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* Cook County board fails to override sales tax veto
* Stroger plays his ace — and cleans up
Todd Stroger’s win is no small deal.
He proved he’s someone to be reckoned with.
And that his victory, even in the face of terrible Cook County unemployment, high foreclosures, and consumer flight to collar counties with lower sales taxes, is something to sit back and study.
Especially if you are Mayor Richard M. Daley and his brother, County Commissioner John Daley.
* County Board caves on sales tax rollback
An override of Stroger’s veto of the roll back required 14 of 17 commissioners. Sims was to be the 14th.
Sims changed course, she says, because it’s not clear yet how a loss in tax revenue might impact county services. Keeping all the county health clinics open is her top priority.
We don’t want to close clinics, either. That’s why we were glad to hear that the Cook County Health and Hospitals System proposed budget — released Tuesday, just in time for the vote — didn’t call for closings.
That budget isn’t set in stone, and Stroger’s office said a roll back would have required deeper cuts to the health system budget.
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posted by Mike Murray
Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 9:31 am
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Five months from tonight, when Comm. Sims gives her concession speech after being trounce for renomination, I hope she thanks Toddler for dragging her down to defeat and political oblivion. After that, she can watch Toddler stumble over his own concession speech.
Comment by fedup dem Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 9:55 am
Saving that Tribune editorial for Rich?
Comment by Brennan Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 9:55 am
How does a battalion chief sleep through the fire alarms at the station? Are there snooze buttons? Do the alarms need to be turned up? Something’s not quite right about this story.
Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 9:55 am
Lingerie football league will save the Sears Centre
Comment by Wumpus Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 10:06 am
Are there any serious contenders to Ms. Sims in her next commissioner election. Otherwise, I can see why she voted the Cook County way–more money for pay to play, more money for corrupt contracts, more money for do-nothing patronage workers, more money for badly managed county agencies. It’s much easier to cover up severe dysfunction and mismanagement if you are swimming in tax money you don’t really need. You can put four incompetent Democratic hacks on a county job that only needs one, for example. And a tiny bit of the the extra moolah does make it to the needy–not much, though. Most of it is already spoken for.
I doubt very much that the clinics played much of a role in Ms. Sims’ decision to support this highly regressive sales tax. More likely, she
made a calculation about her political future and decided that the usual tax-increase-loving way was the safest way. Can’t blame her for that. Mentioning the clinics was just putting lipstick on the pig.
Comment by Cassandra Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 10:22 am
With the imminent IOC evaluations of the 2016 venues, I just read on a Forbes web page that Chicago is the most stressful city in which to live in the U.S. Nice.
Comment by Captain Flume Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 10:45 am
Did you see in the Daily Herald that Victor Santana has re-filed his previously tossed out federal lawsuit against the Cook County Board of Review?
Comment by Boscobud Wednesday, Sep 2, 09 @ 10:49 am