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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has quit his waffling on whether or not he's going to veto a recent board decision to repeal a 1% sales tax increase, and has answered in the affirmative. Appearing moments ago on the Cliff Kelley show on WVON-1690, the Toddler told Kelley getting rid of the tax would harm funding of all public safety, treasurer, transportation, and health departments, and made the case for the vast amount of responsibility Stroger has running the county government, as well as talking about his general level of awesomeness. Stroger says he has determined that rolling back the tax now would create a deficit next year of $245 million, and "probably a half billion the year after that." He also claimed that the move to repeal was purely political and a way to embarrass him, and he "can't play politics when it affects people's lives, it's too important."
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This (on top of everything else he's done) will pretty much end his political career in Cook County. I really don't think he'll be reelected now.
(Perversely, you almost have to admire him for making a stand on this today. He put his own career in jeopardy in order to *try* and make a budget that works. Of course he doesn't realize that the way to balance the budget is through cuts, not raising taxes, but that's just part of his genetic makeup at this point).
He'll win in 2010.
Most of the Stroger haters in the suburbs will be busy voting in the GOP primary, allowing him to squeak through like last time by taking 95% of the black vote. And, since no party other than Democrat can win in Cook County, four more years!
Sadly, Sear Tower is probably correct. Stroger probably got a late night call from Daley and they hammered this deal out.
that's funny, he does a fine job of embarrassing himself on a regular basis.
todd was all but appointed to his job illegally, having been announced as daddy's replacement after the filing deadline for third-party candidates in the general election, and being named by the committeemen (not the voters) as the dem candidate. no citizen has had the opportunity to vote for or against him in a primary election. this time he should have a legitimate primary opponent who is af-am (preckwinkle). there still is a possibility he'll be ousted.
Was he ever elected in any election - primary, general or otherwise? I can't remember the details of his rise to power.
This assumes that Stroger will have no African-American challenger. I keep hearing that Ald. Toni Preckwinckle is gonna run for sure.
I've been hearing that, too - a lot. If she runs, I think The Toddler might have problems.