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      <![CDATA[Why are Moore, Preckwinkle, and Munoz so reluctant to criticize the half-mil per year Budget Committee staff as not responsive to aldermen? I mean, it's not as if they fear retaliation against their own committee staffs
        
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      <![CDATA[HAHAHA-YOU'RE HUGH AND YOU'RE ALL OF THE ABOVE!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Sorry, but I can't resist.....]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[HUGH IS]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[JUST AN ANARCHIST,LIAR,SLANDERER, DISTORTER,AND CHARACTER ASSASSIN  WITH A COMPUTER!
        
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      <![CDATA[" ... aldermen say that getting an independent/progressive/sometime-opposition bloc together has been slow and tough--or at least slower and tougher than initially expected. Call them smart or write them off as wusses, but several aldermen who've worked with Moore, Preckwinkle, and Munoz on particular issues, such as police accountability or affordable housing, have shown only tepid interest in appearing to join ..."
    
    In 2 decades in City Council, the only alderman Moore has been able to convince to bow down before him and accept him as Leader has been Little Ricky Munoz. Munoz has been a freshman alderman since 1993.
    
    For most aldermen, joining the same club as Moore does not have appeal that Moore imagines. Most aldermen probably think they already have enough useless waste of time meetings on their schedule with Council meeting every month.
    
    I dunno, maybe the building a progressive caucus as a cult of personality is not the way to go. Hey, I've got an idea, why not take it by cases, draft some progressive-sounding legislation, put it in the hopper, walk it around, see who signs up. Maybe it would help if the self-anointed progressives had an actual, you know, agenda or something. Off the top of my head, gosh, I don't know, new restrictions on pay-to-play zoning, more transparency in contracting, expand IG role to introduce accountability into City Council committee staffs, rules changes to require roll calls on expenditures and taxes, meet more than once a month to increase opportunities for discourse, internet publishing of transcripts, whatever, I'm sure the so-called progressives read the same papers we do.
    
    Of course, I'm not a professional politician like them, what do I know, I'm just a dumb guy with a computer.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[wat yu tawkin' 'bout?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["...courage to put themselves at the public's service..."?
    
    COURAGE?
    
    Does it take 'courage' to be part of a gang of criminal co-conspirators, a decades old, firmly established, immensely wealthy, incestuously intertwined and entrenched city, county and state-wide organization, commonly known as the Democratic Party of Illinois?
    
    Does it take 'courage' to bribe, to intimidate, to extort and to commit frauds, (too numerous, complex and varied for the average citizen to imagine, let alone understand)?
    
    Does it take 'courage' to lie to the very public which provides the financial resources, as in paying taxes, that have enabled this generational, criminal organization to continue to extort, to intimidate and to defraud them?
    
    Gall? 
    
    Definitely.
    
    Courage?
    
    Not so much.
    
    
    "Daley, and his ilk, know the rules very well.
    
    They couldn't be so successful at breaking the rules, without getting caught, if they didn't.
    
    Even these guys don't dare to eliminate the rules entirely, as having rules, to not get caught at breaking, is how they've been able to appear to be following them.
    
    And we seem to be buying into this, obvious to some, scam.
    
    At least we can be proud of the fact that we've got really talented crooks.
    
    Civic pride at it's finest."
        
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    <author><![CDATA[re:MAMA.....]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Run,Hugh,quit hiding in your electronic Sniper's Nest and face the Voters yourself. You'll actually have to explain yourself and be ACCOUNTABLE,instead of taking HALLUCINOGENIC shots at those with the courage to put themselves at the public's service!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mama always said]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[WHEN IS HUGH RUNNING?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Another poster on a past thread once asked when does Hugh run for office and face voters himself. Instead we get hugh continuing to serial post lies ,smears, distortions on as many blogs as he can about as many officials as he can. Hugh,Hugh, Hugh,and than more Hugh on most of the referenced blogs.
        
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      <![CDATA[http://www.jibjab.com/sendables/preview/8UdVcVY1e2tOZPbRucviUwTR
        
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      <![CDATA[If Moore, Preckwinkle, and Munoz held a press conference, and released to the press copies of their correspondence with the City Council Budget  Committee staff, documenting their numerous reasonable requests over the last few months for answers to questions, proposed analyses and studies of the fiscal state of the City of Chicago, and explained to the press that they got no response, then I would have to agree that maybe there IS  an independent, progressive, sometime-opposition bloc in the Chicago City Council.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Orion]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I will be looking at the moonlight wondering how I got suckered in by Daley after the Chicago people leave and my pension is stolen by Daley.
    
    Life is beautiful,
    
    NEXT !
        
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      <![CDATA[http://www.suzanneelder.org/index.html
        
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    <author><![CDATA[re Hugh]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT voting strategy, being designed primarily as an efficient means to oust incumbents, is the first step in restoring Authentic Democracy.
    
    The next step, which should be taken in concert with the first one, is for the citizen/voters to require that a means be provided by which they can have access to the following information:
    
    1) Each and every publicly elected office has specific legal responsibilities, duties, activities, authorities, functions and practical day-to-day operations. What are they? Specifically.
    
    2) Each publicly elected office holder is 'theoretically' qualified to perform the above duties of said office. What, specifically, do the voters typically require, of candidates for any given publicly elected office, in the way of proof that a given candidate, be they incumbent or challenger, is qualified to effectively and satisfactorily perform said duties? 
    
    3) What specific effects do these publicly elected governmental offices have on the living experiences of the citizens, as these offices are currently being operated, as they are required, by law, to be operated and as they are commonly expected, by said citizens, to be operated? 
    
    By 'required' I mean in the sense that competition, akin to the economic free market, will motivate the producing of said information and the wide-spread access to same.
    
    Those citizen/voters who find the HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT suggestions to be interesting enough to act on, may also appreciate, and understand, the benefits that can be gained, by truly honest candidates for publicly elected offices, were said candidates to provide this information to those they seek to vote for them.
    
    Most people wouldn't buy the proverbial 'pig in a poke', ie., anything they haven't examined, inspected and proved to themselves to be what they bargained for, so, why should the voters not insist that the same standards of proof-of-quality be provided to them by candidates for public office, be they incumbents or challengers, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, other political parties or just some guy named Joe who needs a job?
    
    We think of ourselves as 'smart shoppers' when we hit the mall, why do we turn into dumb chumps when we cast our votes, which is essentially buying our publicly elected servants, said 'public servants' bringing with them a crowd of appointees, employees and contractors?
    
    Voters need to be as sharp in their shopping for public servants as they believe they are in shopping for consumer goods and services.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'd like to learn from our elected representatives more about the backgrounds & qualifications of the Budget Committee staff. I wonder if there is anyone in that $485K with a background in public finance (other than serving as a Budget Committee staffer), let alone maybe an MBA in a related field, or if they are ALL friends & family.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why, oh why, do these 'obviously' gifted, talented, honest, sincere, dedicated and highly intelligent representatives of their constituents need to receive instructions from Hugh, or any other 'commoner', on how to conduct the honest business of being "...actually a separate branch of government..."?
    
    And yet, they, just as obviously, do.
    
    One can only conclude that these folks either don't really want to act as "...a separate branch of government..." or, as likely, are, in fact, NOT the "...gifted, talented, honest, sincere, dedicated and highly intelligent representatives of their constituents..." that they portray themselves to be.
    
    Either way, their 'actions' and 'inactions' make them no better than the incumbent hacks they claim to oppose.
    
    Which means that they are no more worthy of being reelected than every other political hack incumbent.
    
    If these goofs don't pull their heads out of their asses soon, they'll be just as deserving of being ousted as every other bullshit artist infesting our city, county and state governments.
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
        
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      <![CDATA[Moore: " ... we think the City Council is actually a separate branch of government and needs some independent information."
    
    If Moore, Preckwinkle, and Munoz are upset that they can't get information on the City budget independent of Daley, maybe they should hold a joint press conference:
    
    "Know Your Budget Committee Staff"
    
    Click off a PowerPoint presentation of each of the beneficiaries of the $484,534 of taxpayer money going to Budget Committee staff. For each staffer, explain whose nephew or niece or precinct captain they are. For extra credit, explain what they do from Dec-Oct every year.
    
    Alderman may have prohibited our City's Inspector General from investigating our City Council and their staffs, but aldermen can still investigate aldermen.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moore, Preckwinkle, and Munoz just can't stop campaigning. They are much better candidates than they are legislators. The election has been over for 8 months but they can't get a handle on the City budget until they do some fund-raising first.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Hey!]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Who you callin' a fascist???
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Fascist hater]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[People who dare eat at the Heartland Cafe will soon have health concerns. I've eaten at the Heartland and I'd invite the health inspectors to check that place out. I was sick for a week after food from this shithole. plus the owners are gubby looking slops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Back off, fascists!]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[hey, back off of joe moore, you fascist pigs! at least he's trying. rp is the greatest and the heartland cafe coolest place in the world. it has a broken rocket decorating the facade and the owners are cool and they really care about reform. so put that in your pipe, hugh.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wat yu talkin' 'bout, JoMo!!!!???
    
    Whose chain do you think you're pulling here?
    
    "...we THINK the City Council is actually a separate branch of government..."??????
    
    Gee Willikers, Batman, JoMo's THINKING!!!!!!
    
    Holy Guacamole!!!!
    
    What NEXT???!!!???
    
    Tune in next week, for the continuing saga of "JoMO has a Thought".
        
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      <![CDATA[Moore: " ... we think the City Council is actually a separate branch of government and needs some independent information."
    
    The City Council's budget committee has an annual budget of $536,024, $484,534 of which is headcount. They work a couple few months every fall. No one is sure what they do the rest of the year.
    
    http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/04_100_Corporate_Fund.pdf#page=25
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:44:19 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[If they have funding and they want to hire someone, the only 1st step that makes any sense is to hire a law firm to challenge Daley's budget documents in court, defend our right under state law to an accurate portrayal of our fiscal situation, use discovery to get to the bottom of the off-the-books headcount, among many other serious misrepresentations.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:35:19 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[They may be self-pronounced "progressives", but they are loyal Democrats first, and their only conception of reform is expanding government.
    
    Instead of "trying" to hire someone, why doesn't our self-appointed "Progressive" leadership do something SIMPLE, something that won't require underwriting, like, VOTE LIKE PROGRESSIVES, see who joins them.
    
    Start TODAY.
        
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