Playing the Race Card in Office

[Hungary Jack]

Up here in the People's Republic of Chicago, we all watch with baited breath as the Mayor and the Governor spar over how to remedy the permanent funding crisis for the Chicago Transit Authority. Meanwhile our fine Mayor creates TIF zones with reckless abandon, siphoning off tax dollars for his pet projects. He won't be around to clean up the mess this will create 15 years from now.

But this is kids' stuff in relation to the Cook County Board, where the fine leaders are trying to figure out how to plug a $300M budget gap. Board President Todd Stroger, an African American, has proposed tax increases. But 9 of the 17 County Board members say "no dice" to a sales tax increase of 2% for the county. Enough is enough, the people are saying.

But William Beavers, another African American County Board member, rises above the fray and publicly state that if Todd Stroger were white, his tax plan would be supported by the County Board. Because he is black, he is not getting the support he deserves.

The inmates are running the asylum.

[Arthur Dent]

Meanwhile our fine Mayor creates TIF zones with reckless abandon, siphoning off tax dollars for his pet projects. He won't be around to clean up the mess this will create 15 years from now.

Don't worry. I'm sure one of his relatives will be.

[jim]

Best as I can tell, Todd Stroger is an incompetent fool who is in way over his head.

[StatmanCrothers]

The Ice Man cometh.