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This thread is to shame those in Chicago who did not vote in their local Alderman and Mayor elections, which will likely affect you way more than national policy.

 

What's yr ward, who you completing the arrow for?

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QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 24, 2015 -> 04:00 PM)
This thread is to shame those in Chicago who did not vote in their local Alderman and Mayor elections, which will likely affect you way more than national policy.

 

What's yr ward, who you completing the arrow for?

I was 32 (Waguespack) when I was still living in Bucktown, and I actually liked the job he was doing. Suburbs now for me though.

 

Waguespack has been championing two of my favorite projects in the ward. One is the 606 (Bloomingdale) trail, which is underway. The other is the redirection and rebuild of the awful Fullerton/Damen/Elston intersection, which has some funding now and some of the property owners have already moved (i.e. Whirlyball) to make room.

 

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 24, 2015 -> 04:48 PM)
I was 32 (Waguespack) when I was still living in Bucktown, and I actually liked the job he was doing. Suburbs now for me though.

 

Waguespack has been championing two of my favorite projects in the ward. One is the 606 (Bloomingdale) trail, which is underway. The other is the redirection and rebuild of the awful Fullerton/Damen/Elston intersection, which has some funding now and some of the property owners have already moved (i.e. Whirlyball) to make room.

 

And fellow Midtown clubbers are getting a pool out of it.

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The scary thing is I don't think Garcia is at all realistic or competent with financing and has taken the teachers union line that basically TIF reform will solve the problems of the city...

 

on the other hand, no way in hell i could ever vote for someone whose been overseeing a police dept with blacksites.

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QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 6, 2015 -> 11:50 AM)
I think you are assuming that people aren't asking, which is incorrect, they ask in every interview with him. He just says he's evaluating.

Blago loved doing that. When he felt like he wanted something done as the Gov, it always went like this:

 

1. Blago schedules press conference, announces FREE STUFF

2. Blago goes to Madigan and Cross who ask "where does the money come from?"

3. Blago says don't care, find it

4. Madigan/Cross says, OK, tax increase? Cut something else?

5. Blago says Hell No

6. Madigan/Cross sit on their hands

7. Blago schedules second press conference to either

--a. Do an executive action if he's able to force something in

--b. If he can't, just point at the House and say "Evil Assembly WON'T GIVE FREE STUFF"

 

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It didn't matter who was elected last, coming after Rich Daley they were going ot look bad. Dude was teflon. No one questioned him, no one went after him. So all of those things that had been kept under wraps for the past 25 years were now allowed to leak out.

 

There is still a lot of years of cleaning up after Daley still to come.

 

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 6, 2015 -> 12:32 PM)
It didn't matter who was elected last, coming after Rich Daley they were going ot look bad. Dude was teflon. No one questioned him, no one went after him. So all of those things that had been kept under wraps for the past 25 years were now allowed to leak out.

 

There is still a lot of years of cleaning up after Daley still to come.

Yup.

 

And I know this may not be a popular opinion back here, but overall I've more liked than disliked Emmanuel's initiatives. I think he's taking the right tack on a lot of the garbage he had to deal with.

 

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 6, 2015 -> 12:48 PM)
Yup.

 

And I know this may not be a popular opinion back here, but overall I've more liked than disliked Emmanuel's initiatives. I think he's taking the right tack on a lot of the garbage he had to deal with.

 

I like him better than Daley -- but that's not saying I like him.

 

He does a lot of shady stuff, much like Daley did.

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Whatever you think about his policies, he's never demonstrated his mentor Bill Clinton's gift...the ability to connect with and empathize with people from all walks of like. No middle class or poor person believes that he cares about them, and that's going to limit his political future no matter how his fiscal and social policies turn out.

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