Mike Flannery Interviews the Toddler

By Kevin Robinson in News on Mar 27, 2008 5:30PM

Todd Stroger sat down with CBS2's Mike Flannery for a 40 minute interview about patronage, county health system billing blunders, the county budget, unfairness in the media and the pay hike his cousin Donna Dunnings got out of the new budget. You can watch it here.

We're not sure who's more awkward - the Toddler or Flannery, but there are some nifty highlights:
Go to 8:10 to see the Toddler look for his cell phone!
Go to 9:25 to see him flog the Sun Times, including accusing Carol Marin of getting her facts wrong and writing columns for Forrest Claypool!
Go to 14:45 to see Todd Stroger talk about how he only has 14 months on the job!
Go to 15:45 to hear the Toddler defend the County's Picnic Table Inspector!
Go to 23:00 to see Stroger stagger through the new health services bill collection plan!
Go to 29:00 to see Stroger talk about why the patronage report was wrong!

More great lines from the Toddler:

"Donna has been unjustly crucified about a pay raise, when in actuality last year she said that she wouldn't take a pay raise because of the deficit."

"I like to go to Jewels. And I like to go to Target to shop. People stop me there. And, actually, I get a lot of, 'Boy, they're really trying to beat you up,' and I get a lot of 'hang in there.' So that does help me."

"It's my contention that the Sun-Times just wants to put a bad light and spin on my administration"

"This year, we have been made whole and she's taking the CFO salary that has been allocated. So it's not a pay raise, it's the salary that she's getting from being the CFO. And the criticism is not always true, it's just spun in a light where they're trying to make us look bad, and really trying to affect the election."

"It's hard for the county to get a story in the Sun-Times that's just positive, even though we know we've done a lot of positive things. That's not going to stop us, but I do think that they've lost their journalistic way."