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According to the Reader's Mick Dumke, Ald. Joe Moore (49th) sent out an email to constituents this morning informing them that the hearings on the Great Meter Debacle will commence this Thursday, July 2nd. This considering the City has already announced plans to spend some of the money made from the deal.
That’s eight months after the deal was cut and approved--and some of the money received in it already spent--but Moore gives his best Thomas Paine impression in arguing that democracy itself is at stake in the push to find out more. The lease agreement “should serve as a wake-up call for the City Council to begin to assert its role as a true independent legislative body rather than a branch of the Mayor's office,” he writes.
Of course, as Dumke points out, Ald. Moore was one of 45 City Council members to vote for the meter deal in the first place. In case you need reminding, the five who voted against the meter deal were Alds. Toni Preckwinkle (4th), Leslie Hairston (5th), Billy Ocasio (26th), Scott Waguespack (32nd) and Rey Colon (35th)
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Moore sends out bullshit emails every 15 minutes!
The previous one was how he spent $40,000 of the ward's money on putting up pigeon spikes under the Metra viaducts.
The only problem was pointed out by someone that replied to a bunch of is that Metra will be replacing many or most of those viaducts soon. They're over 100 years old.
I can read the builder's plate when I walk to the train, "Built by the American Bridge Company 1907"
We all hate this worthless, useless pile of shit!
This is all a show. Alderman have finally been burned by a vote that constituents will be reminded of every time they park their car. Moore is hoping that he can make enough of a stink about the deal that everyone in 49 forgets about his origional sin in the parking meter deal. Expect a lot, about 45, of Alderman to start these gyrations.