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      <![CDATA[Latinas, Latinos are you awake?  Here comes Dick Mell and best buddy, Victor Reyes and his southside crew to tell you how to run your district. Iris Martinez has become an independent voice for her community, something Bradley and Carlos no nothing about and now the boys are pissed that she actually can think and speak for her community. Tell the southside gangsters to go back home. Be proud of your first Latina official elected to the State Senate.  Be proud that she is now the asst majority leader.  Be proud and vote!  Don't let our northside district become overrun by outsiders who don't came about public transportation, health care, education, our childre.  Look at the facts. Chicago Tribune stated not too long ago no one knew who Bradley was in Springfield? Iris Martines has worked hard for us. Punch 35.
        
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      <![CDATA[These Democrats are really something else, especially Milan, Suffredin and Allen, the Three Stooges wannabees.
    
    
    Milan has the FOP touting for him, claiming, in his commercial, that ALL 10,000 CPD officers are 'behind' his candidacy. 
    
    What a crock.
    
    
    Suffredin, with his badly fit toupee, has the gall to brag about his 'efforts' to ban 'assault weapons' and promises to rid Crook County of gun shops, like that's gonna magically make everybody soooooo much safer......
    
    
    Allen's tv ad is more interestingly deceptive. 
    
    In it, he has an elderly white lady actually saying that she's grateful that Allen paid attention to her, in this perhaps fictitiously embellished little fable, amazingly 'cared' about her concerns, despite her self-proclaimed status of being a 'nobody', and, being that she's someone who doesn't 'know' anyone, why, Allen is just this wonderful fellow, to be so generous with his precious time, to 'bother' with her interests.
    
    Unfucking believable.
    
    Allen's ad shows clearly the contempt in which he holds the voters of this city and county.
    
    Are we to assume, and accept, as undeniable fact, that we are all unworthy of having our concerns considered, all but those who 'are somebody' and 'know somebody'?
    
    Are we all to never question an alderman's being 'too busy' to, as a matter of routine, actually do the work for the money that we pay him?
    
    Are we to meekly accept, nay, embrace, the concept that, if we're 'nobody dat nobody sent', we're shit outa luck? 
    
    Are we to believe this shit, about how we should be sooooooo grateful, that our alderman has taken the time to 'listen' to our pathetic, undeserving complaints, let alone miraculously do something to assist us, us being all we low-life commoners?
    
    Allen's arrogant ass shows itself at the end of this ad and smugly mutters that he'd 'appreciate' our vote.
    
    What a jagoff.
    
    
    As for Brookins and Brewer, the Beavers Twins, no comment is needed.
    
    Alvarez, while borderline fuckable, isn't likely to have the balls to go after the corruption that we, the citizens of Crook County, need our State's Attorney to be dedicated to going after.
    
    She's worked her entire career under the thumbs of Daley's hack Devine, so there's no reason to think she'd do anything but maintain the status quo concerning Daley's free pass policy for criminal Democrats.
    
    
    Peraica is the only choice, for those who have grown weary of waiting for the Feds to do their fucking job and indict these motherfuckers already.
    
    Peraica really hates these cocky motherfuckers, from 'Dum Dum' Daley, Mike 'da Mick' Madigan, 'Bullshitter' Burke, et al, to 'Simple' Stroger, 'Big Hog' Beavers, Jesse 'the Jagoff' Jackson Jr., 'Easy' Emil Jones, et al, he hates them all.
    
    What more motivated person could we want as our State's Attorney?
    
    The Republicans see this clearly, thus, no challengers for this office in the Republican Primary.
    
    No matter which piece of shit the Democrats put up, Peraica is the guy to put in this office, hands down.
    
    The only other thing is, which Democrat will be the weakest candidate?
    
    I'm voting in the Democratic Primary, just to try to ensure that only weak Democratic candidates make it to the General Election.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Dumb, Again, in Evanston]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[So, you've been 'mugged'.
    
    How did you let that happen?
    
    I've lived a long life in many areas of the city and never been 'mugged', though some have tried and failed.
    
    
    "....had his car stolen...."
    
    Yep, had one of my cars stolen, too. 
    
    Went around the neighborhood, talking to the gang-bangers, letting them know I was not pleased, a week later, my car turned up on the street, a few blocks from my home, a few parts were missing, I pushed it back to my garage, made the necessary repairs and never, ever whined about it.
    
    
    "...threatened with a knife..."
    
    Who hasn't been? 
    
    
    "...had other crimes committed against me and my family..."
    
    You sound like you've been giving the predators the distinct impression that you are easy prey.
    
    That's the price you pay, when you resign yourself to being a rabbit.
    
    It's called the realities of life.
    
    No one can protect you better than you can protect yourself.
    
    But, being you're from Evanston, it's understandable that you've never thought of that.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Right Again In Evanston]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[To "refrain from prosecuting" is a different animal entirely than "defending the rights of the accused." 
    
    I'm not mistaken. And, as someone who has been mugged, had his car stolen, threatened with a knife and had other crimes committed against me and my family, I'm relieved that I'm not mistaken.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[State's Atty must defend rts of the accused]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Evanstonian, 
    You are mistaken. BY LAW the State's Attorney and his or her assistants have two responsibilities: 1.to prosecute the guilty and 2.to refrain from prosecuting those who are not guilty. The defense attorney has only one function: to defend the accused.  
    Given how the office of State's Attorney so often functions in this county, the mistake is understandable.
        
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      <![CDATA[If he doesn't, he sure needs to get a new barber.
        
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      <![CDATA[Does Larry Suffredin really wear a toupee?
        
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      <![CDATA[At least you chose to be brief this time.
        
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      <![CDATA[Apparently. Apparently, apparently.
        
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      <![CDATA[There is no effective time limit on your reading what has been posted.
    
    You have, apparently, understood enough of what you've, apparently, read, to choose to avoid commenting on it's substance.
    
    Bravo.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[The Randiest Randy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Hey mental giant....
    
    Loved your use of "many multi-syllabled words."
    
    Almost as much as "you may better comprehend."
    
    You are no doubt a product of the CPS.
    
    Type slow so that I can keep up.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am sorry.
    
    I didn't realize that you were a functional idiot, otherwise I wouldn't have used so many multi-syllabled words.
    
    I'll make a greater effort this time to use a vocabulary you may better comprehend.
    
    
    "...thanks for telling me that I have a right to express my opinion."
    
    You're welcome.
    
    Thank you, for your courtesy in thanking me.
    
    
    "Of course, when a political candidate gets elected in the Fall he/she will be able to make the currently being downsized office work much more efficiently so that it has excess capacity."
    
    Huh? I'd be premature if I were to comment on a sentence that makes no sense. If you have a thought you were trying to express here, please try again, I'm curious as to what that thought might be.
    
    
    "And we'd far prefer that this work gets paid for out of the county budget than the Federal budget." 
    
    By 'this work', I presume you mean the work of rooting out, by investigations, indictments, prosecutions, convictions and incarcerations, including fines and restitutions being imposed, all the many petty, and not so petty, thieves, scam artists, felony frauds and blatant election law violators, currently ruining our city and county governments and defrauding the taxpaying citizens of millions, if not billions, of their hard earned dollars every year.
    
    So, how is it that you think that working to end the waste of taxpayers dollars, caused by the criminal acts of those holding our public offices hostage, those these criminals hire, contract, or permit to operate their 'businesses' in violation of a variety of criminal laws, both city, county, state and federal, is, as you imply, an unwise expending of said taxpayers' dollars?
    
    
    "Besides, Pat Fitzgerald is only doing an average job of pursuing state and city corruption."
    
    So, does this sentence mean that you find that, because the Federal Attorney has done less to bring our local thieves to justice, (then you perceive could be done), our local Crook County State's Attorney shouldn't bother attempting to do so?
    
    
    "Great thinking." 
    
    Uh, not so much, resident of Evanston, not so much.
    
    
    "Sure that Larry Suffreding agrees with you."
    
    You mean Larry 'Bad Toupee' Suffredin? 
    
    The idiot that's makes Tom 'the Hack' Allen look a little less of a moron?
    
    The liar that makes Brookins, and the other black candidate shilling for the Daley machine, look almost like grown-ups?
    
    The arrogant panderer whose goal is to disarm every last honest citizen in the county, in blatant violation of the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution?
    
    You mean THAT Larry 'Bad Toupee' Suffredin?
    
    Surely you jest.
    
    
    Sort of like Lucy, you've got some thinking to do.
    
    Take your time, I know it must be painful, but, if you pace yourself, you just might have something intelligent to post, one of these days......
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mike]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Mary O'Connor was living in her restaurant?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[To add insult to injury?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["If she uses her business to vote out of, that is fine."
    
    So you say.
    
    Yet, the law says a citizen must be registered to vote according to where they live, as in their principle residence, ie., a residential dwelling.
    
    If, in fact, Mary O'Conner's business is located within the residential property she resides in, she is, in fact, complying with the law.
    
    If, in fact, she is registered to vote from a location that is not her principle residence, she is in violation of the law, and, thus, her voter registration is an act of criminal fraud.
    
    Which is it?
        
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      <![CDATA[Mary O'Connor should be indicted for vote fraud.
    But Ralph should stop talking about her sexual orientation.
        
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          Posted by John Malatesta]]>
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      <![CDATA[Mary O'Connor is a fine classy lady. If she uses her business to vote out of, that is fine. She works day and night at her business to make ends meet. She is a honest worker that deserves our support. Please give a couple of thousand like I did, she is for the City Worker.
        
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      <![CDATA[Randy,
    
    ...thanks for telling me that I have a right to express my opinion.
    
    Of course, when a political candidate gets elected in the Fall he/she will be able to make the currently being downsized office work much more  efficiently so that it has excess capacity. And we'd far prefer that this work gets paid for out of the county budget than the Federal buget. Besides, Pat Fitzgerald is only doing an average job  of pursuing state and city corruption.
    
    Great thinking. Sure that Larry Suffreding agrees with you.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[John]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Victor Reyes is safe.  He beat the statues of limitations.
    All Reyes did was get Hispanics jobs like the other white committeemans did.
    Iris Martinez is a real Judas.
    Bradley is Mexican.
    HDO and Mell are not against Avila, that is a lie to start shit.
        
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      <![CDATA[Rep. Bradley would be better than Iris Martinez, Iris got her start with Victor Reyes and HDO, She would never have been a Senator without that help, she abandoned them and got support from Emil Jones.  She should have Never betrayed HDO. I saw Victor at a meeting recently and he is fine, not worried about the trumped up charges against him. Victor Reyes has done more for the Hispanic community and any Elected Official.
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't think the main issue is that Bradley does not have some Mexican blood in his veins or his mother is not Mexican BUT that Rich Bradley did not promote or even accept his Hispanic heritage until it became convinient to do so. Rich Bradley who had a lot of access to jobs through illegal patronage helped mostly his own family. So the only Hispanics he helped with his jobs were his own family.
    
    The real reason that Bradley is running against Iris Martinez is because co-schemer A Victor Reyes the head of the embattled HDO linked to drugs, gangs, and corruption betrayed Iris Martinez and made a deal with Alderman Richard Mell.
    
    The real example of Political disempowerment mentioned above is that Commissioner Frank Avila is 100% Mexican and the only Hispanic on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board. Cynthia Santos is not Hispanic at all. She is Irish and Greek. She never took her husbands name Bradley. Her last name used to be something else from her first husband which she changed. SANTOS IS NOT HISPANIC AT ALL!!!!
    but she neglects to tell people that
    
    Rich Bradley besides being a State Rep is also a Streets and Sanitation employee, a double dipper at taxpayers expense. He has many family members on Streets and Sanitation.
    Cynthia Santos, the non Hispanic getting Hispanic votes under false pretenses, has a job at Secretary of State besides being a Commissioner at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
    Commissioner Santos did not get endorsed because she went on vacation and alienated a lot of committeeman.
    Santos and Bradley are both close to convicted felon John "Quarters" "Jingles" Boyle.
    Rich Bradleys mom works at the Metropolitian Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
    More nepotism and patronage.
    Cynthia Santos has a MWRD car with a sun roof she got custom designed and drives around at tax payer expense.
    
    Mothers, brothers, cousins
    the Santos/Bradley exploiting Hispanics team is costing taxpayers MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
    
    Lower your property taxes vote against Bradley and Santos.
    
    Victor Reyes is using Santos to defeat Commissioner Avila and cut a deal with Richard Mell to screw over Avila because HDO wants to defeat Avila. The Avila's are to blind and think Mell is on their side but Mell is betraying the Avila's and no Hispanic will be on the County Board.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:27:41 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[State Representative Rich Bradley and his wife Cook County Water Reclamation District Commissioner Cynthia Santos are the luckiest uneducated and unqualified political couple in Chicago.
    
    Cynthia Santos pretends to be a Latina while her real first married name was Siciliano and Santos is a Greek name.  She won in 1996 after Miriam Santos was at the height of her popularity getting more votes than Richard M Daley in the 1995 municipal election.  Her claim to fame was being the secretary to Alderman Mike Wojcik, who she later betrayed.
    Rich Bradley was working at minimum wage selling lamps before he worked for convicted felon Joe Kotlarz the alderman than state rep and committeeman for Alderman Mike Wojcik.
    Santos is an adulterer and had no qualifications.  Bradley an uneducated political hack.
    They went from 2 low level secretarial and sales jobs to FOUR 4 political patronage jobs ripping off the taxpayer.
    There have been numerous articles about the Bradley family being employed at the city.
    Rich Bradley was part of the Streets and Sanitation of the convicted and indicted corruption.
    Now Rich Bradley in a diabolical triple cross deal with Melma Old Gringo is trying to take the only Hispanic female in the State Senate out with phony Rich Bradley.
    And Rich Bradley is trying to take out the only Hispanic on the Cook County Water Reclamation with his Greek wife Cynthia Santos who cheated on and left Siciliano and has no qualifications.
    
    If Bradley and Santos were both to win it would be devastating to Latino Political empowerment.
    The only Latina Iris Martinez in the Senate would be removed.
    Commissioner Avila will lose because Melma Old Gringo will betray him so Cynthia Santos can win.  They are trying to fool the Latino voters with Santos name to take out Avila and Martinez.  Melma is working with the corrupt Victor Reyes who betrayed Iris Martinez.  The Latino voters should not be fooled by this double cross by Melma Old Gringo.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:42:39 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA["Is there a particular case you would like to describe where Milan wanted to withhold justice? Has anything come out that suggests Milan would not want justice for any specific person? I'm all ears. "
    
    Yes!! -- How about the cop that shot a man in the face on a CTA platform. It was caught on tape. The man had no gun and was not coming at him. Milan wouldn't prosecute even though a grand jury recommended it. 
    Second, how about the cop who beat up the woman in the bar (the big tape). He pursued a misdemeanor charge and only turned it into a felony after the public became aware. He is weak on morals, he is racist -- typical Beverly pig. I think we all know that. Some people just unabashedly want that type of person to lead the attorneys office because they know they won't be the ones targeted by his squads.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:26:38 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA["....Milan is going to lose because he's the best at doing what the job requires."
    
    If he was, and if his 'boss' Devine was, as you say, "...best at doing what the job requires.",   then we must conclude that the 'job' requires the office of the State's Attorney of Crook County to ignore the criminal activities routinely conducted by the executive, legislative and judicial branches of city and county governments.
    
    The Feds shouldn't have to be the ones that investigate, indict, convict and incarcerate the many criminals inhabiting our city and county governments, IF the Crook County State's Attorney was doing his job.
    
    The fact that Devine is endorsing Milan only confirms that Milan's definition of "...what the job requires." is the same as Devine's has been, as in, doing nothing to impede the ongoing criminal acts committed by all the usual city and county 'suspects'.
    
    Your comment is what's "Absurd and ridiculous'. 
    
    Though your right to express your opinion is respected, your opinion is not worthy of respect.
    
    Thank you, anyway, for your contribution, Randy.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:51:17 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[Milan is probably going to lose because he's impolitic.
    
    In terms of competence, ability and experience, there's a big gap between him and the other candidates.
    
    But, we're not electing the best person for the job, as Mick Dumke's, piece illustrates (unintentionally). In this era of political correctness and the continued, if wrong-headed, power of the political machine, Milan is going to lose because he's the best at doing what the job requires.
    
    I was under the impression that the public defender was responsible for defending the rights of the accused. Didn't know that was the job of the prosecutor.
    
    It's certainly going to make the streets of Chicago safer to have a prosecutor who integrates into his/her cases contemplations on  how to help the accused.
    
    Absurd and ridiculous piece.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:34:52 -0600</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[I love being cloned!
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:17:04 -0600</pubDate> 
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