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Ben, You forgot I was the one who helped Richie Daley by pushing Eugene Sawyer in as Mayor. Than Luis Gutierez and I double crossed him! Wham.....Mayor Daley for life!

Riiiiccchhiiieee DDDaaallleeeyyyy. CCCiiivvviiiilll RRRiiiggghhhttttsss. Ben, I'm laughing so hard I can't even post my message. It's like an electrical shock is up my butt!

Ben, Stop this right now. Your making me and the Sun-Times look like I'm spinning for the Mayor. Remember if we get a Black Mayor , they don't need us white reporters!

Great links to classic Reader pieces by Gary Rivlin on the Washington era--check 'em out, folks.

Daley is a racist. But he is smart enough not to use certain words or be too blatant. He is brilliant at divide and conquer and using race. He buys people off, pits them against each other. Daley also did the same thing to Italians and Poles. Daley needs to share at least superficially with the Blacks because they are so big. He controls the Hispanics and gave some jobs and let lowlife gangbangers control the political situation. He is pushing Blacks out of the city with high house prices, high property taxes for Middle Class Blacks and the tearing down of Public Housing for the poor--even a blind pro-Daley fool (that may be redundant) can see that. There is a lot more here. But there is no doubt that Richie Daley is a racist. Always has been, always will be.

Daley never supported Washington and even supported a third party (the Chicago First) with Tommy Hynes (father of the qualified Dan Hynes the Comptroller) and also worked with State Senator Jeremiah "the big potato" Joyce when he was trying to become a Republican and wanted to run for Mayor as a Republican. Daley worked with Eddie Vrdolyak to stop Washington at every turn. Daley puppet alderman Pat Huels (the one hanging around with Fred Roti and getting 1 million in no interest no payback loans from Mike Tadin) was part of the Vrdolyak 29. So was Daley's cousin the 18th ward Dem Committeeman.

tHE BRIDGEPORT based hamburg gang incited the 1919 race riots,and commited mass murders. Guess! who was the president of the Hamburgs---old man Daley. The Hamburgs exist today,and have become police Commanders,States Attorneys,and Bridgeport land developers. Daley has implemented ethnic cleasing without firing a shot,how amazing.

WHITE MAN SPEAK WITH FORK TONGUE.DALEY ALWAYS PUSHES OUT FRONT BOOT LICKING,SELLOUT SO-CALLED BLACK LEADERS. TIM EVANS,AUTHUR BRAZIER, LEON FINNEY,STROGER (TODDLER) AND THE COALITION OF BLACK PREACHERS AND THE OTHER SELLOUTS TO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. THESE SELLOUT LEADERS AID ASSIST DALEY WITH HIS ETHNIC CLEASING PROJECT.IRONICALLY! DALEY HAS NO RESPECT FOR THESE BOOT LICKERS,JUST ASK ORLANDO JONES.

How embarrassing to watch Daley froth and spew out accusations (completely and utterly unfounded) of racism, when that's entirely not the issue here. You keep voting for this buffoon?

Leave my Uncle Rich alone. If you can't stick up for your family using the RACE CARD, what good are you. My Uncle Richie is NUTS, he believes he can say or do anything and the public believes him. Alderman Reilly better back off or else he will end up like Coconutty!

Olympics in Chicago 2016. By that time the Budget short-falls will be $17 billion dollars. The only people left in Chicago will be bartenders, waiters and waitress's. The Bean at Millinium Park will have turned to rust, because there was no money left to shine it up. The street people call it Daley's BM. (Bole Movement)Wake up Mayor daley....the Jig is up!

THE CHICAGO OLYMPICS PROJECT IS NOTHLING BUT BLOODLESS FORM OF ETHNIC CLEASING

EVEN WORSE ALDERMAN REILLY COULD END UP LIKE ORLANDO JONES OR NICK THE STICK LACOCO

I agree Blaster DALEY and small group of Blacks,are involved in an Ethnic ,and class cleansing CONSPIRACY project called the 2016 OLYMPICS

Hey, it worked for getting Wal-Mart into the city... and for putting the Olympics on the south side. Milk that racism thang, Ritchie..

NONE of these creatures would be able to do what they do, IF the majority of citizens were: REGISTERED TO VOTE VOTED ON ELECTION DAY VOTED OUT ALL INCUMBENTS VOTED IN ANYONE BUT THE INCUMBENTS VOTED USING THE: HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT mathematical formula. A concentrated effort will guarantee the firing of those presently in power. GUARANTEED. Let's all get busy. REGISTER TO VOTE Make a list of ALL incumbents. Remove any incumbents' name that you are SURE you don't want to fire. Take the list with you when you go to vote on election day. DO NOT VOTE FOR THE INCUMBENTS ON YOUR LIST. If there is only one challenger in any given contest, VOTE FOR THE CHALLENGER, no matter who it is. If there are 2 or more challengers, then: If the INCUMBENT is listed first, vote for the CHALLENGER who is listed LAST. or If the INCUMBENT is NOT listed first, then vote for the CHALLENGER who IS LISTED FIRST. Commit yourself to voting out practically all incumbents, break up the incestuous webs of corrupted power, take the authority to tax from these crooks, and see what happens. What do we, the common citizens, have to lose?

Hey, Lay off our buddy Richie! When we were vacationing with him last month in Paris, we told him all about our plan for the children's mueseum and since we give a LOT of money to Richie, we should get what we want. How come Alderman Reilly wasn't in Paris with us?! He was probably wasting his time at some community meeting listening to the residents who probably don't donate any money to Richie. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Ben, your following comment is half wrong. "Will Daley's tactic work this time? I doubt it. I can't see the council voting against local alderman Brendan Reilly (42nd) on a zoning issue. But at least the aldermanic debate will be an entertaining diversion from those tax bills." If you think Daley is gonna lose this you are drinking the same Kool Aid Dick Simpson and Laura Washington partake in when they talk about the mythical anti Daley coalition. However, watching it is going to be fun. I just looked over the 50 aldermen and my take is Daley gets all but possibly 3 white alderbeasts to vote with him. Reilly, Fioretti, and maybe Mr Fois Gras Moore may vote agin' him. Throw in the machine black and hispanic aldermen and we are likely in the 40's for pro Daley votes. Perhaps I am wrong. I doubt it.

The ongoing pieces that Joravsky and Dumke write are interesting thought-provoking---but too bad the comments on this board never come close to matching their level of intellect and civilized discourse. This board is crying out for a good moderator. Talk to Zorn at the Trib and get a few tips on how to moderate a board.

It's funny that you people accuse Daley of ethnic cleansing when he clearly isn't doing that one bit. You complained about the high-rises and the lack of opportunity they afforded their residents. So, Daley sets out to tear them down. Yes, no more high-rises and new homes for a lot of people. Condos? Yes, but only a 1/3. Another 1/3 goes for affordable housing, which is a set-aside to allow for people to actually own a home with the help of subsidies. The last 1/3 is set aside for PUBLIC HOUSING. YES, THE FREE KIND. THE KIND THAT HOUSED the people who lived in the high-rises. So what you have here is a redevelopment plan that addresses the problem. Will it work? The jury is still out. But, come on people, are you that blind to see that part of the problem with gangs, crime and the like was because of the fact that you had high concentrations of dirt-poor people living on top of one another? If Daley were a racist, he wouldn't allow for programs like the Resurrection Project to help put Hispanics in homes. If Daley were a racist, he wouldn't have fought to get the big boxes into underserved areas. People in this city complain about everything Daley does and it is downright sick. If you'd like to bring up the Hamburgs, why not bring up the Panthers? I mean, wasn't Congressman Bobby Rush a card-carrying member of that organization? You people are all full of hot air and nothing more. I grew up in this city and I'm happy to say that I appreciate the changes taking place. On the one hand, you say you want new development, but when it impedes on your own comfort level, you're out there blowing your racism horn. Get a clue.

THANKS FOR THE OVERPRICED SUBSTANDARD HOUSING,BUILT BY DEVELOPERS WITH CITY SUBSIDES,WITH CONNECTIONS TO YOUR MASTER.THE CITY IS BANKRUPT,AND WITH A THIRD WORLD TRANSPORTAION SYSTEM,TRYING TO HOST THE 2016 OLYMPICS. The decendents of the Hamburg street gang run CHICAGO and its politics. This city created CAPONE,FRED BARBARA,THE DALEYS. Iagree with previous posters the 2016 OLYMPICS WILL RESULT IN CLASS and ethnic cleansing.

Thank you, Saint, for illustrating my point so well. Your comment, in which you chose to avoid addressing the issue in an intelligent and civilized manner and instead engage in playground name calling and ad hominem attacks, did not come close to matching the level of discourse set by Messrs. Joravsky and Dumke.

Tim, Your correct . It's people like you and your mentality running Chicago. You feel it was the right thing to get rid of all the shines and ricans. Your one of those guys that sits at Schallers in Brigeport and talks about how white the City looks. But let me tell you something Tim. When there is no one else to blame for all the City's problems, you'll turn on each other. Just look at the daley and rielly fight. You people have issues. Remember, we are all brothers and sisters under the skin. The Tribune is in trouble because most people are sick of reading fluff! The Reader's success is it tells it like it is. So Tim go to Church on Sunday and pray. Pray that daley doesn't knock those down next.

We can always count on Ben "One TIF Pony" Javorsky to somehow,someway find a way to inject TIF's into EVERY article he writes. He must be from the Bob Greene/Baby Richard School of Beating a Dead Horse Journalism. Anyway, I say if the rich high rise residents want the park to be free and forever clear, then do not allow the CCM to build (underground mind you), but also do away with the tennis courts, playground and fieldhouse, all of which is basically their private country club and just make the area one big lawn, free and clear.

Orion, Free and Clear. Like your brain.

Why hasn't someone suggested having the CHildren's museum on Northerly Island? After all, it's not like there's an airport on it or anything ;)

So, Tim1979, you hanker for intelligent discourse. Feel free to provide some. So far, all you've posted are comments criticizing other comments. Highly intelligent, you are not.

Why do you allow an idiot and barnyard bowel movement like Frank Coconate to post on this site. One stupid post after another. Send him to the help wanted ads. What an idiot.

ITS MIGHTY WHITE OF YOU GUYS TO HELP THE DOWN TRODDEN MINORITIES. NEXT TIME WHEN YOU SEE YOUR MASTER---DALEY ASK HIM WHY WAS IT NECESSARY TO TORTURE 200 BLACK MEN TO OBTAIN FORCED CONFESSIONS. SADEM , AND POL POT WOULD BE PROUD.

Why do you allow an idiot and barnyard bowel movement like "Time to make poop" to post on this site. One stupid post after another. Send him to the help wanted ads. What an idiot.

Tim1959, thanks for helping illustrate my point about the disappointingly low level of discourse on this board. I have said absolutely nothing pro- or anti-Daley, yet because I express a general, apolitical disappointment with the quality of the reader posts, I am immediately villified by you as some sort of Daley political acolyte. It's sad that you don't see your own flawed logic. Playground rhetorical tactics like yours cheapen our civic discourse and ultimately only make it more difficult for the mayor's critics to be heard and make a cogent and compelling case. They have to be lumped in with the likes of you.

PTP, I don't claim to be highly intelligent. Do you? And yes, I'll contribute something worthwhile when I think I have something worthwhile to contribute, unlike many of those posting here, who appear to post merely to attack others and/or get off on seeing their words posted in a public forum. In all this my main criticism remains with whoever at The Reader is moderating this board. That person, in my opinion, is not doing a good job. The moderation is so loose or even non-existent, a reader starts off by reading an intelligent, interesting post by Joravsky and/or Dumke, but then is dragged down with a comment board that contains little more than nyah, nyah, nyah at best---and complete incoherence at worst.

So, do we all hold our breaths, anxiously awaiting your brilliant observations? As in your desire for 'moderation', to contain and limit the 'non-existent' censoring of those comments YOU deem to be of no value? If you haven't the patience or tolerance or appreciation for opinions radically outside of your high standards, if you don't HAVE an opinion, to express and share, that rises to the level of intelligent discourse you have decided merits your attention, then I suggest you don't comment until you do. We've had quite enough requests for censorship, from the various clout monkeys touting for daley and his ilk, to last us awhile. Your request for censorship, based on your definition of intelligent content, is still a request for censorship. What we need is less censorship, not more. The meager efforts needed, to ignore those comments you find of little to not use, are better made, than to encourage censorship of comments, for whatever reasons.

Aldermanic Vote: 35 to 15 for Reilly against the Mayor. why would they will give up aldermanic privilege and all the development $$s.

TIM1979 why waste your time honoring our lowly comment board when seeming endless intelligence.The bottom line we need a new political order in this town.

What we really need is a new, political disorder. A political environment where ANYONE can run for office, preferably WITHOUT political connections, WITHOUT the taint of political experience, but WITH the character, personality and will to SERVE the public's interests, ALL of the public's interests, and NONE of the interests of the greedy fucks who infest our society. Incest politics is the root cause of our problems. Variety is not only the spice of life, it's the guarantee of honest government.

Attempting to engage some of the folks here in a mutually respectful, productive conversation is akin to being R.P. McMurphy in group therapy. Thanks to those inmates who advised me to not waste any more of my time, and leave this board. I'm taking your advice. As Murrow might say, good night, and good luck.

Don't flatter yourself, Tim, by claiming that you've 'attempted' to "...engage some of the folks here in a mutually respectful, productive conversation...", you have yet to do so. You've posted 5 comments, all complaining about your perception of the lack of intelligent content in the comments of others, all calling for censorship of the comments of others, all bereft of any other thoughts, ideas, opinions or subject matter, other than blanket criticism of others' contributions. Period. Your criticism is more appropriately directed at yourself. Had you posted, in addition to your one note complaint, anything, anything at all, you might have had a chance at persuading some of the 'need' for Zorn-like censorship. As it stands, the only thing your posts have shown is that you have nothing to contribute, no interest in "...a mutually respectful, productive conversation...", and no capacity for same. Bye-Bye.

Keep those brats out of the park!

Yep, orioboy can't help himself, he's got to stroke his monkey. The Midget Mayor must be proud.