Chicagoist: Mike Flannery Interviews the Toddler

Ward Up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:27:09 -0600

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.

celerysalt

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:55:23 -0600

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.

matilda

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:44:12 -0600

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).

happygrl

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:41:13 -0600

UTV, It's snowing.

moldyorange

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:28:37 -0600

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.

celerysalt

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:14:40 -0600

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.

Scooter Libbby

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:50:06 -0600

Hey Li'l Toddy: The Sun-Times endorsed you or have you forgotten that?

Ward Up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:33:28 -0600

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.

matilda

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:06:02 -0600

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.

UTV

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:04:49 -0600

Happygirl: Happy to help. Am I hallucinating, or is it snowing outside of my window? This is insane.

fed up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:50:34 -0600

Matilda please explain.

happygrl

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:34:09 -0600

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.

Pinko

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:30:21 -0600

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...

Mr_Smith

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:25:38 -0600

"I do think that they've lost their journalistic way." Boy, talk about being right for the wrong reasons.

matilda

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:18:37 -0600

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.

fed up

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:10:46 -0600

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.

UTV

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:05:03 -0600

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.