Chicagoist: Daley Entering the Cornbleet Rumble

guest

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:57:23 -0600

I guess you think the Mayor of the third biggest city in the country should drive around in a Civic wearing suits from Men's Wearhouse and flying Southwest. "We can't afford this!"

Ferdy

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:01:03 -0600

First, we have a moratorium, not a ban. Blago wants to bring back the death penalty. Second, what do you think the average Frenchman knows about state law? Tell me what the position on anything in the Languedoc province is? Do you think that the average Frenchman won't be all up in arms about extradition, even if the government tells them that the death penalty is off the table? Finally, I was curious about funding for the Sister City program. It is a nonprofit that gets donations. But it is not my understanding that Daley is going under the auspices of the Sister City program. I'd like to know just who IS funding his trips and what the quid pro quo is.

guest

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:40:56 -0600

Ward Up- How did you form your opinion on France? Was it due to extensive travel or contact with actual French people? I'm just wondering, thanks.

guest

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:13:03 -0600

Give me a break, Ferdy. Your argument really has no weight because of the reason Shannon pointed out. I find it funny that Daley can do all this traveling but never bring back a good idea about mass transit. Instead, we get rented bikes and meaningless pleas for extradition, business of the State Dept and our federal officials.

sparky

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:02:51 -0600

Who is running the city when Da Mare is out of it for extended periods of time?

Patrick McDonough

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:40:02 -0600

Daley found a company outside the U.S. to pick up the tab for his many travels. Mayor Daley needs to worry about issues in Chicago. Make the bikes in the west side of Chicago, blacks need jobs. polly vue monsewer daley?

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:47:41 -0600

Illinois has a moratorium on executions, so that's not really an issue.

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:48:26 -0600

Slow news day, apparently. We get it, we get it, Chicagoist and everyone associated with it hates Daley, but this kind of post just takes away from whatever small amount of credibility this sight might have. You may as well have written a diatribe about how you hate his ties.

Shannon

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:54:29 -0600

ferdy: that's all well and good, and their right, but the cornbleet family have agreed not to seek the death penalty. that just makes the whole situation all the more frustrating.

Ferdy

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:02:24 -0600

France will not return the subject not only because he is a national, but because they disagree with the American way of death penalty. As a member of Amnesty International, I applaud that stand.

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:58:29 -0600

Civilized countries may well refuse to extradite accused criminals to the US because of the death penalty. If this is an issue here, perhaps Dick Devine could publicly decline to seek it in this case. Moreover, I'm ashamed, as a citizen of Chicago, to say that Richie can't give any believable assurance to a foreign government that someone extradited to Chicago won't have a confession beaten out of him by our outstanding police force.

Ward Up

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:55:21 -0600

The US-bashing country in question continously demands our respect. That we should rise above their level of petty envy and rudeness. But this issue is so outrageous that I can only say Frog, Frog, Frog. At least Daley and his mayoral counterpart over there will have something in common. Neither is fluent in English.

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:48:02 -0600

Actually, the rumor in the legal community, widely believed but not substantiated, is that, after Richie flunked the bar exam the second time (I've taken and passed the bar exam - it's very, very easy), someone at the Board of Law Examiners made clear to Daley senior that, if Richie's previous performance on the test was any guide, he was never going to pass. The Board of Law Examiners is an arm of the Illinois Supreme Court; Daley senior was at that point essentially appointing three Illinois Supreme Court justices. In any case, so the story goes, Cecil Partee ultimately took the test for Richie, in which no one can fail to see the humor. Again, this is both unsubstantiated and pretty well accepted, for whatever that's worth. There's a fine history of Daleys doing this sort of thing. Both Michael and John Daley are reputed to have cheated on the real estate exam during the same period (the person who said so being the examiner who changed their scores to passing). That's particularly sorry in light of the astonishing simplicity of the real estate exam.

Spook

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:10:19 -0600

actually he would have flunked again, but his father picked up the phone and said "pass my son"

Ferdy

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:02:05 -0600

I didn't go to law school. He did. So do I. Will you all pony up some money so I can go to Paris and see the king?

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:51:15 -0600

Ferdy how many times have you taken bar exam and passed? Cut the guy a break on this one. He is right to want the guy brought to justice.

Ferdy

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:43:42 -0600

Yeah, Daley's no dummy. He only flunked the bar exam twice.

Ferdy

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:43:06 -0600

Who do you think supplies the fund? Taxpayers, of course.

Shannon

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:38:44 -0600

ferdy, i think this is one of the few trips where we don't pick up the tab. since paris is a sister city, i believe there's a fund to take care of such inter-sister-city trips. course, as to who supplies that fund, i am in the dark.

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:37:13 -0600

You do reaize that the "um, aah, err, " thing is an act? In private he is 100% on. Hate him if you like, but he is no dummy.

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:01:04 -0600

I agree with Ferdy. Goes to show how smart Daley is. He still has my vote come next election. :)

Spook

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:51:10 -0600

N.... please! He needs to "extradite" Jon Burge from Florida and climb into a jail cell with him

Ferdy

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:43:25 -0600

What the hell does the mayor of Paris have to do with extradition. It's the national government that does that. Daley just wants a chocolate crepe under that funny metal tower on OUR dime.