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Would really need to see the "numbers" on both sides before making an informed comment...but at least we have a brave voice screaming that the emperor has no clothes on. Bravo Waggs.

WAGUESPACK FOR MAYOR 2011 Great job Alderman Waguespack, someone to at least inform the taxpayer what is right and what is wrong.

I would tend to agree with the alderman's assessment. If the city is really hurting for money, why can't it raise meter rates without selling the whole system to an outside entity? What is Daley smoking? On the other hand, maybe this will provide a boost for public transit as I and my fellow suburbanites choose not to drive to the city.

" ... no financial analysis was forthcoming, so my staff and I put together our own financial analysis to determine if the $1.15 Billion was a good deal or not." WOW!

Daley is smoking our future for the benefit of his friends and family. The US Attorney sits with his thumb in his ass!!!

'A bad deal for the city' A majority of us (by 122 votes) in the 32nd Ward like to do our own thinking. Joe Lake, Bucktown

Isn't this obvious that this is a bad deal??!!!! I just don't understand how any alderman voted for this. Who were the 6 that voted againt.

The $4 billion must be a lower estimation. The numbers have to be higher, but at least he knows the Mayor is lying about the cost to taxpayers. This mayor needs to go.

Good vote for an Alderman that can't fix a pothole, make a decision or have any kind of functional ward office. His constituent service is a joke.

The US atty is still looking at the bad daley deals. They have so much to work on in the city. We need more aldermen willing to cast a no vote when daley tries to sell the city for his crooked friends and the combine. If he stopped wasting money on bad deals we would have the money to fix the wreck of a city.

the "Street Name"of "PUBLIC OFFICIAL DERANGEMENT SYNDROME"

Alderman Scott Waguespack is a fresh new face that I voted for in the last election. The last Alderman was a crook, and everytime you called the ward office they did nothing. With Alderman Waguespack, you call up with a problem, he comes out himself to help. Great job Scott , keep the mayor in line.

Go Scott, run for Mayor!

I do not, it is all over!

I care. Finally someone to spell out what a ass-hole Mayor Daley is with his stupid budget ideas. All he wanted from this meter deal was he took care of his friends at the expense of the taxpayers. Also he hurt a future revenue source. Alderman Waguespack is getting the attention he deserves because he did what Alderman of the City Council are supposed to do, look out for the taxpayers to insure that they are not getting screwed!

the word from some other reports is the number could be higher but daley doesn't care. he needs the money now for the olympics!! Daley has lied for years and now someone has called him out on the lies.

So all he needs is another 25 aldermen to figure out the same thing. Good luck. This daley deal will screw our kids and their kids. Daley himself said it, I don't care about people in 2050, I care about now!! I need the Olympics! I need you taxpayers dolars now you suckers. All you people who voted for me stay in line!!

Sign this W guy up to run for Mayor. years of Daley stealing tax dollars needs to end.

Who is this Scot Whatsamacallit ? He must be listening to Frank Coconatti. Read my Sat. columns!

I really do not get the math here, why could we not raise the damned meter fees and call it a day? My god, how daley is just fuggin Chicago up.

The math that Daley sold this at is ridiculous. He mortgaged this away like some greedy jerk getting ready to take his walk in the sun. I cannot believe I ever trusted this fool to do what is right. All the other deals looked good, but it was because none of the people asked questions. this is so blatantly obviuos that he sold it to a corporation that will raise rates 4x overnight and walk away with our money. The FBI should go back and look at every one of the other "good deals" this idiot made in the last few years.

Where will chicago be after the mayor sells us to the rest of the world for HIS olympic dream? Has anyone ever held any community meetings about whether we really want to be sold off as daley has done? Did he sell our children's children?

"Change Chicago" will be having meetings starting in Spring 2009. We will be going into every neighborhood in Chicago to see what issues are important to the people of Chicago. Than we will be ready in 2011!

This is a stupid move to sell off all of the city owned property. When will the city have people who represent us who are not crooks? They sell everything or give the special deals to their mafia friends and it is not different than the days of al capone.

Mayor has a the legal right to decide whats best for this city,regardless of the clamor from malcontents like Frank Coconate. Change Chicago . Don't make me laugh. He could not change his own block,much less the city. Mayor Daley is our steward. He will steer the city in the right direction.

Coconuts does not have an original bone in his body. This "Change Chicago" going to each community bullshit is the same thing Congressman Jr. tried to do with his "Listening Tour" before he pussied out of the Mayor's race.

I love the attention when I start something. The daley boys get all twisted!

I miss Darcel Beavers, she was brilliant. Not a hint of nepostism there. I once met Bill Beavers. I was so in awe of him I just bowed my head. I wasn't worthy of breathing the same air as him.

Morons 11TH Man,and Orion. Daley-uped freaks whom think Daley 's turds are gold. Remember all good things come to an end,eventually.

Real justice will come when Daley is gone. That family has robbed the citizens of this city for decades while making it look pretty to cover it up.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezWwmRFyctY. relax and enjoy.

IT IS THE WAY IT WORKS, How would you know City Plumber Patrick McDonough, you live at 1970 Everett in DesPlaines. Your Sheman Wife is running for mayor in DesPlaines and you got a DUI in Rosemont going home to DesPlaines. So why would you care how the streets are inn Chicago when you don't live here!

"I was then told I could see some numbers, but not before the vote. That refusal to provide financial data sealed my NO vote." wow - that's almost like, like well-reasoned and insightful so - the 40 that voted "aye" - none of them saw the numbers?

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Sorry if I'm rehashing old news but I (along with the rest of the public) hadn't heard much about the sale of the meters until very recently. When I started thinking about this, I realized there may be something fishy going on. I hate to see the citizens being taken advantage of by "businesses as usual" in Chicago. There appears to be a desperation on the part of the mayor to fill budget holes and make the city appear financial viable for Olympics consideration. I would highly recommend that someone take a look at 14th Street just west of Roosevelt and north of Ashland Ave. Over 1000 meters have appeared there and on surrounding streets (from Ashland to Damen) in the past month or so in a total wasteland. There's absolutely no business or residential to make use of them. I cannot imagine they are anything but an attempt to pad the meter totals for pending purchase. Imagine the cost to taxpayers of a thousand meters and their installation. Then, the cost to remove and install again if any construction is indeed done in the area. And I'd be willing to bet this isn't the only location. I actually wrote to several of the LAZ Parking executives when this first occurred to me. Subsequently, I realized that they may be "in on the deal" and this may be a deal with the city to defraud the investor, Morgan Stanley. Someone's getting their palms greased here and we are paying for it big time. Just some thoughts. I think it's scary to many Chicago residents that something like this could be railroaded through so quickly. Not to mention mortgaging our children's future as well as the catastrophic ramifications for small businesses throughout the city.

Coconate and Hugh is that Frank has the Courage to RUN FOR OFFICE,wheras Hugh sits at his keyboard and WHINES, DISTORTS, SMEARS,AND SLANDERS WITHOUT ever having the INTEGRITY put himself out there in Public Service. Hugh, Whining and drawing FALSE DISTORTED Conclusions about those with the COURAGE TO SERVE, and SPREADING YOUR DISTORTIONS,makes you NOT A GOOD CITIZEN, but rather a PUBLIC NUISANCE!!!

Not too impressed with 'new guys' take on what a 'deal' is. Let's put it this way - you can talk all day long about how much you COULD make until you actually try to run the operation. I believe you used "well managed" in your letter? If this system was well managed at all from the beginning we wouldn't be having this discussion! I think Daley sees an opportunity to actually get cash for something NOW, when we really need it, that he would otherwise not get for many years in a badly managed environment. I do agree that if the city "well managed" the parking meters and kept the contract it would be better for us overall... but we didn't come up with that solution did we?

A deal is a deal in Chicago. No one should know what the numbers are before voting so no one can claim they were part of a bad scheme to ruin the city. i.e. soldier field, meigs field, hired truck, the list goes on. taxpayers dollars wasted by one man. Richie Daley.

What the governor has done is nothing compared to the antics of our mayor. This deal was made under the table. Just like most of the deals made by the mayor. We need to boycott the meters. Will the city patrol the meters?

At least one alderman had the brains to figure out the deal was bad. A start.

Now there are two studies out there and both say it was a bad deal. when will people realize daley is a highway robber.