E-mails, Yes, I get e-mails.
Dear Craig,
Our ward's bizarre politics get weirder and weirder. You and your blog readers pointed out Joe's incredibly HUGE series of mistakes, snafus, and stumbling on some local economic development activity. Last month on your blog we learned that:
1. Joe used Common Cup as a campaign tool during the aldermanic election when he cited it's imminent opening as feather in his cap. He had nothing to do with in actuality.
2. Joe ignored Common Cup when it finally opened. Lots of us stopped in to celebrate the owners and enjoy some coffee and pastries, but Joe never did.
3. Joe's staff later blamed Common Cup for not inviting Joe to their opening. Huh?
4. Joe later celebrated the opening of Starbucks on Western, yes it was a ribbon cutting. I guess this multi-million dollar corporate entity surely needed Joe's help and support. To bad the really needy entrepreneurs of the 49th Ward didn't get that kind of service.
But wait a minute. Now, we see Joe responding to you - as a result of public embarrassment - by getting the Common Cup owners to do a grand opening. Guess what? Joe gets to officiate at another ribbon cutting!
It gets worse. Joe is bringing his "Satellite Ward Service Office" to the event. He also got Michael Glasser to convene his monthly Rogers Park Biz Arts group meeting (about half are realtors) there at the same time. That provides Joe the comfort he needs, to be surrounded by a few people who will pretend to talk respectfully to him. They will not ask Joe real questions about ward services.
Joe's campaign stunts are ridiculous and shameful. This is so damn disgusting.
Signed,
RP Blogfather
12 comments:
UUMM-
SOUNDS LIKE LOT OF GOOSE LIVER AT THE COMMON CUP GRAND JOMO OPENING,
WONDER IF WILL BE A FRESH BATCH-GOOSE LIVER SPOILS FAST-
Joe was at the Loyola el Tuesday morning. He smiled and greeted me as I walked in to the station, and he was standing at a table with a dozen or so doughnuts on it.
Speaking of e-mails, joey is showing he cares about the 49th ward....just read the following!
Atta boy joey!!
Dear Neighbor:
The Chicago Police, city tow trucks, street sweepers, garbage trucks, tree trimmers and building inspectors will be out in force in the Pottawattomie Park area this Friday, June 8th for Operation CLEAN (City services, Law Enforcement And Neighbors).
Operation CLEAN delivers city services in a concentrated fashion to a designated neighborhood in an effort to tackle neighborhood conditions that can breed crime, including problem buildings, abandoned vehicles, fly dumping, broken street lights and graffiti. The various city departments will try to address all the outstanding city service requests in that area as well as target troubled buildings for thorough inspections.
If you have any outstanding city service requests, please forward them to my office before 6 p.m. today (Thursday) and we will forward them to the Operation CLEAN crews.
Friday's Operation CLEAN will concentrate in the area bounded by Howard Street, Touhy Avenue, Ridge Boulevard and Clark Street.
The effort begins with an outdoor roll call of the 24th District Police, 10 a.m., Friday, at the Pottawattomie Park parking lot, 7340 N. Rogers. Please join us as we strive for a safer and cleaner neighborhood.
Sincerely,
Joe Moore
> Joe later celebrated the opening of Starbucks on Western, yes it was a ribbon cutting.
This was a skirmish in the Moore-Stone wars. Joe and Berny have to sit next to each other in the back row for a few hours every month, but they HATE each other's guts. Joe can't pass up an opportunity to stick t to Berny. The new Starbuck's is located in Moore's acquisitions from Stone in the last re-map. Across the street from the Starbuck's is a mall with a dollar store and a resale shop.
north coast, you saw joey at the Loyola el with donuts, whats funny is that he bought those donuts with taxpayer dollars.
Maybe joey can spend our tax dollars on something alittle better for the voters then donuts.
Thats it give donuts voters get heart attacks!!
In Moore's defense, and I am not one to defend Moore, was Common Cup's opening a "grand opening?" Some restaurants have "soft openings" so that they can get their systems in place and give the employees, as well as management, some time to settle in. Then, after a few weeks of operation, the place will have a grand opening that they will advertise.
This is done so that the place will not lose business by making a big hoopla the first day of business, but then something goes wrong (i.e. employees don't know how to use the register) and makes them look bad. It makes sense that a Starbucks will have a grand opening on the first day of business, since a few of their employees probably worked at a different location, and the manager was probably a manager somewhere else, the systems are the same everywhere, etc.
I think this may be a somewhat valid excuse for Moore, but I guess he should have at least dropped in and said hello, congratulations, etc. Oh well.
ryne,
how do you know taxpayers bought the donuts? such things are generally paid for out of campaign funds.
i must suppose that all this innuendo about openings and such are more of the same.
seeing the world through the amazing wacko lens. must be fun there.
Joe was at the Rogers Park Metra stop this morning (Thursday, June 7), camped at the top of the stairs shaking hands with everybody who was just trying to pass by to board the train. Coffee and donuts were in abundance.
Joe was @ the Metra stop this AM, I told him that 2 apartments were burglarized and
a murder happened on Estes this week. He just offered me a donut-
hmmmmmmm . . . jelly.
Abe, you made a good point earlier above. I'm a little skeptical that this is what happened, but it could have.
Okay. Let's play devil's advocate. What if all this activity is being done out of a true desire to do better. "The Hoekwaters are great people and the Common Cup is a great business" (Copy from alderman's office promotional email). Compelling.
That office has a long way to go in the skills department...and he's already been at it for 16 years.
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