Interesting Rumor
We have no idea how to track this one down, but it would explain a lot about Shortshank's attitude:
- The sad thing is is that the Mayor is slowly but surely downsizing our department. Now, with drops in stats, this justifies him not hiring any more police or moving forward to do anything for us. This is the most important thing; the Mayor is not worried about us because he spent well over $1 million dollars for a firm to verify how many registered voters were from CPD. They also looked for the historical voting numbers. Guess what, less than 1 out of every 4 police officers of any rank are registered voters. Less than that voted in the last two Mayoral elections. This is fact! So why would he really care what you think?
We had never heard this one before, and we hear a lot of rumors because of where we're at. We asked around yesterday and we were unpleasantly surprised to discover this person might be onto something - 4 of the 7 cops we asked weren't even registered to vote. Have our readers discovered one of the root causes of why Shortshanks treats us with such disregard?
Labels: rumors
posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
107 Comments:
that's just terrible. if this is true. we are a joke.
THATS WHAT MY GRANDPARENTS SAID WHEN I TOOK THE JOB!GOTTA REGISTER TO VOTE !I GUESS THEY WERE RIGHT!ITS TIME FOR ALL CITY WORKERS TO REGISTER AND GO OUT AND VOTE!!
They don't even vote in the FLOP Elections & The Ballot is even mailed to them!! What makes you think they'd bother to register, "they gots dere side job so dazes too damn busy to vote"
I would have put the number at 1 in 10.
Appalling,but not surprising...
downsize the department-- ok--- when the lawyer gets stuck up and he has to wait for three hours for the paper car to show up he may be a little pissed--- the offender is long gone and the 6000 dollars a year he is paying in property taxes is a bad investment--- just like the federal government requires a warning on a pack of smokes that smoking is hazardous to your health and may cause cancer the city should hand out notices that living in chicago may be hazardous to your health and may result in your premature death.....
Unfortunately, SCC, while I agree that Daley must be out of office, the political thing as a whole has become such a disgrace. No longer does the (2) party system work. These people are not on our sides. They were meant to work together for bettering the common man. Instead, they fight like 5th graders.
A lot of Americans are disheartened. Shortshanks is just a small part of the problem.
Lots of coppers with big mouths running, but who are too scared or too lazy to vote.
Sorry ass bastards that betray their co-workers by undermining our political strength.
Vote Conservative!
I'm stunned ANY of us feels we can afford to sit on the sidelines and NOT register to vote.
And I am sickened to think this mayor, who bitches that every nickel counts, would spend appalling amounts of money on a study of this nature.
But, then again, if we're so insignificant (right, SCC?) why does he feel the need to squander the obscene amount of a million dollars to find out if we're registered and what affiliation we claimed?
SCC,
If this is true then we deserve to get it proverbially pounded in.
They'll all be voting in the next election. Let him underestimate us once again!
Blue Party Ticket.
anything less won't cut it.
The writing is already on the wall. Why do you think everyone is being taser trained? And everyone will be m4 qualified. 99 units will be the rule not the exception.
As the "Pig"-guy poster stated in another thread, we have no one but ourselves to blame for our shitty treatment, work conditions, vehicles, equipment etcetera.
Likewise, if the percentage of coppers not even registered to vote is true, than shame on those coppers. By not voting, you are tacitly allowing your ass-raping by Daley and the City of Chicago to continue.
Like many, I hope for stellar decisions/awards once the contract is settled; but being a pessimistic realist I also anticipate, with great eagerness, the long faces, the mother-fuckering and the endless variations/declarations of "fuck it! I'm done working!" should Arbitrator Benn award less than what "is fair".
It's then that us guys and gals with time on the job will again try to school the hairgel generation about the non-reciprocal nature of the mayor, city, job and citizenry when it comes to fair compensation and equal treatment. Us old timers will again reiterate how the aforementioned pimps don't give a damn about the CPD, and in particular the dwindling number of patrolmen.
Unfortunately, advice from those that have "been there, done that" won't be absorbed by enough of us to make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
This topic was covered at length at the January FOP meeting. There was a deep concern and, to be quite honest, a great deal of shame in exposing the fact that so little number of officers actually step up to the plate and vote. Lord knows they love to come to places like this to bitch and moan in droves, but they won't take the time to head to the polls twice a year.
I hope this posting wakes the masses. We have a dynamite opportunity to make a difference in this town. Let's get to it. The FOP said they would have dates in the near future to have voter registration at the hall,contact them to find out when.
Great. Just friggen great. We are just digging ourselves into being privatized next. Laugh. Something overheard from a good source is that the police department, yes Virginia, our CPD is going to be privatized. Lot of changes ahead. And its going to take a lot of people by surprise. Don't say I told you so.
Once again, we are our own worst enemy.
We'll sit there and whine & cry, but when it comes to actually DOING SOMETHING (like go to an FOP meeting, go vote, picket at city hall, vote in the FOP election), it's "Huh?" or "Who, me?", just like the geniuses on my last street stop.
We've ALL got important things going on in our lives; family, personal activities, etc., but you can't just sit there, in a squad car, at roll call or behind a computer screen bitching and expecting someone else to carry the weight for you.
You have to decide what's important in the long run and you might have to make short-term sacrifices in order to achieve those things.
Daley is an asshole, no doubt about it, but one thing he (or his handlers) understand is the election process, particularly the crooked one in Cook County. Hell, years ago it was rumored that he keeps tabs on how many vote in the FOP election. I'll be that's a pretty good guide as to how many bother to vote in local or perhaps even national elections.
There's still time to register for Daley's next election, and he will run; he's got to make enough crooked deals to cover for his Olympic failure.
What would he think if suddenly a boat-load of cops simply registered to vote? How about if we all actually voted?
And to the guy with the short attention span from another thread: Sorry this posting is so long.
So sad if true. Convicted felons CAN'T vote. Why put yourself in the same bag as them. I consider my right to vote one of my greatest rights. REGISTER!!! Don't bitch if you don't vote!
Sorry...I'm up w/a cranky baby, so I'm a little cranky too:)
if that number is true its a damn shame. those none voters should be ashamed & embarrased. regardless of who they would vote for;
VOTE. in some parts of the world they risk death to vote.
I've ben say this since this Blog Started
for YEARS NOW!!
Make them FEAR US!
Register and VOTE!!
Do they count how many voted in the Republican Primary.
Let's see, if the city knows your name, knows where you live, knows you work for the city, and is keeping tabs on how it's employees vote....sounds like a FIRST AMENDMENT VOLATION to me.
50 to start academy April 1st. Power test March 27th. Not rumor. Fact.
You guys could swing the next election---do you really hate him? Or do you secretly love him? Prove it by VOTING.
FIND AN HONEST, QUALIFIED CANIDATE, NOT CONNECTED TO THE MACHINE, AND THAT'LL CHANGE.
Sad but true. This was alluded to at a recent FOP meeting but not made public because of the embarassment to the members it will surely bring.
I fear those who complain the loudest do not even vote in elections. Less than 35% even bother to return a pre-paid envelope for FOP elections yet are very loud to curse the FOP.
As a group police officers are all talk when it comes to politics. Dump Daley? Not a chance with the pitiful number of registered voters among police ranks.
Daley knows how to read the numbers before an election. He knows police are NOT a political force to be reckoned with. Our own sad fault.
If you don't vote you can't bitch simple as that! Weather your guy wins or not no vote no bitch! If this is true shame on you coppers,wtf how can people blog about uniting on 1 candidate but not even vote? hypocritical don't you think?
Can someone set up voter registrations at districts across the city?
OT: http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/2089329,CST-NWS-stein08.article
What a two-faced dick Steinberg is. Do NOT trust the media.
I only voted once between 18-31. After I bought property I registered and have voted in every election, local and national since. It only takes a few minutes of your day and now with early voting you really don't have an excuse.
If you don't vote, you don't count. Period. You work for the City. You are part and parcel of a political empire. As distasteful as it might be to you, you'll never have any muscle unless you participate. The "interesting rumor", if true, demonstrates that quite clearly.
As an aside, I have to wonder if this Mayoral inquiry may be related to the growing power and reach of this blog. A lot of opinions here, but, it appears, no threat of any real damage.
I love ya, but you guys need to wake up. Maybe Northside can talk some sense into you.
---not a cop
Hey Goofballs, by NOT voting you are empowering this idiot Mayor to do whatever he wants!
Get out and VOTE!
That's what the reverends do to their flocks! The reverends make their people vote and give them incentives to vote like food drives and such! I have seen this first hand at a Westside church!
Remember Ike Carothers! Everyone in the congregation got free turkeys just like what the Gangsta Frank Lucas did in American Gangster!
A very simple but very effective tactic to get their peoples votes! These people voted with their stomachs and NOT politics!
Daley does the same thing by pandering to these fools and thus they get what they want and in turn Daley gets their votes! This kind of garbage is what we are up against and must be broken by voting against Mayor Daley at all times!
If you are not registered to vote you are a hump!
People around the world die trying to get the right to vote!
Many good men and women have died achieving and defending our right to vote.
Get off your ass, register and vote!
This is a topic that needs to be addressed and taken seriously. The only way that were going to change anything is to vote and inform others, ie. Family, friends ect., who to vote for. Change will only come when many get invollved. And we have many
Years ago, when Jane Byrne was seizing power from the machines' Michael Bilandic, she did so with the endorsement and assist of the Chicago police officers because she promised to allow us to unionize. We, as a profession, were very organized and political in those days, because of how Mayor Daley Sr. just f*cked us around, year after year, on wages and benefits.
Our problem was, Old Man Daley two faced and backstabbed us all back then. He used the old divide and conquer strategy to keep us weak.
Before we could unionize, we had several police "social clubs" that existed. There was the Chicago Patrolman's Association (CPA), the Confederation of Police (COP), FOP and the Combined Counties Police Association (CCPA), all of whom were politically active and claimed to have large numbers of Chicago cops in their membership. That served Daley well. Each year, he would meet with the head of each organization and discuss wage and benefit issues with them. At the end of the meetings, he would put his arm around their shoulder and say I like you and your group and those OTHER groups suck and I think you and I can really do a good job for your members. But make sure you go back and tell your people to vote for me so I can get you all the things we talked about.
So, each guy would go back to his group and tell them that the Mayor liked THEM the best and if they all voted for the Mayor's favorite candidates, they would be taken care of. Problem was he lied!
Back then, it was estimated that each PO was able to control as many as a hundred votes between their friends and family and their family's friends. That political power was feared and Daley felt if we were ever able to unionize, we would become WAY TOO powerful and uncontrollable for him, which is why he never let it happen.
When we did unionize under Byrne, WE DID become a power to be courted and schmoozed. Unfortunately, it sounds like it has created a complacency that has removed our balls as individual voters.
Never underestimate the power of corrupt politicians!
Forbes released 20 most miserable cities by photo. Chicago ranked number 10. The photo representing Chicago was that of Obama. Hilarious!
The issue of CPD officers not being registered to vote was addressed by Donahue at the Jan FOP mtg and based on his reaction this may very well be true. Please contact him and he will inform you. As Bill Nolan would say ENJOY YOUR RETRO CHECK
Shame on you SCC, I wrote a scathing post to one of your threads slamming the CPD for our voting habits. This is your blog and you didn't put my post up.
My post was dead on. The CPD when it votes goes hand in hand with the democratic party. The CPD are sheep just like the rest of the brain dead in this city and county. The CPD talk big but its just talk.
The fact of the matter is that most of the CPD aren't even registered to vote. The CPD and their family aren't registered because of jury duty (a quick change to Dls and state IDs would be a nice wake up call). That is the lameness of the CPD. I don't want my spouse on a jury so I don't register to vote.
I work on a team of 10 people plus a Sgt. I along with one other person on my team voted in the February primary. That is PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the contract is settled and we get 0% for the three years we have been without a contract I will laugh. That is what we get when we don't VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back then, it was estimated that each PO was able to control as many as a hundred votes between their friends and family and their family's friends. That political power was feared and Daley felt if we were ever able to unionize, we would become WAY TOO powerful and uncontrollable for him, which is why he never let it happen.
3/08/2010 07:46:00 AM
Mary and Densey are a good example. Look at how cops got the word out and what the result was.
The wee one would crap his pants if there were an avalanche of registrations now wouldn't he?
And aren't a lot of you guys veterans? Haven't you seen first hand what happens when people aren't allowed to vote?
Sorry, but I'm passionate about voting. And I would love to see an upset in the next election.
http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/registertovote/pages/default.aspx
C'mon, get off your ass.
Make time.
---not a cop
We don't need no stinking turkeys. Vote because it's the right thing to do.
That is one shameful stat.
Maybe that's why Mount Greenwood gets shit service from Rugai. Nobody votes.
I'm just sayin'
Chicago Police officers have always been divided when it comes to work issues. The FOP was a social organization based in Area 4 Homicide when I was there. John Dineen worked there and ended up as president. No one thought the FOP would win the election or subsequent run-off during the Byrne years. Even they were surprised. It is funny how all of the former FOP presidents and some of the officers end up with very good jobs in govt. or the private sector when they leave the FOP.Very strange. Maybe it is their talents? A united police and fire voting block would turn heads in this city, as it does in NY.The low FOP voting turn out speaks volumes and I am sure city hall hears it loud and clear. You can bitch all you want in this blog or at roll call, but if you do not turn out and protest or to vote, city hall could care less what you say or think.
How do you think the Irish went from impoverished immigrants to electing the first Catholic president in two generations?
0746 am
Thank you. Well said. Officers take heed from history.
Sure shorty got 80% of the vote last time he ran, but only 30% of the registered voters voted. That works out to about 24% of all registered voters voting for shorty.
If just Police Officers and Firefighters voted against this pud, it would be a significant vote against him. Now imagine if we all got friends and family to vote against shorty. He would be stuttering all the way to the unemployment line.
Vote against him now and get rid of him before he brings "patty the bat" back from overseas to take his place. If he looses the primary he can't pull a stroger and step down in favor of his son. Don't say he couldn't try it.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Too many officers on this department deserve nothing. And, unfortunately for the rest of us, nothing is exactly what we are going to get.
3/08/2010 07:30:00 AM=
Thank you for your post-I second your comments.
It is ironic that that Rah Rah-I'm a Real American police can't be bothered to vote. Jerks.
How many people died for your right to vote? In central American countries - poor people walk for 2-4 days to vote in their elections and you can't be bothered?
To make it worse-the laws have changed so you can do early voting or absentee voting if you're too busy on election day to vote.
Don't bitch about how bad 'government' is or how the Dumborats are running things if you are toooooo lazy to register and vote.
There are judges out there who have let cop killers go free. There are judges who routinely let offenders go free when charged with Agg Batt to a police officer. There are lawyers out there running for judge, who have fostered lies about police officers to help murderers and thieves.
And what do you do about it?
Nothing. You won't even get off your ass and cast one vote against them.
You deserve the city where you live.
All officers not registered to vote should be called out by name on this blog.
It is sad to see an organization such as the CPD not believe in themselves. I have seen you place yourselves in harms way for the citizens of this city. Your mayor does not care about you because you don't care about yourselves. If daley felt that your oganization was crucial to his relection he would be going to every district and area shaking hands asking for your vote.
As one person your voice is not heard, but as a whole the fifth floor would shake. I hope that this message finds it's way to all of you. Once again I have seen the great things you do everyday. Come together and do something great for yourselves, the citizens, and your children. This guy is digging us into such a hole that our children are going to feel the pain this jerk has caused our once great city.
GET OUT AND VOTE AGAINST HIM AND MAKE SURE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS DO THE SAME!!!!!!!
A Citizen who thanks you for what you do! Please becareful I know there is not enough of you out there.
Hey guys and gals, did you see the pics of Iraqis leaving the polls with purple fingers? They risked their lives to vote this weekend.
PLEASE REGISTER AND VOTE!
1. you have too much stake in the results to skip the process.
2. even shortshanks can be vulnerable if 13,000 citizens in blue take part in the election and support the other candidate.
3. 41st & 19th wards: we can overcome!
sarge
3/08/2010 07:46:00 AM
I knew Jack Hawkinson who was head of the Confederation of Police. A good man who just couldn't get past the Mayor's BS. Same with Joe Pecoraro at CPA and John Flood with Combined Counties. Daley had these groups polarized against each other, which is why FOP won the election when we finally unionized.
The coppers weren't sure they trusted the Teamsters due to their corrupt and, some say, criminal history. Plus, they never cared about the police for one second until it looked like they could make money off us by unionizing us.
Combined Counties didn't stand a chance because they didn't represent Chicago coppers exclusively.
The COP wanted an AFL-CIO union affiliation but due to time constraints and existing rules, could only muster an association with the local Paper Hangers union before the union certification vote.
When the election was over, the least radical, most conservative and most fraternal of the organizations was the winning representative of our profession here in Chicago... The FOP.
Though nothing much has changed over the years regarding the toughness of the FOP, they have been instrumental in ushering in HUGE changes for police officers that dinosaurs like me would never have imagined 30 to 40 years ago!
With early voting, there is absolutely no excuse. For the primaries, there was a nearly 3 week period in January where you could vote at 50 locations across the city (1 in each ward, don't have to go to your own), 9-5, everyday except Sunday, 3 locations (1 north, 1 south, 1 loop) open Sunday.
For those in Beverly/Morgan, one of the locations is the 22nd district.
Get off your asses, get registered. If not by November, by February so you can vote again shorty
This look to me like a great opportunity for SCC to start a crusade for cop voter registration!
Do it, SCC! You've got the power.
Just reading about it will make Shortshanks worry . . . .
Anonymous said...
So sad if true. Convicted felons CAN'T vote. Why put yourself in the same bag as them. I consider my right to vote one of my greatest rights. REGISTER!!! Don't bitch if you don't vote!
Sorry...I'm up w/a cranky baby, so I'm a little cranky too:)
3/08/2010 04:09:00 AM
Uhhhh, WRONG! Convicted felons do vote. I checked on that years ago. True, they were banned a long time ago, but they changed that rule so to crooked politicians can get their appointed offices. If they couldn't vote, then more than half of these politicians couldn't hold offices.
It's one of our greatest freedoms and most powerful. Without your participation, things will never change.
We certainly bitch up a storm when things don't go our way, ie; no contract, but we don't exercise our powers in the form of a vote. That's on each and every one of us.
Shortshanks will remain in power unless we start to act upon our Constitutional and God given rights. Register to vote and vote your conscience! Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
If you are not sure that you are registered, go to this site www.canivote.org
Just follow the instructions and they will tell you if you are registered. If you are, they will list all the info that normally goes on your voters registration card.
The site also tells you what I.D.'s are accepted to present when you go to vote.
Common guys and gals, this part can be done from the comfort of your home. We HAVE to get more P.O.'s involved for the upcoming general election.
Da Mayo is very concerned he has lost the support of many city workers due to unfair and broken labor contracts. He has always counted on them to get out the vote for him. He has tried to privatize everything he can so he is not held to the Shackman rules. He knows he losing the city worker the backbone of his army. The city worker is tired of the broken promises. Da Mayo picks his own canidates to run against him for future considerations. He stacks the deck for him and it has worked well the last 4 elections. He is not the brains behind this plan that comes from Degnan or Bill Daley or Mike Daley. Da Mayo must go and a Daley should never be elected again in this city!!!!!! The Daley curse must END!
West Side, Inside Do-Nothing said...
IN REPLY TO THE ABOVE "OLD TIMER":
I understand the city fucks us left and right but I came on this job to be the POLICE, period.
I love it that some house mouse who is probably scared to work the streets is calling out all the "working" police, or in your words "HAIR GEL" for doing their job.
Lets not forget you ASSHAT that most of us have families left living in the city and have children that have to grow up here. If you have any family/children (i highly doubt an ignorant f*ck like you does) how would you like us "working/hair gel" police to look away when a crime is happening in YOUR neighborhood??? So please do what you do best(answer phones, enter contact cards, make coffee) and STFU! Leave the "street cops" to choose what they want to do on the STREETS, when we cross your turf the DESK, then you can make your comments to our face.
Does anyone else agree with me?? I am no super trooper by any means but I will NEVER look the other way when a crime is being commited. Whether in the guetto, or in a police living neighborhood. So West-side Inside Do Nothing, do us all a favor and GO AWAY! -SIGNED A COP THAT STILL LOVES BEING THE POLICE.
P.S. IM SURE I HAVE NUMEROUS GRAMMATICAL ERRORS INSIDE WEST-SIDE DO NOTHING, SO BE THE BITCH THAT U ARE AND POINT THEM OUT. I MADE MY POINT.
I suspect this is kinda b.s. DALEY does not need to drop a mil to figure this out. HE can simply ask ANYONE at the Bd of Elect to pull this info.
A smart future Mayoral candidate would be going to stations and registering people to vote. Sort of an anti-Jessie Jackson type of thing.
Or we can just do it ourselves. There is a novel idea.
Anyone that thinks a Chicago area election is legit, but also think a CPD promo test is too
Unfortunately, advice from those that have "been there, done that" won't be absorbed by enough of us to make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
Sad, but true. The truely unfortunate thing is that we make it so easy for the city to divide us.
All the department has to do
the democrats have a program that goes through the voter roles.
it cost about 5 grand.
they can break down every block by age,sex,nationality.
IF THEY HAVE A LIST OF NAMES AND ADDRESSES THEY CAN EASILY UPLOAD THE INFORMATION AND SEE IF OFFICERS VOTE.
THE INFORMATION GOES ABOUT 12 YEARS BACK AND HAS EVERY ELECTION YOU HAVE VOTED ON. IT DOESNT SAY WHO U VOTED 4. BUT IT DOES SHOW IF U R A REPUBLICAN.
THE CITY RAN THE C.T.A EMPLOYEES FIRST AND NEXT WILL BE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
ARE TIME IS COMING, THE 1ST MOVE WILL BE WHEN FOP GIVES IN TO UNPAID FURLOUGH WAIT AND SEE IN THE NEXT CONTRACT REMEMBER THE WHITE SHIRTS LET THAT HAPPEN ALREADY.
Do they count how many voted in the Republican Primary.
Let's see, if the city knows your name, knows where you live, knows you work for the city, and is keeping tabs on how it's employees vote....sounds like a FIRST AMENDMENT VOLATION to me.
I live in the 11th ward and I make it a point to vote in my uniform and Republican in basement of Nativity of Our Lord church!!
Registration Lookup
http://www.elections.state.il.us/votinginformation/RegistrationLookup.aspx
I moved recently and registered at my new address in January 2010. As of today I still haven't received my voter registration card. I called and was told it would probably be another 4-6 weeks before I receive it. Its supposed to take 30 days total. I'm curios if anyone else who registered as a Republican is having the same issues.
How lazy do you have to be to not vote. Utterly ridiculous. If you don't vote, then keep your comments & whining to yourself; you don't deserve an opinion.
While we are on the topic:
http://tinyurl.com/ylb95kx
The "Chicago Way" is profoundly misunderstood. It isn't, first and foremost, about bullying politics; it's about absolute control and the means to achieve it.
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http://tinyurl.com/ycrvbhw
Wisconsin AG charges five with election fraud, two from ACORN
Miles also advised the agents that the individuals would travel in groups and, if and individual registered a citizen to vote, the other SRDs would tell the citizen, “It doesn’t hurt if you sign this one also.” Thus, multiple SRDs recorded a signature from the same person. Miles stated that they were “all hoodlums” working for ACORN and they all had criminal histories, and that they were going to “do whatever they had to do” to be able to gain their money at the end of the day.
Shame on you SCC, I wrote a scathing post to one of your threads slamming the CPD for our voting habits. This is your blog and you didn't put my post up.
You mean the blanket post that called all cops lazy, do-nothing crybabies? We delete those as soon as we get to the part about, "All you people who post here are..."
Try it without all the blanket condemnations and we'll bet it gets published. Just look at all the stuff above this post that calls out cops for not voting.
time to organize and start voting!lets start a sign up drive with all the unions to fight back !if we all vote together,we can take our city back ,and get the dignity and respect all city workers deserve!we have had enough of getting stepped on!all these promional tests and merit promotions that are rigged !enough!all the bid positions that get filled without notice!enough!poor equipment and leadership!enough!we need a mayor who respects and appreciates his or her first responders!the mayor of chicago should want his POLICE DEPT to be the best in the world,with the best and brightest getting promoted and not the connected!!we should be the best paid dept in the usa and have the finest equipment to do our jobs for the citizens!we should have the finest pensions with 20 years and out if we choose!we should also have a mayor who will stand up for his officersif we are involved in a critical incident!we only here silence or negative talk!we need support!lets register to vote people ,and vote so that we can change this negativity towards the city workers and the first responders!we give all for this city and we deserve the same in return!!lets rally the votes!its time!enough is enough!!!!
Whoever posted that "50 in the Academy rumor," there's no way they start a class on a Thursday. Did you get your dates mixed up?
I registered to vote when i was eighteen... I have voted in every election...
The City knows who votes, worked in a unit where we was able to pull up people voting records to get current addresses..
HATER said...
.... UNPAID FURLOUGH WAIT AND SEE IN THE NEXT CONTRACT REMEMBER THE WHITE SHIRTS LET THAT HAPPEN ALREADY.
3/08/2010 12:13:00 PM
Lts or Sgts?
What a grand idea! Use this post to start a police and fire voter registration!! Flyers at every station house and unit! Then a petition to reduce the number of alderman! Wow!! That would be power!! That could get something done. Daley is going to run for reelection next year and if we are not united he might just win. A voter drive with city employees might just encourage a good candidate to run against daley.If you watched channel 5 news today, they mentioned that Rahm stated if Daley does not run, he will.
Does anyone else agree with me?? I am no super trooper by any means but I will NEVER look the other way when a crime is being commited. Whether in the guetto, or in a police living neighborhood. So West-side Inside Do Nothing, do us all a favor and GO AWAY! -SIGNED A COP THAT STILL LOVES BEING THE POLICE.
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No, the majority of us with time on this job DON'T agree with you. While maybe not "smarter" by any given person's definition, we ARE a lot more experienced in how this job REALLY works. Now you get back out there and play police since you love it so much. I'll be sure to buy a ticket to your benefit party when you fuck up...and that will certainly happen, it's just a matter of when. I, and many like me, have put our time in and have gotten smarter over the years on how to adapt to this ever-changing job. Dummies like YOU need to STFU and heed the advice of oldtimers like Westside Do Nothing, even if it rubs you the wrong way when you're referred to as a "Hair Gel". So shut up, pay your dues and learn from the professors teaching this important lesson. An aside: resorting to juvenile insults regarding marital status or having kids just reinforces why guys like you are referred to as hair gels - Westside Do Nothing should respond with "I'm rubber, you're glue..." to keep it in simpleton terms for you to understand.
And YES, you're spelling/grammar (or lack thereof) needs to be addressed, Super Trooper. If the rest of your education is on par with your post, allow me to be the first to say "CONGRATULATIONS"!!! You'll more than likely be a triple merit promoted boss one day.
It's so sad to see that you've obviously spent a good amount of time at the 35th Street koolaide trough. My educated guess: you've got less than 10 years otj and Daddy or some other relative got you that special spot on an illustrious tactical team somewhere? How right am I on this?
Houston PD: 2.5 million people, 5500 sworn members. LAPD: 3.5 million people, 9500 sworn. Chicago PD: 2.8 million people, 13,500 [budgeted] members. Do the math. You'd better believe Daley is.
So you have to handle 10 jobs instead of 8, or 12 instead of 10, or whatever. Do you really think that it matters to Daley's budget office?
Crime is down. Why have so many cops? And sorry, we didn't do it. The demographics have changed (the population has gotten older, no more concentration of public housing residents), here and most other urban areas. THat's Daley's excuse. And it may even be a good one.
I say the target is 11,500 budgeted strength. And then fill about 11,000.
HEAR HEAR!!!
Our retired subject matter experts, The Savoy Slant Six Police have been harping on this sore subject! FOR YEARS 42 extra short has been telling CPD to kiss his ass because coppers DO NOT VOTE!
C'mon guys!! Why the fuck do you think j-fart & his feeb butt buddies are here?
Because shorty has no healthy respect or fear of the Police as a political force!
Each copper can very easily reach out and touch 20 to 25 people... Al we need to do is be able to sway half that number and we'll be able to run shorty, j-fart, masters & co. out of town on a rail!
There IS NO GOOD REASON for us to endure this season of fuckery we're having to put up with now.
There IS NO GOOD REASON we have to put up with being shit-talked because we want & NEED good pay, good medical and a good pension for TAKING YEARS OFF OUR LIVES DOING THIS JOB!
It burns us the fuck up when we see/hear the constant parade of Daley Inc. propaganda bullshit being eaten up and regurgitated by most people. When times are tough EVERYBODY has something to say about how we're compensated. When times are good you couldn't get these same people to sign up to be the Police if you chained them to a chair and pushed them into the fire place.
Actually, NOBODY has a healthy respect/fear of the Police anymore which has set the table for us to be openly, brazenly and VIVIDLY shit-talked and disrespected let alone physically attacked!
There was a time when people were deathly afraid to do shit to the Police that is so commonplace now.
We do swear, aver and attest that the average citizen would NOT PUT UP with the fuckery we endure from shorty, j-fart, masters & burst if this shit was going on in the private sector. These fools would have been jailed and sued into abject poverty a long time ago in the real world!
The public justifiably have been pointing & laughing their asses off because it just sucks to be the Police.
VOTE DAMN IT! REGISTER TO VOTE DAMN IT! MAKE YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY MEMBER VOTE!
Stop looking for this unknown fucking "Conservative Savior" to ride to CPD's rescue!
VOTE! Bend these rotten muthafuckahs to OUR WILL and perhaps we can turn this shit around! Then we and the tax paying hostages in this city won't have to be aggravated with Daley Inc., the liberal ass-whore media, the running-dog rev'runs, alder-fools and others.
We can be a political force to be reckoned with. Our survival is at stake!
yes Virginia, our CPD is going to be privatized.
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Like in the Movie? You are full of crap.
I only vote during the mayoral election just to vote against Daley.
Other than that its the same crap over and over. Stop the spending stop the corruption. Fuck em all!
IM sorry to say that I just dont care about anything other than getting the hell out of this crap city. Im ready to start a new.
Any of you posting here who are NOT registered should get off the blog immediately! If you're too 'disconnected' to vote, we don't need to read you bitch about how shitty the job or the bosses are. Most of the shitties here are machine placed morons. If you're not part of the "SOLUTION-2011 (DALEY MUST GO!), you're definitely part of the problem.
Now go and get yourself registered, asshat! Yeah, I'm talking about YOU!!!
" if you don't vote you can't bitch"
Wrong! Voting just to vote is like picking which cancer you want to die from. It all sucks! Give me someone worth voting for and I will vote then! Since I didn't vote for the least shitty guy and you did, I have every right to bitch cause you idiots put these asshats in office! Stick that in your hat and call it meatloaf!
Off Topic
Hannity tonight is unbelievable. According to Massa, Rahm-bo is a fucking asshole who goes around intimidating everyone.
Looks like they are starting to feel "the Chicago way" in Washington. Arm twisting, bribes and threats galore.
Does anyone else agree with me?? I am no super trooper by any means but I will NEVER look the other way when a crime is being commited. Whether in the guetto, or in a police living neighborhood. So West-side Inside Do Nothing, do us all a favor and GO AWAY! -SIGNED A COP THAT STILL LOVES BEING THE POLICE.
I agree with you 100%! Screw the lazy prick! Dont let the dog asses on this department get to you. Believe me I know the type! Typical wanna be old timer who sits on his lazy fat ass and claims those who actually do their jobs they get paid to do the problem! This guy is a piece of shit do nothing that never has done anything in his career except bitch moan and graon! He is no better than a west side shit head! He will get his, kid, no doubt aboutthat. Kharma has a funny way of biting morons like this in the ass! Be proud, do your job, and earn your living. Leave being a worthless bag of dog shit to clowns like this!
SCC, thanks for posting part of my comment. As you can see from the IP address, it is indeed me.
I just would like to add that the city is looking to dissolve our pensions, the Police and the Fire Department. They have a number of options on the table, but none benefit us. This is very real and very very serious. I took this job at a very young age just to ensure I did receive a pension, in hopes I could leave at 50 and enjoy my passion which is not profitable, but very enjoyable. Additionally, they have the right now to not provide health insurance for us after 2013 that includes for retirees. Our Aldermen voted this in a few years back. I wish we had you guys when they were doing this. I emailed everyone I could to let them know what was happening and to contact their legislative leaders. What do you think they will now when 2013 rolls in?
Lastly, now many companies have followed suit (with the exception of the State at this point) to instituting mandatory furlough days on its employees. By us accepting this via the Exempts, even though it does not affect me as a Patrol officer, it has now opened the door for this to be made an option for the city to once again balance their budget on the backs of their employees!!! The State is now attempting to do this with the threat of laying off State Police Officers. Watch and see....This WILL trickle down to us. And we continue to watch the Mayor allow our Superintendent to make in one year what six police officers would make in that same year. He in turn brought in 4 Federal Agents who are new "line" items in the budget (for those that follow our budget, they know what I mean). The Superintendent is also attempting to have his contract extended and place him and his buddies’ salaries on our backs once again.
The three years we have been without a contract which means no raise, has afforded the city a great opportunity to make plenty of money off of the money that was not used to rightfully pay us. The money we spent over those three years on interest from our cars, homes and credit cards, has cost us all dearly.
My fellow brothers and sisters in blue, please pay attention to what is going on right under our noses because this IS directly AFFECTING YOU and YOUR FUTURE! They are literally trying to take our right to have the pension that was promised to us when we took this job. They will turn it into a 401K type of retirement fund with little to no contribution from the city. Remember, we DO NOT pay into Social Security, so our pension is all we have!!! We will find ourselves not financially sound at all as we approach our senior years. This is fact! Wake up!!!
Anonymous said...
downsize the department-- ok--- when the lawyer gets stuck up and he has to wait for three hours for the paper car to show up he may be a little pissed--- the offender is long gone and the 6000 dollars a year he is paying in property taxes is a bad investment--- just like the federal government requires a warning on a pack of smokes that smoking is hazardous to your health and may cause cancer the city should hand out notices that living in chicago may be hazardous to your health and may result in your premature death.....
3/08/2010 12:53:00 AM
This is already being done and as you can see, calls for service is down citywide and so is violent crime which drives the perception of crime. At this rate, the Mayor has NO reason to increase our numbers. We are making due with no Captains for Watch Commanders and we are running the Lieutenants all over the city. The troops are getting no REAL direction because every day, they have a different Watch Commander that may run the watch much differently than the supposed assigned leader. In turn, you get a number of people who are not familiar with the Acting Watch Commander, you have officers that the Acting Watch Commander are not familiar with, you imput NOTHING to assist with that particular district's goals because you just can't be aware of them, you end up with police that do the bare minimum if anything because guess what, they know you don't know them and they don't know you, so no commitment there! Lastly, the Sergeants have no direction or assistance, so whatever is good for the night, is just that, good for the night. :-(
This city and department has just BEEN LUCKY!! Thats it! LUCKY!!!
Blogger SCC said...
Whoever posted that "50 in the Academy rumor," there's no way they start a class on a Thursday. Did you get your dates mixed up?
3/08/2010 03:58:00 PM
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I didn't post the original but yes they will start the class on Thursday because it is the first of the month. They started this with the last class which started Dec 16th, a Wednesday. They are doing them by pay periods now.
Does anyone else agree with me?? I am no super trooper by any means but I will NEVER look the other way when a crime is being commited. Whether in the guetto, or in a police living neighborhood. So West-side Inside Do Nothing, do us all a favor and GO AWAY! -SIGNED A COP THAT STILL LOVES BEING THE POLICE.
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I AGREE!!! Tell Mrs.Gordon or any other fallen family members that their loved ones died for nothing you prick. Keep answering phones.
what rotten m.f. politician, would count voter registrations, based on employment, party affialtion, etc.....there's a special place for those folks, not worthy of posting here...
Whoever posted that "50 in the Academy rumor," there's no way they start a class on a Thursday. Did you get your dates mixed up?
3/08/2010 03:58:00 PM
April Fool's Joke!!!
"Wrong! Voting just to vote is like picking which cancer you want to die from. It all sucks! Give me someone worth voting for and I will vote then! Since I didn't vote for the least shitty guy and you did, I have every right to bitch cause you idiots put these asshats in office! Stick that in your hat and call it meatloaf!
3/08/2010 07:49:00 PM"
if we presume that 99 out of 100 incumbents are the 'cancer(s)' you refer to, then, to rid ourselves of the 'cancer(s)' that we know are 'cancer(s)', the incumbents, you can choose to cast your vote in the following manner:
A 3 Step formula for ousting incumbents:
Step 1: Identify who the Incumbents are.
Step 2: Locate the Incumbent's name on the ballot.
Step 3: If the Incumbent's name is listed FIRST, (at the top of the list of candidates), cast your vote for whichever name is listed LAST.
OR
If the Incumbent's name is NOT listed first, (anywhere but the top of the list of candidates), cast your vote for whichever name IS listed first.
Applying the above formula will ensure that you have not cast your votes for any Incumbents and that all voters, who have also applied this formula, will have cast their votes for the SAME non-incumbent candidate.
Until such time as there are honest, non-cancerous candidates managing to get on the ballot, the least malignant cancerous candidates will be a better choice than the most malignant Incumbents.
And, unless you find enduring the most malignant cancerous Incumbents to your liking, you'll embrace the concept of voting out said malignancies, rather than continuing to bitch about not being 'given' someone worthy enough to get you to get off your pompous ass and vote.
That is, of course, if you're not one of the malignant cells polluting the body politic.
Anonymous said...
Blogger SCC said...
Whoever posted that "50 in the Academy rumor," there's no way they start a class on a Thursday. Did you get your dates mixed up?
3/08/2010 03:58:00 PM
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I didn't post the original but yes they will start the class on Thursday because it is the first of the month. They started this with the last class which started Dec 16th, a Wednesday. They are doing them by pay periods now.
3/08/2010 09:40:00 PM
That is because they are too stupid to figure out pay for a partial pay period. That is why the office people tell you finance likes you to retire on the 1st or 15th. That makes it easier for moron office people to figure out how much they owe you. retire on the 5th or 22nd and they get all confused, it fucks up their pea brains.
I will retire on october 3rd for personnel reasons, not the 1st or 15th but the 3rd of October. I will go in on 3 october and put in the papers so they can't do anything but accept the retirement.
Why make anything easy, for years this screwed up department has made every goddamned thing difficult for me. Remember anyone asking why some dumb move was done a certain way and being told "because that's the way we've always done it?"
That was the standard answer for years. Well, I will retire on 3 October, fuck 'em.
FREE COZZI
REGISTER TO VOTE
DUMP DALEY 2/22/2011
As shown in the last few elections, the 3 Step Formula generally fails. It's time for recalls, term limits and *NON*-Democratic political parties!
Fuckery?
I liked that. I'm just not sure how I can work it into a sentence.
---not a cop
" if you don't vote you can't bitch"
Wrong! Voting just to vote is like picking which cancer you want to die from. It all sucks! Give me someone worth voting for and I will vote then! Since I didn't vote for the least shitty guy and you did, I have every right to bitch cause you idiots put these asshats in office! Stick that in your hat and call it meatloaf!
3/08/2010 07:49:00 PM
That is such loser bullshit talk. Registered voters have power because they are registered to vote, get it? Politicians are afraid of that. They never know what you're going to do. Even if you just fuck up the status quo that they so neatly and corruptly organized, you are a threat to them. Why do you think they have secret meetings to plan "re-districting." It's all a chess game.
And frankly, it kind of all makes sense now why Daley fucks with the CPD. Because he can and there will be no repercussions.
Doesn't that make you mad enough to vote?
---not a cop
save the pension
eliminate captains
lt's are acting watch commanders 50% of the time and crime is down
Does anyone else agree with me?? I am no super trooper by any means but I will NEVER look the other way when a crime is being commited. Whether in the guetto, or in a police living neighborhood. So West-side Inside Do Nothing, do us all a favor and GO AWAY! -SIGNED A COP THAT STILL LOVES BEING THE POLICE.
-AMEN. I agree and I still work the streets in 007 going on 17 years on this job! Don't let his LAZINESS DISEASE infect you. He just scared thats all.
No, the majority of us with time on this job DON'T agree with you. While maybe not "smarter" by any given person's definition, we ARE a lot more experienced in how this job REALLY works. Now you get back out there and play police since you love it so much. I'll be sure to buy a ticket to your benefit party when you fuck up...and that will certainly happen, it's just a matter of when. I, and many like me, have put our time in and have gotten smarter over the years on how to adapt to this ever-changing job. Dummies like YOU need to STFU and heed the advice of oldtimers like Westside Do Nothing, even if it rubs you the wrong way when you're referred to as a "Hair Gel". So shut up, pay your dues and learn from the professors teaching this important lesson. An aside: resorting to juvenile insults regarding marital status or having kids just reinforces why guys like you are referred to as hair gels - Westside Do Nothing should respond with "I'm rubber, you're glue..." to keep it in simpleton terms for you to understand.
And YES, you're spelling/grammar (or lack thereof) needs to be addressed, Super Trooper. If the rest of your education is on par with your post, allow me to be the first to say "CONGRATULATIONS"!!! You'll more than likely be a triple merit promoted boss one day.
It's so sad to see that you've obviously spent a good amount of time at the 35th Street koolaide trough. My educated guess: you've got less than 10 years otj and Daddy or some other relative got you that special spot on an illustrious tactical team somewhere? How right am I on this?
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I am no detective but this surely sounds like the reply of Inside, West-side Do Nothing! I bet my money it is. Pretty pathetic you have to reply like another officer. So lets get this right, (besides you posting/replying to your own comment) NO ONE AGREES WITH YOU!! Keep drinking the Kool aid moron.
Does anyone else agree with me??
Ah........no.
I am no super trooper by any means but I will NEVER look the other way when a crime is being commited.
No one said you should. The main theme in this argument is that this department is turning into just another money generator for the city.
Stop generating money for the city! If you make a traffic stop, fill out one of those Driver Contact cards instead of issuing a ticket.
You DO have discretion out there boys and girls.
>>>Anonymous said...
what rotten m.f. politician, would count voter registrations, based on employment, party affialtion, etc.....there's a special place for those folks, not worthy of posting here...
3/09/2010 12:05:00 AM<<
Your thinking...Richard "Shorty" Daley!
And that Place would be... Federal Pen.
Lower Depths of Hell.
Somewhere where he would have to contemplate all the harm he has done to all people in this city. Where he keeps making phone calls and no one answers. Not even Obama.
I take the time to learn about the candidates and vote.
Using this so called 3 Step Program to vote is just more of the same. Instead of Tweedle Dee, we get Tweedle Dum. It's time for recalls, term limits and new political parties. At the very least, "every" office should *NOT* be Democratic controlled.
Rant Part II:
And another damn thing...
Hasn't anyone been paying attention to the recent "voter registration drives" occurring in garden spots of the city utterly and completely beshat with resolute non-contributors?
They're registered voters at the direction of the running-dog rev'runs. They have NO SKIN OR SIZEABLE MONIES AT RISK HERE BUT THEY DICTATE THE FUCKIN' AGENDA BECAUSE THEY VOTE!
Think about that shit! The world has turned upside down when people who don't have shit invested have the most say in how things go.
It's maddening seeing them getting their asses kissed with free this and free that courtesy of Daley Inc.
The entire middle class in this city should be up in arms!
Why do you think shorty is now giving a big "fuck you" to coppers, firemen, transit workers, tradesmen & union members?
Why is he using the sour economy as a pretext to renege on labor agreements and divorce the city from it's obligation to provide health care and a decent pension for current and retired employees?
BECAUSE THE MIDDLE CLASS DOES NOT VOTE!
What the fuck has happened to the middle class voters over the last 30 years?
Does anyone remember the parents and grand parents who came from nowhere, worked themselves nearly to death to have a little something to call their own?
THE OLD FOLKS VOTED & MADE THEMSELVES HEARD!
During election times when we were young, EVERYBODY OF VOTING AGE had to show their ballot stubs at the end of the day. If you didn't vote you were considered a traitor to all they worked for!
Shorty and the alderfools should be falling over themselves kissing OUR ASSES!
SHIT!
Is their propaganda and control of the media that damn good that upright people can't discern for themselves that something is far beyond fucked up in Chicago?
It looks like a combination of Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 454 & American in The Gulag will have it's epicenter here...
WAKE UP!
We are in mortal danger of losing all that we and our parents worked so hard for!
"I take the time to learn about the candidates and vote.
Using this so called 3 Step Program to vote is just more of the same. Instead of Tweedle Dee, we get Tweedle Dum. It's time for recalls, term limits and new political parties. At the very least, "every" office should *NOT* be Democratic controlled.
3/09/2010 02:39:00 PM"
If you take the time to register to vote, you are in the minority of all qualified-to-vote citizens.
If you, having taken the time to register to vote, also take the time to actually vote, you are in the minority of all registered voters.
If you actually "..take the time to learn about the candidates...", even presuming that your definition of learning about the candidates equals actually knowing, with some reasonable degree of certainty, who they are, what they believe in and what they will do, once elected, you are in a very small minority of all registered voters who actually vote.
Before anything can be changed, ie., term limits, recall legislation, independent candidates, and 'new' political parties, etc., the tightly woven webs of professional politicians, of both major parties, must be severed.
The only means of doing so are in the hearts and minds of those citizens who:
1) are qualified to vote
2) are registered to vote
3) take the time to vote
4) in each individual contest, cast their votes for a single, non-Incumbent candidate
There are only 2 ways that, in a given contested office, enough votes will be cast for a single, non-Incumbent candidate.
1. The single, non-Incumbent candidate inspires enough voters to vote FOR him, or her.
2. The Incumbent running for reelection inspires enough voters to both NOT vote for him/her AND all voters, who are thus inspired, vote for the same, single, non-Incumbent candidate.
Which is more likely, that the vast majority of citizens who have taken the time to register to vote, and who do vote, will have a non-Incumbent candidate who inspires them to vote FOR him/her, or, wanting to vote AGAINST an Incumbent candidate whom they detest, all vote for a single non-Incumbent candidate?
Without a non-Incumbent candidate who inspires enough voters to vote FOR him/her, what other means can voters, who want to vote out an undesirable Incumbent, use, to ensure that enough votes are cast for a single, non-Incumbent candidate?
The "...so called 3 Step Program to vote..." is the only means to overcome the problem of 'splitting the vote', (which is used so effectively by those in power to stay in power), which doesn't depend upon there being a strongly popular, and, presumably, qualified non-Incumbent candidate.
The 'wave' is either one of a desirable, and popular, non-Incumbent candidate to vote for, or, an undesirable Incumbent + a unified voting strategy to vote out that undesirable Incumbent, as in 'anyone BUT the asshole Incumbent'.
To avoid it being 'everyone BUT the asshole Incumbent', (which results in the asshole Incumbent being reelected, no matter how few voters actually cast their votes), applying the "...so called 3 Step Program to vote..." will achieve the desired result, ie., an ousted asshole Incumbent.
It's just mathematics, as simple as it gets.
This poster is right on! Everyone, get up and register to vote, get your parents, kids, neighbors, girlfriends and friends to not only register, but to actually vote.
As shown in the previous elections, the 3 Steps fail. It's time to stop "doing the same ole thing", which isn't accomplishing anything, except new & more taxes and more governmental failures.
Like the other person said, it's time for term limits, recalls and new independent, people power political parties.
"3/11/2010 03:30:00 AM" said:
"As shown in the previous elections, the 3 Steps fail."
For it to work, all it takes is for people to apply it.
The people who've registered to vote must take the time to vote and vote according to the formula.
When more voters vote according to the formula, then voters who vote for the Incumbent, the Incumbent will lose and the lucky non-Incumbent candidate, whose name was either listed last or first will win.
"It's time to stop 'doing the same ole thing', which isn't accomplishing anything, except new & more taxes and more governmental failures."
By 'the same ole thing' you are referring to the Incumbents regularly being reelected, because:
a) people who meet the qualifications to register to vote are not registered
b) people who are registered to vote do not bother to vote
c) people who are registered and do bother to vote do not all vote for a single, non-Incumbent candidate
d) people who are registered and do vote, vote for the Incumbent assholes
"Like the other person said, it's time for term limits, recalls and new independent, people power political parties."
And you seriously believe that any of the Incumbent politicians are going to cooperate in imposing 'term limits' and 'recall' statutes upon themselves? Or encourage the formation of 'new, independent, people power political parties'?
Wat yu talkin' 'bout, willis?
That is why this whole country is so fucked up - nobody cares enough to vote the bastards out. Wake the FUCK UP already! Disgusting!
Voting does matter! Take a look at our elected FLOP officials.
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