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Morning shorts
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - Posted by Rich Miller · Airport foes seek probe of ad-blitz donations · “Students now can pray at Kirby District 140 schools — provided that it’s their idea.” · Medicare drug changes mean some needy Illinois seniors pay more · Fired city worker says he helped get licenses for connected men · Editorial: Storm before the Floods · Daley short on patronage answers · Funeral protests force free speech debate · Davis replacements?
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- Randall Sherman - Wednesday, May 24, 06 @ 9:29 am:
It should be expected that Mayor Daley would not speak out in response to queries regarding patronage hiring. After all, doesn’t the poor man have the same rights under the provisions of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution as the rest of us?
- Leroy - Wednesday, May 24, 06 @ 11:07 am:
“Students now can pray at Kirby District 140 schools — provided that it’s their idea.”
Since when do expect students to have their own ideas and to think for themselves?
It’s better for us to tell them what to think.
- ONE MAN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE - Wednesday, May 24, 06 @ 3:49 pm:
While I agree that anyone’s funeral and burial should be truly peaceful, to sign a law barring anyone in the United States (the free county) from speaking out about anything that they feel is important to them is a violation of their firstamendment right to free speech.
That would be similiar to President Bush signing a law to prevent protester from protesting in front of the White House!
- ONE MAN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE - Wednesday, May 24, 06 @ 3:57 pm:
Randall Sherman, you are absolutely rights. However, if he has nothing to hide, no skeletons in his closet, then why not speak out and denounce anything that is not true and never happened.
This is what government/elected officials need to learn:
If civil or criminal violations occur in your office under your watch, you are ultimately held accountable. If the news media finds out about improprieties in their office simultaneous to a county, state or federal investigation, if there is no wrongdoing on the part of the government or elected official running the office, why not speak out and say, “If these employees in my office engaged in miconduct as alleged against them, i.e, violations of laws, they should be held to the highest level of accountabilty and I welcome investigations to root out the unethical employees in the office”.
Anything contrary looks like a coverup on the part of the government/elected official manning the office.
- Beowulf - Wednesday, May 24, 06 @ 7:50 pm:
Based on what John Kass says in his column about Daley over the years, Mayor Daley is and has been “short” on a great many things.