Thursday, November 29, 2007
Nuts to You!
Monz invited the Political Editor (PE) to share with some of our out-of-town readers what local politics is like around these parts. For example, take Cook County, home of the great city of Chicago. The County government has one of the largest budgets of any state or local government "unit" in the nation. The county board of commissioners meets regularly to debate the important issues that arise in administering the many programs and services the County provides. Recently the commisioners debated a proposal to raise taxes. Here are some excerpts from the Chicago Sun-Times report:
Commissioner William Beavers said "if (Board President) was a white man, he wouldn't have half these problems," ... Beavers railed on that one of Stroger's top critics, Commissioner Tony Peraica, "hates everybody who's black ... all black elected officials," going on to say Peraica used to beat up black people growing up in the Bridgeport neighborhood.
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Peraica and others say the comments are not only untrue, they're born of a desperate frustration that Stroger can't pass a 2 percentage-point sales tax hike or other increases.
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Yet, prompted by a reporter's question, Beavers yelled not to forget that he's "the hog with the big nuts and I'm gonna tell you what it is."
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When commissioners voted to make cuts to (African-American) county Recorder Gene Moore's office, cuts Moore said he supports, Beavers implied Moore wasn't smart enough to understand the cuts and Republican commissioners must have used racial intimidation to get him to agree.
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Name-calling continued as Commissioner Liz Gorman, county Republican Party chairman, ripped into fellow Republican Peraica unprovoked, reading from a list of insults, calling him a "loser," "pathetic, pathological liar," an "abusive weasel" who is "no man," and an "ineffective leader" who has "no substance."
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A shocked Peraica said Gorman has "no self-respect" and her attack was "abominable" and "despicable."
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But then, even Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno called Peraica "a jerk."
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Commissioners will meet again Friday to try to plug the budget hole.
No debating Monz' lunch: Smart Slices tofuturkey sandwich on whole grain bread with vegan "cheese" and an apple.
Monz invited the Political Editor (PE) to share with some of our out-of-town readers what local politics is like around these parts. For example, take Cook County, home of the great city of Chicago. The County government has one of the largest budgets of any state or local government "unit" in the nation. The county board of commissioners meets regularly to debate the important issues that arise in administering the many programs and services the County provides. Recently the commisioners debated a proposal to raise taxes. Here are some excerpts from the Chicago Sun-Times report:
Commissioner William Beavers said "if (Board President) was a white man, he wouldn't have half these problems," ... Beavers railed on that one of Stroger's top critics, Commissioner Tony Peraica, "hates everybody who's black ... all black elected officials," going on to say Peraica used to beat up black people growing up in the Bridgeport neighborhood.
...
Peraica and others say the comments are not only untrue, they're born of a desperate frustration that Stroger can't pass a 2 percentage-point sales tax hike or other increases.
...
Yet, prompted by a reporter's question, Beavers yelled not to forget that he's "the hog with the big nuts and I'm gonna tell you what it is."
...
When commissioners voted to make cuts to (African-American) county Recorder Gene Moore's office, cuts Moore said he supports, Beavers implied Moore wasn't smart enough to understand the cuts and Republican commissioners must have used racial intimidation to get him to agree.
...
Name-calling continued as Commissioner Liz Gorman, county Republican Party chairman, ripped into fellow Republican Peraica unprovoked, reading from a list of insults, calling him a "loser," "pathetic, pathological liar," an "abusive weasel" who is "no man," and an "ineffective leader" who has "no substance."
...
A shocked Peraica said Gorman has "no self-respect" and her attack was "abominable" and "despicable."
...
But then, even Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno called Peraica "a jerk."
...
Commissioners will meet again Friday to try to plug the budget hole.
No debating Monz' lunch: Smart Slices tofuturkey sandwich on whole grain bread with vegan "cheese" and an apple.
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