The Clout Meisters Sing The Chicago (Clout) Blues

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Aug 19, 2009 9:20PM

At one time or another, we've all gotten fed up with the shenanigans down at City Hall. Sure, some are content to post their anti-clout rants on a storefront window, but a few fine men have channeled all that rage and put it into song.

The catchy little ditty is the product of Chicago Park District worker Emory Joe Yost and city plumber Pat McDonough, who you might recognize as the famed whistle-blower on plumbers and the Hired Trucks scandal (McDonough doesn't appear in the video but produced it). McDonough told CBS 2, "People are very frustrated, they're very upset. A lot of people don't have jobs. Taxes keep going up. People are scared of what tomorrow will bring. And there's a lot of anger out here."