to be mingling with the other prisoners. He keeps to himself.
Please pick up a card, drop a few lines. It doesn't have to be long. Just tell him to hang in there.
Bill's address is on the front page of the blog.
Thanks.
NO ONE is actually going to watch aldermen, let alone legitimately pursue charging, terminating, imprisoning and obtaining restitution from them should they ever be "investigated", charged and convicted by the City's I.G. Those with clout and those who owe their very existence to generations of "favor swapping" will do exactly as they're told and play the game as scripted by the powers-that-be.
Every time the Feds "nail" an aldercreature, it's all for show, rarely resulting in substantial punishment for the thieves who are WAY ahead of the game when they finally get pinched. Catching the occasional little fish merely serves as a media-fueled distraction to the bigger goings-on in the Democratic fish tank. It accomplishes exactly what the bigger fish want - the distraction and sating of a constantly-increasing educated voting populace.
Who does Daley think he's bullshitting? More smoke and mirrors from the 5th floor, brought to you by a desperate career criminal who's slowly running out of options.
http://www.isra.org/
HB 180
Daley,ISP and The Chicago CAGE Unit
you guys are really pissing up the wrong Fuckin tree.
"LEAVE MY SECOND AMENDMENTS ALONE!"
Old Retired Guy Here. Just Searching For A Cause. Whats Suppose To Happen On The 18th. ??
Count Me In.
It will not happen and if it does it will ineffective.
Well, for all who believe we're really operating under Federal order, this would seem logical. The Feds told him to do it, or else.
From Clout Street this afternoon:
"The Cook County Board today approved a short-term borrowing plan to cover $104 million its owes to the employee pension fund.
If accepted by the pension board, the county would pay $108 million --- the amount it owed the pension fund, plus 2.75 percent interest, said Laura Lechowicz Felicione, the county attorney who has been negotiating with the pension board. The original pension payment was due in December 2008.
The county will use $30.4 million it has on hand and take and take out a three-year loan for the rest of the payment. Once paid off in 2013, Felicione said the county will have paid about $112 million to cover the original debt of $104 million, meaning the cost for the late payment is about $8 million."
So, how well-funded are WE?
OT but What is Daley's son doing living in Moscow?
Shit is hitting the fan! Patrick Daley is going back on Active Duty.
Why is Patrick Daley going back into the US Army???
Something breaking!
Can these Politicians please clean up their ILLEGALLY posted campaign signs?
The City of Chicago is awash in ILLEGALLY posted campaign signs.
Time for the media to do a segment on this horrendously ugly thrash. John Kass, Mary Mitchell, Pam Zekman here is a freebie.
Once again, NO ACCOUNTABILITY!!!
The angle is simple , he just telegraphed his punch. He is seriously thinking of running for mayor again. He wants to be able to say that he tried to clean up government, but was rebuffed by the city counsel. Most plots by deranged people are short sighted and he has people whispering in his ear that he is a "shoe-in" for mayor if he wants it. His tactics should enrage the citizens of shitcago. Again, we see many citizens in our travels around the city, for the fuck of it ask them if they would vote daley back in. Ghetto dogs,suits in the loop,hispanics at humbolt,mex's in 01-025, arabs and jews in 017, gays in 023,polocks on Milwaukee,indus on devon... eveybody wants him OUT,OUT,OUT. Nothing can save his ass.
Daley is getting worried that David Hoffman, a viable mayoral candidate, may run against him and actually win. Everyone was telling Hoffman that he was running for the wrong office.
don't trust the liberal elite arrogant democ-RAT politicians of Crookago. They try to change their spots from time to time, but like Leopards, they can't. They do realize that they are losing political steam from gross mismanagement of the Taxpayers dollars, faster than a leaky Hindenburg, so now they will go into their deeper-than- usual bullshit routine, to try to convince the taxpaying public that they are not responsible for the city's astronomical problems, although they surely 100% are, completely. Daley has a fiefdom, where nobody can do anything without his blessing, so He is fully 100% responsible, nobody else is to blame but him.
Anonymous said...
You guys, Illinois passed a law that allows Peoples Gas and ComEd to charge those who pay their bills the expense of those who don't pay theirs. What is going on in this world? How can this be legal? Who voted on this?
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=32992
2/08/2010 09:21:00 PM
It's called communism. Welcome to the People's State of Chicago
AGREED, Crookago has been Communist for decades now...
Off Topic
Anyone who lives on 1631 bt enjoy 3 project buildings 3601-3609 N Oconto. Five families of Kings from 26th street projects. Thanks section 8! Wear your baseball cap to left when you drive or walk by with your families you'll be fine.....
WTF!!!! 5 families..... These landlords will soon learn how fast there buildings go to shit. I live up there was just wondering Where are other section 8 buildings in 1631 beat so I can avoid walking by with my family. Last thing I want to see is that shit on my days off. Anyone chime in.
Who the fuck would believe this? Come on! Before Daley's, "talk to the dummies" press conference there is no doubt he talked to the "rubber stampers" aka city council, about how it's just smoke and mirrors and the many secret loop holes they have if the fake IG catches them. People need to realize that as long as the KING OF CORRUPTION IS DICTATOR, anything can be hidden or fixed. It's the chicago way!
There allegedly was a $5,000 mink coat stolen from, Democratic Lt Governor Scott Lee Cohen's Victory Party, last Tuesday night.
Note to A3PC
With a bunch of DemocRats in the room...
It could have been stolen by ANYBODY. :)
Does anyone see the timing in this move now DaMare decides he wants this particular inspector general to have more power.Why didn't he enact this when Hoffman was running the office?!He is the INSIDE man for the Feds.
There is a facebook page for Bill. Free Bill Cozzi I think. I found it w/no problem.
The hearing is at the Dirksen Fed. bldg, 18 Feb 10, 0900 or 0930 hours.
Hopefully something will be listed on the Facebook page.
Pray. And show up.
FOP needs to do something for the 18th. Even Fr. Nangle is behind us on this, big time.
Anonymous said...
Shit is hitting the fan! Patrick Daley is going back on Active Duty.
2/09/2010 05:05:00 PM
Think maybe either that or being subpeonaed in federal court for his part in the daley crime family episodes?
FOP BACKED O'BRIEN AND THEY WILL BACK DALEY IF HE RUNS AGAIN.
I OFTEN READ THESE POST AND LAUGH OUT HOW OUT GOING SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY ARE.
IF UR COMMANDER TOLD U TO RIGHT 100 PARKERS A WEEK AND THREATENS TO DUMP U TO A LATE CAR OR MIDNITES A majority of people WOULD DO IT.
BUT TIME AFTER TIME PEOPLE CALL FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO PUT THEIR NECKS OUT. WHEN I WAS OUT AND ABOUT ON ELECTION DAY I NOTICED SOME PLUMBER AND OTHER UNION TYPES BACKING CANIDATES.
I DIDNT SEE ANY F.O.P JACKETS OR MEMBERS BACKING ANYONE JUST ALOT OF JAW-JACKING. SOME OF U ARE EVEN SCARED TO PUT AN OPPONENTS SIGNS ON UR LAWN!
SO STICK TO THE RAW-RAW-RAW FOR THE SUPERBOWL.
How bout it???
President Todd Stroger did it 3 years ago. Hired an Independent Inspector General who for the first time was able to investigate everyone
INCLUDING COOK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS INCLUDING FORREST CLAYPOOL!!!!!!!!!
go figure.................
"These landlords will soon learn how fast there buildings go to shit. I live up there was just wondering Where are other section 8 buildings in 1631 beat so I can avoid walking by with my family."
When you have Eastern Bloc Eurotrash as absentee Landlords this is what happens. "I need my rents paid so I can drive my Mercedes to Jedyenka Nightclub"
Daley gets the IG to look into the aldermen and report back to him with what they found. He then owns them. They either do his bidding or the file gets sent over to the media and/or the Feds. He tells them "As long as you vote my way, your sins are secret. Step out of line and the man comes to take you away."
OT...but somebody please save us from Henny Penny. Our station is falling apart (leaky pipes, no working computers, filth everywhere) and she had a sergeant on days paint her office for her. Fuck all the POs...as long as HER office is nice and pretty. There is a list of other new stunts she's pulled but I don't want to bust anyone out. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE send her back to where she came from. We'd be better off with Chief Wigam any day!
2/09/2010 11:24:00 AM
----
Drop a dime to the painters/plasterer's union folks. They don't like this kind of thing. I mean, they REALLY don't like it. She's an idiot.
Section 8 landlords are WHORES for putting these ghetto shit-dogs in 022, 016 and elsewhere. Keep the ghetto heads where they belong, not among the working class. The POLICE CAN TURN UP THE HEAT by subjecting these f*cking dogs to lots and lots of car stops, gun and dope searchs, etc. Dont let them get too comfy where they dont belong.
Young, energetic, want to rack up some numbers ? Here is your golden opportunity ! Sorry for the rant.
All you police living on 1631 beat, why don't you fend for yourself, fucking coppers are the laziest when it comes time to taking care of your own well being. Start calling all available city resources, like buildings, health, street n san, grass to high complain, there ways to get em out, just don't rely on others to do ur bitching
The IGs office investigating city corruption is like the Waffen SS investigating concentration camps.
Yeah, like any of the "50 Thieves" read even one page of this "SCAM!" What about Eddie "Im a Lawyer" Burke? "I don't know nuttin!" Its a "50" Ringed Circus! Vote yes and shut up! Its gonna make us a billion + plus so "raise your hand and shut up! Then "Whitey Bulger" Daley can "splain to us" how bad he feels about this and how he'll make it up to all of us and read us a bedtime story and forgive "one ticket" for anyone that was "wronged!" "Geez mister mayor you sure is one swell guy!"
While I think this is an excellent idea I think an even better idea is to have someone who investigates Ritchie himself. How would Ritchie handle being "scrootened"(Daley speak)
Come on Ritchie what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Both sides of Richie's lips speak only in tandem
Saying two things at once, but never at random.
Investigate my pets! He says from the right.
From the left side he tells his pets to sit tight.
No need to reform! The public, we'll scam them!
As for the watchdogs, we'll harass them and damn them!
A Honk By Dr. Goose
OT:
I keep hearing that Maurita Gavin, who works for Brian Doherty in the 41st ward, may be the next alderman if he wins or steps down. She's well liked, capable, and has lots of friends and family in the ward to support her. Has anyone else heard this?
I.C. parishioner
"...Hes already sold the citys most valuable cash cows being the Skyway and the meters..."
Just watch, he will try and sell the Water Department and our Museums like the Art Institute and Science and Industry. Their prices will go like the parking meters did.
He has got to be stopped!
Fuck all the POs...as long as HER office is nice and pretty.
-------------------------------
The sups at O'Hare are the same way. One Tony Soprano wannabe took over half a trade shop to create an office for himself and a couple of ninety proof Irish foremen.
Big office with mindless fucks inside.
Burp......
Post a Comment
<< Home