Comments | laughingimp: Dear Mayor Daley, please SHUT YOUR HOLE.

laughingimp

Dear Mayor Daley, please SHUT YOUR HOLE.

Feb 09, 2009 15:20

So Mayor Daley and (a presumably more pliable than his predecessor) Governor Pat Quinn traveled to Washington, DC to talk up the stimulus bill and make sure Congress knows that big cities all across America are in desperate need of those funds to take care of long-overdue infrastructure projects.

( How is this all a sham? Let me count the ways. )

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telaryn February 9 2009, 23:46:25 UTC

obfuscate is right. Your brain is so hot.

Brilliant as usual, love.

(usual question...unlock plz?)

laughingimp February 10 2009, 00:46:15 UTC

Thank you, and done.

mrbobafett February 10 2009, 00:38:48 UTC

Fuck Daley, seriously why is this shmuck still Mayor? I know I didn't vote for him in the last Mayoral Election. Fucking incumbents.

laughingimp February 10 2009, 00:45:58 UTC

And y'know, he said some things that are completely legit. Chicago needs roads, and lights, and El upgrades. Part of the list he revealed also had spending for building schools and hiring more police.

But on, Daley. It's like you're not even trying.

sillymagpie February 10 2009, 05:08:42 UTC

building themselves a huge vault full of money and swimming around in it like Scrooge McDuck.

Bwahahaha! You're a damn good political commentator.

BTW, how long has there been a Mayor Daley in Chicago? It seems like forever. Is "Mayor Daley" something like the "Dread Pirate Roberts"?
:-P

laughingimp February 10 2009, 16:40:52 UTC

Thank you!

The answer to your question is: Richard J. Daley, His Honor, was mayor from 1955 until he died in office in 1976--21 years total. The current mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, is the old man's son. He was elected in 1989 and has been mayor ever since--that's 20 years so far.

His Honor was the longest-serving mayor in Chicago history, but Junior will overtake him this term, assuming he doesn't die in office.

joanofarq February 13 2009, 17:48:14 UTC

I was afraid of this.

In fact, all along I have been thinking about the stim and lack of uh . . . .oversight in urban areas.

laughingimp February 13 2009, 18:12:46 UTC

Yeah, oversight is a funny thing. There are a couple of things in the Tampa Bay area, hotels and things, that look sketchy even to my untrained eye. In a how did that thing ever get built? kind of way.

I don't mean to pick on Tampa, though. Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Boston, Detroit, and Miami have long been mob towns, and money talks. But now we have a Chicagoan President, so the spotlight gets to be on us for a while. We'll see what happens.