Chicago’s Mayor Daley .    

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Apparently, Daley does not understand that the role of the media is to hold public officials accountable. 

On Feb. 11 Daley went to Washington and , which includes 200 schools, 150 miles of main streets, 200 miles of street lights and 75 miles of sewer and water mains.

It is pretty transparent from the 2009 budget that Daley is using .  The city should also be completely, not partially transparent to tax payers on the spending list for the massive stimulus package. 

Apparently, Chicago Ward 50′s alderman Bernie Stone is going public with his lust for political payback against . At a recent budget meeting, Stone threatened to zero-out Hoffman’s department budget in response to his prosecution of Stone’s ward superintendent for issues relating to vote fraud.

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Absolutely outrageous. Of course, Eapen to the charges. I hope he’s working on a deal that drags more Chicago vote fraud out into the sunshine.

In other Chicago corruption news, the that 44 new investigations were started July-September 2008, in contrast to only 8 in the same quarter in 2007.

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Let’s hope that these investigations lead to punishment for any wrongdoing, fraud, and misuse of public trust, but also serve as deterrents to people desiring to continue along the old Chicago Way of doing business.

Chicago is often called “The City that Works,” but according to a report by Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman, that title should not necessarily include the city’s .

It only takes a quick review of the day’s headlines to know it’s going to be another bad, bad day for Mayor Daley, who is on the cusp of releasing a city budget that is an estimated $420 million in the red.

Chicago Sun-Times Editorial:

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Chicago Tribune:

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Shockingly (NOT!), union leaders are already crying foul, offering up a conspiracy theory that claims Mayor Daley is in cahoots with the Inspector General in an attempt to justify cutting sanitation jobs before Daley’s big red budget release.

Chicago Sun-Times:

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Downed truck. Truck between loads. Right, right, right…

Read the full for yourself- and prepare to be disgusted.

The asks today: Why do Chicago and Mayor Richard Daley face $420 million budget shortfall?

This is the Trib’s explanation:

1. Many city workers make a lot more than average Chicagoans.

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2. The city depends heavily on taxing real estate sales.

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3. Millions of tax dollars are siphoned to boost development.

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4. City Hall builds little cushion into the budget.

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Wages, real estate, TIFs, and cushion… but where’s the Transparency? Citizens should have easy access to lobbying costs, ethics policies, audits, and tax information on the city government website. As a Chicago resident, I feel the pinch of big government every day- yearly parking fees, rising transit costs, bottled water taxes, the highest sales tax in the nation, etc etc etc… Maybe Cook County voters wouldn’t be considering an advisory referendum to add a recall provision if they were confident their money was being spent responsibly.

Look for the Windy City transparency information I was able to find.

I ran across this blog post this morning. It appears that it is business as usual in Chicago. I am thankful that the media is beginning to shine some light on corruption in Chicago City Government.

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I was shocked last night as I watched the local Chicago Fox News 10:00 PM news broadcast of a story of the continued abuse by elected officials in Chicago, Il. Fox News should be praised for having a reporter take the time to go through the mountain of misc. expenses of Chicago’s Aldermen and uncover the “questionable” expenses.

The highlights were $1500 for lawn care for one Alderman to the company of one of her poltical supporters; the paying of one Alderman’s subscription to the magazine of the Communist Party of the United States; and the hiring of of a magician for an event for the Alderman.

The news report points out that many of these expenses were paid without question.

If you would like to view the news report please .

The taxpayers of Chicago deserve better.

Stay tuned as the reporter promised to reveal the political expenses of Aldermen that were paid for with your tax dollars. I will bring you his report as soon as it is aired.

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