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It's a good day if you're tired of higher taxes. WBEZ reports the Cook County Commission has just voted 12-3 to repeal last year's one percentage point sales tax increase. The three votes against the appeal came from William Beavers, Robert Steele and Jerry Butler. Even more eye-opening is Tony Peraica's Twitter feed which featured the following tweets from the Commission's meeting:
Peraica photo from his Twitter Feed
- Storger is getting emotional and is using mild profanities...quite a show [via]
- Some commissioners are begining [sic] to have cold feet and are moving against roll back, even though they spoke in favor of it just moments ago [via]
- [Com. John] Daley told Stroger: "...you better listen, for once..." Stroger is clearly upset [via]
Update: Once again, from Peraica's Twitter: "Stroger just stated that he will VETO the repeal of the sales tax. Taxpayers need to call their commissioners @ cookcountygov.com."
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RIGHT ON TONY!
Watch Strodger try to ban twitter in the board room now.
Poor toddler.
Whoever coined "Toddler" is a genius. It is absolutely descriptive of his behavior as well as his lack of skill, knowledge, common sense, and preparation for the job. We need an ADULT as Cook County Board president, not a child with anger management issues.
Preferably an orphan with no extended family.
12-3? Clearly this is racism at work.
Awesome...repeal the taxes and then bring down The Toddler like Nixon
Peraica can be a douche, but how awesome is it that he's giving us all play by play via Twitter!? Now only if we could have a visual of an 'emotional & clearly upset' Toddler!!
Just check out any episode of "Family Matters" where Urkel spazzes out for whatever reason and you'll get a good visual idea of what it looks like.
So I guess all you tax policy experts know that this will not affect services for the Cook County Hospital system, the jail, the youth detention facility, or the county police? Its bigger than just one person. Does this mean that the state will not be able to raise taxes at all either?
And who will pay for all those settlements and legal fees from clout lawsuits?
Raising taxes to the highest in the country while doing absolutely nothing about the patronage hiring, mismanagement and waste in County Government is a disaster Spook.
Clean out the Strodger infection from every level of government, start running a transparent, open county and I think you'd be stunned at how much money is suddenly available.
Todd touches the donkey
The donkey feels good.
No matter what Toddler does, he's totally screwed!
If he signs the bill, he admits the tax wasn't needed.
If he vetoes the bill, he signs his own death warrant in the election.
John Daley almost has to be the one who got this through.
He told Toddler: ""You might want to listen for a change".
And Cicero Dem & usual Toddler supporter Commissioner Mario Moreno: "We've been getting beaten up, and I'm tired of it," "I'm done getting beat up."
Daley knows that the Cook County Democratic Party will be destroyed by this tax in next year's election & he & his brother are determined not to go down with Toddler's sinking toy boat!
Toddler Pissed
Two words when joined together are music to my ears...
I appreciate getting an inside account of what's going on in there, but it's unprofessional for Peraica to be live-blogging a board hearing.
There's a time and a place to discuss what goes on in there, but posting on the internet while it's going on is just childish.
Did the Toddler start to cry?
I hate to say it, but I wouldn't count the Machine out for the next election, even if Stroger vetoes. Just look at some of the goofier things the Aldermen and Mayor have being doing and they keep getting voted back in. Now if Daley does massive layoffs on top of the tax rollback veto, it may be a different story, depending if an anti machine group gets its act together. I'm not counting on the Republicans for that, so I guess it would be up to the Progressives.
There's not a damn thing unprofessional about live-blogging a public meeting!
Everyone of them is an elected official paid by the taxpayers!
If a commissioner wants to live-blog, that's his prerogative!
It's not like the live blogging will have an effect on whether there will be actual debate within those walls. Do you think that next time there's something important like this that's going to be voted on in Cook County, that they will even have a discussion before they vote?
Well brotha Jess, You are one of the Socratic Chicagoist minds, so what's up with being so sloppy here? I mean this is why Southside folks and a few like Ben Joravsky get to wondering about Joravsky put it, "north/south regionalism" in his article about T Stroger a few weeks ago. First of all the Toddler has no jurisdiction over The Recorder of Deeds Office. The Recorder is elected separately- like numerous other offices in Cook County including the States Attorney's Office. The same office that refuses to settle the Jon Burge Torture because of then State's Attorney Daley roll in it
And it seems like the Toddler has done far more about ending patronage hiring than any other elected official as he has appointed an independent board to run Cook County Hospital, which means he no longer has a say in who gets hired and fired at what was the patronage gem of Illinois This earned him the wrath of Daley and Commissioner Butler who stated that he would never vote for Stroger again because he "gave it up" And when he first came into office he already cut 22 percent. Too many people comment on the county with out understanding how it runs
I'm just asking for folks to show some balance, I mean not from every body, but at least from folks like you.
I will vote republican if it means getting these crooks out of office.
stop voting straight ticket democrat, people, and vote for the person, not the party.
k?