Chicagoist: Passing the Torch

voted to no avail

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:58:14 -0600

Don't forget that it was former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, a republican, who appointed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who has become our only hope in Illinois. If Sen. Fitzgerald hadn't sacrificed his career, nothing would have happened in the past eight years. Ryan would have never been convicted and G Rod would not be investigated as public official A. Instead, the Dems and Reps and their bipartisan combine of corruption are under scrutiny and indictments and convictions are pouring in. These politicians will continue their behavior because it's the only way they know how to operate. Remember that the next time you let wedge issues and "party loyalty" (read: irrelevant at the local, non-legislative level) cause you to vote for an arrogant and inexperienced machine plant who will raise your taxes and continue with the business as usual waste and corruption that has numbed Cook County voters into an idiotic stupor of aw-shucks-dats-da-way-it-goes acceptance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fitzgerald

Chris

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:45:38 -0600

What I don't understand is that the citizens are outraged about the abuses in Crook county but the corrupt politicians continue to win elections. The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of stupid stupid people in cook county. The stupid people vote early and often. I vote every election but none of the 'reformer' candidates seem to win. The only hope, and I mean ONLY hope, is that the Feds will start indicting the County board members. They're the only entity with the power to stop this madness. Today I read in the Sun-Times that they obtained a recorded voicemail of a board member and he was basically giving away county jobs to his cronies. The Sun-times forwarded the message to the FBI! If I were that board member, I'd be scared as hell! It's just a matter of time before heads start rolling at county hall!

Patrick McDonough

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:39:33 -0600

Boy oh Boy, those Daley's boyz are pretty smart! We all knew this whole Cook County Mess would happen and it was spelled long before it happened. Nothing like good wholesome honest government, it just does not happen in Chicago. Next, oops, we need to raise taxes!

Rich

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:08:49 -0600

No Comment (silently snickers at all the democrat voters)

Byron

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:43:36 -0600

Seriously. Who wouldn't soak their pension for all it is worth? ...now on the subject of "appointments" to incomplete terms, I'm totally with you.

jocelyn

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:36:21 -0600

is there anything private citizens can do about this? a class action lawsuit of sorts? a referendum? call lisa madigan? petitions? protest? ???? you see what i'm getting at? short of using our voting power, is there anything we can do to stop this sort of thing?

Kevin

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:22:00 -0600

james: You have hit on one of the main sources of frustration that I have with this whole gang in Crook County. They circle their wagons and act like they are standing with poor black folk, when they really are just out for themselves. Shallot: It's true! And he actually does a really good job. I just don't do such a good job of spell checking and proofreading. My copyeditor has made me lazy ....

The Shallot

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:41:35 -0600

That's what happens when your copy editor goes on vacation. Chicagoist HAS a copyeditor?

james

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:34:57 -0600

if she doesn't want anyone to think she's a crook, then why did she admit to this [didn't even really announce it] on thanksgiving, when no one is paying attention to the news? like mike quigley said, it couldn't have been more quiet if she had announced her intentions at the women's washroom at 3am... and the whole 'it's a black thing' argument, as her and the strogers' defenders would say, is absurd, since the only black people that black politicians in cook county care about seem to be those in their own families who they can give jobs to. i hope that quigley and claypool and peraica eat toddler and bobbie's baby alive - they deserve it.

Kevin

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:36:00 -0600

John: Thanks! I don't hear that enough .... ce: Yeah, for a writer, my grasp of the English language is woefully inadequate. That's what happens when your copy editor goes on vacation.

ce

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:31:16 -0600

I hadn't heard about Steele's decision; thanks for posting. Geez. Just when you think it can't get more embarrassing for the county government... (Now, for the next post, can you please just learn how to use the word "its"?)

John Mc

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:00:26 -0600

Kevin, love your Cook County Board posts. If journalists continue the scrutiny, voters will be able to make informed choices next time around, with better candidates -- and perhaps the crooks won't be so brazen about putting their hands in the till.