The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Four other city officials, though, do have the taxpayer-funded bodyguards. They include Mayor Daley, city Treasurer Stephanie Neely and Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), chairman of the City Council’s Finance Committee.
And the fourth? The police won’t say.
The cost to Chicago taxpayers: at least $4.6 million last year, city records show.
Alderman Burke sure is special:
Burke provided documents that show the City Council Finance Committee paid nearly $3,000 for two bodyguards to accompany him to Denver during the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Also, Burke’s security detail went with him last year on one trip to Springfield and another to Washington, D.C. — trips for which the Finance Committee paid nearly $1,300.
How many Democrats in Denver in 2008 could identify Alderman Burke?
