So this week, Spielman came back with quotes from individual aldermen in favor of the Grant Park site.
Race card back in museum debate
'THEY'RE NOT THE GANG-BANGERS'
Daley set to fight for Grant Park site
Dear neighbors,
Think the CCM debate, and Daley's impending rescission of the so-called "aldermanic prerogative," is far, far, away, with little or nothing to do with Chicago's far north side? Think again. Read the above article, but
- for each mention of "Chicago Children's Museum" substitute "Lake Shore Drive extension"
- for each mention of "Grant Park" substitute "Chicago's lakefront"
“A 5-year-old child is worth fighting for. . . . I believe that as a parent. I believe that as a grandparent. I believe that as a mayor. . . . It’s very important to have great [beaches along Chicago's lakefront]. I’m very passionate about it. ...You [mean to] tell me that children from ... the West Side or South Side ... can’t go to a [beach in Rogers] Park? They're not the gangbangers . . . They're not the dope dealers. These are 5-year-old kids. ... One time, there were no beaches down there." Daley said.
“[Chicago's lakefront] belongs to everybody in this city. It goes beyond aldermanic prerogative,” said Ald. Danny Solis (25th).
“I’m very respectful to my fellow aldermen. It is not lightly that I say this. But when we’re talking about the heart of this [lakefront] park system, we’re talking about a citywide asset,” said Ald. Helen Shiller (46th).
“It doesn’t just belong to one group of people. It belongs to all of us,” said Ald. Carrie Austin (34th).
“I want my kids to be able to go anywhere in the world,” said Ald. Emma Mitts (37th).
“This is a public [lakefront]. People keep acting like it’s a private park,” said Ald. Latasha Thomas (17th).
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5 comments:
Has anyone here been to the Children's Museum?? It's a waste of time. Minneapolis puts us to shame.
The Children's Museum is Super Expensive!
I would rather spend the day at a water park.
Notice that whenever some politician wants to put something unpalatable and possibly illegal over on the gulllible, emoting public, s/he invokes the chillins'.The Race Card is always useful, as well.
Pols are very well-versed in the use of "buzz words" and "power words", and use these words to great effect to get their public to give them what they want, which, in this case, is consent for a monster land grab and a precedent-setting violation of the Lakefront Protection Ordinance. "Family" and "families" and "children" are very powerful words and Daley is using them to great effect to deflect the gullible public's attention from what is really being put over on us, and to paint opponants as child-haters and "racists".
There are many other excellent locations for the children's museum, including many dowtown,that will be available at very reasonable prices because of the real estate bust. There are other locations close to downtown that might be even more convenient.
If you don't support the Museum going in Grant Park, or think the neighbors there shuld have a say, write a letter...Personally, I think the Mayor is a big hypocrite.
Dear Alderman Moore,
Not sure how much feedback you are getting on this issue, but I find the hoopla on this issue a bit ridiculous. There are so many suitable locations for the museum, I feel the museum people and the Mayor are being stubborn and inflexible. The Mayor is very disingenous to call "racism" when he has done little if nothing for the poor in Chicago during his tenure. This is merely a showpiece so he can look good again, but when it really counts he does nothing for the less well off in the city.
The lakefront is for everyone and the parks should be left as open as possible. If the neighborhood opposes it, put it somewhere else for heaven's sake.
I think the Museum area would be ideal. I ask that you not go against the wishes of the people who live there and pay taxes and the Alderman that represents them.
I'm all for what the mayor says. How can anyone turn a child away, especially some poor family that would like to take their kids down town, into a safe environment, and learn something, or to get cultured outside of their norm. I think its great, I can't wait to take my kid's down to the museum and listen to unruley kids make unbelievable comments as their ignorant mothers swear so loud that everyone wants to get away.
I use to love "the taste", but after the west side has made so much dope money, or is it that the well-fare system has made it affordable, or both? That they destroyed the entire event: There have been shootings year after year now!
The last thing I wan't mayor is for my kids to sit next to some kid who has no self control because their parents are so ignorantly arrogant that they swear and cuss so loud that it ruins the whole thing...and then I'm out $60 bucks between the parking and entrance fees.
Oh, took the kid's to the zoo the other week, and listened to these poor kids mother fuck the animals. Got home and watched the teeny bops on morse mother fuck a guy minding his own business.
I'm fed up with the bull shit.
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