" Claypool! What's all this, then???? This simply will not do, my good man. These bloody Sino-Canuck Bombardier Wheels are bloody well defective! I suspect foul'd play. The Games afoot! . . .again. What?"
CTA officials said the no-bid component had nothing to do with scuttling the deal and that Emanuel had encouraged it all along.Chicago Tribune April 12, 2012
"Very early, even before he took office, he asked me how we might turn this billion-dollar expenditure into an opportunity for jobs," said CTA President Forrest Claypool, who was appointed to the post shortly after Emanuel's inauguration. "So when I took office we took that mandate and ran with it."
Claypool described the Bombardier proposal as a "very, very rare potential for a win-win. The goal was a noble one. "
North Korea, which had described the launch as that of a space satellite, said the rocket failed soon after lift-off and plunged into the Pacific. ABC News
"Through an aggressive but targeted public, community and government relations campaign, Bombardier sought:Steve Rhodes Beachwood Reporter
* To inform CTA officials, local government and business leaders of the growing presence of Bombardier as a part of Chicago-area commerce and industry.
* To educate key constituencies about the successful engagements Bombardier has with transit agencies in other major areas around the country and the world.
* To build a team of allies to welcome them into the market and feel comfortable with the company's products and level of customer service.
* To create a favorable impression the Chicago media market by highlighting and promoting unique attributes and initiatives of the Bombardier Transportation N.A. to specialty and general market media.
Mission not yet accomplished.
North Korea fired its missile with all of the potency of an ED addled mope.
Closer to home Forrest Claypool's masterful roll out of Bombardier rail cars last year matched the young Tyrant's magic moment yesterday.
Unsatisfying.
North Korea is impotent, but dangerous.
CTA is in the hands of a master job jumper with the Illinois Progressive imprimatur. Failure to roll: Launch, Roll, Noble Goal.
Steve Rhodes highlighted the excellent and tenacious work of Chicago Tribune reporter John Hilkevich who unearthed cast off wheels of the Bombardier CTA Boondoggle from China to Canada to the Fifth Floor of City Hall and various phone lines and cyber-relays of the CTA with pith and poignant note.
Steve Rhodes has more integrity than Marcus Aurelius on a full breakfast. The Beachwood Reporter is the only news clearing house in Chicago untainted by cant, compensation. or courtship.
Dig how he do roll - Beachwood Reporter Ethics Pledge
http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/house/beachwood_ethics_statement.php
NBC tried to buy Steve Rhodes a couple of years ago and was told to pound sand in thunder.
You do not need to agree with Steve Rhodes or the talented staff of the Beachwood Reporter and he and they could care less. The point of journalism is to give truth a place at the table set with too many dishes and places by gluttons, drunks and dummies.
I am aware of Forrest Claypool's resume and remain as underwhelmed by his obvious talents and charms as I have for years. The Bombardier Boondoggle ( click my post title for a thorough close reading of John Hilkevich's work by Steve Rhodes) more than lived up my expectations.
For any summary and fair redaction of what is going on in Chicago go to the Beachwood Reporer. You will get a considered opinion free of Mammon's tickle.
Brewer's Droop, ED, Failure to Launch result from many factors.
Corruption ditto.
Kevin Myers defines the germ of corruption this way - Corruption is made possible by low standards: what is unpunctuality, but a disdain for rules?
The plumbers or electricians who don't show up on time are the building-blocks that make possible the Ziggurat of large-scale corruption. Kevin Myers last column for the Irish Independent
Myers' point; what we accept; we get - good and hard and with great regularity.
We accepted Blago. Some folks fully accept Forrest Claypool -
Here's little more on Chicago CTA Bombardier Navigator Forrest " Noble Goal" Claypool.
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2012/03/rahm-wasnt-bilked-in-day-took-many.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-12/news/ct-met-cta-bombardier-20120412_1_cta-president-forrest-claypool-cta-lawyers-cta-officials
