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      <![CDATA[I forgot to add - Ben, posts like this are the reason you are my favorite political writer in the city.  Great analysis up there.
        
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      <![CDATA[I called Rey Colon's office on both Monday and Tuesday, to find out his position on the issue and to register my opposition to it.  Monday, they said they hadn't seen him yet and so they didn't know his position.  Tuesday, they said that they still didn't know his position on it, and they weren't going to speak to him until after the meeting today.  What the hell does  that mean?  I voted for the guy, the least he could do would be to have the cajones to take a position one way or the other.
    
    And Open Book, Obama wasn't a member of city government.  He was a state senator and then a US Senator.  Why should he have to be the St. Patrick of Chicago, leading the snakes out?
        
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      <![CDATA[I have a question to all fellow posters. What will happen when the National media focus, hits Chiago,and questions are raised about corruption. Will Barack be affected? How can A Chicagoan lead the country,if he can't lead the city and state, out of its criminal tendencies
        
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      <![CDATA["Lord knows what might happen if people saw how the city really works."
    
    EXCELLENT advice!
    
    Everyone who loves Chicago should get downtown some Wed morning and watch our villag elders at work. See how little dialectic goes into our home town's lawmaking. Then attend a committee meeting and notice there's no dialog there, either.
    
    Then read up on our state's open meeting laws and compare what you are due to what you see in City Hall. Then read up on our freedom of information laws, and try requesting the official records of the meeting you just witnessed, see how faithful the record is, if you can get it.
    
    Attend once with an open mind and you will be back with torch lit talking recall or impeachment or worse.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Brian Murphy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You tell him baby! You may have cheated on me and slept with token owner. But I'm with the real owner, Jerry Joyce and Eddie Vrdolyak. The taxpayers let us have Park Grill, now Daley thinks he owns all of Grant Park!
        
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      <![CDATA[Give it up cocoballs. We have have the Grill and we are making millions off the stupid taxpayers! The feds are as dumb as you. Learn a lesson from Daley, throw the heat on the mob and Todd Stroger!
        
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      <![CDATA[FWIW, I called Joe Moore's office (49th ward) and his staffer told me pretty straightforwardly that he's opposing it.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[FBI Coconate.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Like how Park Grill was approved to be privately owned on Park District Property , with a liquer license. Thats Balls! It also shows how the press has to be pushed to do there job!
        
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      <![CDATA[I sent an email to mean Gene last night. No response, no surprise...
        
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      <![CDATA[I called my alderman's office today asking what his position was on the ordinance and got some weasel-worded answer from an assistant along the lines of "well, there's a meeting going on today to discuss this matter, but you probably called because you don't support the ordinance, right?" Obviously I don't support the ordinance and gave the assistant an earful about why.
    
    The thing that ticked me off is they did not have the balls or the decency to state the alderman's position on the issue and try to defend their position if it was contrary to mine. That's a blatant lack of accountability when you consider that we're supposed to have a representative government.
    
    So I'm definitely going to this city council meeting tomorrow, and whether its tomorrow in person or later in the week over the phone, I'm going to demand to know what his position is on the ordinance, because I voted for him and want a reassurance that I did the right thing when I did.
    
    If he or any other alderman can't state their position on an issue when asked by a constituent, they're either crooks or spineless and don't deserve to be in public office.
        
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