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Why are you opening this door up here? You know there is both legitimate and juvenile humor that can be posted here on this post. Let's leave people's private lives private.

That is really not Lovin you in Lakeview--Ron Huberman may be in Lakeview. But the guy who loves Huberman is a bald guy from Edison Park.

All the trash that is fit to print. Never mind the very serious failures that Mr. Huberman has inherited, and how the crumbling infrastructure or bloated bureaucracy or under funded pensions or any number of issues that really affect all of us. Someone in Lakeview has a crush! Stop the presses......... And the press isn't complicit? Pretty soon Mick could be writing for the Sun-Times alongside such fluff pushers as Jennifer Hunter, wife of an Editor at the venerable (I’m being sarcastic) paper. What a joke the local press is.

And Judy Baar Topinka would turn the temporary reprieve, WHAT A BITCH!!!!!!. She can take her Anti-Chicago agenda & SHOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!.

Turn DOWN I MEANT to say.

The CTA is a mess because previous Daley lackey Frank Kruesi loaded the agency with upper management positions, retired City Workers who collect a City pension, and projects that were not needed. (The french Bus shelters all over the place). It's normal for the Daley brain trust to run a agency to the ground with there hand picked lackey, than bring in a handsome young stud like Huberman to act like he is cleaning up. But in reality, it's all an act to get more of the taxpayers money! Ron Huberman is to the CTA, what David Hoffman is to the Inspector General. There both just a front! By the way, who cares if Huberman is Gay. So is William Daley and Peter Sivestri.

Kate , leave that post if you have any guts!

Uh, Frank, how long you been married? Haven't you learned not to dare a woman to do or not do something? Or do you not consider Kate to be a woman?

Coconutty LOVES Huberman.

But, does Ronnie love Frankie?

While the mayor tries to distract everyone with the wonder boy who some guy in Lakeview falls in love with, while he hangs out in Paris,the CTA crumbles further. The Mayor is to blame for leaving kreusi in so long as he ran it into the ground, and instead of hiring a PROFESSIONAL...he hires another of his buddies from down the hallway. The state reps up here won't stand up to Madigan, so we all get to live with their failures. Ron Huberman has NO idea how to run a major transportation agency in the US. The NTSB report says as much. Cover ups happened on his watch just as they did on Kruesi, but has anyone been fired yet for last years debacle? no They destroyed documents, and mislead the public, they should be fired. They know who they are yet everything moves right along as usual.

HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT

How can the CTA have any credibility when Mayor Daley appointed Victor Reyes to the CTA board and he had a conflict of interest in representing a half a BILLION in interests including French company JC Deceaux (Mayor Daley is in France--did Tim Degnan or Jerry Joyce buy a bike company in France???) That is called conflict of interest. Victor Reyes cut his own people's (low income Hispanics)(but those are not his people--his rich White Irish masters and money are his people) service on weekends and nights including Pilsen and Little Village. Frank Kruesi was more worried about his pension. There is patronage at the CTA, gross mismanagement, and outright corruption. The mess we are in is from the Reyes, Kruesi nightmare.

Even if Huberman wanted to really fix the CTA he could not.

Remember that Ron Huberman knew about a LOT of wrongdoing he did NOTHING about and was there when Frank Coconate was terminated and the Vortex (60 million in waste) was uncovered and the Pat McDonough revealing of Hired Trucks and bribes and overtime and gambling etc. Huberman did not even return calls of city workers, he did no investigation. The CTA used to have Victor Reyes as a board member. Mike Noonan is Victor Reyes current lobbying partner. Victor Reyes used to be the lobbying partner of Brian Hynes at the Shefsky law firm that gets the no bid contracts from Mara Georges who used to work their (and Brian Crowe her mentor is now at Shefsky)--that is where LARRY SUFFREDIN works now too and does lobbying for TOBACCO--so SMOKIN LARRY SUFFERDING SUFFREDIN is an arrogant hypocrite and no friend of reform or taxpayers. He even represented a gang banger named SATAN--so hardly somebody who should be a prosecutor (he got millions for him in a civil suit but did not resolve the Jon Burge issues)--Brian Hynes--the law associate of Victor Reyes and the former partner of Victor Reyes is the lobbyist for controversial strip club CLUB O in corrupt Harvey with accusations of drug parties, drug dealing, bribes and prostitution, money laundering including to Middle Eastern and North African countries. Brian Hynes is also an associate of now indicted Fast Eddie Vrdolyak. Look into Larry Suffredin also. Devine may go back to Shefsky. Mara Georges will continue to make everyone rich. Ron Huberman is from a very well respected Jewish Israeli family. He is a Sabra. (an Israeli born Jew). Some very big clout behind him look at a certain Congressman--you can guess. In terms of the CTA remember that Mike Noonan, Mike Kasper and Victor Reyes are the guys who brought you HDO, Drug dealers, gang bangers, bad elected officals, lies, Hired Trucks, Sequouia, Vote Fraud, bad elections, made tons of lobbying money, forced Toddler Stroger on us and much much else. Ron Huberman should ask the US Attorneys office to look into the CTA and Eddie Vrdolyak's puppet's wife (the wife of Sam Panaytovich) who was appointed by convicted felon George Ryan on the CTA board and Victor Reyes on the CTA board--and all the JOBS and CONTRACTS that Reyes and Vrdolyak cronies and others doled out. Mike Noonan is Victor Reyes lobbying partner in the Roosevelt group--that is public knowledge--it is in incorporation papers--it is in lobbying registrations--if you call the Roosevelt group you can press extensions for Noonan and Reyes. Victor Reyes is the head of HDO. He is the Chair and President on the incorporation papers. On the incorporation papers it has Michael Kasper as the attorney and his law office as the office. These same papers have Victor Reyes on the State Board of Election Disclosures. The State Board of Election disclosure which you can easily get off the internet have a 6 figure payment to Tom Breen for Victor Reyes (who has been identified as co-schemer A in Federal guilty pleas and identified as such on TV, the Sun Times, and teh Chicago Tribune) Tom Breen was Marcello's attorney in the recent Family Secrets Mafia trial. Marcello was convicted and was accussed of murdering people Al Sanchez is indicted waiting trial. His protege and former Streets and Sans worker, candidate for alderman, and HDO member Aaron DelValle is also indicted. This is online with the US Attorneys office and reported widely in the media--you can do a Google news search, or a Lexis search if you have it. George Prado plead guilty. He has been identified in the media as being a member of HDO. He gave money to Senator Antonio "Tony" Munoz timed with his promotion as reported by the Chicago Sun Times and could be verified with the City of Chicago. George Prado was an operating engineer working with the father and brother of Senator Munoz. George Prado gave money to the HDO. It was in the major mainstream media, it can be found online in Federal court records, the US Attorneys had press releases--George Prado plead guilty to being a heroin dealer part of an 8 member heroin dealing ring associated with the Columbian cartel run out of the Jardine Plant Department of Water Management--this is dramatic but all public record--not allegation but public guilty plea. Angelo Torres--plead guilty--admitted guilt--admitted he was formerly a member of a gang--the Two Six gang and he was part of the predecessor to Cease Fire with the Professor from UIC because of his gang involvement--all in the Sun Times. Call Tim Novak from the Sun Times. Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky also wrote on some of these themes. Again, Federal online, US Attorney press releases, Chicago Sun Times investigative reporting series. Hired Trucks was an HDO former gang member in charge of a truck privatization program that gave no bid and no work trucking contracts to numerous trucking companies for bribes and extortion (Federal documents/guilty pleas not allegations not too much research) including trucking companies connected to the Mafia (not allegations just look at the Family Secrets transcripts, read the Sun Times, look at the guilty pleas) The money from these firms ended up in politicians coffers including HDO and HDO Senator Munoz. Michael Noonan helped with Senator Munoz's campaign. Resas plead guilty recently to lying to the Feds and fixing jobs. He also tested positive for cocaine. Again all in court documents and reported in the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune and the TV--no allegations, no blogs, no rumors--easily verifiable--please use google news or if you have Nexis. Guilty plea. If Mike Noonan is Howard Brookins campaing manager it is a fair question how would Brookins feel about investigating Mike Noonan or Noonan's partner Victor Reyes or HDO if they supported Brookins or if there is a conflict or if the above guilty pleas and verifiable information would create a questionable criminal tie. Remember it was the Feds and not State's Attorney Richard Devine who could not find anything wrong with Reyes, or Munoz and Acevedo who he endorsed or HDO who supported him--despite overwhelming evidence about HDO and criminality. It has been reported in the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, Channel 7 and CLTV that Victor Reyes is under investigation and is named as co-schemer A in current US Attorney indictments and guilty pleas. Call Tim Novak of the Sun Times, or Laurie Cohen of the Chicago Tribune. Or look through Archives or go to the Federal building. Mike Noonan was the campaign manager for Bernie Stone for alderman. There is a current investigation into absentee ballot fraud possibly by the US Attorneys (they did not comment) but certainly by David Hoffman and the City Inspector General. These are serious allegations (if true) of voter fraud and intimidation. The allegations were on TV during the election and now are being investigated. Mike Noonan was the campaign manager for Todd Stroger for County Board President. There were allegations in major media, and by Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica that the John Stroger signature was not valid or the same. This was reported widely on TV and print. There seems no doubt that the health condition of John Stroger lacked candor. It is now known that Todd Stroger did not reveal his own health issue of Prostate cancer (whether he had to is another question but he is an elected official with a previous appointment based on health failure of his father) There are investigations into County government. People went to jail including CFOs of County Hospitals like Providence. There have been guilty pleas, trials--this is all fact. Mike Noonan made allegations against Tony Peraica--which can be verified through old clips and press releases of Peraica supposedly laying people off and cutting of services when and if he became County Board President. Stroger cut services and laid people off. Todd Stroger did hire family, cousins and friends--that is a fact that can be found online in the budget and was reported in major media. There have been numerous allegations, publicly reported, some guilty pleas from County workers on County time doing 8th ward picnics, the CFO of Provident hospital making a fake company and stealing money, an 8th ward worker with numerous felony convictions being in charge of grant money and stealing again, the coming and going of Gerald Nichols and those allegations, budgetary problems, etc.--these are all verifiable. Mike Noonan IS the partner of Victor Reyes. Victor Reyes is co-schemer A in Federal indictments and guilty pleas. Victor Reyes has not yet been indicted. Do a Google search or a Lexis search on Victor Reyes and you will see things about CTA, O'Hare, patronage, drugs, gangs, jobs, and not one positive article. Victor Reyes is the head of HDO. If Mike Noonan was Dominic Longo's partner the media would be all over it. If Mike Noonan was partners with an individual with ties to Italian organized crime it would be a story. Independetly of Reyes, Mike Noonan was the campaign manager of Bernie Stone--there is a City IG investigation by David Hoffman into absentee ballot questions, official misconduct of city workers and vote fraud. Mike Noonan was the campaign manager for Todd Stroger. Mike Noonan made statements that turned out to be not true. Mike Noonan may have covered up plans to fire people, cut services, lie about Tony Peraica, and not tell the truth about Prostate cancer. These may be able to explained away but also maybe not but they should be allowed to be posted and are verifiable. It is valid to ask Howard Brookins?: 1. Is HDO helping your campaign? 2. Is Victor Reyes through the Roosevelt group doing fundraising for you? 3. Are you paying Mike Noonan directly or the Roosevelt Group? 4. If you are paying the Roosevelt Group than what role is Victor Reyes playing? 5. What role is Victor Reyes playing anyway? 6. Would you accept support from the Hispanic Democratic Organization (HDO)? 7. If you would not accept support, why not? 8. If you would accept support from HDO--how would you explain the ties to the Sorich/Slattery/McCarthy/Sullian convictions, ties to convicted drug dealer and city worker George Prado, ties to convicted Hired Trucks leader Angelo Torres, ties to convicted job fixer and perjurer who tested positive for cocaine John Resa, what about the other allegations? including the indictment of HDO leader and former Streets and Sanitation Commisisoner Al Sanchez and his assistant Aaron DelValle? 9. Do you think that Dick Devine should investigated or dropped the ball or even worse any wrongdoing of George Prado, Hired Trucks, HDO or Victor Reyes? 10. Former State's Attorney David Bonoma (the son of Mayor Daley secretary) worked for Dick Devine and now works for Victor Reyes? Is there a conflict of interest here? Is it it a cause for concern? 11. Was Mike Noonan honest during the Stroger campaign? 12. Was he honest or did he have any evidence that Peraica was going to cut services or fire people? Or was it fearmongering and lies? Was there any legitimate speculation? 13. Did Noonan or Stroger lie to organized labor? 14. Did Noonan know about the real nature of the budget? 15. Did Noonan know about the planned firings or cuts in services before the election or even their possibility? 16. How truthful is Noonan? 17. If Brookins associates with someone like Noonan what that does that say about his character and/or integrity and/or judgement? 18. Does Brookins believe there should be some investigations into Cook County government, John Daley (publicly associated with Hired Trucks and insured all the Trucking companies--all public record), Gerald Nichols, or Todd Stroger himself? 19. Who are the other clients of Mike Noonan and the Roosevelt Group?

Go suck up to Jesse "I'll Enact A City Income Tax Atop Property Taxes" Jackson Jr. John Boy.

Nice post. Filled with the very best thoughts and sentiments the clout monkey has to offer. Mayor Mumbles would be proud.

How can Chicago be ready for the Olympics when it can't even run a CTA system. The estimates is that if this is not solved 100,000 riders will be getting cars, car pooling, getting their cars out of the garage (gas, pollution, traffic), walking, or biking like the Mayor in France--or not going to work That is a tragedy and joke. The Federal report ripped the CTA Kruesi and Huberman a new one. HUBERMAN HAS NO TRANSIT EXPERIENCE!!!! If they wanted to get someone foreign born why not somebody from Europe with their trains--or even Mexico with the most populated city in the World 25 million people--and trains and buses and cabs that get people places. Or a European train system. HOW CAN WE HAVE THE OLYMPICS WITH A FAILED AND CORRUPT AND UNFUNDED CTA SYSTEM!!!!!! Have you been to Europe--get a Europass to any country!!! Have you been to Mexico with a public and private bus and train system. Besides the DC Metro--the Chicago system--while can get you to one part of town to another or used--is dirty, no class, maybe some gritty character--but in Europe and even poorer Mexico--there is art--it is clean. Service was cut, they don't understand markets, there is patronage, they have a joke of a political board, the head never worked in transportation. THE WHOLE WORLD IS LOOKING AT CHICAGO AND WE ARE A JOKE!!!!!

AON asks a good question (I wish I had the Bush clout): "How can Chicago run the Olympics if it can't run a World Class transit system?" Pat Ryan We keep on focusing on more money, which is a current reality BUT we have not yet talked about (or Daley and Blagojevich have not yet talked about): 1. Patronage at the CTA, lots of hacks in painting, administration, construction including convicts or ex convicts, people fired from the city, political 2. A politically appointed hack board. 3. Contract cronyism at the CTA, remember that Victor Reyes stole the contract from Gery Chico to represent the French design company of the euro-chique yet expensive CTA waiting stations downtown that Daley like--lobbying for them WHILE HE WAS ON THE BOARD!!!! lots of other contracts too 4. Pensions that are sky high and you could never find in the private sector. 5. Drivers and other employees (admittedly you can get some tough passengers too) who are rude, bad drivers, ignorant etc. 6. The elimination of service that made no sense. There were cuts in Hispanic areas where an illegal probably para transit jitney system exists that you can find by going to 26th Street at starting about 4 AM and seeing people from 4AM to 7 AM riding vans with other people going to work--it exists elswhere too. When I lived in Washington DC the El Salvadorians had their own non government regulated "bus" and cab system. For all the Mexicans working at night and weekends, and yes not to stereotype--but maids, janitors, chefs, busboys, waiters, dishwashers, nannies, construction--who work nights and weekends--public transit was the way to go--they a lost a lot of ridership. 7. Too much money spent on new downtown stations, and beautification of downtown and north-south lakefront lines 8. No people who know transit. Isn't former Alderman Mike Wojcik--the guy who didn't finish his Physical Education degree from UIC or Northwestern have a 6 figure job in Public Affairs--maybe his grammatically correct press releases--or IT--he probably took a lot of computer classes in PE major. Fire Mike Wojcik before you talk about money. 9. WHAT DOES RON HUBERMAN KNOW ABOUT THE CTA OR MASS TRANSIT????!!!!!!! Why is he so brilkiant again???!!!! Was he the one who cleaned up the City???!!!! Was he the one that cleaned up the Police force???!!! What is his resume???!!!!! 10. Cal, didn't you serve with Sam Panyototayovic in the State House--wasn't he known as Edward Vrdolyak's guy?? I think he was even a Republican State Rep until Clem Balanoff beat him. How was his wife qualified to be on the CTA board???!!!! Did she know transportation?? or finance??? or mass transit??? or computers 11. There is no VISION, NO PLAN, NO PHILOSOPHY, NO MISSION STATEMENT 12. Daley likes to go to other countries--what can we learn from other countries with good trains and buses 13. Can we privatize anything??? 14. With gross mismanagement, patronage jobs, idiots like Mike Wojcik, 11th ward hacks, Victor Reyes on the board, State Reps wives on the boards (these boards make $35,000 a year with pension, and health benefits--hell--I would do it for FREE just for the PENSION AND HEALTH!!!!) So the workers are political The board is political The contracts are fixed and political The jobs are political The pensions are huge AND THEY WANT MORE TAXPAYER MONEY!!! I agree with Mass Transit--I agree that low income people should have a way to get to work--WORK IS GOOD--TRAINS AND BUSES ARE GOOD--I think less gas, less cars on roads, less traffic, less congestion, less air pollution--ALL GOOD WHAT IS BAD IS WASTEFUL PATRONAGE BAD PEOPLE IN JOBS LOTS OF WASTE IDIOTS IN JOBS POLITICS RUNNING EVERYTHING CRONYISM IN CONTRACTS BAD CHOICES TO SPEND MONEY HUGE PENSIONS BAD EMPLOYEES OUTDATED TECHNOLOGY AND ALWAYS WANTING TAXPAYER BAILOUTS OR HIGHER FARES We need to get to the root causes. Not always just ask for money or put on a show. Come on Mike "the idiot" Wojcik

Hey all, lets bring it back to the subject at hand, Mr Dreamboat Ron Huberman. I see him in Andersonville from time to time, you may work for a corrupt government but you are hot :)

with my bus this morning, but that's another story...

Jesse Jackass Jr would ONLY make it WORSE. And Judy Bore Topinka is acting like a Herbert Hoover, Adding MORE salt to the wound. CTA in itself is a sucky ass idiotic shithole, But can THOSE people make it better?????????.......I THINK not.

Enough said.

With some employees literally getting food stamps, Whilst not on a workfare program & Whilst others starve & fuss over personal expenditures on what to sacrifice painfully. And one former head a Nazi memrobilia maven.

What the hell is this wash-up, bleached and dyed out old hag doing, sticking her big, snot filled nose into ANYTHING concerning government or politics? he's the idiot who's consistently claimed that Ryan did nothing wrong, that SHE'S never done nothing wrong and that everything would be wonderful, if only the Republicans regained control of state government. What, like the GOP isn't totally responsible for the sad state of affairs we citizens are in now? They controlled the state's budget for how many years? They controlled the state legislature for how many years? They ran the state government like the Democrats run Crook County and Chicago government. They're as bad a bunch of crooks, thieves and liars as the Dems. With Topinka being one of the most abrasive, disgusting and egregious liars of the bunch. Why do ANY of the media, print, radio, TV or otherwise, even think of giving this sack of bullcrap a single moment to spew her venom? She's OLD, OLD, OLD 'news', not worthy of a second of soundbite. She should be joining Ryan, when he takes his federally financed vacation.

Not even Michael Sneed would write garbage like this. Instead of a timely post on the CTA's financial problems you give us this? Sneedless to say this post sucked. You're better than this.

And yet, look all the wonderful comments this article inspired. No, not just the ones from lovesick homosexuals, but the ones detailing the many shortcomings of the Daley administration, the mismanagement at the CTA, the corruption, the lies, the likely criminal acts, the bigger pictures of the state and county involvements, the pathetic failures of the individuals involved, on and on, ad nauseum. So, we see, from an obviously sarcastic and humorous article, what wonderful and enlightening comments can be forhtcoming. Thanks, Mick, for providing this opportunity to us all.

No matter how you try to cut it. This is Crap!

peopel need to relax a little i find the post on C list very funny

YES, She's a BITCH!!!!!. Blago isn't that fantastic either, HOWEVER.......The cathouse madam for Georgie Boy Ryan would be a ONE-TERM GOVERNOR if she were EVER elected.

This is the hottest board in town. Who else would bring up that Frank Kruesi ran the CTA into the ground. The Victor Reyes Bus Shelters, Pension Bonanza's, and Ron Huberman's sexual preference. The Sun-Times and Tribune have become Mayor Daley's newsletter. The owners wonder why readership is down. it's because real people want REAL news! The Reader gives real news and the people that don't like it should go back to the "INSULTIG TWO" and read how Daley doesn't know Fred Barbara, Angelo Torrez, and Tom DiPiazza. I will tell you this much. Barabara,Tom DiPiazza and Victor Reyes will have a BIG piece of the Olympics in Chicago. The stupid public will scratch there heads and wonder HOW?

Frank Coconate could fix the CTA, right? A village fool knocking the problem with no good suggestions. I am tired of that scum bum.

Fuck you, asshole.

YEAH RIGHT, FRANK COCONATE WOULD SAVE THE CTA!!!!!!. LOL!!!!!!!!!!. THE BUS FARES WOULD BE $5-$10 FREAKING DOLLARS UNDER THAT ASSWIPE!!!!!!!!.

YAH, AND FRANK COCONUT WOULD LIVE IN LILYWHITE BUMBLEFUCK, WHILST CHICAGO BECOMES ANOTHER DETROIT??????????, Are YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND FRANKIE BOY???????????.

Frank Coconutty is a TOTAL ASSHOLE, Kissing ass with Jesse Jr, Tony "My Campaign Worker Called Liz Gorman A C**t" Prickracka, Bruce "I REFUSED To Campaign In The WHITE Areas Of The 18th Ward" Crosby, Louis Farrakahan, etc. Shit, I can't even IMAGINE Frank Coconutty running the CTA. While Huberman & The Tranny Wonder Brown are horribly shitty as CTA chairpeople, Frank Coconutty??????, ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Thanks for the feeble attempts at distracting from the John Dorrer and Micky Siegel comments. Nice try. The facts still remain the same. Criminal corruption, blatantly ignored by State's Attorney Dick Devine, feeding the always hungry herd of hogs, said hogs always primed and ready to squeal loudly, when the truth is being spoken. We, the people, are all awaiting the inevitable indictments of those who believe they're un-indictable.

Is this a solution Coconate? Coconate wrote on his site..... I have my EYES on YOU! Jan Pestka, Brian Murphy, Bobby Woods, Ralph Ferro, Cheryl Elders, Mark Fary, Ron Pachel, Michelle Roesler Colorato and Mother Geraldine (you thought I forgot about you), Eloy Ortiz, ROGER BALLA, Tom Aumann, Chiquita Almo Talley, and Commissioner Spatz. I wonder how people like you live with yourself... you lied, cheated and sold your soul to hurt someone honest, who defended the working family. You let drug dealers, drug addicts, ghost pay-rollers, drunks, gang bangers and outfit guys stay on the City Pay-Roll. You people are despicable!

As we approach yet another election cycle, the liars, spinmasters, deceivers, manipulators, and clout monkeys will come out from under their rocks, post their bullshit, spin their lies and, once again, pollute this board, ad nauseum. It's par for the course. Their philosophy is an age-old one. Tell enough lies, enough times, in enough places, to enough people and those lies will begin to be accepted as truth. Get enough people to believe those lies and to vote accordingly, and the liars continue to control governments, and, thus, control the people, even those who don't fall for the lies. Why? Because those who don't believe the lies fail to do anything effective about it. HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT

Vtoe some incumbents out, But DON'T replace them with the Coconutty sttoges like Jesse Jr or Peraica.

Vote NOT Vtoe, My mistake.

Stooges, Not Sttoges.

I wuvs anyone that Daley appoints.

also he has a huuuuuuuge penis