Shades of Rahm
This opening paragraph is priceless:
- A top administrator at the City Colleges of Chicago recently resigned under pressure, leaving a $120,000-a-year job but taking away a valuable life lesson: Don’t play games with the city’s residency requirement.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 5:45 AM
60 Comments:
She didn't actually have to live here, she only had to intend to live here, leave a box of stuff lying around and take the case to the IL Supreme Court.
As always, 100% correct SCC. These "reporters" couldn't join the ranks of the unemployed fast enough for me.
No double standards here, move along please.
It's about time someone (FOP) get the ball rolling on the residency issue. The current law is archaic, punitive and most likely unconstitutional.
Nothing to see here.......
Was appointed by Rahm and will land another city or county job paying even more within 3 months.
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...and that practice of 'one law for me, another for you' makes your job as a police officer that much easier, yes?
Has anyone ever seen the statue that covers residency?
What qualifies you to be a resident of Chicago? How many days or nights do you have to stay in the house per week.
Because I looked and it never says whats a resident. Talked to a couple of bosses and that can't tell me.
The entire MSM is a joke. Biden calls the Tea Party terrorists because they want fiscal sanity, and our President is friends with Bill Ayers, who planted actual BOMBS. Fourth Estate my ass.
off subject does anyone have any info on the shit heads driving around Garfield Ridge jumping out on the neighborhood kids!
I see no equivilent here. One person was an employee who had a sham address and was fired and one person was running for office who temporarily left the city for government service. There are more important things to worry about at this point. Its done. Now we need a strong mayor to save the city from financial hard times.
Do as I say, not as I do!!! We see it all the time from his buddy and his buddy's wife sitting in the White House.
If you work at O'Hare the Commissioner in charge will give you a waiver. She did this for a retired FBI agent who resides in Naperville.
You think you guys have problems at CPD, CCC Chancellor Ms Hyman (AKA the meter reader) is west side native who still remembers her roots. She had juice when she was at ComEd and giving some obscure job in Business Strategy. Rumor was Meeks was her juice and the goofy ComEd CEO supported her.
During Ms Hyman's tenure she has "kept it real" at CCC in many meetings by raising her hand as she "mother fucked" the upper administrators. Really. She is making about $230,000 and zero education management experience and from looking at ComEd's org chart, she had two or three people reporting to her. Not surprisingly, Daley picks her.
She is a loose cannon that was put in place to blow CCC up, hire Rhams friends and contributors and then Rahm will pick someone else to lead.
If you go look at all the Board Reports which are required to be listed www.ccc.edu/brpublic from June 2010 on, you will see all the money she spent hiring the expelled CPS flunkies and the Rham connected Civic Federation brain trusts.
All but one of the college presidents have been replaced with outsiders or with folks that are connected in some way to Rham's or Oh-My-Bama. The hires will allow Rham to repay political favors and ingratiate himself with future heavy weight political donors.
To give you a taste of Ms Hyman's grasp of the English language, back in August 2010, Ms Hyman was addressing CCC's staff and faculty for the first time. She was speaking about the importance of students obtaining a bachelors degree. Unfortunately, Ms Hyman announced the importance of students obtaining a bachelorette degree. Fucking priceless!
The rules are different for special people. Only those without a phone call have to worry about following the rules.
Business as usual.
Doesn't Brizzard live outside the city? What's the difference between 'having an exemption' and 'flaunting the rules'? A PERMISSION SLIP? Give me a break!
It's just getting set up for a grievance or court case. This isnt over. It's just starting.
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do as I say and not as I do--- rahm is quickly proving himself to be a nemesis to organized labor in this town--- look at what is happening to the teachers union now--- look at the 650 city worker layoffs because they wouldn't play his way--- come next june we will be in the fight of our lives as our current collective bargaining agreement ends and we start working towards a new one--- united we stand, divided we fall....
Rahm's house isn't on the tax rolls? What do you mean?
Is it true that there was a meeting Friday and 150 PO's will be leaving the Administative Bureau and heading back to the beat?
no she's nothing like Rahm .... if she was she'd be happy she lost her gov't job ... now she can go to work for a quasi-governmental agency, for which she has no experience, and make $18 Million in 18 months .... and no one says boo
"Don't Do as I do, DO AS I SAY "!!!!!!!!!
9.5 tiny dancer
She probably got some issues of sexharrass and city put this out to get rid of her; then will take care of her in outofcourt settlement.
Rahm is a coniving little weasel. He is part of the Democrat machine and fits right into their profile of low life bottom feeder. Take care of the connected and let the rest fend for themselves. Throw them a few stale crumbs to keep them happy.
8/27/2011 04:07:00 PM
Get it right...
It is not the Democratic Machine.
It's the Chicago Machine.
Your political Party doesn't mean shit in this town once you get into a position of power.
Is it true that there was a meeting Friday and 150 PO's will be leaving the Administative Bureau and heading back to the beat?
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Why are there ANY able bodied POs doing any kind of administrative work in the first place?
do as i say , not as i do....if you don' t i'll void ur contract or fire u......
There are more important things to worry about at this point. Its done. Now we need a strong mayor to save the city from financial hard times.
8/27/2011 08:43:00 AM
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I'm still waiting !! So far nothing but assholes in the office.
For the question from guy who wants to know about garfield ridge.."e.j." in 008 had those kids and let them go when it turned out one of them was a "family member"
Enough Of This. These Silly Posting's Have Become Boring.
It's Time To Take To The Street's !
Let's Have A Revolution !
Just Like The French Revolution.
Who's With Me ????
Rahm is doing exactly the SAME THING as Gov Walker in Wisc, but saying "No I'm Not". The Head of the Chicago Federation of Labor is an absolute pussy for not addressing this. He is scared of Rahm so he says, nothing. Whatever happened to the days of Jimmy Hoffa and the power of labor,especially a week away from Labor Day. We should call it " Quiver Day".
Rahm's house isn't on the tax rolls? What do you mean?
Don't qoute me on this, but it was brought out before that 9.5 has his house listed as a school because his wife teaches Jewish classes in the house. Walla...NO TAXES !!!!
The lamestream media drove right by that information....Real investigative reporters, aren't they.
Why anyone here is surprised about anything that occurs in this city is beyond my comprehension.
Daley Broke this city a decade ago.
Clout Ruined it before he took over though.
If you want real Change....Start Focusing your Investigations on the People that are In charge.
File Complaints and Grievances.
Play IPRA against the White Shirts that need to go. Help IAD get rid of the PO's that Need to go.
Play IAD against IPRA so they clean up their act. Impress upon the ASA's and Judges that they are subject to the Rules if you know they are being stupid. Same with the Def Att's.
You're the Police...
Make the Politicians Afraid to Piss you off.
Penny wise and dollar foolish isn't that how the saying goes?
Fires a $120K/year admin and then throws the money away on alderman and ex-mayor security details and drivers -- drivers making runs to out of state golf courses.
I'm not impressed.
More money probably left the city and the state on one little golf outing than is being saved here with this show of force.
You should of videotaped the firing and sent it to Al Jazzera, that's how they do it now days ya know.
This is chump change compared to the scams being pulled off by Illinois corporations running there little downstate offices with nothing more than a fax machine and copier, $14 million dollars and still counting, channeling all their sales thru those offices to avoid the city of Chicago and Cook County sales taxes.
I imagine the corporations will get away with nothing more than a hand slap at most -- as long as their campaign donations are in the right place.
http://capitolfax.com/2011/08/24/airlines-sears-taking-advantage-of-downstate-tax-havens/
Or how about our own Illinois state congressmen awarding Scholarships to people outside their districts violating the laws?
They just going to get a hand slap too and then back to business as usual?
Talk about residency violations how about bringing that money back into the neighborhoods where it rightly belongs!
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-26/news/ct-edit-tuition-20110826_1_tuition-waivers-scholarships-bruno-siblings
Sweat the little stuff and broken windows. HA! It's corruption from the highest offices.
Take JP Morgan.
When you're a corporation no-one ever gets indicted and sent to jail for violating the law. Why? Campaign donations I guess how else would you explain it..
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US Treasury Reaches $88.3 Million JPMorgan Sanctions Settlement
The U.S. Treasury Department announced an $88.3 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) for apparent violations of international sanctions programs, including Cuban assets control and anti-terrorism regulations.
The Treasury said that JPMorgan through its correspondent banks maintained prohibited financial transactions with sanctioned entities in countries including Cuba and Iran.
The JPMorgan payment agreed upon by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, known as OFAC, involves “egregious” violations for five years, according to a Treasury Department statement.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-25/treasury-reaches-88-3-million-jpmorgan-sanctions-settlement.html
You think you guys have problems at CPD, CCC Chancellor Ms Hyman (AKA the meter reader) is west side native who still remembers her roots.
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What is CCC?
You Clowns still dont get it.He left Chicago to serve the President as his Chief of Staff. He didnt permanently vacate his residence. It stood a court challenge,he won. Move on already.
"It's about time someone (FOP) get the ball rolling on the residency issue. The current law is archaic, punitive and most likely unconstitutional.
8/27/2011 07:16:00 AM"
Apparently you didnt read the form you signed. Condition of Employment w/ the CPD, Member acknowledges/agrees, he/she is required to reside in the City of Chicago while employed by the Dept..Violation will result in termination.
Anonymous said...
Has anyone ever seen the statue that covers residency?
What qualifies you to be a resident of Chicago? How many days or nights do you have to stay in the house per week.
Because I looked and it never says whats a resident. Talked to a couple of bosses and that can't tell me.
8/27/2011 08:25:00 AM
You talked to a couple of bosses and they could not give you an answer? And this surprises you? What do you expect from a white shirt? Competence?
@8:51 CCC = Chicago City Colleges
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Is it true that there was a meeting Friday and 150 PO's will be leaving the Administative Bureau and heading back to the beat?
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Why are there ANY able bodied POs doing any kind of administrative work in the first place?
8/27/2011 04:25:00 PM
Because there is no one else to do it. Contrary to popular belief there are not that many light duty Officers. Also the city is not hiring civilians to do the jobs. Should able body POs be on the street? Yes. Until the City hires more civilian help someone has to do the jobs.
Has anyone ever seen the statue that covers residency?
What qualifies you to be a resident of Chicago? How many days or nights do you have to stay in the house per week.
Because I looked and it never says whats a resident. Talked to a couple of bosses and that can't tell me.
8/27/2011 08:25:00 AM
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Would that be the Statue of Liberty or the statue of Michael Jordan outside the United Center?
Or, could you mean 'STATUTE'? You claim to be the police. Don't you know the difference?
Tell your bosses the guidelines for IAD are 'where does he spend the bulk of his time'. That means, more than half. It means, where do you hang your hat, file your taxes from, pay your electric bill, have a lease, pull your car into the garage, do your laundry, sleep, receive your mail, register your car, greet your neighbors over the fence...
It isn't rocket science.
What qualifies you to be a resident of Chicago? How many days or nights do you have to stay in the house per week.
It's what the types like Rahm and Burke tell you it is.
Now, move along. Nothing to see here!
Unless things have changed in the past few years, the definition of what is residency for a city employee was settled by the courts. The city can require the employee to live in the city, but they cannot require the employee's family to live in the city. That is, if you have enough cash to have two homes you can have your wife and kids live any where you want, and you can go to that location to sleep on your days off. And, believe it or not, there are more then a few who are doing this.
I see no equivilent here. One person was an employee who had a sham address and was fired and one person was running for office who temporarily left the city for government service. There are more important things to worry about at this point. Its done. Now we need a strong mayor to save the city from financial hard times.
Thank you Rahm.
It is nice of you to read SCC
You Clowns still dont get it.He left Chicago to serve the President as his Chief of Staff. He didnt permanently vacate his residence. It stood a court challenge,he won. Move on already.
8/27/2011 10:39:00 PM
You make it sound like he was drafted and had no choice. He willingly left. Therefore resided permanently in DC. Did he still hold a driver's license with a Chicago address? No. Case closed.
You Clowns still dont get it.He left Chicago to serve the President as his Chief of Staff. He didnt permanently vacate his residence. It stood a court challenge,he won. Move on already.
Thank you again Rahm for reading SCC. If you dont like the heat get out of the (kitchen) office. I am sure there will be many volunteers to help you pack.
You Clowns still dont (sic)get it.He left Chicago to serve the President as his Chief of Staff. He didnt (sic) permanently vacate his residence. It stood a court challenge,he won. Move on already.
So where is the "actual resident of the City of Chicago" part in that ?
. . . Tell your bosses the guidelines for IAD are 'where does he spend the bulk of his time'. That means, more than half. It means, where do you hang your hat, file your taxes from, pay your electric bill, have a lease, pull your car into the garage, do your laundry, sleep, receive your mail, register your car, greet your neighbors over the fence...
It isn't rocket science.
The guidelines to know are those of the Police Board. IAD frequently loses those cases.
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Why are there ANY able bodied POs doing any kind of administrative work in the first place?
8/27/2011 04:25:00 PM
Ok, hater, because they fired all the civilians and there is NO ONE to do the work. If no one had any activity, then there would be less administrative work to do. SO, don't write tickets, ANOV's, contact cards, TSSSSS cards or make arrests; then you will have done your part to insure no one has to do anything 'administrative'
Now, if only they didn't need someone to handle CL#'s or find people for details or assign people to various in service classes, or file supervisor's logs, we wouldn't need anyone doing administrative work in the front office.
But, to get paid and know what car you are on tomorrow, someone still has to do A&A's and worksheets....
It isn't rocket science.
8/28/2011 12:27:00 AM
You are correct. It is commonly and informally known as the 4 of 7 rule.
And for everyone calling for FOP to act at contract time in regards to residency, simply stated, an ordinance or a law cannot be negotiated at the bargaining table.
Also, if you think discontent over residency began the day you came on the job, you are naive. Many attempts have been made over the years to eliminate, change, alter or diminish residency, but all have failed. The city has all the loopholes closed and the escape hatches all tightly secured. Without a change in the law, you are just spinning your wheels and getting red in face over something you are unable, incapable and presently unequipped to change.
It isn't rocket science.
8/28/2011 12:27:00 AM
For some it seems it is.
I see no equivilent here. One person was an employee who had a sham address and was fired and one person was running for office who temporarily left the city for government service. There are more important things to worry about at this point. Its done. Now we need a strong mayor to save the city from financial hard times.
So, I guess Rahm actually does read the blog eh?
Don't worry about little Miss Muffin. She will end up with a nice job in the private sector. If she can command $120 grand a year then she is on the higher end of the connected food chain.
Rumor has it that the IAd Agent that was stripped several months ago and is tucked away at records is bragging about having the Mayor issued a subpoena to testify at his board hearing when he gets his 30 pending for living in PArk Ridge..
Is saying that his case is no different than that of Rahms.
Go get him Al...
Guess now that the police hating Kirby is not wielding nay power in IAd any longer, some of those guys and other admin folks are going back to the beat finally!
Cant wait til JK gets back off his 5 year suspension -hope he winks at Kirby when she sees him in the hallway at 35th...
You Clowns still dont (sic)get it.He left Chicago to serve the President as his Chief of Staff. He didnt (sic) permanently vacate his residence. It stood a court challenge,he won. Move on already.
So where is the "actual resident of the City of Chicago" part in that ?
8/28/2011 10:55:00 AM
OK Moron, then every Service Member who's home of record is Chicago isnt an actual resident either? Have Mommy check the furnace the fumes are affecting your pea brain
Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
NOT IN CHICAGO!
IS CHICAGO UNCONDITIONAL?
Shades of Rahm? Well boss how about a statement from you regarding the city's recycling program. How much money does it generate? Where does this money go?
Anonymous said...
Rahm's house isn't on the tax rolls? What do you mean?
Don't qoute me on this, but it was brought out before that 9.5 has his house listed as a school because his wife teaches Jewish classes in the house. Walla...NO TAXES !!!!
The lamestream media drove right by that information....Real investigative reporters, aren't they.
8/27/2011 06:49:00 PM
BS. Index # 14-18-408-035-0000
First installment paid 2/23/2011 $8310.57. End of story!
BS. Index # 14-18-408-035-0000
First installment paid 2/23/2011 $8310.57. End of story!
8/30/2011 08:56:00 AM
and for 2010?
and 2009?
and 2008?
and 2007?
and 2006?
and 2005?
and 2004?
and 2003?
and 2002?
and 2001?
and 2000?
and 1999?
etc., etc., etc.?
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