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When alderman Tom Allen saw his colleague Howard Brookins Jr. at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, he strode over and offered a handshake. “What’s up, dude?” he said.
Brookins accepted eagerly, and found his own way of asking if Allen was rebounding all right on the day after they’d both lost the Democratic primary for state’s attorney. “You back?” he said.
Allen nodded. “I’m back.”
The two quickly turned to discussing the hottest topic in local politics: their defeat by political novice Anita Alvarez. They agreed it wasn’t the shocker pundits and journalists have been calling it.
“Our polls showed her in the mix,” Brookins said.
Allen nodded. “And then she got on TV.”
“She needed money,” Brookins said, “and then her husband gave her some money.”
“I know you people in the media don’t have a clue about how to analyze these things,” Allen said to a certain reporter. “But we saw it coming.”
It’s easy to say it after the fact, but they aren’t the only people involved in the state’s attorney campaign offering this analysis. Other insiders are saying that their internal polling—from the beginning of the campaign last fall until its final days—showed that few voters were attached to any of the candidates, and even though people didn’t know who Alvarez was, they liked her name and the fact that she was a woman up against five guys. The other campaigns were hoping that she wouldn’t be able to come up with enough money to raise her profile. But when her husband loaned Alvarez at least $640,000, allowing her to present herself as a prosecutor/mom in TV ads, they knew they were in trouble. “All of a sudden, she had $600,000 and was the 800-pound gorilla,” said one campaign staffer.
According to this view, gender, strong Latino and suburban support, and the perception that the men were consumed with attacking each other rather than the problems of the office combined with Alvarez’s late-hour cash infusion to make her a winner.
But in fact, even with the big money from her husband, Alvarez had far less money on hand than either Allen or Cook County commissioner Larry Suffredin, according to campaign records, and about the same amount as Brookins. Her money just went farther.
Records of the campaigns’ final-month expenditures aren’t available yet, but here’s a look at how fund-raising translated into votes. Only sixth-place finisher Tommy Brewer got more for his money than Alvarez. (The fund-raising totals include cash contributions, in-kind contributions, and loans from July 1 until the election.)
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| CITY | SUBURBS | TOTAL VOTES | FUNDS RAISED | FUNDS / VOTE |
| Anita Alvarez | 137,228 | 105,238 | 242,466 | $ 736,100.00 | $ 3.04 |
| Tom Allen | 130,335 | 102,603 | 232,938 | $ 1,213,135.31 | $ 5.21 |
| Larry Suffredin | 109,637 | 99,094 | 208,731 | $ 1,184,413.52 | $ 5.67 |
| Howard Brookins Jr. | 124,078 | 46,835 | 170,913 | $ 730,503.29 | $ 4.27 |
| Robert Milan | 27,311 | 27,532 | 54,843 | $ 428,551.49 | $ 7.81 |
| Tommy Brewer | 21,126 | 10,944 | 32,070 | $ 35,910.00 | $ 1.12 |
How is the State's Attorney not doing anything about the violation of the statute.
Terry lying O'Brien should not be taking employee money and trying to make O'Connor a Commissioner by taking out Patty Young--a real sexist move.
With Press Releases with misssppellingsss?
No media credentials a BS political contract.
Jack Farnan ATTACKED a Civil Service Board member at the end of 2005 and besides assault and battery--what about employment and independence of the Civil Service Board. Also, what about Jack Farnan trying to interfere with hiring decisions.
How did Brendan O'Connor get his job? There was an attorney WITH 40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE THAT WAS PASSED OVER!!!!!????
That attorney was the attorney for the CPD and the first hearing officer in the City under RJD
and a punk political law breaking loser gadfly got the job!!!!!!!
The hiring, promotion and discipline at the MWRDGC was a joke under corrupt 11th ward operative Jack Farnan!!!
All the 11th ward Hired Truck companies were there and THEY DID NOT TELL THE COMMISSIONERS UNTIL AFTER THE FACT ABOUT HIRED TRUCK CRIMINAL FEDERAL SUBPOENAS.
The FBI and Tim Novak at Sun Times are looking at you.
I am glad that Commissioner Frank Avila (the only Civil Engineer on the Board) won.
If not for Avila there would be NO Hispanics on the MWRD Board.
Commissioner Avila is the ONLY Latino Commissioner on the MWRD Board.
Commissioner Avila is the FIRST Latino elected to a full 6 year term.
Commissioner Avila is the ONLY Latino elected countywide at large.
Commissioner Avila brought the ONLY Latino as a contract attorney to the MWRD hearings in Mexican American Attorney Nick Valadez.
There are NO Latino attorneys at the MWRD and Terrence J O'Brien--the President of the Board has fought any of Avila's attempts to get a Latino lawyer. Instead Terrence J Obrien hired 40th ward political operative and lawyer Brendan O'Connor as a payback for running against and trying to take out Commissioner Patty Young because she exposed sexist and racist double dipper James Denzcekig because he retired from the District at over 6 figures and has a contract for over 6 figures--what most units of government ban.
There also no Latino law firms with contracts at the MWRD and half of the law firms have NO Hispanic lawyers.
There are ZERO Latinos/Hispanics on the Executive staffs at the MWRD.
There are ZERO lawyers employed at the MWRD full time (besides the pick by Commissioner Avila)
There are ZERO Hispanic law firms.
There are no Hispanics in the Media department but relatives of other Commissioners.
No Latinos on the staffs or in the positions of the President, Vice President, Treasurer or on the Pension Board. Some with no credentials or education.
Only one Latino in a top management position after Commissioner Avila came to the Board.
Almost No Latinos anywhere
BUT the racist anti-Latino Terrence J business drinking O'Brien still oppossed Commissioner Avila and got unions and committeeman to opposse Avila.
Latinos must wake up to the racism of Terrence J Obrein and the MWRD and the exclusion of Latinos.
Supboenas that weren't told to the Commissioners????
Mikey Tadin at the MWRDGC?????
other relatives here and there????
What is the African American numbers in employment?
Why are there so many 11th ward and 19th ward operatives on the payroll?
Why are there so few minorities at the MWRDGC in jobs contracts and opportunities?
Why doesn't Terrence J O'Brien have any African Americans or Latinos on his staff?
Why are no executive offices minority?
He lost big and his pimpy billboards and robocalls and photo-shop photos didn't help
all his LOSERS
JJ Jr's LOSERS:
Scary Larry the lobbyist Suffredin
Suffredin came in 4th
his b staffer lost Kenny 2 time loser Johnson
Jesse James Jackson did robo calls for big oil Maryanne Spyropolous
and no credentials big buffoon Diane Jones to try to eliminate all Hispanics in a racist move
he bad mouthed Avila all over the Sout Side but
Avila came in first even with Jackson's violent opposition
NONE of the Water Sanitary candidates won ZERO
Jesse Jackson is the Black cat kiss of death
whoever called with his phony robo call they voted against
Black Cat Jackson
My father took care of all the outfit guys and 11th ward ghost pay-rollers per orders of Alderman Pat O'Connor's father. What did he get, fucked when he wanted a promotion. Who got the promotion, some drukin Irish 11th warder. My father was a strong teamster for 40 years. What did they do for him ? Put up a candidate against his son when he ran for State Rep.
My father's house was robbed by John " no nose" DiFranzo's junkie son. What did he get for it ? Told to shut his mouth and when his son ran for state rep against Mike McAulliffe, DiFranzo told my father, I'm helping McAulliffe, because of the MAYOR wants him...
My fathers laughiung his balls off at what I'm doing to you phony and selfish power brokers!
Frank Avila won because he is North Side Irish.
Are you saying Michael McAullife is connected to John "No Nose" DiFronzo?
Why did the racist Pipe Fitters go against the only civil engineer.
Maybe it's time the Federal government looked into the minority diversity into these unions. Maybe a DOJ investigation into these unions.
Maybe it is time for Debra Shore to be President instead of Terrence J. O'Brien
Your bitch backstabbing old ward boss Bernie Stone is ending his career in disgrace.
He lost because of you
You wish Howie Carrol and his big money deals and insider fiber optic deals were back
Please don't pick on Dennis Gannon. He takes care of all the outfit guys. Before we went to jail, he gave me a 150 operators card. All I gave him was $25,000.00
Don't worry. The US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, won't hurt any Irish Guys. he just goes after Hispanics , Blacks, and ITALIANS!
The irish do what ever they want under Patrick Fitzphony!
Cocopuffy lost. Sweet!!!
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
--W.B. Yeats
I love my life! Especially when I'm taking down you phony Irish !
Church on Sundays. Play with little boys on Saturdays. STEAL Monday thru Friday ! You Irish are a joke!
LOL, that's the most unGaelic Irish name I've ever seen.
all of you need to read a book called "Paddywhacked: the Story of the Irish-American Gangster" by TJ English, who has written extensively on organized crime in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of NYC.
Read it, and learn how to focus your rage at the system a little more productively - it's hard to take all these complaints seriously when your own ethnic groups are voting overwhelmingly for Micks.
before you can fly out of O'Hare, watch Cable television or get a Haagen Daz ice cream the answer will come
Brookins accepted eagerly, and found his own way of asking if Allen was rebounding all right on the day after they’d both lost the Democratic primary for state’s attorney. “You back?” he said.
Allen nodded. “I’m back.”
The two quickly turned to discussing the hottest topic in local politics: their defeat by political novice Anita Alvarez. They agreed it wasn’t the shocker pundits and journalists have been calling it.
“Our polls showed her in the mix,” Brookins said.
Allen nodded. “And then she got on TV.”
“She needed money,” Brookins said, “and then her husband gave her some money.”
WHAT KIND OF HOMO ARE YOU LIL' MICK, EAVESDROPPING ON PEOPLE'S CONVERSATIONS ?
HOW PATHETIC !
Thanks, Bernie, for your input.
Now go change your diaper, it's full.
"....Who WANT to make Tony Peraica the NEXT Jesus Christ."
Do you really think you're getting anywhere, with your bigoted nonsense concerning your totally fabricated rantings, a short example of which I quote above?
What possible reason could you have, to focus so vehemently on the name of Jesus Christ, and make such irrational accusations concerning the opinions of others?
Are you , perhaps, pandering to a variety of prejudices which you presume a certain percentage of potential voters may have?
Do you really believe that there are any significant number of voters who won't recognize your hate filled, fabrications for what they are?
Let's see how many bigotries you've included, just in this single comment:
"Mick & Ben Are.......
February 8th - 12:55 p.m.
Homos of Frank "The Baldy Loser" Coconuts & Tony "Muslim Love" Peraica. Who WANT to make Tony Peraica the NEXT Jesus Christ."
1. "Mick & Ben Are.....Homos..."
Hatred of another person's sexual proclivity.
2. "...of Frank 'The Baldy Loser' Coconuts..."
Hatred of another person's genetic predisposition to male pattern baldness.
3. "...& Tony 'Muslim Love' Peraica..."
Hatred of another person's choice of religion and/or another person's choice of a spouse.
4. "...Who WANT to make Tony Peraica the NEXT Jesus Christ."
Hatred of another person's chosen religion and attempt to incite the hatreds of others for that other person's choice of religion, using the most egregiously false and deceptive pandering a sick mind, such as your's, can imagine.
You're just one big bundle of hatred, aren't you?
With the added motivation of being terrified of the consequences you, and your cronies, will likely face, should Tony Peraica be elected our next Cook County State's Attorney.
There are lies, damn lies, and then, there are your pathetic attempts to pander to the hatreds and bigotries of those you, apparently, hope share your sick and twisted perspectives on life.
"HOW PATHETIC !" a creature you are.
Maryane Spyropolous should run again or maybe Frank Avila Jr the attorney who took down Jon Burge
As far as Anita Alvarez, it irritates me slightly when the race is characterized that she won for being a woman and Hispanic. Does it occur to the people saying that that many of us felt she was the most qualified and least entrenched in machine politics of the bunch?
She would not have won ONLY with the Hispanic vote. Where did all those other votes come from? I did my research and decided by looking at different sources that she was the best one for the job.
Some of us voters are not dumb dumbs.
The question is, can Alverez bite the hand that feeds her?
As in, pursue, by investigation, the criminal acts committed by our city and county crooks, said criminal acts being ongoing and, apparently of selectively little interest to the feds.
Does Alvarez have sufficient motivation to pursue the types of crimes being committed by our many city and county public officials?
Or is she more likely to continue to ignore what's been right in front of her face?
And, will the citizens choose to continue to tolerate rampant political corruption, by passing on the opportunity to elect a Republican to this important, county office?
All the more reason to pit the allegedly 'crooked' Republican Peraica against the verifiably crooked Crook County Democratic Party machine.
Does it really matter who rids our city and county of these thieving rascals?
And did you really mean to have confirmed that Alvarez is a crook?
Who is saying that Peraica will be doing anything other than ripping the entrenched, democratic hogs new anuses?
Peraica doesn't have to do anything more than that, to be worth electing as the next Cook County State's Attorney.
Hell, he doesn't even have to have that much success at indicting and convicting these crooks, just the investigative efforts will do much to discourage and derail most of the scams and schemes currently being conducted with zero scrutiny.
Alvarez will, predictably, turn a blind eye at the first hint of stepping on any Crook County Democratic Party machine members' toes.
Devine has surely trained her well, and he likely regrets the miscalculation that resulted in Milan being the replacement he chose to tout for.
After all, selecting Alvarez as the party's touted candidate would have killed several birds with one stone, namely attracting the Hispanic and Women's votes, along with the party's loyal minions.
Too bad Daley, Madigan, Burke, et al, chose to go with a certified kiss ass, rather than cut a deal with a woman they must have seen as being a non-factor in their calculations.
The choice the voters now face is fairly well defined.
Elect Alvarez, as a Latina, a woman and a substantially loyal machine Democrat
or
Elect Peraica, as a Republican, with a passionate disdain and contempt for the thieves infesting the Crook County Democratic Party's criminal elements.
Will there be enough taxpaying voters, who've had enough of the tax burdens imposed upon them, by the thieving rascals infesting the city and county governments, to overcome the number of voters either not paying taxes or offsetting their tax payments by being employees or contractors of the very city and county governments we speak of?
The most real help we all need is for the city and county governments to get their thieving hands out of our pockets, manage and operate our city and county governments as efficiently, and, thus, as honestly and intelligently as is humanly possible, for the benefits of all residents of this city and county, so we, the working citizens, can get on with the honest living of our lives, as free from the asinine burdens imposed upon us by the asses currently infesting said governments.
That's the help we need.
That's the help we have the potential power to compel.
We need only to realize what we've failed to realize to date.
REGISTER TO VOTE
VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION
HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
Damn, Bernie, don't you ever sleep?
And change that damn diaper.
I voted for Tony Peraica over Toddler Stroger--and I would do it again.
Pearica was right
Stroger was a big mistake
Perhaps, but whose 'crooks' are they?
Alvarez is the Democratic candidate.
Peraica is the Republican candidate.
Democrats are ruining our city and county governments and robbing the taxpayers.
Republicans haven't had much of any influence on city and Crook County government monkey business in decades, and, with the Democrats dominating the state government, it's a fucking free-for-all for these taxing rapists.
That's the best reason to put Peraica, Republican, in a position to ravage the ravagers.
Peraica has his cross hairs on these thieves, all we, the voters have to do is give him the vehicle we all need him to have.
I wonder what Alvarez might do, concerning the following, should she be elected.
"City fires lawfirm for bankrolling official's trip
February 8, 2008
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com
A law firm paid $33.6 million since 2002 to collect unpaid Chicago parking tickets and other debts was fired by the city Friday for allegedly bankrolling a 2003 trip for the city’s former first deputy revenue director.
The law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson is accused of picking up the travel tab for Robert Forgue in 2003, even though Forgue had contract management authority over the firm.
Forgue resigned his $137,088-a-year job last week after Inspector General David Hoffman recommended his firing. Hoffman also urged the city to cease doing business with the law firm. Corporation Counsel Mara Georges agreed.
'Because this is a law firm, we believe it should be held to the highest ethical standards. For this reason, we are terminating their engagement with the city,' Georges said in a news release distributed to reporters late Friday, when embarrassing news is traditionally buried.
Officials at the law firm could not be reached for comment.
Hoffman applauded the decision. 'Those fortunate enough to benefit from city contracts must follow the rules and should be held accountable when they don’t,' he said.
Since 2002, Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson has collected $138.6 million in unpaid debt and received $33.6 million in fees for that work. The firm was originally retained to collect unpaid parking tickets, but expanded its collection umbrella to include many other debts owed to Chicago taxpayers.
The caseload is so heavy, the city has decided to cut off the firm in phases, instead of going cold turkey. No new deadbeat cases will be referred to Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson and its attorneys have been directed to return the files of cases where no action has yet been taken. All work will cease over the next six months.
Until that time, employees of the firm must undergo ethics training. And an employee of the firm identified in the inspector general’s report must recuse himself from dealing with the city.
The Revenue Department first became aware of the alleged conflict involving Forgue and the law firm in 2003, when the trip was reported to the city’s Board of Ethics.
At the behest of the Board of Ethics, Forgue was directed to reimburse the law firm for the trip. He never did. Because Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson 'failed to notify the Department of Revenue of that fact,' Hoffman concluded that the law firm had violated the city’s ethics ordinance, along with Forgue.
Forgue could not be reached for comment. He has worked for the city since 1995, including a stint as project manager of the Strategic Task Force. That’s an elite corps of city building inspectors formed to crack down on owners who tolerate criminal activity on their property."
"By Todd Lighty and Laurie Cohen | Tribune reporters
February 10, 2008
Friends of Mayor Richard Daley made out handsomely when land they owned was rezoned in the 11th Ward, helping them sell the property for about $2.4 million more than they paid for it.
A critic of the Daley administration didn't do so well, however. He couldn't get a zoning change, and the value of his property diminished by about $4 million, according to court papers.
Both decisions were made by a Daley ally—James Balcer, the 11th Ward alderman who calls the shots on zoning in his South Side ward."
"Daley defends system of aldermanic zoning decisions Community input an illusion
How cash, clout transform Chicago neighborhoods
City zoning process a family affair
Zoning is one of the last bastions of power left for Chicago aldermen, who have been marginalized under Daley's control.
The Tribune has shown that many of Chicago's 50 aldermen rely on campaign contributions from developers whose projects, in turn, depend on zoning changes.
In the 11th Ward, the ancestral home and power base of the Daley clan, Balcer enjoys so much support from the Daleys that he is the only alderman who doesn't have to raise campaign funds.
To get a view of how he has wielded his zoning power, you need look no further than two parcels that have been swept up in a wave of development that has turned this gritty industrial district into a hot neighborhood for homes.
On Archer Avenue, a familiar cast of Daley insiders benefited.
Over on Iron Street, a City Hall antagonist lost out.
The Archer Avenue deal began in March 2002, when Richard Ferro, a political supporter of Daley, bought the property for $325,000. He and his business partner, Thomas DiPiazza, also a Daley contributor, later applied to City Hall to rezone the land for town homes.
DiPiazza and Ferro hired Jack George of Daley & George, the law firm of the mayor's brother Michael. In the last five years, Daley & George has handled 60 rezoning applications—half of all the applications in the ward that weren't filed by Balcer himself, city records show.
'Mr. DiPiazza has developed a number of projects in the 11th Ward and they have all been a credit to the community,' George told the City Council's Zoning Committee at a December 2003 hearing.
Like other zoning changes blessed by aldermen, the request sailed through the City Council.
Landowners who don't have an alderman's support rarely bother to seek a zoning change from the city, knowing it has no chance of being approved.
After Ferro and DiPiazza got their zoning change, they did not develop the land.
They sold it.
But before they did, two well-known names were added to the deed as owners on June 18, 2004.
One was Timothy Degnan, a political adviser to the mayor.
The other was Fred Barbara, a friend of Daley's and a former city waste hauler.
Less than a week later, the land was sold for $2.7 million to another developer who built the town homes.
That sale price was about $2.4 million more than what the Ferro group had originally paid for the land. Before the property was sold, however, the group demolished an old building and cleaned up contaminated soil. That work would likely cost about $300,000, according to public records and estimates from three environmental consultants contacted by the Tribune.
Michael Kralovec, a lawyer for DiPiazza and Ferro, said the group had additional costs and the profit was less than the $2 million suggested by the Tribune's estimates. He did not respond to a request to provide the bills.
Degnan declined to comment for this article, and Barbara could not be reached.
Flipping land
Balcer, who was appointed to his post by the mayor 10 years ago, testified in a court case last fall that politics plays no role in his zoning decisions. He said he sometimes gets advice from Daley's brother John, the ward's committeeman. Balcer testified that his main concern was 'how it will affect the community.'
In a recent interview, Balcer said he did not know Degnan and Barbara ended up in the Archer transaction. He said he was not concerned that the land was sold to other developers because the project turned out well.
'That's called flipping land,' Balcer said. 'People flip land all the time.'
DiPiazza and Ferro have done well in other 11th Ward real estate deals under the Daley administration.
The Tribune previously reported that they bought contaminated land along the Chicago River for $50,000 in 1998, just before the city sought state funds to buy the property. Six years later, they sold it to the city for a park for $1.2 million.
'They are decent people,' Balcer said of the two men. 'They have built projects that have been good for the ward.'
Daley defends system of aldermanic zoning decisions
Community input an illusion
How cash, clout transform Chicago neighborhoods
City zoning process a family affair
Quiet demise
For developers who don't win Balcer's backing, the quest for a zoning change usually dies quietly in the alderman's office.
What happened with the Iron Street property became public only because of federal court cases.
The property sits on the west side of the river's Bubbly Creek Branch and is owned by the developers of Bridgeport Village, a luxury development directly across the creek.
Bridgeport Village was once a favored project of the Daley administration. Degnan was an adviser to the project, DiPiazza was a consultant and Jack George was the zoning lawyer. The mayor himself took a personal interest, attending a planning meeting at City Hall.
The developers planned to build a pedestrian bridge from Bridgeport Village to their property on Iron Street, where they envisioned more homes.
But the city then soured on one of the project's developers, who has charged that he was being punished for political reasons.
Thomas Snitzer accused the city in a federal lawsuit of forcing him out as manager because he refused to make additional payments to DiPiazza and to steer clear of property that 11th Ward power brokers had intended for others.
The project has landed in Bankruptcy Court, and the partners must sell nearby industrial land to pay creditors.
The land would be more valuable if it were rezoned for housing, but Balcer has refused to change the zoning on the Iron Street property.
At a meeting in Balcer's office last August, the alderman told John Kinsella, one of Snitzer's partners, that the rezoning request was 'not negotiable at this time,' according to Bankruptcy Court records.
Kinsella later gave sworn testimony on his reaction to Balcer's decision. 'It was going to depress the sale price, and I think that many of the residents would like to see zoning on the other side [of the river] but he—he has—that's his job to make that decision,' Kinsella said. 'He's got—he didn't go into detail with me as to the rationale for his point of view, which I'm sure he had a good rationale.'
Balcer, in his own testimony, did not explain why the property—now used for truck storage and a recycling business—should not be rezoned immediately.
But Balcer denied in that testimony that he might be blocking the zoning change to pressure Snitzer to drop his lawsuit against the city.
Over Snitzer's objections, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jacqueline Cox approved a bid of $7.7 million for the property with the current zoning.
The developers had received bids of more than $12 million if the land could have been rezoned for town homes.
At a court hearing in December, Cox said she had to approve the lower sale price because of the depressed real estate market and Balcer's stance on zoning.
'We have an alderman who may very well have caused a big problem,' Cox said."
So, Anita, is it possible that your expertise as a prosecutor does not lead you to believe that, in the above cases, any criminal acts were engaged in?
"....start finding candidates for 2012 now."
This holds true for every elected office, city, county, state and federal.
But, to 'find' candidates, one must have something to offer them, other than the futility of consistently losing to the well financed candidates of the Democrats and the Republicans.
So, what can the 'voters' offer those honest and honorable individuals?
Proof that the voters want honest and honorable individuals.
That proof will be when the voters HAVE NO DOUBT and VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT.
If the voters want 'change', they will have to prove that they do, not merely by their whining, but by their voting to deny reelection to incumbent Democrats and incumbent Republicans.
And by electing non-Democrats and non-Republicans whenever they have the chance.
This can be done NOW.
As in in every election, from this day forward.
IF the voters truly want change.
What a big freaking joke!!!!!!.
Let the FBI look into him & his seditionists.
However, Peraica is no different.
And to all those rabid, thoughtless spinsters for Peraica......I just say consider the source.
Sure, These idiots will use WHATEVER phrase to sell you this piece of horseshit.
But HE'S no better than any OTHER politican.
political hirings
contracts
hired trucks
pr contracts
double dipping
Why do they still have Gloria Majewski still there? SHe has no clue what is going on.
Debra Shore changed the level of candidates so the MWRD is no longer just a retirement board.
Does anyone know who Laski's divorce lawyer was?
Without diminishing the few truths contained within Marin's comments concerning Tony Peraica, and within yours, do we, as voters, really want to base our decisions on who to vote for, and who to not vote for, solely on the opinion of a broadcast media 'professional'?
True, Peraica is a person whose personality is often irritating to experience, often giving the impression of a lack of many qualities one would prefer, in our elected officials, to be in abundance.
But, in this case, for this public office, do we, the voters, really want a person we would feel comfortable having as a next door neighbor, or, do we want a person we can count on to aggressively investigate, indict and prosecute to conviction, the many, many, many thieving bastards and bitches infesting our city and county governments?
Is it more important, to the taxpaying voters of this city and county, to elect, as our next Crook County State's Attorney,
1) a person we like, albeit one we have no reasonable assurance will aggressively pursue corruption in our governments and many reasonable and historical assurances that she won't,
OR
2) a person, who we may not ever want to have dinner with, who has a verifiable history of being, not only willing to pursue corruption in our city and county governments, but EAGER to do so. And is fully capable of not only doing so, but of hiring assistants of like mind.
Of course Marin is going to emphasis the negatives about Peraica, of course she's going to tout Alvarez, of course she's going to do what she's been told to do, by those who employ her.
Whether she does so enthusiastically or reluctantly, may be interesting, as far as the integrity of Marin is concerned, but is irrelevant to the question of who will better serve the interests of the citizen/voter/taxpayers of this city and county.
That being said, it is a good piece of advice, that Peraica should think long and hard about, for him to be much better prepared for the tasks which lie ahead, a few being:
1) Do not presume that there are enough registered voters in this county who truly want those corrupt individuals infesting our governments brought to justice than there are registered voters who DO NOT want anything to change.
2) Do not presume that there are enough registered voters who have the minimum amount of intelligence to realize the rare opportunity his candidacy presents, that opportunity being to have, for the first time in living memory, an opposition party's, (Republican), candidate as our County State's Attorney.
3) Do not presume that because Alvarez was not, in any way, the Democrats preferred choice as their candidate, that she won't be given, by default, the backing the machine would have provided to their chosen candidate, the now defunct Bob Milan.
4) Ask the question: Why were there so many Democratic machine candidates running for this office in the first place?
Answer: Hedging their bets and internal party territorial squabbling.
All the Democratic candidates for this office are tainted goods, with Alvarez, perhaps, being the lesser of many evils.
5) Realize that the now obvious advantages that Alvarez brings to this contest, a few being her gender, ethnicity and her personal attractiveness, will be exploited by her thoroughly corrupted associates.
6) Realize, further, that every last trick in the Democratic Machine's playbook will be used to ensure that their criminal enterprises are not endangered by a Republican Cook County State's Attorney.
7) Finally, Peraica must, right now, embrace and engage in a campaign which, while emphasizing the valid reasons we, as citizen/voter/taxpayers, need his services as our next Cook County State's Attorney, acknowledges the real possibility that 'we' may not, in sufficient numbers, realize how badly we need him.
Those who have doubts as to this need, need only check their pocketbooks, compare the amounts they regularly earn, from their daily labors, with the amounts they are left, with to spend on themselves and their families, AFTER they've been dunned with the many, and various, taxes imposed upon them, here in our county of crooks.
Compare what your utility bills WOULD BE, without the additional taxes imposed by the city and county.
Compare what your groceries would cost, without the taxes imposed by the city and county.
Compare what the cost of owning your home would be, without the always rising assessments that routinely increase your property tax bills by factors of 40% to 100% every 3 fucking years.
The above is just the tip of the iceberg, as so much of the cost of the goods and services we purchase includes the many taxes imposed upon businesses, small and large, in this city and county of crooks.
Opportunity is knocking, for the citizen/voter/taxpayers.
It's up to Tony Peraica, at this point in time, to realize what he will have to do, the adjustments in how he presents himself to the voters he may have to make, to neutralize the many means by which the skillful liars of the Democratic Corruption Machine will attempt to use, to distract, deceive and just plain bullshit the electorate into passing on this chance to, for the first time in living memory, have an individual dedicated to fighting corruption in government as our County State's Attorney.
I don't know
Since you've brought it up, repeatedly, let's ask the relevant question, ie., IS Liz Gorman a cunt?
Anyone have an informed opinion?
The main violator is Patrick McDonoug, but occassionaly it is Frank Coconate himself. Republican Committeeman of Berwyn Castogiovone is also a vulgar poster who hates Peraica--fine put logical information about Peraica there is enough out there but not about feces, prostrates, bald heads, and if his wife is in Al-Qaead--PROVE IT--and take it to the FBI--but I doubt it--and to attack Peraica's wife because she is Muslim is biggotted or because she is Indian or Pakistani is racist.
Let us try to increase the value of this board.
Actually, you've made a point counter to your intention.
Those who have little to nothing of substance to say should be appreciated for their ignorant honesty.
Ignorant honesty in that they are assuredly ignorant about how their honesty reveals how ignorant they are.
As for these miscreants putting 'logical information' in their posts, if they were capable of anything but a mutated version of logic, they would be capable of posting something of intelligence.
The fact that they do not is proof that they cannot.
"Let us try to increase the value of this board."
Absolutely.
Begin by being a regular poster, sharing your own perspectives, opinions and observations on everything other than the comments of imbeciles.
Post thoughtful commentary on both the subject at hand and the many related subjects this blog is all about.
Be the kind of commenter that you wish to others to be.
That will do more to 'increase the value of this board' than any moderation could ever do.
Mr. McDonough, why not have another drink and dream up some more words to write. You know nothing about my business, or my association with Mr. Coconate. I have been keeping a file on you, remember what goes around come around, only when I make this file known, it will provide data and facts to back up my claims.
".....is a very distrubed indivual who suffers from self gratification delutions."
With the use of SpellCheck:
"....is a very disturbed individual who suffers from self gratification delusions."
Said description equally fitting most all publicly elected officials, their associates, and many of the self-declared 'leaders' of our communities.
Do you, by any chance, recognize yourself in this description?
All those 'may be unlikely' and 'may not be entirely likely or probable' and 'I wouldn't be rest asured' and 'I wouldn't say' and such.
You don't know whether you're coming or going, do you?
Then there's the bullshit about Miriam Santos, said bullshit containing a deeply buried grain of truth.
Miriam Santos 'turned' on Daley in what way?
Oh yeah, I remember now.
She refused to cooperate in Daley's plan to rape and pillage the city's pension funds, Police and Firemen's, if I recall correctly.
So Daley, along with the various participants in the scheme, framed/entrapped Santos, through an egregiously heinous series of acts, and you describe these events as Santos 'turning' on Daley?
What a piece of shit you truly are.
Alvarez will not do a damn thing concerning Daley's, Stroger's, Burke's, Mell's, Madigan's, Bank's, O'Conner's, Stone's, etc., etc., etc., ongoing criminally corrupt enterprises.
Not a damn thing.
You know it.
I know it.
Everybody knows it.
Everybody.
What 'Time Will Tell' is, will the voters avail themselves of this prime opportunity to throw a giant monkey wrench into this pervasive corruption machine, by electing Tony Peraica, the only candidate for the Cook County State's Attorney's office who has shown the desire to do so?
Indeed, it should.
Yet, "...BASTARDS like YOU are not making it so".
So, why won't you "..STOP whoring.." and boring us with your "..ONE-SIDED MONOLOGUE"?
Why do you insist upon being a "..CONDESCENDING jerk!!!!"?
Why must you continue to be a "..biased piece of crap."?
"Look you...ONE-SIDED SMELLY...LEECH..", it's "..ASSHOLES..." like "..YOU...FREAKING HYPOCRITES!!!!!!" who "..SMELL..".
"YOU ASSHOLES..." are "...NOT Jesus Christ..." but are "...Heathenous Ravens.." who "..would replace Jesus Christ with .." Richard M. Daley.
Good luck with that.
Now, now, aren't you the pot calling the kettle black.
"While the poor little misled citizens bitch & moan... YOU WHORES..." and Daley "..Stooges..." act like complete fucking hypocrites by saying 'Oh, Everything's Wonderful...' ... While... the poor little misled citizens get hoodwinked big time".
"...it's some assholes like you...", with "...your machine politics bullshit..", with your attitude of "Fuck You Everybody, We're The Ones In Power...", that make "...people wonder..." why they ever elected "...fuckfaces like YOU".
Try not to think you can "...put WORDS into my MOUTH..", because, while "Many try to make things civil...", you are not one of them.
If you had an interest in making "...things civil...", you wouldn't be the "...FUCKING BASTARD!!!!!" that you are.
"YAH, WE'VE HEARD IT BEFORE......", all your rantings, pejoratives, obscenities and insanities, so "...STFU...".
This comment board has intelligent visitors, readers truly interested in civil discourse, though it's irritating to some to be subjected to "...assholes like you that act like complete fucking hypocrites by saying..." the stupid shit that your comments regularly do.
So, potty mouth, who really "...Is Full Of Shit"?
I suggest it's you, "...YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!!!".
Let's see if you can prove me wrong, by being civil, for once.
Ladies first.
If only Tony Peraica can understand that a little honey with that lemon juice will turn the justifiably sour truth into sweet and palatable lemon-aid.
Focus on the facts and add a bit of polish to the delivery of those facts.
Criticize the actions and leave the condemning of the persons engaging in said actions to the voters.
Shine the light of day on the shadows, not into the eyes of the voters.
Walk and talk softly and place your cuts wisely.
Efficiency of motion, elegant in it's effectiveness.
Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee.......