Maybe $10 for Taste?
Now they're bargaining on how much of an admission fee might keep out the riff-raff?
The lone bidder to take over Taste of Chicago has cut its proposed admission fee in half — to $10 — hoping to appease Mayor Daley, who has declared that Chicago’s premier lakefront festival will “always be free.”
“The city can keep doing what they’re doing without an admission fee. But, no private company is gonna do it for free. It’s impossible,” said a source close to the negotiations.
“There’s a reason why only one company bid” in response to Daley’s request to privatize Taste and six other lakefront festivals.
Everyone knows the Taste is suffering from a bad case of indigestion. The fee for running a booth at the Taste has become cost prohibitive. The mayor is allowing suburban restaurants to supplant what was once a home-grown affair. Corporate chains have booths which kind of defeats the purpose of a unique Chicago "taste" of things. The "wilding" has become an epidemic and two of the last three or four years have had a shooting just within or just outside of the borders.
Now the initial effort to take back control of what used to be a showcase event runs into the lame-duck buzz saw of Shortshanks who doesn't want to offend busloads of underprivileged altar boys and future brain surgeons who come to enjoy the fresh lakefront air and easy pickings.
We can hardly wait until people see the fences that are going to go up around the Taste and the security that is going to have to be hired to secure the premises. Those videos are going to be epic.
Now the initial effort to take back control of what used to be a showcase event runs into the lame-duck buzz saw of Shortshanks who doesn't want to offend busloads of underprivileged altar boys and future brain surgeons who come to enjoy the fresh lakefront air and easy pickings.
We can hardly wait until people see the fences that are going to go up around the Taste and the security that is going to have to be hired to secure the premises. Those videos are going to be epic.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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just shut the fuck up, richard, and crawl off into the sunset.
nobody loves you.
Who reported that Daley would be hired as a consultant for this company that will run the Taste? I know I read it somewhere...
The mayor is allowing suburban restaurants to supplant what was once a home-grown affair.
I thought the almighty kicked out all non-city vendors this past year, I might be mistaken, but I still would not take my family down there.
I was at the 1st taste on Michigan Ave.And that's what it was...a taste of this and that...not the thug fest it has evolved into today.
Don't forget last year's stabbing on State street and near riot after one of the free rap concerts. Funny how out of all of the free concerts including country, rock, and blues the only night there was a problem was on the night of the rap show. Must have been the weather.
If I was mayor....NO TASTE FOR YOU!!!!
Whether it's free or not, I'm not going to that ghetto showcase. And neither is my family.
You can charge $100 but it won't help a bit if they keep giving the dog asses free tickets because they're underpriviliged & deprived.
Most shit in this city is fucked up beyond repair...Enjoy taxpayers.
I picture caddyshack when the help hits the pool, only the help will be armed and stealing from everyone.
Daley is almost out of office, what business of his if someone wants to takeover and charge $50.00admission?
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Thug fest? How dare you stereotype Democratic voters.
I wouldn't pay $10 for a ticket, but would consider $35. At $60 per entrant, send me a "save the date" card and I'll prepay.
Sounds good to me.
$10....!!!! That will just increase the random street robberies of suburbanites in the vicinity of Taste.
And as pointed out, busloads of shit will still be given free passes.
$20 admission fee, no freebies, armed guards along perimeter.
Anyone going there is an idiot. Overpriced and overstocked with ghetto dwellers who are armed.
Great place to bring your family.
Because most in this city are effeminate males unwilling to stand up to that midget, they will wait until after he's well gone or dead before they have the guts to say how badly he has screwed up this city.
Underprivileged, Deprived, and
Depraved, more so the latter of the
three.
I've got 3 more years to go. I remember when this job was something to be proud of. Now I just want to go live on a mountain top by myself.
The fucking city does not do it for free fucker! We pay. And don't give me that shit about bringing in tourist. Just like we pay for the flowerpots and the fences and all the other shit.
So whatever happen to the three mens who punched the white family --including their 4-month old baby---when leaving the taste. No media coverage on that one either.
You can charge $100 but it won't help a bit if they keep giving the dog asses free tickets because they're underpriviliged & deprived.
1/30/2011 01:38:00 AM
spelling correction:
"...because they're underpriviliged & depraved."
Why not just have it at Soldier Field??? If you want to eat, you need to pay to get into the stadium. If both the entertainment & the food can fit in the stadium then all the better, if not, the entertainment can still be out on the lake front. At least if some shit goes down security / police can easily man all of the exits.
Daley is the worst business man in Illinois! He would rather tax the hell of small business and let the thugs run free at the taste. People just don't want to go there anymore. It's just a bad experience and a safety risk. The thungs go there to fight and wild and spend no money, but Daley continues to hurt the honest citizen just like the rest of the Illinois politicians.
Ten Dollar's ain't shit when you make about $10,000 a week selling dope, the ghetto birds will still come, only now they'll feel entitled because they paid. I could see it now when your throwing them out "Man I payed to come in here you can't throw me out"
$10 isn't to bad considering most of the thugs get their free section 8 housing and link cards.
I will keep taking my money, go up to Summerfest and gladly pay the entrance fee to only look at about 8 thug lookin' motherfuckers there instead of the few hundred here.
Who cares I'm still not going
I've never been to a Taste of Chicago and I will never go, especially now that it's been overrun by groups of thugs.
The best summer festival in the Midwest is Summerfest in Milwaukee. Top name acts and decent crowds.
Besides, who the fuck wants a BBQ turkey leg on the hottest day of the year? Whenever the show a stock photo of this mess of a fest, it invariably shows some yahoo wrapping his mouth around one of those abominations.
“The city can keep doing what they’re doing without an admission fee. But, no private company is gonna do it for free. It’s impossible,” said a source close to the negotiations.
Yes, because when you are the CEO of the corporation known as the city of Chicago (mayor) and you run it into the ground, the freeloading idiots who vote you in don't object.
How does that stupid ass dumb shit Daley get away with it? Because Chicago voters are even dumber than he is.
Throw in a little corruption and the usual ass kissers who think they'll "get a spot" and you have the situation we find ourselves in today.
OT - Carol Marin on Rahm Emanual
Emanuel Owes Voters Some Answers
by Carol Marin
Rahm Emanuel’s new radio ad hit the airwaves on Friday. The soundtrack is a cross between an old Edy’s ice cream commercial and a Ken Burns documentary.
The announcer has the deep, gravelly voice of a caring grandfather blended with a background of majestic horns hitting heart-swelling notes of heroism and high purpose.
One day after the Illinois Supreme Court put Emanuel on the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot, the campaign rolled out the ad, which replays the words of President Obama as he bid farewell to his chief of staff late last year. In the commercial, titled “By My Side,” Obama praises Emanuel for his selflessness and sacrifice. And Emanuel emotionally pledges “as I leave the White House I will never leave that spirit of service behind.”
No, the president doesn’t come right out and say, “Vote for Rahm.” He hardly needs to.
There is seamlessness between the Rahm Emanuel for Mayor campaign and the Obama re-election engine.
There is the same discipline and digital sophistication. There is the staggering mountain of campaign money so high that few, if any, competing candidates can make the climb.
And there is the absolute, unwavering message control that we witnessed in the first Obama bid now tightly enforced by the Emanuel team.
You can argue — rightly —that those are marks of a winning campaign. But not necessarily of a transparent campaign when it comes to unwelcome questions that don’t meld well with the message.
In an earlier Emanuel television ad called “Hard Truths,” the candidate makes a stark declaration: “It’s high time the politicians start working for the people that elected them rather than have people workin’ so politicians get rich off this system.”
Emanuel goes on: “City government isn’t about making sure those who are best connected or have friends are getting jobs. There’s a lot of hard truths we’re going to have to tell.”
Hard truths.
Thursday night at the WGN-Tribune mayoral debate, co-moderator Bruce Dold asked for the hard truth about Emanuel’s part-time job in 2000 and 2001 as a board member of the now-disgraced mortgage giant Freddie Mac. He was paid $320,000 to attend six meetings a year.
“Did you earn the money?” Dold asked.
Emanuel, who likes to number his arguments, listed three points, the third of which was that he wasn’t identified by name in a scathing report of Freddie Mac’s abject failures, some of which occurred under his watch.
Dold persisted: “You have an ad that says politicians shouldn’t get rich on the backs of people. Did you earn $320,000 for six meetings?”
“That’s what they paid at the time,” said an expressionless Emanuel.
“Did you feel bad about it?” asked Dold.
“Did I feel bad about it?” Emanuel repeated.
“Did you earn it?” Dold persisted.
Emanuel never answered.
Let’s number some hard truths.
One, Emanuel’s job on the Freddie Mac board was a high-end patronage job given to him by his former boss and friend, then-President Bill Clinton.
Two, Emanuel’s most recent boss and friend, the current president, has refused to release the minutes of Freddie Mac board meetings during Emanuel’s tenure.
Three, Rahm Emanuel is talented and smart. But not smart enough to see the potential hypocrisy in launching an ad about how clout-heavy politicians hand out jobs to their friends and not see himself in that story.
Hard truths.
FUCK DALEY!
He NEEDS to go away for good!
He fucked this city up enough with his stupid ideas!
Da Pelon
Anonymous said...
OT - Carol Marin on Rahm Emanual
Emanuel Owes Voters Some Answers
by Carol Marin
Rahm Emanuel’s new radio ad hit the airwaves on Friday. The soundtrack is a cross between an old Edy’s ice cream commercial and a Ken Burns documentary.
In an earlier Emanuel television ad called “Hard Truths,” the candidate makes a stark declaration: “It’s high time the politicians start working for the people that elected them rather than have people workin’ so politicians get rich off this system.”
Dold persisted: “You have an ad that says politicians shouldn’t get rich on the backs of people. Did you earn $320,000 for six meetings?”
“That’s what they paid at the time,” said an expressionless Emanuel.
“Did you feel bad about it?” asked Dold.
“Did I feel bad about it?” Emanuel repeated.
“Did you earn it?” Dold persisted.
Emanuel never answered.
1/30/2011 04:36:00 PM
Remember, besides being smart, ruthless, has connections in very high places, Emanuel also has a Masters Degree in Speech from Northwestern U.
A very smart and well spoken son of a bitch scum politician.
He will be worse than Daley ever was. Write it down, mark election day on the calendar; a day which will live in infamy.
how stupid do they think we are . they were going to charge $20.00 and give back a $10.00 coupon good for food . well $10.00 is still being charged for admission. they still get TEN DOLLARS
Cmdr. Brett Goldstein, Predictive Analysis Unit PREDICTION:
The NFC will defeat the AFC by 20 points in the Pro Bowl in Honolulu.
MVP: D'Angelo Hall, Washington Redskins
Our main frame computer crashed.
CORRECTION: The NFC will win by only 14.
PAU regrets the error.
I WONDER WHY SHORTSHANK IS PUSHING SO HARD TO GET THIS DEAL DONE?
Batavia, Illinois,
More bad news on the Illinois economy. Fermilab losing $35 million a year funding from the DOE.
Whether it's free or not, I am not interested in the Taste. Long lines, crowds, expensive food, stand up (or squat down) eating, thugs and CTA delays are enough for me to say "NO!".
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