O.K…I don’t know if the author of this post lives in Chicago but….
Not everyone gets everything right. And Daley tends to pick his battles to fight what he can win.
Last year (date?) he let ban on Foie Gras go through (thankfully its a completely ineffectual ban)…but then when the same alderman behind that fiasco tried to prevent a big box store from opening up here, he turned it around and made them look like they cared more about ducks than about poor people who would shop and work at the store (got some ministers with poor congregations behind him — it was beautiful).
Daley is a master of playing the corrupt, petty, racist , aldermen against each other–USUALLY, but not always to the benefit of ordinary Chicagoans. (And I mean all of the aldermen are racists, the blacks, Hispanics, Italian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Polish, Russian–they all hate each other!)
Anyway, the guy keeps the snow off the streets in winter. Snow affects more of us than the shootings do. Some neighborhoods in Chicago are very safe. I was just at a park West Loop overflowing with moms and toddlers.
There is no one to fill the vacuum that will be left when the Daley dynasty resigns…that will probably be when our family leaves the city.
