Random weirdness
Friday, Jan 15, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Mayor Emanuel held his annual Martin Luther King interfaith breakfast today. Things got weird…
Prior to Emanuel’s breakfast, three African-American pastors leading a boycott of the event from religious leaders attempted to hold a news conference at the main entrance of the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. Their bid to speak to the assembled cameras, however, was delayed by several minutes as a half-dozen angry protesters shouted obscenities at the ministers and claimed they had long been part of the city’s problems.
* Meanwhile…
* Yes, Democratic state’s attorney candidate Donna More actually said this to the county’s Democratic Central Committee yesterday…
“I’m not here today seeking your political endorsement,” More said in her remarks at party headquarters. “Politics has already done enough to damage our criminal justice system.”
Indignant snorts and half-stifled chuckles — but no audible applause — greeted More after she’d finished speaking.
Well, at least she got her name in the papers. But this is loser talk…
“I think it [not getting the endorsement] does help me, because I have been out there since the beginning of my campaign saying that we need an independent prosecutor, and Miss Foxx claims to be independent, but Toni Preckwinkle’s been doing her bidding since the beginning,” More said after the endorsement.
According to the party, Foxx got 85 percent of the vote.
* Sigh…
A year after Gov. Bruce Rauner directed his administration to help local governments start putting their employee salary data on a state website, the information still hasn’t been posted.
A law directing the state to post the local information online was approved in 2012. A year ago Friday, Rauner issued an executive order aimed at getting things moving.
“It was never implemented. This is state law today,” Rauner said then. He blamed former Gov. Pat Quinn for not directing the state agency in charge of the website to get it done.
“No more,” Rauner said at the time. “We are going to get this done.”
* Tribune editorial…
Jason Gonzales is a 41-year-old consultant on a mission to beat House Speaker Michael Madigan, who was elected to the Illinois House before Gonzales was born.
Gonzales filed paperwork to run as a candidate in the March 15 Democratic primary in the 22nd District. Yes, Madigan’s district. He’s trying to beat Madigan in Madigan’s backyard.
He’s a consultant on a mission!
I’m betting that slogan ain’t gonna be on any bumper stickers.
And a friend just sent this screen cap of her browser as she attempted to access Gonzales’ campaign website at work…
Um, that’s odd.
- illini - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 12:48 pm:
“It was never implemented.” Yet the law was signed 4 years ago and reaffirmed a year ago by BVR. Blame Pat Quinn! I thought everything was the fault of MJM!
- Formerly Known As... - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 12:49 pm:
==the information still hasn’t been posted. A law directing the state to post the local information online was approved in 2012.==
Illinois government in a nutshell.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 12:49 pm:
That reminds me, I need to secure a Jason Gonzalez yard sign…
===“I’m not here today seeking your political endorsement,” More said in her remarks at party headquarters. “Politics has already done enough to damage our criminal justice system.”===
Aw, More is fun!
If I were More, last week I wiukd have started my TV Ad campaign, at $250K…
More is wasting daylight, get on TV, and hurry.
I wouldn’t be as angry and dismissive in Ads, but she’s just so fun that way.
- There is power in a union... - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 12:50 pm:
Gonzalez’s website is filtered out as porn? The jokes write themselves. Movie name ideas? (Safe for work of course…)
“Getting under madigans skin…”
“Walkin the beat…”
“An apple a day…”
- Apocalypse - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 12:58 pm:
=A year after Gov. Bruce Rauner directed his administration to help local governments start putting their employee salary data on a state website, the information still hasn’t been posted.=
Now, why wouldn’t the local bureaucrats not want to comply with state law.
- Touré's Latte - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:02 pm:
Getting a website blocked as porn is pretty easy. I accessed it with a caution. It is a hot mess of bad design, so maybe people complained “Hey this website is effed” or whatnot.
- Frenchie Mendoza - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:04 pm:
Gonzalez should probably register the .org of his website — or someone’s gonna do it for him.
- hot chocolate - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:07 pm:
JasonforIllinois.com comes up as his campaign site on my android phone. Whassup with that blocker?
- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:08 pm:
> Foxx got 85 percent of the vote.
I haven’t been this excited about the State’s Attorney race since a young up-and-commer named Anita Alvarez ran in 2008!
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:12 pm:
Mike Madigan and the porn filters he controls…
– MrJM
- Levois - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:21 pm:
Heh, that guy must be some “threat” if he has his site blocked on a state gov’t network. (presumably)
- Levois - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:22 pm:
If Donna More didn’t want an endorsement and thinks those bosses are what’s wrong with the criminal justice system why did she think it was Ok to speak to them? Shot herself in the foot?
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:26 pm:
Levois, the reader works for a private sector company.
- Louis G. Atsaves - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:40 pm:
I dunno. I accessed the website just now with no problem.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:49 pm:
North Korean hacker mischief?
- wordslinger - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 1:53 pm:
–Jason Gonzales is a 41-year-old consultant on a mission…–
Gee, I wonder who wrote that one?
The curious thing about the Tribbie edit board is that they apparently do not edit their writing.
Hackneyed, hyperbolic and hysterical, day in and day out.
- Building Trades - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 2:01 pm:
Ironically enough, unions in illinois cannot get Rauner to update the prevailing wage website to compensate state employees and workers on state projects fairly.
- JoanP - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 2:22 pm:
I was able to access the site. It’s my opinion that he must not be a very successful entrepreneur, as it appears that he cannot afford a razor.
- A friend - Friday, Jan 15, 16 @ 2:47 pm:
There’s nothing wrong with the site. It’s just my company’s hyperactive filter, which also will not allow access to Esquire magazine or the New York Daily News.