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Full story: Column: A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way Wow! I'd heard Illinois, and particularly Chicago, was riddled with corruption, but I'd no idea it was this bad or this blatant. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | ||
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Charmingly unsophisticated |
Man, that is just nuts! _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
No, that is just Chicago. It really is. I lived there for a number of years. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Hope the kid gets his education and a set of luggage for his graduation present. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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And nothing will happen. Nobody will investigate, nobody will pay any price Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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According to my reading of the article he still has enough signatures to get on the ballot. Of all the revocations they submitted less than 200 were people that actually signed his petition. But yea the corruption is stunning. Or at least it would be if it were not so commonplace. | |||
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"We don't want nobody nobody sent" Abner Mikva found that out back in '48. Now this kid has the balls to try that shit in Burkes ward?!? Burke is one of the most powerful people in the State. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
"A clown car of felonies". they got that right! | |||
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| Big Stack |
I wonder if the FBI would be interested in this? It sounds like there are a lot of Chicago politicians who need to be wearing orange jumpsuits for a lot of years. | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
A dirty trick. Is it illegal? (The collecting affidavit , not the there are too many affidavits part.) Not that it should be legal. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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The FBI, haha. That's funny. From what I've been reading the last few years, the FBI is more likely to have collected the revocations. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
Not a lawyer but would this not be "suborning perjury" on the part of the people soliciting these affidavits they know to be false? Someone educate me, please. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Raptorman |
Chicago needs to burn to the ground. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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Character, above all else |
Being curious and not familiar with Abner Mikva, I looked him up on Wiki. Here's the excerpt that explains the quote above: "One of the stories that is told about my start in politics is that on the way home from law school one night in 1948, I stopped by the ward headquarters in the ward where I lived. There was a street-front, and the name Timothy O'Sullivan, Ward Committeeman, was painted on the front window. I walked in and I said "I'd like to volunteer to work for [Adlai] Stevenson and [Paul] Douglas." This quintessential Chicago ward committeeman took the cigar out of his mouth and glared at me and said, "Who sent you?" I said, "Nobody sent me." He put the cigar back in his mouth and he said, "We don't want nobody that nobody sent." This was the beginning of my political career in Chicago." "The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy." | |||
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I have been reading John Kass for years. The series he did on the Chicago Outfit should have won a Pulitzer. I am surprised nobody ordered a hit on him. He had the balls to have Trib readers email him the list of names of guys who had NO SHOW jobs at City Hall. He then published the list. He is not Mike Royko, but is made from the same cloth. It will be interesting to see what the FBI found in Burke's office from the recent raid. | |||
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Still finding my way |
If it ever starts burning I'll meet you there with marshmallows. | |||
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Wait, what? |
I wouldn’t eat marshmallows cooked in that smoke... “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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If he truly learned anything from this experience - he will find a job outside of IL once he graduates ! | |||
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| Let's be careful out there |
ZSMichael, you have to research your Chicago taxonomy a bit. "The Outfit" is the gangsters, most of them live outside the city to the west of Oak Park. What you called the Organization is actually "the Machine" It has run Chicago for over 100 years. I grew up on the Northwest side. Because my Alderman was such a faithful servant of Hizzhoner da Mare, Richard J. Daley, ( not his wimpy son Richie) said alderman was rewarded with a seat, essentially a lifetime appointment to the United States Congress. Roman Polanski, his name was. | |||
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