Daley's Gone...

[fiveouts]

Begin the clusterfuck (local edition) anew...

[Gilgamesh]

I won't support anyone who doesn't pay their city sticker fee, I'll tell you that.

[JakeD]

Did he buy a Senate seat?

[Bort]

I won't support anyone who doesn't pay their city sticker fee, I'll tell you that.

Well, I won't support anyone who doesn't pay for their premium cable channels.

[Gilgamesh]

I won't support anyone who doesn't pay their city sticker fee, I'll tell you that.

Well, I won't support anyone who doesn't pay for their premium cable channels.

I told you, I thought the cop was a prostitute.

::lights illegal Cuban cragar::

[Oleg]

I won't support anyone who doesn't pay their city sticker fee, I'll tell you that.

Well, I won't support anyone who doesn't pay for their premium cable channels.

I told you, I thought the cop was a prostitute.

::lights illegal Cuban cragar::

What the fuck?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I won't support anyone who doesn't pay their city sticker fee, I'll tell you that.

Well, I won't support anyone who doesn't pay for their premium cable channels.

I told you, I thought the cop was a prostitute.

::lights illegal Cuban cragar::

What the fuck?

Just forget it.

Not worth it at all.

[Yeti]

I won't support anyone who doesn't pay their city sticker fee, I'll tell you that.

Well, I won't support anyone who doesn't pay for their premium cable channels.

I told you, I thought the cop was a prostitute.

::lights illegal Cuban cragar::

What the fuck?

Just forget it.

Not worth it at all.

It was a semi-Yetian moment for Mr. LA

[Gilgamesh]

I'm just so happy that Oleg did his due diligence and went and looked "cragar" up.  Well done, good sir.

::lights up another cragar whilst typing this on the iPad.::

[R-V]

All of this:

So why did this happen?

My guess is money.

Needless to say, no one who knows is willing to talk on the record, but everyone who works for the Man on the Fifth Floor knows that Chicago city government is in real financial trouble.

My guess is money...because the City is literally in hock, and it will very shortly no longer be able to pay the vig and continue to provide even minimal services without selling off the parks, the water, the sky, the air, the neighborhoods of Pilsen, Roger's Park and Austin...and all those pretty median-strip planters that for some reason we needed.

My guess is money...because the special, one-time-only pots of cash Daley got by selling off the city's Skyway and parking meters (at pawn-shop rates) and which were supposed to last for decades have instead been used to keep the Hizzoner's Administration propped up for a couple of years and is now all but gone. And the Olympics money-tide ain't coming to raise all of our boats.

[Oleg]

I'm just so happy that Oleg did his due diligence and went and looked "cragar" up.  Well done, good sir.

::lights up another cragar whilst typing this on the iPad.::

I'm nothing if not very thourough.  Very thourough.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Would anyone else besides me like to see Paul Vallas return to Chicago to make a run?

[Chuck to Chuck]

Would anyone else besides me like to see Paul Vallas return to Chicago to make a run?

Certainly.  He won't get support, tho.  The deal makers hated him because he was a no-corruption guy.  They dumped him when he ran for governor.  What did we get?

Blago.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Would anyone else besides me like to see Paul Vallas return to Chicago to make a run?

Certainly.  He won't get support, tho.  The deal makers hated him because he was a no-corruption guy.  They dumped him when he ran for governor.  What did we get?

Blago.

Yes, but just barely.  Vallas didn't get support of the machine elders in 2002 but he still nearly pulled it off.

[Internet Apex]

I'm just so happy that Oleg did his due diligence and went and looked "cragar" up.  Well done, good sir.

::lights up another cragar whilst typing this on the iPad.::

I'm nothing if not very thourough.  Very thourough.

Shut up, Paul...