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The Board meeting we went to a few weeks ago was excruciatingly boring, but some parts got cattier than a sorority house during period week. Looks like that was the theme yesterday, too, when things really got ugly at and after the meeting, with Bill Beavers leading the charge. But he wasn't the only one--lots of people got in on the action.
Liz Gorman on Tony Peraica: "loser," "pathetic, pathological liar," "abusive weasel," "no man," "ineffective leader," who has "no substance."
Tony Peraica on Liz Gorman: "no self-respect," "no dignity"
Todd Stroger on the Commissioners: "They're all afraid."
Bill Beavers on Tony Peraica: "I knew him when he was a young man, when he was over there in Bridgeport beating up black folks."
Joseph Moreno to Tony Peraica: "You are a jerk."
Forrest Claypool on Bill Beavers's comments: "That is silly."
Tony Peracia on Todd Stroger: "Todd Stroger's credibility -- which has nothing to do with race -- is at a low ebb"
According to the Daily Herald, "the battles were nearly over when the arguing turned to a sophomoric joke about oral sex." Well, sort of. Jim Clark, chief of staff for Commissioner Timothy Schneider, says it was more like sophomoric laughing at an innocent comment. According to Clark, Beavers said Gene Moore got "down on his knees and begged" for the deal struck between Moore, Schneider and Silvestri, and Schneider said "something like 'nobody got down on their knees in front of me.'" And then all the commissioners laughed like a bunch of seventh graders. "There was a lot of tension throughout the meeting," Clark says.
Compiled from Daily Herald, the Trib, and the Sun-Times.
Tony Peraica picture cropped from this freaking fantastic shot from his website
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Where's Sparky to weigh in in this whole thing? He's a Chicago expert.
"but some parts got cattier than a sorority house during period week."
Classic!
Let us not forget the best comment of all, Beavers stating "he's the hog with the big nuts and he's going to tell you how it is."
What's next? "Stone Cold" Steve Austin dropping a stunner on the commissioners?
I would hardly blame the North Cook suburbs for forming their own county. I would back it if I lived there.
yeah, no offense, but this is real southside shit.
evanston, wilmette, winetka all the way to lake forest are not into this type of governance.
matty,
i am curious. what is so inherently "south side" about this?
Well, the commissioners in question are native to the South Side, although I think it is safe to assume 99.9% of those below Madison are more intelligent than this.
Unanswered is why people in Beavers' district would elect this guy. His pro sales tax increase hurts poor people the most, and they form the majority of his district.
Flying below the radar on the Cook County Board is political hack Joan Murphy. Serving a district in the southern part of the County, Murphy is stabbing her voters in the back.
She is simply a machine hack in Stroger's pocket, chumming along with Beavers, Sims, Butler, Todd Stroger and the other crooks.
Murphy's only goal seems to be self-preservation. If she kisses up and votes for tax hikes and for sweetheart deals for the Stroger cronies, Beavers cronies, etc, then they will help Murphy in return. She'll get jobs and contracts to hand out and help with her next election.
The poverty pimps on the Cook County Board are entirely expected. This business with Joan Murphy is way more disappointing and disgusting.
"Flying below the radar on the Cook County Board is political hack Joan Murphy"
That should wind up on her next opponent's campaign attack literature
Maybe they should just have a TLC match and get it over with. Beavers in one corner, Peraica in the other. what would the over-under be on that?
And was anyone else grossed out by the big nuts comment made by Beavers?
This would be funny if it wasn't so sad and ridiculous. Can you imagine what Illinois politics looks like to the rest of the country? We're making Florida look good.
Over-under! Sparky is a betting man! I BET he's pretty cool. I like bettors, they make BETTER choices on what part of the city to move to that won't scare the bejesus out of them! Har-de-oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a bucnh of low class people in Cook County Government.
Yep Daley we really are a world class city to perhaps Omaha!
Right on the head Crook County, right on the head. Now get me going on Daley's friend in the White House, and I will name you Crook Country.
"We represent the Leperchaun King, Leperchaun King, Leperchaun King..."
Oz all over.
The crook co commisioners are the most pathetic bunch of losers ever elected. This is the type of goverment you get when you have one party control. These commissioners dont care about the voters they care about patronage jobs and no bid contracts for friends and family. It is absoultley pathetic that tax increases are all this group offers.
I think it's the type of government you would get if you went to the local mental ward.
They all seem a little crazy to me.
Or perhaps hired all 5th graders.
But then Toddler is the leader.
Are you sure they were elected or are they all out of day passes from the nut house?
Or is this some type of therapy for them?
Calling Dr. Phil!