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      <![CDATA[I like Popcorn And Iced Tea but Todd Strogers mamma likes Lincoln Logs and Pee.
        
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      <![CDATA[Wallace Davis is damn near retarded from getting loaded and should stop talking about people. Wallace Davis the convicted felon sans kook case better go home and take his medication. Just cause his ass went to prison cause his mamma didn't raise him right does not mean that we have to let him get away with slandering people.
        
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      <![CDATA[Cleveland Rocks !
        
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      <![CDATA[Listen. Why did you remove my letter ? I am a crippled old punk now and I use depends to keep from being called an old piss pot. I drool and spittle hangs out of my mouth all day. I also am an old pedophilliac and so is my keister problem having son Todd Stroger. My oldest son was a weak ass punk who committed some sort of asthmatic suicide with crack dope and Jacques Carr stillm will not leave me alone. Orlando Jones my Godson was a freaky sissy on the down low too. Now why are you thinking I forgot that my wife is a peice of shit
        
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      <![CDATA[Now you might think a sending a guy to the hospital using an unregistered device that is the leading cause of death of human beings in Chicago might preclude being nominated by Mayor Gun Control to serve on a human resources board. But no. Mayor Gun Control makes him Chairman of the Board.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ya know in the movies where a crook break into a church, and the good Padre catches him? "My son, kneel with me and pray." The bad guy breaks down and cries in his hands. The Padre offers him a bowl of soup and some crusty bread, and a cot in the boiler room if he will push broom. The bad guy shaves and saves up and buys a suit and ...
    
    Well, not our Reverend Doctor Chairman. Our Reverend Doctor Chairman popped two .22 caliber caps into the guy's chest before he remembered his Divinity Doc training. It was the THIRD chamber where he recalled the stuff about the Saving Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the folly of violence.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well, ya see, da b*!%#, she 'stresses' dat she wahnts ta be paid fa doin' nutin', so's I makes it so.
    
    'Course, she ain't sackly doin' NUTIN', ys know wat I means???!!!!
    
    Den agin, may be she IS doin' sum kinda nutin', since I be doin' my OWN kinda nutin' myself, don't ya know......
        
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      <![CDATA["stress leave"
    
    how does that work?
        
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      <![CDATA[Mctigue was harrassed and abused by The media as well as DALEY.How can people find the truth when pro-Daley media personalities like Fran Spielman are always creating spin to protect DALEY and his corruption? Even when you find a honest judge,their decision will  be overturned by an Appeals court. Please check out the Snitcher case,and the lincoln park porch collapse,where 13 people died. The Machine is stronger under DALEY JR than it was under his father.
        
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      <![CDATA[Baby talk, baby talk it's a wonder I can walk. All I do is serve daley and whine to moderators about blogs. *wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah*
        
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      <![CDATA[City engineer Jim McTigue was Daley's (only) fall-guy for the Great Loop Flood. The Human Resources Board concurred with the hearing officer THREE TIMES on his dismissal, as the courts kept sending it back. Then he died.
    
    McTigue v. HR Board
    
    http://www.state.il.us/court/opinions/AppellateCourt/1998/1stDistrict/September/HTML/1973893.txt
    
    Illinois Senate Resolution Mourning Death 
    
    http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=51&GA=95&DocTypeId=SR&DocNum=0289&GAID=9&LegID=33943&SpecSess=&Session=
        
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      <![CDATA[Not to give too much credit to these lawyer's councils & associations, (after all, 'lawyer' is often an alternative way to spell 'liar'), but, this is yet another reason to vote to NOT RETAIN many of the sitting judges, when they come up for retention.
    
    As in, how many sitting judges could be considered 'unqualified', based on their actions and decisions in real, live cases?
    
    This subject also brings up the question: 
    
    Who are these lawyers sitting in judgment over those who would seek to be judges?
    
    And how many of those running for judgeships, and rated as 'unqualified', are slated by the Dumbocratic or Retardican political machines?
    
    Or do these 'lawyerly councils' &   'lawyer associations' rate primarily independent candidates for judgeships as 'unqualified'?
    
    And what, exactly, are the standards these 'councils' use, to determine that a candidate for a judgeship is 'qualified'?
    
    Or do the lawyers think that the answer to the last question would be beyond the common man or woman's capacity to comprehend?
        
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      <![CDATA[In Chicago, being rated unfit is merely a blip on the road to becoming a judge, and certainly does nothing to deter Daley from a board appointment.
    
    Bar Assn. verdict: `No' on 57 judge candidates
    Tom Gibbons, Chicago Sun - Times, Feb 26, 1986
    
    The Chicago Bar Association gave "not recommended" ratings yesterday to more than half of the 102 lawyers running for judgeships in Cook County in the March 18 primary. ...
    
    Not recommended for Circuit Court:
    
     ... Edna Turkington-Viktora ...
    
    2nd bar opinion: 47 in judge race unfit
    Tom Gibbons. Chicago Sun - Times, Feb 27, 1986
    
    Nearly half of the 102 candidates running for Cook County judgeships in the March 18 primary are rated "unqualified" to serve on the bench by the Chicago Council of Lawyers.
    
    Noting that the results are "extremely disappointing," Robert G. Perkins, council president, said yesterday that 47 candidates were rated unqualified ...
    
    Rated not qualified were:
    
    ...Edna Turkington-Viktora ...
        
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    <author><![CDATA[orioboy wonders?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[C'mon, orioboy, you got more words than that in your beaner, don't be lazy, let those little clout monkey fingers fly across your keyboard.
        
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      <![CDATA[Frank, be careful with the clown schtick - the Rev is packing - and he knows how to use it!
    
    (AND he has a big stick)
    
    Pastor shoots burglary suspect
    
    PHILLIP J. O'CONNOR
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    Feb 28, 1997.  pg. 9
    
    The Rev. Lucius Hall was talking with his assistant Roland Chapman Wednesday evening when they heard loud noises on the roof. Chapman got a .22-caliber revolver and they waited.
    
    Soon afterward, a man crashed through the ceiling into the dining hall of First Church of Love and Faith.
    
    "He lunged at me and I was in fear of my life," said Hall, who fired two shots at the intruder. "He still lunged at me after being shot. Then he sat down on the floor.
    
    "I grabbed a big stick we use for protection because I didn't want to shoot him any more."
    
    The wounded man, Richard Johnson, 39, of the 8200 block of South Wolcott, was charged with burglary. He was in fair condition at Cook County Hospital with a chest wound.
    
    "It was very, very scary," said Hall, 63, pastor of the church at 2140 W. 79th. He said the church complex has been burglarized five times in 13 years.
    
    Hall said he and Chapman were in the dining building across the street from the church when the incident occurred about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
    
    Hall, a former Army military policeman, said the handgun had "been laying around here for 14 or 15 years and had never been used."
    
    Police said the shooting was justified, but Hall was charged with possession of an unregistered gun, a misdemeanor.
    
    Hall said he hopes the shooting will deter burglaries at his church. He said he wished the shooting had never happened, but added he's glad he could defend himself. "I'm God's man, but I want to be around," Hall said.
        
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      <![CDATA[funny how Blago appoints campaign contributors to Boards, the press is all over him, Daley does the same thing, ho hum
        
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      <![CDATA[I wonder if the poster above cuts and pastes his manifesto from an existing source or does he really type that goddamned rant every time he puts it on the board ?
        
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      <![CDATA["...motivate the masses,to vote and protest."
    
    Yes to both, with the strong emphasis on VOTING.
    
    All that protesting will get you is more lies, more excuses, more blaming-the-other-party/guy/etc., more calls for tax increases, more bullshit.
    
    Granted, protests MAY inspire many to think about:
    
    REGISTERING TO VOTE
    
    VOTING IN EVERY ELECTION
    
    HAVING NO DOUBTS and VOTING INCUMBENTS OUT
    
    Combine the above with strong efforts to get many independent candidates onto the ballot, candidates running for EVERY ELECTED OFFICE, be it:
    
    EXECUTIVE BRANCH
    
    LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
    
    JUDICIAL BRANCH
    
    At EVERY available opportunity, vote to NOT RETAIN any incumbent up for retention.
    
    Cast your votes with the goal in mind of breaking up the incestuous webs of insider politics.
    
    Your RIGHT TO VOTE, and the immense power and responsibility inherent in same, is MORE than sufficient to compel the changes so sorely needed.
    
    It just takes getting off your ass and doing it.
    
    The nature of the leadership necessary is that of each individual citizen realizing and embracing their own responsibility to participate.
    
    Since the two dominant political parties have failed to produce honest candidates, the only effective recourse that citizens have is to essentially disregard the traditional and intuitive voting FOR a specific candidate, and focus on voting AGAINST INCUMBENTS, in as effective a way as possible.
    
    A few rules-of-thumb:
    
    If there are only 3 candidates running for any given office, 1 Dumbocrat, 1 Retardican and a challenger from neither major party, VOTE FOR THE CHALLENGER from neither major party.
    
    If the choice is only between an incumbent, from whatever major party, and a challenger, VOTE FOR THE CHALLENGER.
    
    If there are more than 3 candidates, then vote according to ballot position, as in:
    
    If the INCUMBENT is listed FIRST, then vote for the CHALLENGER who is listed LAST
    
    or
    
    If the INCUMBENT is NOT LISTED FIRST, then vote for the CHALLENGER who IS LISTED FIRST
    
    thus, concentrating the most votes for a single challenger in that contest.
    
    Make whatever exceptions to voting out incumbents you wish to, it's your vote and you have the absolute right to cast it for whomever you choose, but remember, the INCUMBENTS are responsible for the shit we're in now.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[thanks, orioboy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Why, thank you, orioboy, for expressing your heartfelt hopes concerning Chris' first lesson.
    
    I'm sure he'll follow your advice to the letter.
        
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      <![CDATA[I hope that Chris' first lesson in his caucus is to tell the attendees to read the instructions (something he did not have the capacity to do).
        
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      <![CDATA[I didn't call you a coward,my comment was meant to the response made to greg. I am not advocating useless political suicide, OR  Don Quixote fighting with windmills. Just about everyone whom opposes Daley, is stuck in the shadows,afraid of the light, even individuals whom are not public employees. The opposition against DALEY is fragmented and disorganized. Someone or somebodies must stand up to this tyranny and motivate the masses,to vote and protest.Revolutions are won by the masses not revolutionaries. 10-20 GOOD MEN/WOMEN TAKE A STAND. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. The goal is to restore good honest government. One could be Liberal or Conservative,it doesn't matter. The goal is to end corruption and give government back to the people.
        
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      <![CDATA[Chris Lawrence has posted a comment that included his intent to do just what you're suggesting.
    
    Here it is:
    
    "Chris Lawrence
    October 3rd - 6:41 p.m.
    
    I am heading up a Public Policy Caucus that is focused on Ballot Access issues, and we will be informing every candidate who summits a D-1 with the intent to run for Alderman in the city of Chicago in 2010 that is exactly that - a detailed guide, and legal assistance, on the steps to ensure they can gain access to the ballot without being tripped up with some arcane loop hole. 
    
    There is a time and place for publicity toward that effort, and we will publicize those efforts when the time is right.
    
    I personally am circulating petitions for truly independent candidates who merit the support in running for public office, like Mark Pera who is attempting to unseat one of the most blatantly undemocratic ascensions to our US congress, the incumbent candidate Dan Lipinski.
    
    I would hope that several of the readers would select one of several candidates attempting to run for office who merit support and circulate petitions for them. 
    
    (The other day I met Frank Coconate circulating petitions in my neighborhood for a candidate and signed)
    
    The Supreme Court today heard arguments on an interesting case dealing with the NY State party's selection of judicial candidates that deals with many of the same issues as the ballot access issues that Mr. Joravsky wrote about in the recent city elections.
    
    I still strongly believe that reactivation of the Neighborhood Capitol Budget Group, if nothing else to document the many abuses of TIF districts, is needed in this city. 
    
    If Hugh is correct, a collective effort that documented and challenged those TIF districts that are not being retired in court would need a group like that. 
    
    I do fear that the opposition that exists in this city to the unaccountable, dishonest, and corrupt democratic machine is unwilling to organize and challenge them." 
    
    Good advice from both of you guys.
    
    Flood the ballot with independent, honest candidates, so many that no number of machine shills can dilute the votes of the dissatisfied.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yes, but a dead brave man is just that, dead and gone.
    
    A coward may, indeed, die a thousand times, but an intelligent man avoids dying for as long as possible.
    
    An intelligent, brave man knows he doesn't have to die foolishly and for nothing.
    
    An intelligent and brave man uses his brains and his courage to conquer those who spend their lives seeking to have what others work for.
    
    An intelligent and brave man will outlast those who yearn only to exploit and abuse.
    
    HAVE NO DOUBT, VOTE INCUMBENTS OUT
        
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      <![CDATA[A BRAVE MAN DIES ONCE ,BUT A COWARD DIES A THOUSND TIMES.
        
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      <![CDATA[Please  don't live in fear, but don't be foolhardy either. Try to align yourself with like minded individuals. Start building a political base slowly,then make alliances with other progressive groups with the same goals. Don't trust established Politicans or Community organizations. Set realistic goals, develop yourself ,and other for the battle,with the machine.
        
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