Chicago most corrupt city in the nation!

[Brass]

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They are the same. Look Brass, do you want to talk about your personal or professional life down here? I have not seen one of your 30 aliases ever speak about it? I'm waiting.

"30 aliases?" You're beginning to annoy me, Mav. Next time, if you wish to keep a topic off limits, then perhaps you should not bring it up in the first place. Just saying.

Also, I was rather intrigued by your other remark earlier:

Quote from Maverick74:

...Yeah, you're right, if I wanted to be a hermit and be by myself I could move to Tibet if I wanted to...

I think it's fascinating that you're disgruntled by what the Democrats have done to your fine city and that the obvious and only alternative is Tibet. I suppose that's why no one ever moves. Because the only alternative is Tibet, of course. I would have thought that an affluent "community" of traders, however many they may number, and who are disgruntled with local politics, could move wherever they please. That is, until I was informed that Tibet is the only game out of town.

 

[cgroupman]

'Chicago politics is a national cliché, evoking images of a one-party system, dominated by a boss-controlled Democratic political machine whose crafty politicians dangle patronage before competing ethnic and racial groups in return for votes. As early as the 1871 municipal election following the tragic fire, the defeated People's Union accused the victorious “Fireproof” ticket of exhorting its supporters to “vote early and often.'

Nice start about bad democrats.

When reform Republicans captured control of the Common Council in the late 1890s, they behaved exactly as had the ousted Democrats. Republicans replaced all Democratic appointees with their own followers, a practice the Republicans had decried when done by Democrats.

Nice read as they say: http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/989.html

I don't think either party has a hold on Chicago politics, just local politicians do what they do best I guess. When in doubt, blame the other guy or party I guess.


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[pspr]

Does that make Obama the most corrupt politician in the United States?

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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/02/14/chicago-called-most-corrupt-city-in-nation/

Thank you Democrats!!!!!!! They run this entire city.

Chicago Called Most Corrupt City In Nation
February 14, 2012 12:28 PM

CHICAGO (CBS) — A former Chicago alderman turned political science professor/corruption fighter has found that Chicago is the most corrupt city in the country.

He cites data from the U.S. Department of Justice to prove his case. And, he says, Illinois is third-most corrupt state in the country.

University of Illinois professor Dick Simpson estimates the cost of corruption at $500 million.

LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody Reports

It’s essentially a corruption tax on citizens who bear the cost of bad behavior (police brutality, bogus contracts, bribes, theft and ghost pay-rolling to name a few) and the costs needed to prosecute it.

“We first of all, we have a long history,” Simpson said. “The first corruption trial was in 1869 when alderman and county commissioners were convicted of rigging a contract to literally whitewash City Hall.”

Corruption, he said, is intertwined with city politics

“We have had machine politics since the Great Chicago Fire of 1871,” he said. “Machine politics breeds corruption inevitably.”

Simpson says Hong Kong and Sydney were two similarly corrupt cities that managed to change their ways. He says Chicago can too, but it will take decades.

He’ll be presenting his work before the new Chicago Ethics Task Force meeting tomorrow at City Hall.

 

[Trader666]

I think it's fascinating that your life is so empty in Canada that you desperately and pathetically stalk us and our politics.

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I think it's fascinating that...