Arguably the biggest local election this fall will be for Cook County state’s attorney, where Democrat Anita Alvarez will try to hold off Republican Tony Peraica. If you think about it, Alvarez is kind of a Peraica Bizarro (if it’s not the other way around). Peraica, a former precinct captain for Bill Lipinski, lost a couple runs for office as a Democrat before switching parties and winning a suburban seat on the Cook County board in 2002. Now he encounters the stench of Democratic Party corruption everywhere he turns, and without fail finds it loathsome and campaign-worthy—he just can’t find enough opportunities to talk to the press about problems with the county jail, the county sales tax, or the county board president.
Then there’s Alvarez, a prosecutor who in her first political campaign promised to reform the office where she’d worked for 20 years. Since stunning several veteran elected officials by winning the Democratic nomination, she’s stopped talking about political corruption, police misconduct, crime-fighting, community outreach, the price of tomatoes, or pretty much anything else while quietly making the rounds of Democratic ward meetings and fund-raisers.
Their success at fund-raising the last few months is similarly dissimilar, according to reports just filed with the state board of elections: she’s raised gobs of money from a long list of insiders; he hasn’t. She looks like she’s going to have a party apparatus working for her; he couldn’t find a party apparatus if he wanted to. She’s taking money from some of the very people she criticized in the primary; he can only dream of such lucrative, uh, flexibility. She’s—well, you get the point.
Total raised since the February 5 primary:
PERAICA: $57,150
ALVAREZ: $463,276
Single biggest contribution:
PERAICA: $10,000, Corey Steel Company, Cicero
ALVAREZ: $52,029, Clifford Law Offices, Chicago
Top-contributing elected official:
PERAICA: $1,250, Tony Peraica
ALVAREZ: $20,000, state’s attorney Richard Devine
Other important financial friends:
PERAICA: Fred A. Krehbiel, CEO of Molex ($5,000), Leyden Township GOP committeeman Bradley A. Stephens ($250), state senator Christine Radogno ($250)
ALVAREZ: Media executive Fred Eychaner ($25,000), Chicago Federation of Labor ($10,000), county Democratic chairman Joseph Berrios ($2,500), mayoral brother Michael Daley ($1,000)
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Anyone can plainly see Alvarez is a tool for the Daley's, just like Todd Stroger. It's sad , but true. It;s time for a strong leader, vote for Peraica!
http://www.frankcoconate.com/
Anita will stop the sky high taxes Coconate and Cocaine Peraice want. Keep taxes low, support Alvarez.
Mayor Daley went to his dry cleaners, to clean up several suitcoats and slacks. As the Mayor turned around to leave, the chinaman said "come again"? The Mayor from the 11th ward said, "No, it is mustard".
As someone who watched Anita be spurned repeatedly last fall, it is simply implausible that she would be a machine hack. The $2,500 that Berrios gave her is a small sum considering he wouldn't even talk to her last year. At one event he actually ran away from her when she approached him. People should feel good that her biggest contributor is Fred Eychaner, hell he should give her at least as much as he gave Suffredin in the primary, which was north of $100,000. Fred is the best progressive donor in the state. Here's hoping Anita gets 70% against the whack job.
I hope Franks kicks in for Tony. Talk is cheap in Chicago.
If Anita Alvarez wins Cook County States Attorney, who wants to bet she does as much as Dick Devine to investigate corruption in the Daley Administration. Anita will investigate vote fraud in only Black Wards in Chicago.She is Mayor daley's new toy.
Anita is a hack and go along to get along clone of Dicky Devine. Of course Barrois kept his distance during the primary. He didn't want to offend other Hacks like himself,also he was in a tight race. How many people will Alvarez torture,how far will she go to coverup incriminating evidence that will indict Daley and other Machine Hacks. I hope the Miram Santos case to so we can find out how Anita coverup evidence to protect Daley and his corrupt family. ANITA ALVAREZ IS NOTHLING MORE THAN DICK DEVINE AND RICHARD DALEY IN A DRESS.
I hope Anita Alvarez will not revive the niggers by a pound program ,which was started in the 60's by the Crook County States Attorney office. I don't like using the N-word but light need to be shed on this corrupt racist arm of Government. Jail the Blacks and Latinos,but leave machine thugs alone. The 11th ward has become thedistribution center for the city. Do you think Anita is going to have a crack down and put well coonect thugs from the 11th in jail.
As much as I enjoy the cynical commentary, lets get real. Anita Alvarez is a bona fide outsider and a complete breath of fresh air in Cook County. Her record is pretty damn clear that she is not afraid to go after anyone regardless of their political clout or affiliation. She has done it in the past and there is no reason to believe she will change in the future. The beauty of her impending victory is that she is connected to NO ONE. Other than traditional Democratic donators giving money to her, there is NO evidence of any strong connection of anyone to her. She is a prosecutor plain and simple. Check this out (and I know this sounds unbelieveable) but, when she is elected, she will be the first career prosecutor to ever serve as Cook County State's Attorney. What a novel concept! Someone who has devoted their career to the office who actually gets to run things. Sad that its a novel concept but true. Tony P on the other hand, is trying to set a Guinness record for how many offices a person can run for and LOSE everytime. He might just get his name in the history books afterall...the Guinness book that is. Stop being cynical and give Anita a chance. This is what we have all been bitching about for years. Now that we have it, we should at least give it a chance.
Peraica gets my vote. He'll be nothing more than a speedbump against the Daley Democratic machine, but at least it's a start.
Anita Alvarez is nothling more than pretty face on top of a ugly distorted, maggot ridden body,called the Daley Machine. I can see it the air you refer to is stale,and rancid. Will Anita prosecute 11th ward Drug kinpins. The 11th ward has become the drug distribution center for the city and the surrounding areas. Anita Alvarez as State Attorney would not prosecute the wealthy and clouted. For 20 years she has watched and participated is coverups to protect the Machine,and the Daley family. It is not about Peraica,and her career is nothling more than,her protection of clouted people,that prey upon the public. I know lawyers who have left the States Attorney's office never to practice law again due to the corruption observed under Daley and Dicky Devine.Her so called record you tout doesn't show me anything . Anita has never indicted anyone except low level criminals,or an occassinal clouted person who has fallen from the Machines'grace. Your argument is highly suspect due to a lack of substance.
TruthSpeaker, Anita Alvarez sat back and watched the corruption in the Daley Administration . She is a phony, someone the Joyces-Degnans-Daleys love as Cook County States Attorney. That love is , they know she will not investigate there mis-use of taxpayers money. Tony Peraica has prooven he has what it takes to go after the Todd Strogers of the County!
Rich Miller is a Chamberlainesque Hillbilly apologist for anything related to Madigan's (both) interests and those of their confederates. This is a quasi-nouveau business strategy for him having suck-ed up and consequently rebuked by Daleyites and getting the freeze-out by Axelrod-- he is now literally "banking" on the Madigonians for his "insider-intheknow" product. Every attempt by him to marginalize further marginalizes him.... big drop-off on "hits" over yonder ther in Cap Watseka land.
"Her record is pretty damn clear that she is not afraid to go after anyone regardless of their political clout or affiliation. She has done it in the past ... " what are some examples of Alvarez going after someone with clout?
"Fred Eychaner ... gave Suffredin in the primary, which was north of $100,000. Fred is the best progressive donor in the state." "north of $100K"? OK, $170K is "north of $100K" that much to Suffredin disqualifies you from contention for "best progressive donor in the state"
and being the swing vote on a tax increase for Todd Stroger's Cook County disqualifies you from being considered a progressive
"Other than traditional Democratic donators giving money to her, there is NO evidence of any strong connection of anyone to her." other than that, huh?
that idiot worked for anitas campaign as a deputy campaign manager. last i heard he was blackballed from city politics(they fired him and he moved to arizona). i'm all for hacks getting thrown out.
Her connection to Daley is apparent as the nose on your face. She probabily rose through the ranks due to her ability to help coverup salient criminal activites by the Daley machine. Three monkeys. Anita headed the public corruption division of the States Attorney's office. Did she safe guard the public by heading this division? Did Anita Alvarez stop hired truck,did she expose the public pension corruption by the Daley family, did she prosecute 11th ward drug distributors operating out of city owned facilities? Did she indict Sorich for hiring fraud? Did she indict Building Dpartment personnel involved with their criminal enterprise the answer is NO!!!!
Tony "My Son Was SO Fucked Up On That Pot & COKE, That He REFUSED To Take A SOBRIETY Test, Just So I Could Possibly Get Him Off The Hook, Especially When I Become State's Attorney, And Get Him Away SCOT-FREE From These Usually Felonious Crimes-Such As Burglary For His Horrendous Cocaine Habit" Peraica is looked up to too much as your "Personal Jesus", He's FAR FROM IT. Come 2010, Should he run for re-election, It's FAR FROM CERTAIN his re-election will be secure. He'll just be a goon, gadfly "Sue For Every Damn Thing" lawyer, Probably "The Man Without A Political Party" oaf that'll carpetbag to DuPage county, Whilst his son will be so broke that his morale will probably worsen with the drug habit which will probably portend his slow downfall, Being incarcarated numerous times. Adding MORE problems to the Peraica legacy.
Its not about Peraica,it about keeping another Hack from preying upon the public. Anita helped set up mariam Santos to further the Daley Family interest. Anita assisted Daley and Devine with the Burge prosecutions and coverups.
Nothing like the comments section of the Reader for a pleasant break from my job managing a campaign for county attorney here in Maricopa County...a job I got because of my work for Anita. There is a Daley connection: he hired her out of law school when he was county attorney. The Joyces supported Milan and then dumped him for Allen, who had most of the machine support - including IBEW's (which is a code word for having the Mayor's support). While the Burge debacle is a genuine disgrace, Anita was on the gang unit when most of that broke and never had any jurisdiction over the case. The reason there are not more prosecutions for local corruption is that the State's Attorneys does not have a lot of resources to investigate highly complex cases where - let's face it - there is little likelihood of a jury coming back with a conviction. Remember how many times they had to prosecute the incredibly guilty Maltese to send her away. The U.S Attorneys Office should prosecute these cases because they have many more tools at their disposal.
Peraica has Coconate on his side. Please see Underdogs website, www.frankcoconate.com Coconate will sell out Daley for a DuPage phoney.
Josh is tripping " the reason Anita doesn't indict anyone big is because she doesn't have any money" Anita can always find money to prosecute Blacks and Latinos,and to help Daley coverup the Morton hotel deal. Daley never endorsed any particular Machine candidate in the Attorney's race. "The reason the States Attorney does not have a lot of resources to investigate highly complex cases -lets face it there is little likeihood of a jury coming back with a conviction." Wasn't Congressman Mel Reynolds prosecuted by the States Attorney's office. They were able to come up with the resources,to investigate and prosecute. My point is only clouted hacks whom have fallen out of the grace of the Machine are prosecuted by by the corrupt and racist States Attorney office. David Hoffman with a smaller staff, and a joke of a budget is able to investigate public corruption ,but the states Attorney office with 10x the money and manpower,is not able able to even investigate public corruption. Please!! josh shoot your grease at some else,maybe someone that lives in Kansas or Disneyland
To all of Daley's enablers, "ALL GOOD THINGS DO COME TO AN END".
Daley is a stinker! MAra Georges supports Coconate!
Joke of Jokes missed the point, when IBEW endorses a local candidate, that is who the mayor is supporting. Mel Reynolds was prosecuted for having sex with a minor and related offenses which is entirely different than pursuing patronage related corruption. I have proudly spent the last twenty years supporting non-machine candidates and Anita Alvarez is a non-machine candidate.
Michael Sheehan the coach had sex with many minors, Michael levine HAD SEX WITH BOYS. Mel Reynold was prosecuted when the girl was 21 yrs. His conviction was just . My problem with your faulty logic Josho is if Mel Reynold had not fallen out of grace with the Machine he would have never been prosecuted. There are many freako Politicans in the Machine whom will never be prosecuted by ANITA ALVAREZ. Anita Alvarez is a Machine Hack,OR YOU WOULDN'T BE WASTING YOUR TIME POSTING ALL YOUR BULLSHIT IN HER DEFENSE. If thug Mayor Daley wanted some else elected it would have been done. Daley at best,under the advise from his political handler Jermiah 19th Joyce ,told him to play a Machiavelian role and not to appear you are endorsing someone. It no secret the 11th ward doesn't like Allen' Its some inner Irish thing. Remember you stated earlier Daley recruited your Alvarez out of law school. Anita follows the Dicky Devine-Daley school of justice. Focus only on street crime,put Niggers by the pound into the jails and Latinos. Your excuse why Anita heading the Public corruption division, could not prosecute more corrupt politicans, is LAME at best.
Hey FU & It's not about Tony Peraica bullshit, The guy is a complete charlatan, Getting his dope fiend-burglarizing miscreant son off the hook, For some USUALLY felonious crimes, YOU CALL THAT REFORM??????????, I CALL IT SHEAR HYPOCRISY!!!!!. Whilst Frank "The Du Page Carpetbagger" Coconutty, Who would sellout the 41st ward to the Section 8 miscreants, Just so he could live in a LILYWHITE Du Page County "heaven"??????, HA!!!!!. Even many towns of Du Page County are not lilywhite. Maybe FANTASYLAND would be Coconutty's haven. And QUIT that asssniffing Mick the Dumbfuck, Or whichever asshole retorts the comments, That's from the usual rebuttalist. And REMEMBER, Tony Peraica is NOT Jesus Christ, Of what you miscreants make him out to be.
....You smarmy asshole. DON'T accuse me of having something against Jesus, You heatenous twerp. GO AHEAD, Worship your baal named Tony Peraica, And bow to him, You sacreligious piece of shytt. And LEST WE FORGET.......His burglarizing-dope fiend son Marko???????????. HA HA.
http://www.frankcoconate.com Boy, I've seen the Three Stooges work more efficiently than this snake oil salesman, LOL!!!!.
.....It looks like the http://www.frankcoconate.com website is practically broke. It can't seem to recover from it's mishaps. It keeps breaking down from some snicker, Which poor Frankie can't seem to conquer. Boy, What a sad case.
Marko Peraica aka The Oracle to the dope kingpin nightclubs of Miami. Hypocritical cowards.
Wow, an entire afternoon spent, on the public pad, whacking out drivel: "Not The Anti-Christ Tony Peraica July 23rd - 1:51 p.m. Hey FU & It's not about Tony Peraica bullshit, The guy is a complete charlatan, Getting his dope fiend-burglarizing miscreant son off the hook, For some USUALLY felonious crimes, YOU CALL THAT REFORM??????????, I CALL IT SHEAR HYPOCRISY!!!!!. Whilst Frank "The Du Page Carpetbagger" Coconutty, Who would sellout the 41st ward to the Section 8 miscreants, Just so he could live in a LILYWHITE Du Page County "heaven"??????, HA!!!!!. Even many towns of Du Page County are not lilywhite. Maybe FANTASYLAND would be Coconutty's haven. And QUIT that asssniffing Mick the Dumbfuck, Or whichever asshole retorts the comments, That's from the usual rebuttalist. And REMEMBER, Tony Peraica is NOT Jesus Christ, Of what you miscreants make him out to be. And To YOU...... July 23rd - 1:57 p.m. ....You smarmy asshole. DON'T accuse me of having something against Jesus, You heatenous twerp. GO AHEAD, Worship your baal named Tony Peraica, And bow to him, You sacreligious piece of shytt. And LEST WE FORGET.......His burglarizing-dope fiend son Marko???????????. HA HA. The Best Website Again, LOL!!!!!! July 23rd - 4:34 p.m. http://www.frankcoconate.com Boy, I've seen the Three Stooges work more efficiently than this snake oil salesman, LOL!!!!. Gee, July 23rd - 5:50 p.m. .....It looks like the http://www.frankcoconate.com website is practically broke. It can't seem to recover from it's mishaps. It keeps breaking down from some snicker, Which poor Frankie can't seem to conquer. Boy, What a sad case. And Go With..... July 23rd - 6:13 p.m. Marko Peraica aka The Oracle to the dope kingpin nightclubs of Miami. Hypocritical cowards." You forgot to finish with "...to the first degree...."
......Political hypocrites who weasel in and say "Sorry, He/she is not available at this time".....Leaving MORE frustrated. And Frankie's legal bills????????. WTF???????????. What for Frankie's welfare fund?????????.
Tell your doctor to tone down your medication, or don't take too much before you post please.
This guy who speaks of religion may have escaped from the tinley park good humor farm.
I want to laugh Anita Alvarez's former campaign manager states she couldn't prosecute any big clouted people ,due to a lack of funds!!!! HA HA. The FBI had to do her job in the family secrets trial. Mob figures with the help of Anita Alvarez's office and the Chicago Machine helped to destroy evidence,and rig cases. A murder weapon was thrown into a Chicago sewer and city workers were asked to help retrieve the murder weapon, to protect the Machine. How many Mob figures have been prosecuted by the Crook County States Attorney office? The answer is none. Anita will protect the Drug kinpins in the 11th ward,anf John Daley's criminal enterprise. If there are no funds to prosecute crimes, the federal government should just place Chicago under Marshall law.
For the State's Attorney candidate's son Marko to play for & deal with his customers at the Miami nightclubs, Hypocrisy in action, If I never heard of such.
http://www.frankcoconate.com
It's a shame he has to be used for some political gadfly's failure website. Hopefully, The cartoon character illustrator's family will sue Frank Cocopuffs' ass for potential copyright infringement.
Should STOP using that illegal white line powder, It's making you dizzy & distorted.
When the Machine guys can't stand up to the salient fact they resort to their retarded dribbel.
Wow. First it was "...to the first degree..." and now we are blessed with "If I never heard of such.". What variant of English grammar is "If I never heard of such."? Your visa should be revoked just for the crimes you've committed in butchering the English language. Try posting in your native language.
You pseudo-intellectual pricks, You can have your super professional speechwriter do all of your quotes. But in reality, All you wannabes are about as foremost as snake oil. THAT'S IT, Cover up cocaine man Marko, And sell the lie that Tony Peraica is a "Political Reformer", When he's nothing more than a sue for every damn thing personal injury lawyer, Who has the $$$$$$$$ to expunge Marko's felonious records (burglary)........And thusly makes Tony the papertiger nothing more than a genuine bullshit artist.
Its not about liking Peraica,or his son . Its about stopping the corrupt Daley Machine. If Peraica is the only one available ,i will utilize him. Anita Alvarez is align with the Devil "Daley'
Clout monkeys get it, they just don't like it. This particular nut case, immigrant clout monkey is just the most ridiculous of the bunch. "..to the first degree..." and "...If I never heard of such." is an award winning nut case, clout monkey. Electing Peraica is the only choice for those who are not clout monkeys. And the clout monkeys know this, thus, are 'working' to impede Peraica's election. I'm voting FOR Peraica just because the Daley machine wants me NOT to. Whatever Peraica can or cannot accomplish, the entertainment value he will bring to the Cook County State's Attorney's office will be worth my vote.
Fuck you & His spaced-out on cocaine son, Geez, Over 50% of his FUCKING BRAIN is wiped out from that Cocaine......And his asshole father expunges his criminal records??????????. WTF??????????. Go give Peraica & his dope fiend son lube jobs with the prophs you cowards, And THEN SEE how BRAVE you shitheads REALLY are. Boy, That Mick Dumbke looks like a TYPICAL pedophile (child molester). And FRANKIE COCONUT looks very idiotic next to poor Underdog, In his lifeless website. Tell Marko "The Gangsta-Thug-Drug Kingpin Hip Hop DJ" to go on more of those excursions, He'll CERTAINLY make his parents proud. Peraica is NOTHING more than a bullshit artist STARVING for power & hyprocisy. Send his fucking communist ass back to wherever the hell he came from, He's NOT an American citizen, So therefore, Seeking an eventual run for the US Presidency would be entirely out of the question.
And what, pray tell, do you think you look like?
A serial prowler, Noting the time you posted......
http://www.frankcoconate.com While at it visit the ilk's other favorite website, Well obviously their favorite http://www.bijouworld.com .
That speaks without any logic or central theme must be smoking some potent stuff,to talk his crazy bullshit. I don't think he will convince anyone. I don't even think anyone know what the fuck he is talking about.
http://www.frankcoconate.com And his USUAL gabfest, LOL!!!!!!!.
He must have gotten his laundered money from The Oracle drug kingpin & "Let's expunge my son's criminal records" Tony to get his website working again.
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