I gotta hand it to you Toni. You're on top of things kiddo. I went to your blog, read your *story* - and hit the ceiling.
(*I'll have a public statement here about Toni's blog-scoop with-in a couple of days, maybe sooner*).
I thought it was going to be a slow news day. My bad.
Blognotes: One correction to your scoop Toni. It's the Morse Avenue 'Clean Team', not the 'Green Team'. The 'Green Team' is Alderman Moore's make-believe team. We wore 'green' to confuse him. Looks like it worked. He actually believed he was one of us.
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Craig, may I just leave my 'faux pas'? It isn't a major one, it can be corrected with a few clicks, but it's too late to remove your photo from the Tree Killer!
Wonder if there will be a 'side bar' on this? On the flip side, the boss should proof his material before it goes to print, it's his campaign, not the staffers.
But if it'll cheer you up, I'll change my mistake.
Day 20: No endorsement. But wait, maybe there is... to be continued I'm sure
To the candidates running against the unethical one. A little lesson here.
The community deserves a leader who's not going to run and hide when the going gets tough.
If you can't handle me, you're not going to be able to handle the job.
This week I asked for some input from the potential aldermanic candidates.
Before this blog, first and foremost, I'm a private citizen running a private company in the city limits (meaning I pay a butt load of various taxes and user fees to keep my business running.)
I volunteer countless hours attending SSA and TIF meetings, court advocacy, CAPS, CAPS walks, neighborhood walks, safety walks, circle prayers, and yes, as Alderman Moore's newest disingenuous campaign mailer show's, community volunteer clean and green's.
When I ask for input, like any taxpaying citizen, I would like a rapid response.
That's what the job your seeking details.
I'm allowing one candidate a 'green light' to use my name in any campaign press releases/political mailers denouncing the alderman's unethical political campaign mailer just sent out.
That's the candidate who responded this week. Chris Adams.
Make no prejudgement on this as a endorsement for any one candidate. I'm not making that announcement. I'm here to level the playing field.
shut up toto!!
you are like a 2 year old stomping your feet.
Carol J. said....>"Why not let every candidate use this Craig? It should be fair for them all them to attack Joe on ethics."
They can Carol - they can. But, I'm only going to answer any questions about the 'Morse Avenue Clean Team' group to the candidate who responded to the questions I asked recently. Seems only fair.
There's still more to this story than what's floating the internet right now. There's always two sides to the t-shirt.
I am a longtime lurker, and attentive reader. can we please decide on a single compromise candidate to oppose the incumbent in February? Splitting the vote looks like it will be a serious obstacle if we want a real change in the next 5 years.
Crain likes Chris Adams because Adams is against the Big Box Living Wage Ordinance and is for the privatization of our public schools (i.e. his support of charter schools - which use non-unionized teachers and take away money from the public schools just to open up experimental schools - many of which fail).
Craig**
Glen, the best thing that could happen in the Feb. 27 election is a run off. If you oppose Joe, your objective should be preventing him from getting 50+% of the vote. So, the more in the race right now the better. What matters in a run off is who the number one and number two are going to be.
Joe knows this. So should everyone else.
televise, if you think Big Box will earmark those 15$/hr. jobs for the kinds of workers the unions are pitching the ordinance to, then you are either deluded or a union stooge. Wake up. The best hope for low-skill/entry level workers is aggressive across the board minimum wage hikes (among other things), not city ordinances that selectively target certain classes of employers.
Big Box won't stand a court challenge. It's just another cynical ploy to get a camera shoved in the direction of you know who.
Joe knows this - the unions know this - it's important that everyone else know this too.
How come it's okay for Joe to oppose charter schools but also okay for him to send his own kids to private schools in Evanston?
DO YOU THINK JOE WANTS YOU THINKING ABOUT THIS?
If the Big Box Ordinance survived the Mayor's veto it would have given thousands of workers health coverage and have helped lift them out of poverty.
That's why there was a need for the ordinance. But specifically to respond to "gaby"
(a.) I'd like to you to provide some info backing up your claim that the BB Living Wage Ordinance wouldn't be able to pass a constitutional challenge. It would. You'll probably cite some case in the east coast - but that case was fundamentally different from the ordinance proposed by Moore.
(b) THis ordinance would have helped workers without hurting the big box companies - therefore there is no reason it shouldn't have been passed (we'll lose jobs! - that's a lie - the big boxes will come)
(c)Opposing charter schools and sending your kids to schools in evanston actually makes 100% sense and doesn't contradict. That position and action both send the same message - OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL'S ARE BROKEN AND THEY AREN'T BEING SOLVED. (because Charter school's certainly don't solve the issue)
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