I'm getting sick and tired of this. Do you want Illinois to grow? Do all of you want Chicago to be a good place to live and to do business? Why on earth should the sales tax increase to 11%? Do you take pride in Chicago possibly having the highest municipal sales tax in the country? Do you want people who live in the city to drive out to the suburbs to go shopping? I moved to the city to work and to enjoy shopping without driving a car.
I'm considering buying property in a year or two. How can you justify possibly jacking up property taxes when I read stories about hired truck scandals and other embarrassments?
I take the El downtown to work. How the hell did it turn into rocket science to allocate money for the CTA? Is it that hard to repair the tracks? Or do anything right? How come the NTSB Audit was a complete embarrassment? Do all of you take pride in this?
The truth is, I was born in Chicago. I love this City. I intend on living here and working downtown for a long time. I want a government that spends money well, makes the trains reliably run on time, and doesn't waste tax dollars. I also don't want to get soaked on taxes.
Put your egos away, lock yourselves in a room, and stop the bullshit. Don't come out until the problem is solved,
Oh, and Emil Jones, please stop being a paid agent of ComEd. Its disgraceful. Also, having yourfamily members do contract work for them is perceived as a conflict of interest..
Blagojevich, get a real haircut. And sign a stronger ethics law. And somehow push for the President of the CTA to be elected instead of appointed by Daley. Come on, use the clout of your father in law, Frank Mell, to do it.
Ron Huberman, I kind of feel sorry for you. You have to inherit Frank Kruesi's mess.
I really don't want to vote for Republicans on the statewide level. Someone's gotta take a stand. If you guys dont, why should I re-elect you in the next cycle? Dont blow this.
There simply is no need to vote for a Republican on a Federal Level in Illinois. Ever. I never have.
Seriously, Chicago may not get the Olympic Bid. Don't salivate over the projected federal funds to revitalize Chicago. You're counting chickens before they hatch.
For those of you who dont know who these people are.
Daley = Mayor Daley of Chicago
Blagojevich = Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois
Jones = Emil Jones, President of Illinois State Senate
Madigan = Michael Madigan, Speaker of the State of Illinois House of Representatives
Huberman = Ron Huberman, President of the Chicago Transit Authority.