Daley says he will not run for re-election: ‘It’s time’ – Chicago Breaking News.
Maybe not enough supporters are left to keep the ballot boxes stuffed. Even in Chicago polling, Richard Daley’s detractors outnumber his supporters 53% to 31%
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The State of Obama, Illinois -Imbalance Sheet of Broken Promises.
Payback Time – Budget in the Red, Illinois Has Stopped Paying Bills – NYTimes.com.
Illinois joins California and New York in being unable to deliver on its supposedly state funded promises, for lack of 5 billion bucks so far.
The state is simply unable to fund what are considered essential services, and has stopped paying the bills.
Please understand that Obama has exacerbated (in the extreme) the same problem in Washington, and that we have no one to bail us out.
Three and a half years in advance, even the lame stream media is relaying that Obama care is not coming as promised, for lack of funding. The states are behind on the schedule of mandates already, and the Feds have admitted the obvious inability to provide coverage to high risk patients.
See you at the polls in November. We have to stop this runaway train to hell.
Dick Durbin for Chief of Staff
….because someone has to take the fall for offering Joe Sestak a job to get him out of the PA senate race against Alen Specter.
Since Rahm Emanuel is the likely fall guy, Obama has to be out looking for a new chief of staff. Durbin knows the Chicago way, so he ought to be a prime candidate.
The slime is on Sestak too, because he’s mum on who made the job offer, (fearing for his life), while in the midst of running a political campaign. It’s going to be a bit harder for win that Senate seat in November.
Stasi Files from Berlin’s old Regime vs Bounty for Chicagoans to Turn in Neighbors
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people are still combing through the Stasi Files. What are those? The oppressive East German regime used fear to hold people in thrall, fear of the government, and fear of one’s own neighbors, who often, out of fear, turn in their own friends and family for supposed infractions or incorrect ideology. The government kept vast files of dossiers on common citizens, and these have become a vast and sad mine of information. People can now, in some cases, see which family member, or lover or friend turned the government against them.
Mayor Daley has to collect exorbitant taxes from an ever shrinking base in Chicago. He’s now offering bounties to people who turn in their neighbors for tax evasion. People have reason to fear their fellow citizens, and further reason to leave that city. Perhaps in 20 years, if things change, people will be able to know who turned them in.