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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."
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Aww, poor Toddy. Sometimes, when I hear interviews with him like this one, I just want to ... smother him in his sleep and fire all his cousins.
why was your cousin the only person allowed to apply for the job toddler. How many family members are on the county payroll. Hopefully someday the citizens of chicago cook and ill. get tired of Daley stroger and blago but Im not sure the voting lemmings of this city county and state know what to do without a machine precinct capt telling them.
Fed up: It's the lemmings voting for these dolts, but also the way the machine controls the voting process in small but important ways. That DOES NOT excuse citizens, but I think the situation is not as simple as you imagine.
"I do think that they've lost their journalistic way."
Boy, talk about being right for the wrong reasons.
Let's not forget how Urkel attained/stole the Democratic candidacy in the first place:
By lying about his father's health as he lay on his deathbed, and then conveniently sliding into his seat after the primary election when...SURPISE!! Daddy-O is too sick to run for office...
UTV: I'm still laughing about that comment. I'll probably laugh about it for the rest of the day. Thanks for putting a happy thought in my head on such a dreary day.
Matilda please explain.
Happygirl: Happy to help. Am I hallucinating, or is it snowing outside of my window? This is insane.
Well, fed, take a look at the details of ballot challenges, for starters, and the lawyers and judges who preside over the minute details of who gets to run in elections. If you control the guts of the process, you control the process--this holds true in zoning, too.
Still, this doesn't serve as an excuse for citizens. I hope that was clear.
It was sad that Claypool lost to Stroger in the Primary. It was even sadder that Democrats, including some commenters on Chicagoist, would NOT vote for Peraica.
Instead of pushing jobs, sales-tax revenue, and tax-paying residents out of Cook County, Peraica would have at least slowed the bleeding.
Peraica doesn't like gays? So the eff-what. He's not on the Supreme Court, for crying out loud.
Gays would be a lot better off with Peraica as Cook County Board prez. The last time I checked, gays benefit from a healthy local economy and lower taxes just as much as non-gays.
Please, Dems, don't blindly vote Democratic and I promise not to blindly vote Republican.
Hey Li'l Toddy:
The Sun-Times endorsed you or have you forgotten that?
It was sad that Claypool lost to Stroger in the Primary. It was even sadder that Democrats, including some commenters on Chicagoist, would NOT vote for Peraica.
This was me. I wrote in Forrest Claypool even though he told me to vote for Peraica. I just can't vote for a Republican. I know - it makes me a terrible human being, and now I get the privilege of getting to pay 11% extra for everything.
Todd Stroger effing sucks.
So blame me. And yet I still doubt I'll ever be able to vote Republican. I just can't ever get behind Ken Melman and our idiot president. I can't. I'm sorry. We all have our limits.
celerysalt: i felt the same way. i also wrote in forrest claypool because at the end of the day, i couldn't bring myself to vote for someone who openly espoused bush administration policies, even though i knew it had no bearing on county board business.
side note: chicagoist, fix your damn comment boards. i'm sick of typing everything again because i get an error saying "you are not allowed to post comments" and i have to keep typing and keep typing until i remember to copy and paste before hitting send.
UTV,
It's snowing.
Write-ins really had no effect whatsoever, as I recall. In essence, I think it was like throwing your vote away, as they were not counted.
People need to get over their fear of not being able to vote for one party or another. It is just not productive. I think you need to tailor your vote to the situation, and think about the context. Believe it or not, good Republicans have been known to exist (though, to be fair, Tony P ain't one of them--he was merely the anti-Stroger).
I realize writing someone in is throwing a vote away, but somehow it was the only move that allowed me to put my head to pillow comfortably that night. oh, the lies i tell myself.
and there may be good republicans out there, but i....just....can't. i've been a vegetarian for twenty-some years now, right? i could care less about animal rights (i bought my chef-boyfriend foie gras for christmas, for chrissakes) and don't reap any nutritional reward from it. but i just can't put that piece of steak in my mouth.
it's all part of the little wonder of me, i guess. sometimes you just draw lines, and they become part of you.
pass the opiates, please.
Thanks (no sarcasm) to the above commenters for sort of acknowledging that Cook County policy has virtually zero effect on foreign policy.
You can still consider Bush dumb (like I do) and consider his invasion dumb (like I do) and vote Republican. Especially for County offices.