How about Obama, standing silently as the mayor's white friends with Outfit connections, the Duffs, reaped $100 million in city affirmative action contracts even though the mayor knew his drinking buddies weren't black or female. Then Obama endorses Daley in the name of reform.For more on Mayor Daley's long run scheme to hire political hacks.
Or how about a little Daley and a little Obama, as happy kindergartners playing in a sandbox with trucks from the $40 million City Hall Hired Truck scandal? Or how about a President Obama dealing with a tricky foreign policy/Chicago corruption issue?
This one involves the fugitive drug dealer and self-confessed Daley administration briber Marco Morales, still fighting extradition to the U.S. from the comfy warden's office in his Mexican prison. On the day he fled Chicago—avoiding testifying to a federal grand jury about the bribes he paid at City Hall for contracts—Marco's son began mysteriously receiving $40 million in Daley administration business. Again, I'm not kidding.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
McCain ad sends Mayor Daley into a gear-grinding frenzy
John Kass of The Chicago Tribune reports on McCain running ads about Chicago's Democratic Machine :