Hyde Park 2006 Independence Day parade (left to right starting at center in light green): Preckwinkle as the Statue of Liberty, Illinois State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie as Uncle Sam, and Chicago City Council Alderman Leslie Hairston as Betsy Ross
I did a buddy of mine a solid. He asked me to help get Pat Quinn elected Governor for real in 2009 and Pat would do my buddy a solid. I was dubious. No Progressive ever does any one a solid. I am old school; I supported and voted for Pat Quinn for Governor. I still need a shower on that one.
That sin of mine is the real reason why Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois are so screwed up.
We all do 'nice people,' a solid.
Jeremy Bentham, the great 19th Century economist argued for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Can't argue with that.
However, for a Progressive, the greatest number is # 1. That truth was argued to young President Teddy Roosevelt by glaciologist John Muir and still holds true today.
I did a buddy a solid and did not vote my own conscience. I detested Pat Quinn's politics going all of the way back to the days when he carried water for a crook and a Progressive - Governor Dan Walker.
Quinn opposed all regular Democrats, because he wanted to be viewed as a Reformer ( aka - unskilled policy bully).
The Late Illinois Senate Leader Phil Rock was a Democrat of the old school - anti-abortion, anti-Marxist and true to the values that created the greatest standard of living in world history. Phil Rock kept goofs like Quinn at arm's length. That was long ago, when being middle class was a good thing.
Pat Quinn and Dan Walker and Abner Mikva and Dawn Clark Netsch and Bill Singer and Jesse Jackson and Michael Shakman and Larry Bloom and Toni Preckwinkle and the late Red guru Dr. Quentin Young were dead set against this middle class hegemony.
Toni Preckwinkle was a Catholic high school ( Visitation), when Pat Quinn was honing his Hyde Park Mafia ( Abner Mikva) chops. Preckwinkle had a reputation as a humorless, racist ( hates whitey) and not very well read history instructor and those qualities made her an ideal candidate for IVI-IPO Democrats.
It took Toni three swings with the IVI bat to unseat Tim Evans for Alderman of the 4th Ward, but the rest is the typical Progressive history - suck up to Regular Democrats, gain their trust, knife them in the kidneys and repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat while keeping the media with you.
Sometimes, the Feds get in the way of Progressive Independent and Reform minded Democrats -Larry Bloom (neighboring 5th Ward Alderman), IVI-IPO operative Bob Creamer and Illinois Governors Dan Walker and Rod Blagojevich come to mind.
When Reformer Larry Bloom went to school in 1999, Mikva Challenged Federal Judge was wont to complain about Federal prosecutors for "prosecutorial zeal does not, as I perceive it, justify overstatements of the nature I find in some respects in this case." Convict Larry Bloom whined, "I was mugged--not by any petty thief or street tough, but by agents of my government, our government."
Translated - "Larry Stole and cheated on his taxes but criminy . . .he's a Goo-Goo!"
Thus far, Toni Preckwinkle has escaped the eyes of the Feds. Therefore, Toni Preckwinkle does what she wants and to whom she wants. It is now the Teamsters, who work for Progressive rival Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
Tit for tat?
Or a case of unintended consequences?
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office just got a letter from Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle listing 925 positions designated for layoffs — if a judge doesn’t allow a countywide sweet beverage tax to take effect by August.
• The kicker: Sneed is told 377 of those jobs, many of them held by Cook County Jail correctional officers, are held by members of the Chicago Teamsters Union.
So here’s the kick in the butt.
Recently, the Teamsters Union took out a full-page newspaper ad opposing the tax, which Preckwinkle vigorously backed.
“This sure looked like a shot across the bow,” a top Sneed source said.
“Or interesting timing that many of the designated layoffs were members of the Teamsters Union, which took out the ad opposing the tax,” the source said.
You see, Teamsters not only work as Correctional personnel, but also deliver Pop. Pop is a Progressive target, because fat kids love it and it rots teeth, creates obesity and goes great with salty snacks.
Teamsters deliver salty snacks.
Teamsters also deliver votes.
Let's get back to my sins.
I agreed to do a pal a solid. I helped support Pat Quinn for Governor. Running with daffy Pat filling the void left by reformer Rod Blagojevich, for trying to sell a Senate seat to IVI-IPO Alumnus Barack Obama, was Toni Preckwinkle for President of Cook County Board to unseat Todd Stroger, created by Progressive patron Tom Hynes, to replace the late John Stroger, a Regular Democrat and gentleman to the backbone.
My pal was immediately stabbed in the back by Pat Quinn upon his election, because Quinn has the loyalty of a gnat.
Toni Preckwinkle rode Quinn's coat-tails, because of people like me. I did a pal a solid and created the person taking jobs away from 925 families in Cook County.
That's Progressive. Get people to do you a solid and then give it to them good and hard.
As Progressive Federal Judge Milton Shadur lamented when he was forced to sentence Reformer Larry Bloom, "It is true of law-enforcement agencies in addition to anyone else that if you lie down with dogs, you are likely to get up with fleas."
As the great Fats Waller once reasoned, " One never knows, Do One?"
Ain't that a Bitch, Judge?
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