DUI Wasn't the Only Problem
Rahm's got some cleaning up to do in city hiring. Shortshanks was famous for giving convicted felons all sorts of chances to get city jobs as long as they produced votes for the Machine. That appears to be the case here:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he has ordered Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Tom Byrne to tighten supervision to prevent a repeat of the Gold Coast accident that saw a city laborer accused of driving drunk and plowing into a crowded sidewalk, injuring seven people.
Emanuel noted that termination proceedings have already begun for 61-year-old laborer Dwight Washington, whose blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when the accident occurred Saturday, according to prosecutors.
Of course, if anyone had looked at Dwight Washington's criminal history, they might have seen a rap sheet running back decades with convictions for Armed Robbery and assorted other offenses. Anywhere else, the hiring process is designed to catch these things before they become issues, preventing the hiring of persons with a propensity for law breaking.
Anywhere else isn't Chicago though. We imagine we're going to be hearing about many of these types of hirees slipping through the cracks in the coming years. It's like Shortshanks left us all these little surprises to remember him by for years and years to come.
Anywhere else isn't Chicago though. We imagine we're going to be hearing about many of these types of hirees slipping through the cracks in the coming years. It's like Shortshanks left us all these little surprises to remember him by for years and years to come.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
37 Comments:
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CAREFUL WHAT U WISH FOR THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OFFICERS WHO HAVE CRASHED MORE THAN 1 SQUAD CAR.
SHOULD THEY BE LAUNCHED AFTER THE 3RD CRASH?
Really, SCC, you're grasping on this issue. Washington hasn't been arrested or convicted of a crime in many years...he's just a laborer, nothing more. We've seen plenty of politically connected asshats who've been caught driving city vehicles...remember the guy who headed up news affairs years ago, clean cut, young white guy? his name escapes me. And let's not forget former Commissioner of Human Services LoBianco.
A hack of a cop, and a total bum as Commish...caught driving drunk after he rear-ended another motorist, only to re-surface in a different
job with the Park District, I believe...until one of the local news networks outed him. And let's not forget Picardi's dalliances that got him bounced from fleet...isn't he still working for the CPD now, assigned to Homan Square? Criminal behavior has little to do with driving drunk....i am sure there are many, many streets and san workers who hit the sauce too heavy on a daily basis, many of whom have no criminal histories at all.
I wonder how many times Dwight Washington voted for Daley.
People were seriously injured by this guy but Daley doesn't care, as long as he got those votes.
Yes DUI wasn't his only problem...
What kind of supervision is going on here?
I'd tell you what I would do.
GPS Tracking in each and every Streets and Sans vehicle with regular audits for one. A review with background checks of all personal for two..
The city is broke and cannot afford not to do it. Million dollar law suits and rightly so in this case.
HEY RAHM!!
So if you take 500 SHITHEADS out of Cook County Jail and put them into Streets and Sanitation, then take 500 Streets and Sanitation workers and put them into Cook County Jail, does that mean we will have 500 more ADDITIONAL workers????
Sounds like a “down payment” on BULLSHIT to me.
Bottom line is Daley always wins and the city of chicago loses millions of dollars once again.
I believe I was the first one to notify the liberal media of this guy’s RAP SHEET.
(Yes.. the department will probably try to SPAR me again!! )
If this mayor is smart he will set another 'executive order' which states that no new hired city employees will be convicted of a felony.
ALSO, random drug testing and alcohol testing for all city employees.
I don't know nuttin' about dis baloney !!!!! Dem udder guyz hired all da crooks to get city jobs !!! I wuz at da orphans home dewing charity work when all dis here stuff happened. Don't try and blame me ! I always get blamed for all da bad thingz what happened. I don't even know any crooked guyz !!
richard m. daley
your former mayo & host to da chicago sanctumary.
I love it. The City got what it deserved (but not the poor victims) by giving criminals a chance. You predict the future by looking at the past. Simple.
Is one vote worth it? Really? Oh wait, convicted felons can't vote can they?
---not a cop
So if you take 500 SHITHEADS out of Cook County Jail and put them into Streets and Sanitation, then take 500 Streets and Sanitation workers and put them into Cook County Jail, does that mean we will have 500 more ADDITIONAL workers????
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Best one I heard!
SPAR ME AGAIN ! ! said...
I believe I was the first one to notify the liberal media of this guy’s RAP SHEET.
(Yes.. the department will probably try to SPAR me again!! )
If this mayor is smart he will set another 'executive order' which states that no new hired city employees will be convicted of a felony.
ALSO, random drug testing and alcohol testing for all city employees.
5/25/2011 12:41:00 AM
Why would you notify the media of anything, let me guess? You think they are your friend! Fuck them, let them do their own work. In the mean time you should mind your own business because some day it maybe you some other stroke copper is notifying the media about!
12:20a.m.
Ah yes, poor mr. Washington, it was only armed robbery, you know , put a gun in someones face & demand money...if they resist you shoot them...just like j-walking.
Shoot at the Police, get a job at City Hall.
Reign over the most corrupt administration this City has ever known, get a job at University of Chicago on a 5 year contract.
Slap a shithead, go to jail & no more job.
No my friend, any way you slice it, this is fucked up beyond all comprehension.
Would like to know his salary while we're at it. In 2006 vets were not getting jobs, but this guy was?
OT Anyone else see the article buried in the Tribune business section today re: the 3,700 contractors who got stimulus money from the feds while owing more than
$750 million in back taxes? Wonder if these same contractors had made any political contributions in the previous elections?
.........What did the stimulus package cost the taxpaying public again? How much did it add to the deficit?
Alderboob Burnett's protégé, no doubt.
armed robbery? that's just a youthful indiscretion right? like smoking and drinking?
Where was the supervisor of this drunk? He had to come to work intoxicated and kept on drinking all morning. Who was this guys sponsor?
Really, SCC, you're grasping on this issue. Washington hasn't been arrested or convicted of a crime in many years...he's just a laborer, nothing more. We've seen plenty of politically connected asshats who've been caught driving city vehicles...remember the guy who headed up news affairs years ago, clean cut, young white guy? his name escapes me. And let's not forget former Commissioner of Human Services LoBianco.
Hes got to be more than just a laberor ,driving a city truck!
Shortpants Byrne has to fire Washington so his clout can get him a j-o-b in the Water Dept.
How's the Streets & San plan going to minimize medical abuse and no-shows? Progressive punishment still in the works?
It's seems the media is finally going to be busy with all the skeletons falling out of Shortshanks overstuffed closets.
Maybe Walsh Construction can start building bigger ones for Rahm.
VOTE DEMOCRAT? mmm-mmm-mmmm.
Thank you, 12: 20am. Your comment was insightful, but you forgot former commander's killackey, convicted felon son, who rumor has it still works for the cpd. People make mistakes, things happen. If the people of entitlement get passes for criminal acts and behavior and can secure a city job, why not the other citizens who might have made a mistake, hasnt commited any more crime and may deserve a second chance. Random drug and alcohol testing for all city employees, from the mayor on down would prevent what happened with the 61year old ex-felon.
I'd like to see who this guy's political sponsor was. Shortshanks gave his stamp of approval. but which alderman sponsored this POS for his job?
Why would you notify the media of anything, let me guess? You think they are your friend! Fuck them, let them do their own work.
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Because we are PISSED off at the morons the CITY hires.
Because they hire these felons and SEX addict coppers we as taxpayers have to foot the bill.
The media brings light to these issues and perhaps changes will be made when they light a match under Ballerino's ass.
@ hater
You're a dip shit! read the articel before you post some stupid shit. They aren't taking about crashing a car.
want to see how rotten this city really is read FAMILY SECRETS by FRANK CALABRESE,the whole streets and san should be up in front of a fed grand jury.knew it stank but not that bad. great read.
Let me get this straight,
Obama is a professor at university of Chicago,
After becoming a Sen. his wife is given a high paying job at U of Chgo,
Obama becomes Pres. thanks to Oprah,
Obama gets Congressman Rahm to be his Chief of Staff,
Rahm announces to the world he would love to be Mayor of Chicago,
BEFORE Daley announces he would not run for the office again,
While Rahm is running for Mayor and collecting large amounts of cash from rich people, Bill Daley is named to replace Rahm as Chief of staff,
Rahm gets ellected,
Rich Daley gets a job at the U of Chgo in charge of a mixed bag of nuts of made up positions.
Was I close to getting that correct?
It just does not stop.
Ex Mayor Daley it must be great to be you.
Years ago Daley announced a NEW city program that would put convicted felons back to work, and make it possible to get city jobs.
Hmmm- See what Happens.
Ques: Who was the person that hired Angelo Torres?
Shortshanks: I don't know nuttin bout dat. I don't know. I'll have to get back to ya on dat.
Never did get an answer to the question. Probably same thing for Washington. It just never stops. This is really very silly.
Random drug and alcohol testing for all city employees, from the mayor on down would prevent what happened with the 61year old ex-felon.
5/25/2011 10:34:00 AM
With contractual city employees, random drug and/or alcohol testing can only be attained at the bargaining table. And the unions will fight like hell to keep it out. To decrease the resistance, the city would have to attach it to a sweet deal and/or play some savvy hardball.
Either way, if random drug testing did become part of a ratiified contract with S&S employees, OEMC employees, etcetera and so on, as a result, there would be a whole bunch of job openings because of all the resignations and firings.
""I love it. The City got what it deserved (but not the poor victims) by giving criminals a chance. You predict the future by looking at the past. Simple.
Is one vote worth it? Really? Oh wait, convicted felons can't vote can they?
---not a cop""
Come on not a cop. ""You predict the future by looking at the past. Simple.""
That would be profiling. Not in this city. Not on this department
Now where did all the signs that were hanging in the stations that said that get off to?? ;)
Well, according to the site that has all city employees and their salary on it, this guy was a "sanitation laborer" , title code 6324, and was making $20.85 an hour back in 2009, and was working for S&S since 6/27/06
For anyone who has ever worked for Cmsr Byrne you know he was the inspiration for "Lord Farquad" from SHREK. I'd do to him, what he'd do us...DUMP HIM!
@ 5/25/2011 12:31:00 AM
Dude...did you miss something?
Everyone that Drives a City Vehicle has some sort of Comm Unit..
Nextell
Motorolla
etc.
And they All have GPS in them.
His Supervisors knew where he was and where he had been.
And either didn't care or were afraid of him or his clout.
Which rev'run or alderfool sponsored this mook?
Which make believe store front/ voodoo kitchen/clearing in the woods/forest preserve shit-shack does he attend?
It ain't like he showed up one day and was hired because of his moxie and initiative...
Come on not a cop. ""You predict the future by looking at the past. Simple.""
That would be profiling. Not in this city. Not on this department
Now where did all the signs that were hanging in the stations that said that get off to?? ;)
5/25/2011 07:20:00 PM
Is that what common sense is called nowadays? Racial profiling?
Hmmm, I think that's just another way to tie your hands. Ya know, like the raggedy "race card."
Decent people appreciate and support and understand what you do for us every day. Stay safe, daddy.
---not a cop
"It's like Shortshanks left us all these little surprises to remember him by for years and years to come."
...like those miserable speed bumps.
I am already seeing those big, phony "cast iron" streetlight bases getting smashed up; they are just two-piece shells of some thin, cheap, brittle pot metal. Kick one and it'll move about three inches.
Can't compare Daley and Barack's jobs at U of C.
Obama actually TAUGHT law, as he was qualified to do.
Everybody in Chicago should know by now that Shanx never even passed his own bar exam. Anyone paying for Shanx to represent them would have nothing more than a stammering hack attorney at best. You'd likely do better hiring a former Public Defender.
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