Groot Speaks with Forked Tongue
Groot thinks she can run a business?
Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned ComEd’s top executive this week that the city will not renew its utility agreement with the electric company unless she receives a “substantive” plan that details goals for ethics reform, an end to residential disconnections, help with the city’s clean energy goals and other measures.
In a letter sent Tuesday to ComEd CEO Joseph Dominguez, Lightfoot chided the utility for not committing broadly to ending all disconnections during the COVID-19 pandemic and the recession. In July, she called out Dominguez in another letter for the company’s role in a federal corruption probe. ComEd confessed to paying $1.3 million in bribes to associates of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Lightfoot’s administration said this summer — and officials reiterated at a public hearing Tuesday — that it would be too expensive, costing billions of dollars, to follow through on a proposed city takeover of the power grid from ComEd. That admission eliminated some leverage the mayor had in negotiations.
Groot has been claiming for months that she doesn't have any money (the last paragraph says it would cost billions she doesn't have) but she expects ComEd to stop shutoffs that - essentially - give away electricity for free.
How do you run a business without income? You think this would have been a clue:
With schools closed, restaurants shut down and an economic collapse looming in the early weeks of the pandemic, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced plans to stop ticketing, booting and impounding cars throughout the city to ease financial pressures on Chicagoans.
“The only ticketing that is going to be happening is if there is a car or other vehicle posing some kind of public safety threat. But the normal ticketing should be suspended until April 30,” she said during a March 18 news conference. “So, for example, an expired meter that is otherwise legally parked and not posing a public safety threat, you should not be getting ticketed.”
[...] Try telling that to anyone else who got hit with one of the more than 35,000 parking tickets the city issued during the period Lightfoot told the public they’d be getting a break.[...] A Tribune analysis of city parking data found that nearly half of the tickets were given to cars for expired meters in the downtown area — an infraction Lightfoot specifically had singled out as exempted from punishment.
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F.U.L.L.
Better yet play strong arm with People's Gas, they've passed on rate hikes and cost overruns on everyone in Chicago.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/illinois-national-guard-being-placed-in-state-of-readiness-ahead-of-breonna-taylor-decision-in-louisville/2343165/
Guess who pays for the free electricity ? This fucking midget fool has to get the hell out.
All the media outlets did report around July 1st that the city would resume most ticketing July 16th except for expired vehicle registration which would resume October 2nd.
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
EXCLUSIVE: 'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun
Years ago, we saw a TV show about "gun control;" they interviewed some guy who was standing in the middle of his lawn, making broad, angry gestures at the residences across the street.
"Yeah, they should go through all those places and take all the guns!"
I related this to someone else, and he not only agreed, but expanded upon the theme."They should use the SCANNERS and go over this WHOLE DAMNED COUNTRY and take ALL THE GUNS!" I did not bother asking for technical elaboration...
Thus, the "Alyssas" - merely other people not worth knowing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8756911/Defund-police-activist-Alyssa-Milano-sparks-massive-police-presence-calling-911.html
And just last week the beloved all knowing Mayor proceeded to go on a popular sports radio show where she scolded and warned the Chicago Bears organization that they had better not ask to have any fans at Soldier Field this year and the future until she approves of their comprehensive plans to make all attendees completely safe.If I am 1 of the Bears owners,unfortunately they have about 10 of them,I would be blowing in calls to downstate Illinois,St Louis and Iowa to hold games with 25 to 30,000 Fans cutting the City of Chicago and the Park District out of any money.The Cubs,White Sox,Bulls,and Blackhawks should be doing the same.
Groot is the worst thing to hit Chicago since the great fire of 1871.
I actually miss mumbles and 9.5.
SJW's don't know how to run anything other than their mouths, taxpayers out of town and businesses into bankruptcy. Way to go you ugly, little frog eyed idiot. Too bad we can't get her out of office before her term in office ends. There might not be much left of the city by the end of her term.
As a further reflection on the dwarf’s inability to govern, it announced that schools may not open as previously planned and parents may not be told if someone in the school has Covid-19. However, all the antics of the dwarf are Trump’s fault.
Notice she calls out Commonwealth Edison in the scheme but never mentions the associates of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan nor Madigan himself.
And the pipe dream of the City taking over the power grid. We would have service like North Korea or Venezuela!
Move over Groot, this nasty old bag has lost her mind too.
"My husband John lived by a code: country first. We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There's only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden".
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) September 22, 2020
City stopped disconnecting Water for non-payment... and surprise (Gomer!) the revenues are down... wonder why?
As soon as you stop disconnecting the electric or gas for non-payment, why the fuck should anyone pay?
When no one pays, the utility can't pay to maintain the grid - so it fails... no money to pay means no one employed to fix it.
Welcome to the Jungle, Groot...
Fucking democrat moron - just resign already - you're completely useless
Seattle pays convicted pimp $150,000 to be its 'Street Czar' and come up with 'alternatives to policing' as he boasts he can talk to 'gangsters and prostitutes who won't sit down with anybody else'
Here, Western Civilization gets down in the mud, whining and belly-crawling to the worst sort of vile criminals who wish for nothing more than smashing and killing and burning, burning, burning.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8760587/Pimp-turned-activist-paid-150-000-Seattle-work-street-czar.html
Businesses can open with the exception of restaurants and bars serving food that are limited by capacity. Restaurants and bars are covid infection vectors and also present a health danger to employees.
The baroness of cesspoolville has a few screws loose and we are stuck with this wretched wench for another 2 years. Get ready for 12's and rdo's cancelled, louisville ready to erupt.
The F’n city doesn’t own or run the parking meters, what makes that bug eyed varmint think she can suspend any ticketing on them. The city is losing millions because we lost the meters and parking garages. Unreal.
Groot has gone from creepy town idiot o dangerous. You screw up the power supply and you destroy what’s left of a civilized city. What next, no food supplied to Chicago unless totally organic and grown only on neighborhood farms in south and west side? Like they can produce grape soda and flamin hot Cheetos.
I guess Lori's plan is to , uh, have the city go dark?
Give's new meaning to the phrase: "Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights..."
Prince Richie the Demented made the same threat a couple decades ago.
In response, CommieEd stopped all preventive maintenance in the city.
Some of you may remember the transformer fires and blackouts that followed.
Loved getting that park zone ticket via air mail while all parks were closed due to COVID 19. Can we get a in person hearing or are they closed also.
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
9/23/2020 12:46:00 AM"
In honor of Roman Pucinski, the greatest Polish alderman Chgo ever had.
Didn't Daley 2 renew ComEd for 100 years, who dictated the terms to Daley?
Why doesn't she ask for the money to come from Mike Madigan. With all the money bribe money he made it would be a small dent. That should cover about all the electric bills that families couldn't pay because Lori made sure their places of employment were shut down.
If Com Ed had any balls they'd publicly call her bluff.
LOL.
I'd love to see Com Ed turn out the lights on the City if they won't agree to a contract.
This sounds like bullying to me.
Com ED, tell groot to pound sand
Groot is an unwitting pawn for the Democratic Socialists of America
From their website:
"Chicago DSA is the Chicago local of the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest American socialist organization in nearly a century, with over 70,000 members nation-wide and upwards of 3000 in Chicago.
We share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, abolition of the prison industrial complex, feminism, racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships. We are socialists because we reject an economic order based on private profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination based on race, sex or any other factor, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo. We are democratic socialists because we believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for the few.
Chicago DSA is an entirely volunteer-run, member driven organization with priority campaigns to enact universal rent control in Illinois, democratize ComEd, and defund the Chicago police and fund our communities. Chicago DSA also hosts regular political education programming and engages in rank-and-file labor organizing and strike solidarity campaigns, among other work."
Already we have 6Aldermen who are members.
Lightfoot will be one term. DSA will try to push for one of their own next election
Lars Pilsen
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
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Sorry sarge.. I can't see them from where I am in Tennessee. That's where me and my family went when I retired.
If the rest of you are smart you'll also get out of that communist state.
The businesses are shut, so they are not paying for electricity.
The Bizarro lady runs a Bizarro city.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Boot crew working o.t. In Edison Park.
"Lightfoot’s administration said...that it would be too expensive...to follow through on a proposed city takeover of the power grid from ComEd."
Lightbulb needs to think outside the North American box and consult with her compatriots in South Africa - they know how to make it work.
"an end to disconnections"
it is wonderful to want to take care of the poor and downtrodden, but given how cunning humans are, this gets translated to saying "i want free electricity."
more free stuff courtesy of the Mayor!
The real utility thieves are PEOPLES GAS. Take a good look at your bill, the combined taxes and "fee's" are $34 bucks a month including a "storage fee".
Storage fee?
Is there a huge tank containing natural gas buried on my property?
Most officers have stopped issuing parking tickets under the belief that COVID is still a real threat.
Either it is or it isn't, what is it?
Please put the answer in the CO book so we know, because no one has the definitive answer.
America
As I understood the parking meter deal, the city only received money from tickets written but the company received all meter payments. The city also was to pay if the meters could not be used, such as a street shutdown by the city. Since it was lightfoot who shut us down for covid, is the city responsible for lost meter fees during that time?
My wife is a teacher. We have a year-round school system, they have been back in school since August. Nobody is dead yet. No spike. This scamdemic is only hurting Liberal Democrat-led areas.
Our bars and restaurants are open. You wear a mask until they seat you. Your "leaders" are scamming you, as usual.
Larri isn’t expecting much in the way of donations from ComEd is she?
Outright and typical strong arm tactic.
Covid’s is just about over with and Larri is wondering about shut-offs...for not paying bills, because people either won’t or can’t pay? Shutting off and shutting out Gold Coast shoppers, downtown, the business offices, the restaurants and all the revenues it brought in, all those lost jobs, that was smart.
And what about still shutting off beach and lakefront access except to feral violent thugs, rioters and protesters?
Gotta have free electric service for that free WiFi’ed computers she doled out and for those highly compensated StayAtHome e-skooling teachers. But everyone else like homeowners will have to pay more, even for lead in water, adding surcharges to cellphone and cable bills and looks like more for trash pickup too.
ComEd isn’t losing money for decreased electric delivery, even as CPS is still Closed, or City Hall is at -10% capacity, CookCo is even less. But ComEd still has to answer to the Shareholders and they expect a decent return in a Trump Economy like everyone else. Whatever is given away for free is a write-off and that equates to less tax they pay and bill increases in one form or another for the rest of us.
Wicked, evil, bipolar maniac that NOBODY likes. What a way to live.
Larri LightFührer will not be re-elected and perhaps is being told and realizes this. Her only plan now is to ruin as much as possible for the next guy. She hasn’t picked on LaSalle St bankers...yet, and I wonder when the last time of if she’ll be invited back to City Club of Chicago after the Nov 4th Covid Recovery.
FU
L L
Groot makes Mumbles Daley look like a philosopher.
Keep it up Larry “boom out go the lights!” Don’t worry they “contribute” to you and the other democrats in the corrupt swamp right? Hypocrisy is your mantra!
Can someone explain to me how the city can suspend tickets for parking at meters they sold to a private company? I have to believe there would be an agreement in place that would be breeched by this. No?
Once again, there is always someone just scraping by and graduating from the bottom of their class.... FULL. My god, she is one angry, bitter hag.
LOL. I have a crazy idea. Every time somebody calls 911 there should be answering machine:" Sorry, we are defunded. Please leave a message, we'll get back to you as soon as we can".
Certainly idiots like Alyssa should hear that. Don't you think?:)
Most democrat hacks don't have a clue how to run a successful business. Exhibit A, B. Hussein Obama. Neither Sparklefarts nor anyone in his entire Cabinet had any experience running so much as a lemonade stand, but wanted to dictate policy concerning running the largest economy in the world, namely that of the USA. Lightloafers and her crew of clueless idiots are just more of the same.
Thank the Lord we currently have a President who has an extensive history of running large businesses and generating capital and JOBS. If somehow senile Joe Biden gets into office in the coming election our economy, stock market, and country will fall into chaos.
“ Groot has been claiming for months that she doesn't have any money (the last paragraph says it would cost billions she doesn't have) but she expects ComEd to stop shutoffs that - essentially - give away electricity for free.”
She
She
She.
3 times “SHE” is mentioned in reference to OUR money.
I guess the use of “she” is somehow referencing HER fiduciary duty.
Anyway, fuck Groot, SHE will sign whatever agreement is pushed in front of her.
WE do not have any choice.
As for suspending parking meter tickets.
Does SHE (we) have the ok to do this from the company that essentially owns those parking spaces???
Headline:
ComEd, other state utilities extend moratorium on residential disconnections due to COVID-19 pandemic until March 31
They caved fuck it why bother to pay moving soon for the next 6 months free electricity alright that’s what we be talkin about! Fucking Larry let’s bankrupt everything let’s follow your lead and say fuck you to every bill!!
Lets see, Groot, by her actions and inactions, has all but destroyed the Downtown area, the Police Department, and now she will destroy the electrical service in Shitcago. Groot is hell bent on turning a once great American city into a third world shithole. If Groot isn't the poster child for why the Democratic Party should be declared a public hazard and outlawed, I don't know who is.
Anonymous said...
SJW's don't know how to run anything other than their mouths, taxpayers out of town and businesses into bankruptcy. Way to go you ugly, little frog eyed idiot. Too bad we can't get her out of office before her term in office ends. There might not be much left of the city by the end of her term.
9/23/2020 01:12:00 AM
No long ago in countries far and away the townspeople would have dragged her by her bald ass head into to the town square hanged, drawn and quartered her for thus ending her reign of terror...
Lightfoot couldn’t open an umbrella.
Yep,,,,I can go to a bar where the bartender sees probably over 100 different people during 6 hours but the dwarf and midget say no to teachers seeing the same 25 kids for 6 hours
hey groot-------- F U !!!!
How about also not ticketing people trying to patronize businesses? How about making this more friendly toward everyone in Chicago, businesses and customers alike.
1:01 has it right....the Bears, Blackhawks, Cubs, and White Sox should be looking to play elsewhere.....St. Louis, Peoria, etc.?.....adios Larry
So correct me if I'm wrong but isnt Chicago Parking Meters LLC guaranteed a certain amount of revenue by contract whether parking meters are paid or not? So even if Chicago allowed people to park without paying meters and said no tickets, the City was still on the hook for paying them. So wouldnt this increase the deficit Chicago had already brought on itself?
And just last week the beloved all knowing Mayor proceeded to go on a popular sports radio show where she scolded and warned the Chicago Bears organization that they had better not ask to have any fans at Soldier Field this year and the future until she approves of their comprehensive plans to make all attendees completely safe.If I am 1 of the Bears owners,unfortunately they have about 10 of them,I would be blowing in calls to downstate Illinois,St Louis and Iowa to hold games with 25 to 30,000 Fans cutting the City of Chicago and the Park District out of any money.The Cubs,White Sox,Bulls,and Blackhawks should be doing the same.
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The Bears had a perfect chance to move elsewhere. They chose to stay in Chicago. They deserve the bad things that happen to them for that horrible decision.
Why are the yellow vested political patronage hacks who work the corners and streets around public schools still out there when there are no in student classes taking place? Place those individuals on unemployment.
if I were in charge of ComEd, I would tell the mayor.....go ahead, it's your electricity now..you run it, we're out of here
keep groot away from our electric , Chicago is almost Detroit we don't want a grid like Puerto rico
crime is worse now than ever
brown is out to lunch if brown has any testicular fortitude he will endorse Patrick O'Brien
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
The city and state, as well as the entire world is swirling down a drain and you are worried about street lights! Glad you weren’t my Sgt.!
If Chicago has no money you would think they would be going with the lowest bidder regardless of virtue signals.
Lori, a racist idiot who only got into law school by affirmative action and fat ass Pritzker who only got into law school because of family money threw gasoline on the soon to be riots in Chicago by disagreeing with a legitimate grand jury proceeding in the breonna Taylor case. When you shoot at police bad things can happen. Unfortunately Lori and Pritzker must agree with the mob of the permanent victim class to cause riots to help senile joe and racist catholic hating Harris get elected. They want violence . End of story. It’s no surprise any longer. Any damage tonight is directly attributable to the bug eyed bitch and the fat ass.
F.U.L.L. That’ll be all. good bye for know .
Thanks to the Dwarf, Northern Indiana including Gary is in the middle of a resurgence. Tired of high taxes, crime and eternal corruption, businesses and people are taking advantage of Indiana's close in location with its South Shore RR to downtown, I-80, I-94, I-65, low tax rates. Home builders and rehabbers are flocking to Gary. It will soon become a Chicago bedroom community. All thanks to Groot, Madigan and fatass.
The cold-hard reality is that the Democrat Socialist Party does not believe that black people have the wherewithal to obey the laws of a civilized society; therefore, they endeavor to exempt them from societal law. Any way you might choose to look at this, the Socialists are practicing the most perverse and blatant form of racism black people have ever experienced. Of course, racism is hardcoded into the DNA of the Democrat Socialist; so, this should surprise no one.
Go ahead and riot. It's getting really old. What's not getting old are the votes these morons are getting for Trump.
His money is what flows through most of these NGOs and non-profits, including BLM.
Who cares they do not have the numbers or the guns to pull it off...They may get by democrat controlled cities but try the middle of America and find out how short your life span will be
You don't gain political support by demanding ,intimidation, destroying,and looting Your days are numbered BLM more and more people are realizing what you are really about The BLM is a Communist and antinuclear family organization
BLM is not after political support. Their goal is to destroy the USA. We need to destroy them first.
Communists appear not to care about popularity. This is a dead giveaway that they are eyeing other methods of getting the power, The usual suspects: cheating or the use of force.
No Lies Matter!
November 3rd will not come fast enough for that message to be made clear.
28 1/2 year retired Sgt +13 still wearing uniform (not now) Black lives have always mattered to me since I was growing up in 60's and beyond. What I learned through my police work was that there were great black people who had turd relatives creating problems and they became indignant.
The black on black, black on white etc crime wears you out especially when you are working to help solve the murder, shooting etc and nobody helps and the killing goes on. Worked with some great Black officers who I would stand with always and played Basketball with outstanding athletes.
I have a Black son in law and 5 mixed grandchildren plus mixed marriages among others. I am sick and tired of the rioting, burning looting, assaults, arson, murders and people who are on the streets because they are too ignorant to read the facts and are being led by Black racist leaders feeding the same BS. Hang tough, brothers and sisters and watch your six
I am a pissed off, but very prepared grandpa that has nothing to lose. Let the cowards come. Come through my neighborhood, get ready for some lead poisoning. Just saying, we have rights too.
Gee, I'm shocked - more burning, looting, rape and pillaging in Louiville. Chicago tomorrow, New York on Friday, and the finale of the BLM tour California.
Ho-hum. It's just another day.
let us not worry.. they are burning the larger Democrat cities.. not the burbs.. they know better than that... and all they are doing is making Democrats who have to live in those cities vote for Trump.. kick back and enjoy the fireworks... you can't fix stupid..but you can watch it on nitely news...
Trump 2020 - Because someone has to be for Law and Order.. it surely is not the Democrats.. they care not for your life.. its all politics.. Democrats own it all.
Just been told over and over the police didnt knock, now we find out they did. 12M Payment and still acting crazy based on what? Misinformation?
We got a pimp in Seattle getting paid 150K to reform police. Wells Fargo CEO says he can't find talent - maybe he can hire the pimp and or prostitutes? It is about bending over backwards because of privilege to work and pay most of the tax burden now right like food stamps. Ebt, and welfare.
Why not hire criminals pay them more than the people at the top in order to reform banking and all sectors of the economy in the racist nation USA? Just being sarcastic.
The Chicago Police department.
The MOST incompetent shit-show in the world.
This is the result meritoriously promoting MORONS over and over again.
BLM is creating resentment and maybe even racism from Americans, that didn't exist before.
This is because BLM and ANTI-BLACK RACISM are based on LIES
Here is the real, root cause of their problems. Here is the ULTIMATE RED PILL, that the right does not acknowledge and that the left censors. You cannot solve the problem if you refuse to acknowledge the cause. Hence, the problems will persist. Because of this, the left will continue lying about the cause, by blaming you for racism and oppression.
None other that Malcolm X warned black Americans of the inherent evil intentions of white liberals.
Malcolm X said: "There are many whites who are trying to solve the
problem. But you never see them going under the label of liberals." He
warned blacks that: "A white American who identifies
as a liberal is
the most dangerous and deceitful thing in the Western Hemisphere." He
compared white liberals to a fox, which unlike the wolf, deceives its
prey, i.e., they claim to be fighting
for the rights of black
Americans when the reality is that they are exploiting blacks for their
own benefits. Let's hear them call Malcolm X an Uncle Tom and/or
sellout.
In a speech given Dec. 4, 1963, he said: "The white liberal
differs from the white conservative in one way. The liberal is more
deceitful and hypocritical than conservatives. Both want power;
but the white liberal has perfected the art of posing as the black man's (sic) friend and benefactor."
So does black lives really matter, it seems only when it is use for the democrat political machine.
Didn't you know that the virus doesn't spread during protests, only during republican political rallies, just ask BLM and Antifa members and members of the Democratic party.
They call it Reparation
I call it Anarchy
Force and threats must be met with
Law enforcement
Only then will there be order
Alyssa Milano another Cali resident reimaging the police and exploiting the police for self serving purposes. Alyssa another wacko in the land of wacko's.
Anonymous said...
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
Hey sarge. It’s a faulty light sensor. At night if you shine a flashlight under the green street light box on the corner, the street lights will turn off all night. The sensor is under that. I take it you worked inside a lot.
Lease the power lines to the folks who have the skyway lease, that way Groot can blow all the up front money, and screw generations of Chicagoans..
You watch..
Well, she's a creature afterall...
I expect nothing less...
"None other that Malcolm X warned black Americans of the inherent evil intentions of white liberals."
Every time I read about Malcolm X and his wisdom I think, isn't it pitiful that that's about all they have to name schools after.
Sounds like he's talking about Chicago doesn't it? He's right on target too.
https://bluelivesmatter.blue/cop-shot-by-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-sends-email-rant-to-entire-department/
Anonymous said...
Didn't you know that the virus doesn't spread during protests, only during republican political rallies, just ask BLM and Antifa members and members of the Democratic party.
9/23/2020 07:30:00 PM
**I've noticed that too...also during west and south side parties!! By the way, Kids cannot go to school, citizens cannot attend sports games, limited church activity, no beaches all summer, yet police go to training in a building that's only fit for rats and we sit on top of each other, sometimes 40 people in a room! How the fuck can we go to training, sit close to each other, do scenarios yet kids cant go to school?
One of the home schooled psych ward rape babies that work in the Water Management's Commissioner's office posted a tribute to our victim of the week on the official DWM page and was summarily trounced by, it appeared, all the people of earth and then was taken down. Water keeps demonstrating it's sympathies any way it can. Sewer Cleaning foremen make more than a captain and do infinitely less work. If you can imagine that. I'm gonna take a guess and say about half of DWM makes over $100,000/year and at least 10% make $200,000.
Anonymous said...
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
Hey sarge. It’s a faulty light sensor. At night if you shine a flashlight under the green street light box on the corner, the street lights will turn off all night. The sensor is under that. I take it you worked inside a lot.
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They will stay on if the sensors have not been cleaned for a while from all the road smut, too.
On parking meters-
The parking meter company gets $10-20-40 million or something guaranteed on a per period(monthly?) basis ,and if they don't collect that amount the city pays them the difference. I forget the figures, was discussed here years ago.
They are rioting in the "burbs" , some family with a big Trump sign out in the "burbs" in one of these cities had theirs cars garage and house burned down. There are pictures at Brietbat/Gateway Pundit of their property on fire
Enjoy your rolling blackouts Chicago.
From,
A citizen in the Free Zone
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
Retired Ol Sixgun Sarge
The city and state, as well as the entire world is swirling down a drain and you are worried about street lights! Glad you weren’t my Sgt.!
9/23/2020 02:50:00 PM
Shockingly, people can be concerned about more than one thing at a time. While I'm not the original poster, I wouldn't want you working for me if you can't understand the concept of multi-tasking.
If you don' don't mind SCC, I have an observation regarding the Parking Tickets part of the Post. And this is a long post.
After the March 18th press conference, Parking Enforcement at Finance was instructed to Only Issue tickets for Public Safety violations + Parking Meters.
We use a Hand Held computer. The Software can be entered by management to insert or remove Title 9 Violations for *reasons* like a Do not Enforce order from City Hall.
Tickets for Expired Plates and Expired City Stickers and Residential Permit violations stopped getting issued. We stopped enforcing Commercial Vehicle violations and Taxi/Livery/Limo parking bans. We still are not issuing Expired Plate Tickets until at least October. We even stopped issuing tickets for Improper Display of City Sticker and Parking the Wrong Way on a 2 Way Street.
The article shows a list of tickets issued from 3/18 to 4/30. The list includes tickets that Finance was Ordered to Not Issue.
So the question now becomes, who was issuing these tickets? I know from experience and from reading the Blog that there has been a slow down in Parking Tickets and Compliance Tickets under title ( since Daley started screwing with Court time.
But I also know from first hand experience that in some districts, cops love their Street Cleaning and Rush Hour tickets. And I'm not going to gripe over this because I get it. Ticketing vehicles for Street Cleaning and Rush Hour is a great way to have activity that ISN'T *Insert BS profiling complaint here*
I've even suggested 'write parkers because you're not profiling a vehicle that has expired tags or is missing its front plate."
I'm just requesting that no one scream and point fingers at Finance for this one.
Now regarding the meters.
We know the Lease was stupid. Shouldn't have been allowed by the Council. But it is what it is at this point.
The City Owns the Meters. The Lease is just that...A Lease. CPM/LAZ gets the $ from the payboxes and has to maintain and repair.
The City has the legal right to shut off the meters still. But it would cost $ per vehicle space for every hour of operation per day
the meters were turned off during "Normal Operating Hours."
In the CBD some of those meters are on 24 hours and 7 days a week.
Thats a lot of $ the City would have to fork out to CPM. The amount I heard was over 10 million.
We all remember how CPM was at one time ticketing Marked CPD vehicles. I recall a thread here a few years ago about how a unit got nailed, I think it was on Northwest Hwy in 016. The City ordered CPM to not touch Marked City Vehicles. CPM told the city off because Contract language didn't exempt City or County or State vehicles from having to pay the meters.
Observation: CPM isn't exempt from paying the meters. Run them through whatever database y'all use "IF you were going to be checking Meters." I've ticketed CPM for the meters. Never got told to stop by my Managers.
You guys and gals in Blue stay Safe.
If no tickets being issued, what did the meter maids do that whole time?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slightly O T: Why are the streetlights on DURING BROAD DAYLIGHT along Milwaukee Ave and Devon Ave?
Just curious....
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Speaking of which, I’ve also noticed the street lights never turn off around cumberland/irving park area..I smell a conspiracy...hmmm
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