A loyal reader writes . . . YIKES! This is what Joe assigned his new chief of staff, Betsy Vandercook, to do on Thursday, August 16, a working/business day in the city of Chicago!
DAMN! Is this what we pay them salaries for? No wonder the 49th Ward List of Thorny Problems and Easily Resolved Issues is so damn long. Joe doesn't have the interest, time, or patience to lead his staff in taking care of business at home first.
BLOGNOTES: More on Betsy.
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YES NOW OUR ALDERMAN CAN STAY BUSY WITH NON WARD ISSUES AS GORDON HAS DROPPED HIS COURT CHALENGE,SAME OLD NOTHING FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS--
GOOSE LIVER WILL STINK AND STINK--
the Alderman is busy right now organizing his yard for a party
Is this a holiday I am unaware of or is he on vacation
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THE DONATIONS-SAME AS THE BIRTHDAY OR HIGHER NOW THAT THE COURT SUIT HAS BEEN DROPPED-
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Check out the definition under "alderman"
http://www.suntimes.com/chicago/chicagopedia/index.html
I laughed so hard at some of these Chicago-isms.
I'm bummed about the lawsuit but I guess in this city it wasn't meant to go very far. It will be hard to wait four years with this idiot in office. Several people I know have moved and say one of the biggest reasons is that they are tired of living in a ward where the alderman is not effective and basically doesn't care.
The lawsuit was dropped? Did I miss something on this blog, Craig? I guess I thought you would post something about it because you've been so good about covering the suit up to now. Anyway, if it is true, it's a damn shame. What about all the eyewitnesses and the videos, not to mention the reports from Moore's own office regarding the bingo donations. I realize I'm a neophite when it comes to the law but I really thought the case was pretty cut and dried.
Did we ever find out WHY that judge reversed herself. I know several of us think we know the reason but are there any solid clues?
- PEACE -
I thought you guys read all these other 49th ward blogs? Yes, the lawsuit was dropped. I didn't run the V.O.T.E.R. 49 press release because it was run on a couple other neighborhood blogs.
Here's the press release.
Lawsuit dropped, you silly goose, now, can we all just get along?
Thanks, Craig. I suppose it's like Jocelyn says, "Closure, it's a good thing." But somehow, I just don't feel all that good right now. I'm think I'm losing my confidence in the whole voting system. First Gore now Gordon - both seemed to have more in common than just the first three letters of their last names.
OK, OK, before anyone starts screaming, taht was the last I have to say on that subject.
- PEACE -
I guess I thought you would post something about it because you've been so good about covering the suit up to now.
Craig doesn't like to bring attention to the "bad" Gordon news.
He likes to keep pretending that there was an actual legal basis for a case.
the judge threw out the one item and then changed her mind regarding the other one. I don't believe Gordon has stopped trying to change/improve the terms of making sure the electoral process gets adjusted so that these same sorts of tactics aren't done again.
Nothing about the last election was fair or above board in my mind and I find it extremely doubtful that Moore legitimately had all the votes that were claimed to be his.
The sad fact is the judicial process doesn't carry any weight for things that are circumstantial. Things like:
A. Having a mass mailing sent out as the opponent (including an inferred racial slur) directed with a return address to a neighborhood activist.
B. Caught on camera and merely slapped on the hand for campaigning to voters -WHILE THEY WERE VOTING!!
C. Acknowledge of busing of the elderly on the early voting days where there are some claims that these people were directed who to vote for.
D. a circumstance that a mentally challenged person without any identification. Claiming to reside in what was verified to be an abandoned lot was allowed to vote.
If it were say just one of the following items that took place in a single election then perhaps it wouldn't be an outright sign that there's a significant trend occurring here but the fact that a judge wouldn't see fit to reference the above occurrences as being worth verifying the outcome of the votes involved in a single runoff for one ward is just sad.
Joe likes to tell everyone how much he loves his job. Why shouldn't he? I've never gotten the sense that for someone who gets paid more than the mayor of Evanston to do so little and ride the coattails of other successful ventures within his jurisdiction
would be bothered but such things.
It's kind of baffling how it is that one can succeed in toeing so low or riding on so little as to improve the state of his constituents again and again. I just can't speak of that many neighbors (well, any really) who'd vouch for him much less brag about some substantial success that could be said was done at his hands outside of taking the political interests for situations and issues that have no bearing in local concerns.
I could be wrong.
Where are all those blogs anyways? ;)
After so many irregularities in the voting and the number of witnesses and all the documentation, it's a great disappointment that the case ended up this way.
After so many irregularities in the voting and the number of witnesses and all the documentation, it's a great disappointment that the case ended up this way.
It ended that way because there was no documentation of any illegal activity. No proof, whatsoever.
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