I think Liz Gorman has stepped up and taken a leadership role....without becoming harsh or over-the-top
fedup dem
· 3 months ago
Certainly it would have been much better had the caller said something like:
"Commissioner Sims, I hope you spend the next five months preparing a really memorable concession speech, because on the night of February 2 you are going to need it."
Of course, I have been around the political block long enough to imagine that either Sims or Stroger put up that caller, just to let her take political advantage of the backlash in her community. Perhaps that wasn't the case, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Rich Miller
· 3 months ago
===Perhaps that wasn’t the case===
Gawd, you can be a moron.
lake county democrat
· 3 months ago
I know Sims changed her mind, but it wasn't like she was the only vote -- hey, I love Jerry Butler (another no-override vote) as a singer, but he flies so far under the radar that he has dirt on his clothes from scraping the earth.
TJ
· 3 months ago
Stroger gets an A+? Man.... Illinois must have one heck of a grading curve....
molly
· 3 months ago
I support the penny or rather half a penny tax hike. That paltry amount prevents a structural deficit that would radically increase each year. The half a penny tax hike was the fiscally responsible thing to do.
John Bambenek
· 3 months ago
The problem with people like Rangel and Bobby Rush who flippantly play the race card is that people are automatically skeptical even when real cases of racism occurs. Yes, racism still exists, put the "crying wolf" by others only helps people numb themselves to it.
Bill
· 3 months ago
The County budget is balanced unlike the state or federal gov'ts. Essential services are are being provided to citizens who need them. Union contracts are being honored. The number of county employees has been significantly diminished with no decrease in services. I smile and gladly pay my county taxes knowing that the money is being used for the common good. President Stroger is doing an admirable job and should be re-elected. So should Deb Sims who is very popular in her district. Let Palatine secede if that's what they want as long as they quit sending their indigent to Stroger hospital and pay more to use the beautiful county forest preserves, golf courses, and recreational facilities.
Brennan
· 3 months ago
=Stroger gets an A+? Man…. Illinois must have one heck of a grading curve….=
He may have been polled recently by the Chicago Teachers Union.
In 140 words you can highlight the Sims flip-flip and point out the county hospitals are likely to request less funding in 2010.
molly
· 3 months ago
Ditto to everything Bill wrote.
Bill, can I buy you a drink sometime?
molly
· 3 months ago
Brennan, the County owes $118 million to it's pension funds which it is legally required to pay. Would you rather the county shirk it's responsibilty like the state has done? Because you know the state is in great fiscal shape, right?
dupage dan
· 3 months ago
Bill,
Or should we call you Todd.
just the facts, please
· 3 months ago
Bill and Molly, I agree....and thank you for sticking with the facts.
Lake County Democrat, are you the one sending your county residents over the border into Cook County for "free health care"?
Shart
· 3 months ago
Not to split hairs, but the caller only wished her bad health, he did not actually threaten her.
Also, he didn't call her the n-word, I don't see a racial aspect of the call. Just saying.
ziggy
· 3 months ago
==Bill wrote== "I smile and gladly pay my county taxes knowing that the money is being used for the common good."
Sure, like Tony Cole; like Dr. Robert L. Simon's $300K salary to be Stroger's personal physician and "consultant" to the Health System which is so crummy that John Stroger wouldn't even use it; like James Ramos, Chris Geovanis, Eugene Mullins and Sean Howard, 4 spokespeople for Cook County who do the work of ONE; like the Juvenile Detention Center which has lawsuit after lawsuit, and couldn't even provide the kids underwear during their time there.
This County is in great fiscal shape? Then why did Stroger request new bonds to be issued?
Face it, Stroger, Joan P Murphy, Joseph Mario Moreno, Larry Suffredin, they are all going to be going out of office.
And, Bill and Molly, get ready to start looking for new jobs after Cook County gets a new President and the real downsizing begins.
Jim
· 3 months ago
How come Comm. Sims accepts the news that the clinics wil be closed instead of trying to make cuts through job elimination (ever been to the County Building, you can't tell me all the people there are actually working), attrition, furlough days, etc. All politicians immediately go with the worst case scenarion (Quinn saying that prisoners will be let out of prison if taxes are not increased), it is sickening.
Eric Zorn
· 3 months ago
Small correction. I never argued that this bilge should be "hushed up." I argued that it should be ignored. It was one (apparently) flaming racist jerk with access to a telephone. Are we surprised that there's a flaming racist jerk out there? Is his call significant, telling, portentous...anything other than an attempt to get attention? No. So why do we give him the attention he craves by playing his phone messages and conferring upon him some power and some importance?
stan
· 3 months ago
- John Bambenek - Friday, Sep 4, 09 @ 3:26 pm:
The problem with people like John Bambenek, who on Friday injected Reps. Rangel and Rush into a dialogue about Cook County officials, is that HE will forever refuse to cleanly acknowledge racism without minimizing it by bringing something/somebody else into the equation.
All Comments
"Commissioner Sims, I hope you spend the next five months preparing a really memorable concession speech, because on the night of February 2 you are going to need it."
Of course, I have been around the political block long enough to imagine that either Sims or Stroger put up that caller, just to let her take political advantage of the backlash in her community. Perhaps that wasn't the case, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Gawd, you can be a moron.
He may have been polled recently by the Chicago Teachers Union.
In 140 words you can highlight the Sims flip-flip and point out the county hospitals are likely to request less funding in 2010.
Bill, can I buy you a drink sometime?
Or should we call you Todd.
Lake County Democrat, are you the one sending your county residents over the border into Cook County for "free health care"?
Also, he didn't call her the n-word, I don't see a racial aspect of the call. Just saying.
"I smile and gladly pay my county taxes knowing that the money is being used for the common good."
Sure, like Tony Cole; like Dr. Robert L. Simon's $300K salary to be Stroger's personal physician and "consultant" to the Health System which is so crummy that John Stroger wouldn't even use it; like James Ramos, Chris Geovanis, Eugene Mullins and Sean Howard, 4 spokespeople for Cook County who do the work of ONE; like the Juvenile Detention Center which has lawsuit after lawsuit, and couldn't even provide the kids underwear during their time there.
This County is in great fiscal shape? Then why did Stroger request new bonds to be issued?
Face it, Stroger, Joan P Murphy, Joseph Mario Moreno, Larry Suffredin, they are all going to be going out of office.
And, Bill and Molly, get ready to start looking for new jobs after Cook County gets a new President and the real downsizing begins.
The problem with people like John Bambenek, who on Friday injected Reps. Rangel and Rush into a dialogue about Cook County officials, is that HE will forever refuse to cleanly acknowledge racism without minimizing it by bringing something/somebody else into the equation.