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      <title>Comments On: (D-I-S) R-E-S-P-E-C-T
    
      by Mick Dumke</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[NATHAN MOORES FIEND]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The only thing that actually makes sense is to: 
    
    
    NOT REGISTER TO VOTE 
    
    NOT VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION 
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS IN
        
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    <author><![CDATA[NATHAN MOORE]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The only thing that actually makes sense is to: 
    
    
    NOT REGISTER TO VOTE 
    
    NOT VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION 
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS IN
        
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      <![CDATA[So, Kate, Mick, Ben, et al, we see multiple examples of the natures and attitudes of the mayor's administration's employees and supporters, and of the species of sub-human beings infesting our city, (and county), government.
    
    As well as the nature and flavor of politics as usual and as practiced in this city, (and county).
    
    Are these the types of creatures the citizens of this city, (and county), truly want controlling the determining of the amount and expending of their tax dollars?
    
    Are these the types of creatures the citizens truly want making the laws, rules, ordinances and regulations we must, under penalty of law, comply with?
    
    Are these the types of creatures the citizens truly want to entrust with their safety, health, social and economic welfare, etc.?
    
    Are these the types of creatures the citizens would even choose to allow anywhere near themselves and their loved ones?
    
    
    The only thing that actually makes sense is to:
    
    
    REGISTER TO VOTE
    
    VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
        
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      <![CDATA[Joe Moore had an all white racist TIF advisory board.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:55:33 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Hugh]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[not quite true, Moore voted against the LaSalle St. TIF
        
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      <![CDATA[Joe has never opposed a TIF , but has rubber stamped plenty. TIFs have drained the city's revenue and destroy services. Just check out a Ben Jorvasky's articles in a paper called the READER.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Sell out Shciller.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Helen Schiller sold out to Daley.
    Helen Schiller sold out working people on the Big Box.
    Helen Schiller sold out taxpayers on the property tax increase.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Helen Schiller]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Talk about a tool. See who will great my supporters at my next fundraiser. It's not Coconuts!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Disrespect?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Moore was disrespected but not like the people of this city have been for two decades. Daley disrespected the entire city with his abuse of the CTA, the streets, the corruption, the graft, the racism, the Childrens museum show, Soldier field alien spaceship, Meigs bulldozing.  the list of disrespect is too long, like the voters who have lived in fear for decades.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[RE: TO THE BULLSHITERS]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Daley is the Mayor like it or not,us bullshiters  talk a lot of smack,and thats all. Learn how to circulate a petition,and canvass,this the only way you will kill the beast. Daley exist because you have a lot of lazy ,stupid,and ignorant people in Chicago.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:10:56 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[FRANK IS A TOOL]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[NO WAY FRANK IS A RAT. HE MAY BE STUPID ARROGANT & EXTORT $$$ BUT HE WOULD NOT RAT BECAUSE HE GETS $$$ FROM THESE GUYS TO CAUSE HAVOC TO HELP MCAULLIFE & DOUGHERTY. HE IS A TOOL. HE IS A TOOL OF AVILA JR. TOO. AVILA JR USES FRANK TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK. AVILA IS A FRIEND OF BANKS SO YOU ADD IT UP. THEY THROW FRANK CRUMBS BECAUSE THATS ALL IT TAKES.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Stan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[No other white ethnic group displays its flag except the Irish. No Germans, Italians, Pols. They love America and are happy to be here. The Irish live like they are on the balarney stone.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Joe America Says Get Along]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I will tell you what DISRESPECT is. Disrespect are the Puerto Ricans running down Western Avenue honking horns and displaying Puerto Rican flags. Disrespect are the Mexicans on Cinco de mayo honking horns and displaying Mexican flags. Disrespect are the homes on the northwest side displaying the Irish flag. Why are you here. Let me tell you it is because America is the better place. In honor of every American veteran display the American flag or don't display any flag. Better yet. Go back where you came from.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:55:11 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[The Count of Monte Criste]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Take it to the bank that in 2011 
    JOE MOORE WILL LOSE FOR ALDERMAN.
    
    Revenge is mine thus saith the Lord.
    
    Joe Moore is a racist, hypocritical, phony liar.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Major Player]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Mick, enjoy this laugh, http://www.chicagoclout.com/ Laurino and D'Amico make the news
        
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      <![CDATA["REGISTER TO VOTE
    
    VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
    
    (Starting with Joe Moore)"
    
    
    Starting with every Incumbent; Legislative, Executive and Judicial; City, County, State and Federal.
    
    Throw a giant monkey wrench into the machines of the manipulators.
    
    Just Do It.
        
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          Posted by Orion]]>
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      <![CDATA["Remember very few politicans are indicted and prosecuted by the STATES Attorney."
    
    
    Elect Tony Peraica the next Cook County State's Attorney and this will no longer be true.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Hahaha]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[National publications go apeshit over green roofs in Chicago.  Yes they're nice but for years Daley distanced himself from the CTA and refused to abandon an obviously dismal Blue Bag program for real recycling.  If the national media took the time to look past the shiny downtown exterior and PR bullshit they would get the real story.  How can Daley be a "Green Mayor" when he has neglected mass transit and recycling?  Chicago is a great city in spite of Daley.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Joe Moore Is A.....]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Pompous ass & A political whore.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[How'd Joe get reelected?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I see one year later and Joe's as popular as ever.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Blog hater]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Joe Moore hates the broken heart.
        
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          Posted by Blog hater]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Joe Moore Is.......]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[An insult to Al Jolson, He's also the secret of the title character in the 1971 film "Percy". He's a scum bum, Who LITERALLY turned Rogers Park into CRACKTOWN.
        
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    Chicago is City of the Year.
    If you dont like it, go to Cleveland, Gary or Detroit:
    Skyscrapers, green roofs, and house music -- a very American metropolis. 
    
    In the bottom of the ninth inning of the 2005 World Series, as the long-suffering Chicago White Sox were about to win their first championship in 88 years, play-by-play announcer Joe Buck waxed eloquent about Chicago's South Side, where the Sox play. He described it as "a collection of neighborhoods...Irish neighborhoods. Italian neighborhoods. Polish. Lithuanian. Firemen. Policemen. Schoolteachers. Stockyard workers." Stockyard workers? The last stockyard closed in 1971. Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian? The South Side has long been predominantly African-American, and most of its immigrants now are Mexican. Yet that is how many view the city, through a lens dominated by the past. If you travel abroad and tell people you're from Chicago, they'll often pull their hands out of imaginary holsters and start shooting. To them, the city is still Al Capone's town, which it was -- nearly a century ago. 
    
    The real Chicago isn't so easy to keep up with. It's constantly reinventing itself. Jumpy. Agitated. Impatient. It's as if the place is trembling. Move aside. Don't linger. And if you're going to dawdle, get out of the way. But what any Chicagoan will also tell you is that the past is very much present. It doesn't go away. It shouldn't. In fact, that's Chicago's lure and its beauty: its ability to take what was and figure out what could be. 
    
    Consider Millennium Park. The city's spectacular growth in the late 19th century was in large part because of the railroads. Chicago, centrally located, could ship anywhere and receive anything. But 100 years later, the railroads here had become near relics; the dozens of Illinois Central Railroad tracks that converged downtown, an eyesore. So what did Chicago do? It covered some 25 acres of tracks and commuter lines with a massive platform, one so sturdy that it could build a park on it. It made the park's centerpiece a band shell, designed by Frank Gehry, that feels simultaneously whimsical (it resembles a tangled ribbon tossed by the Lake Michigan breeze) and brawny (that ribbon is made of steel, a call to the city's past as a center of industrial might). Some 100 years ago, Daniel Burnham, who oversaw the construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and drew a layout for the city that included putting everyone within walking distance of a park, declared, "Make no little plans." 
    
    And so Chicago does not. FAST COMPANY has named it U.S. City of the Year, recognizing not its past but its present -- and its future -- as a place where there's room to stretch. Chicago has given America social investing and the stories of Stuart Dybek and Aleksander Hemon. It has been greening itself since long before it became trendy, and it has been dancing, too -- this is the home of house music, Wilco, and Lupe Fiasco. Here, in the birthplace of the American skyscraper, Santiago Calatrava is redefining the form with his Spire, while at the Art Institute, Renzo Piano is building a $300 million addition. The economy is growing faster than New York's or L.A.'s. And one of Chicago's own, who arrived in the 1980s and, in the tradition of the great rabble-rouser Saul Alinsky, took a job community organizing, has made a shockingly viable run for president, despite everyone telling him he was too inexperienced. Early in his campaign, Barack Obama told supporters, "I try to explain to people, I may be skinny but I'm tough. I'm from Chicago."
        
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      <![CDATA[Joey uses racism to divide and conquer.
        
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