Friday, May 14, 2010

Special Evil

Like him or hate him, you have to appreciate the sort of twisted thinking that goes into a stunt like this:
  • In the name of “transparency,” Mayor Daley on Thursday got some measure of revenge against the investigative reporters who’ve made his life miserable by digging up dirt on the Hired Truck, city hiring and minority contracting scandals.

    He revamped the city’s new website to include a log of all Freedom of Information Act requests. The list includes the name and organization of each applicant, documents demanded and dates the information was requested and is due to be released.

    A new state law merely requires city departments to maintain such a log — not to post it on the Internet to tip investigative reporters about the trail being followed by competitors.

So no one will have an scoop if everyone else knows what documents they are looking at for a hot story. Does Shortshanks thinks everyone will disband their investigative reporting bureaus? Whether they do or not, he's thrown a wrench in things.

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19 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Be very careful of that little RUNT, HE IS DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!!

5/14/2010 12:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I went to that site today to see if I could find out about the existing building code violations on a house I'd like to buy.

Then I saw that all my personal information would be posted on the internet, courtesy of filling out this form.

Need a plan B.

5/14/2010 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

doesnt matter here. the media couldnt find water in the middle of the lake.

5/14/2010 12:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, I was looking at that web site last night and it has information on how to do absolutely anything but register a gun. Great big silent void when it comes to that...

5/14/2010 12:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If your enemies tactics are working adopt them. Look Im no fan but you can't argue with success. In the end there is no good or bad, there is just your side and the other side. Winners win and loser's whine about it.

5/14/2010 01:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A simple act of revenge from a vindictive, simple minded dictator. Picture shanks with his thumbs in his ears, wiggling his fingers, tongue stuck out, saying "nah nah nah nah nah ya " !!!!!!

Fuck You shortshanks !!!!!!! The word is out, daley is a little asshole !!!!!

5/14/2010 05:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kinda surprised no one has thought of this before. Seems that requests under FOIA have always been game for subsequent FOIA's. May not have been spelled out in the original law but they certainly weren't excluded and dat's da name of dat game. "If not excluded, then you must release" Seems to me that others, besides the press, could use this to good advantage.

5/14/2010 06:48:00 AM  
Anonymous UpYours! said...

HAW HAW HAW Lox TV and Larry Smellin Yellen, how you likes that?
IN YO FACE!
IN-YO-FACE!
Wipe off your cheesy handlebar porno stache, Smellen, the mental midget owned you and the rest of the media!
And you knows what, when I hear of you bottom feeding media morons sniffing around, doing police exposes,I'm gonna post the info on the web and pass it on to your rivals.
Let the bloodletting begin!
I hope EVERY municipal agency in the country follows suit!
HAW HAW HAW!

5/14/2010 06:50:00 AM  
Anonymous UpYours! said...

Sorry, I could'nt let go...
PTOOEEYY!!!
Hear that sound, Dave theWienie ( Channel No 2) and Larry Smellen ( LoxTV)?
Thats the sound of Mayor Dumbly spitting in your faces
Feel the wetness? That's his spit running down your faces..
And the beauty, the genius of it all , is , you assholes in the media,are gonna endorse him for mayor-AGAIN!

5/14/2010 07:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Does Shortshanks thinks everyone will disband their investigative reporting bureaus? Whether they do or not, he's thrown a wrench in things."



this ain't about reporters, it's about giving an available-to-all head's up to every crony with enough sense to pay attention.

it's his message to his minions to tighten up their games.

5/14/2010 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Niccolo Machiavelli said...

While I know that da Mare wouldn't fare well on an IQ test, he never ceases to amaze me.

5/14/2010 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe if city hall wasn't so busy being clever lawyers and starting being clever city employees we wouldn;t be in the mess we're in! But, there in lies the rub. Daley has always been a 'white collar welfare' guy. He should be trimming at the top...oh, what am I saying...he's gone this election anyway.

5/14/2010 09:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like the idea. The more things that are out in the open the better.

5/14/2010 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dr. Evil could take lessons from the dwarf.

5/14/2010 11:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Transparency only when it suits the mayor. When it doesn't, fegettabout it.

When it comes to ripping off and shorting the people of Chicago, the degree of innovation and brilliance of the mayors people is amazing (I don't believe Daley himself is that brilliant to come up with stuff like this).

Yet, when it comes to addressing crime, a woefullly inept education system, inside city pension deals, cost over-runs and other mis-management of the public's treasure (parking meter deal rip-off, etc.) and the best interest of the public, the brilliance of the mayors best and brightest is MIA.

I don't imagine that is just a coinkydinky.

The simple answer is the guy is not that complicated.

He's just corrupt thru and thru.

An example of the opposite, good thru and thru would be Gov. Christie of N.J.



Buck Naked
(not a cop)

5/14/2010 02:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IMPORTANT REGARDING YOUR PENSION..

FOR ALL OFFICERS YOUNG AND OLD PLEASE READ THE FOP WEBSITE AND DONAHUES LETTER REGARDING DALEY BUSTING OUR PENSION IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND CHANGING THE LAW.

5/14/2010 02:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Be very careful of that little RUNT, HE IS DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!!

5/14/2010 12:13:00 AM
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How right you are, check this out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2086494/posts

5/14/2010 07:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

**** Off Topic / Important ****

SCC, we need to have a thread on the underhanded shit DALEY just pulled with our PENSION. Please put it out here so the media can read it for themselves. And if you don't know then what I am talking about then you must read the FOP current updates IMMEDIATELY!!

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5/14/2010 07:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reminds me of an Al Pacino qoute from Devils Advocate "I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt. I'm a surprise, Kevin. They don't see me coming: that's what you're missing."

5/15/2010 09:48:00 PM  

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