KASS: ‘Coverage of Corruption has Hypocritcal Scent’
Filed under: Budget, Corruption, Mayor Daley, Todd Stroger
As usual, John Kass raises some interesting questions in his column today:
African-Americans like the hapless Sen. Tombstone, or Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, the Urkel of local politics, deserve the thwackings they get. When Burris or Stroger give a foolish non-answer, that or even a no-comment becomes news, evidence of their nefariousness. Not so with the much pinker bosses, like Mayor Richard Daley or Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Lisa’s Daddy), two bullies who believe in democracy as long as they can play king.
Burris’ few lies to a state impeachment committee are nothing compared with the hundreds of millions devoured by corruption in the Daley administration. And Madigan still hasn’t been held to account for his flunky, state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Madigan), holding onto the bombshell Burris affidavit—the one in which Burris revealed his earlier lies under oath—by slipping it into her desk drawer.
Kass Hits the Nail on the Head
John Kass - as expected - sums up perfectly the current situation in Cook County (and Illinois):
Yes, the people always come first in Illinois. We’re first in line to get slapped in the mouth. After we get slapped, we’re so dazed that, come election time, we usually say, “Thank you, sir, may I please have another?”
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They start by nominating John Kass - an obvious choice. We also would nominate U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald - and, although he now lives in Virginia, former Senator Peter Fitzgerald’s choice of Patrick Fitzgerald as U.S. Attorney is still paying dividends here in the Prairie State.
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Kass on the County’s New Casino
John Kass (as usual) hits the nail on the head in today’s column about the new casino slated for Des Plaines.
Here’s an excerpt that enforces what we’ve written here previously:
Board members couldn’t give the license to Rosemont, since politicians were shocked, shocked I tell you, when they found out a while back that Rosemont has connections to the Chicago Outfit…
… Last week, the gaming board members couldn’t give the casino to the other town that wanted it, Waukegan, because board members were privately worried that indicted Republican boss Big Bill Cellini had hidden connections with the deal, and they didn’t want to look stupid later.
So Des Plaines got the casino license. For some strange reason, perhaps it’s just hives, my itchiness tells me that politicians see a jackpot and that the guys behind the guys in Rosemont will wet their beaks in Des Plaines. It’s almost across the street.
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