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A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way
December 12, 2018, 11:27 AM
ensigmaticA college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way
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Column: A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way
By John Kass
Chicago Tribune
December 7, 2018, 5:00 a.m.
The history of the little guy being squashed by massive Chicago political clout at election time is just too long to print without weeping.
But the story for today is so amazing that some Chicago election officials have never seen the like.
“No one can remember anything approaching this,” said an election official.
Really?
It’s overkill of epic proportions, like using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, or firing off a nuclear weapon to kill a sparrow. A Southwest Side David vs. Goliath story.
The David is David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.
The Goliath is the 13th Ward Democratic Organization run by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, aka Boss Madigan, the most powerful politician in the state. Boss Madigan has long hand-picked his aldermen. He likes them loyal and quiet. The current silent alderman of the 13th Ward is Marty Quinn.
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Column: A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago WayWow! I'd heard Illinois, and particularly Chicago, was riddled with corruption, but I'd no idea it was
this bad or
this blatant.
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AllenInARMan, that is just nuts!
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December 12, 2018, 11:53 AM
V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by AllenInWV:
Man, that is just nuts!
No, that is just Chicago. It really is. I lived there for a number of years.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים December 12, 2018, 01:27 PM
KrazeehorseHope the kid gets his education and a set of luggage for his graduation present.
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December 12, 2018, 01:50 PM
Lord VaalicAnd nothing will happen. Nobody will investigate, nobody will pay any price
Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day December 12, 2018, 01:52 PM
stu1000rrAccording 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.
December 12, 2018, 02:04 PM
CPD SIG"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.
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December 12, 2018, 02:16 PM
gw3971"A clown car of felonies". they got that right!
December 12, 2018, 02:30 PM
BBMWI 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.
December 12, 2018, 02:35 PM
6gunsI'd really like to see this article get some serious traction!
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December 12, 2018, 02:41 PM
jhe888A 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. December 12, 2018, 03:16 PM
FredwardThe 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.
December 12, 2018, 03:56 PM
RNshooterquote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
A dirty trick. Is it illegal? (The collecting affidavit , not the there are too many affidavits part.)
Not that it should be legal.
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.
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December 12, 2018, 04:10 PM
Mars_AttacksChicago needs to burn to the ground.
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December 12, 2018, 04:46 PM
Tailhook 84quote:
Originally posted by CPD SIG:
"We don't want nobody nobody sent"
Abner Mikva found that out back in '48.
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." December 12, 2018, 04:51 PM
ZSMICHAELI 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.
December 12, 2018, 04:52 PM
Ryanp225quote:
Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Chicago needs to burn to the ground.
If it ever starts burning I'll meet you there with marshmallows.
December 12, 2018, 05:06 PM
gearhoundsquote:
Originally posted by Ryanp225:
quote:
Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Chicago needs to burn to the ground.
If it ever starts burning I'll meet you there with marshmallows.
I wouldn’t eat marshmallows cooked in that smoke...
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GraniteguyIf he truly learned anything from this experience - he will find a job outside of IL once he graduates !
December 12, 2018, 06:34 PM
LtJLZSMichael, 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.