What Challenge for Cook County Board? Stroger is Front Runner
The Dems challenging Todd Stroger for the Cook county board presidency don’t ring a bell with me…starting with the unctuous Danny Davis who has problems showing up at meetings, due to an apparent chaotic lifestyle and non-organizable work habits that defies anyone or anything to get him where he’s supposed to me-and on time. For the latest episode, I’m indebted to the excellent blog “Blithe Spirit” written by Jim Bowman for the latest Davis snafu. Davis was due last Saturday morning at 2nd Baptist Church in Maywood. His office in D. C. had told “Organizing for America,” an Obama front group that he’d be there for a town hall. But his office got the address wrong-listing it as 35 South 13th avenue versus 436 and he never showed.
Oh well, when you have a basso profundo voice that makes audiences think they’re going to hear something memorable even though it never strays from ultra-liberal boilerplate maybe you can get away with it…especially if you’re in a solid black bloc district where you don’t have to try to exert yourself except to go chuckle-chuckle and roll a few Wurlitzer-style organ-sounding phrases of meaninglessness. And easy-going…v-e-r-y easy-going Danny (meandering while he goes chuckle-chuckle) doesn’t exert himself doing anything, believe you me.
Bowman’s story hit me first hand because some years ago I was host for the Congressman at a City Club function. Earlier, knowing his reputation we checked and double-checked but notwithstanding our diligence he never arrived. No excuses, no sorry-he-couldn’t-make-it. Nothing. Just Danny, that’s all (chuckle-chuckle). He reportedly has filed for president of the Cook county board and also for reelection to Congress-where this chronically under-prepared individual serves as member of…God help us and the United States of America…the Ways and Means committee.
Which leads us to some other noble Dem challengers for the board presidency such as Alderwoman Toni Preckwinkle who once had Tony Rezko as fund-raiser. This Democratic party really has a full bench of effective challengers. My bet is that Todd will mow them all down…and well he might since they’re all nonentities. The liberal media can’t understand but the only change that can come is from the Republicans.
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Tom Roeser is the Chairman of the editorial board of the Chicago Daily Observer
Tom, why so harsh?
Look on the bright side: Danny, my Congressman, doesn’t get much done –including answering my letters — and spends his time on post office matters. And just look at the state of the post office
Indeed, in the most stentorian of tones, please echo the sentiments of Steve Jordan.
To return to Danny’s Pathfinder Sense of Direction amd Common Courtesy, It’s all Good!
Danny ‘Drive Like a Brit on Kedzie Ave. and Worship the Moon Man’ Davis would take up his tasks at the office in the Will County Court House at 14 W. Jefferson Street in Joliet, Illinois.
“Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the requistite the redirection injunction must have been fabricated by a Rhodesian Race Sectarian !”
Not only was Rep. Davis a no show on Aug 29, not only was the address incorrect, his offices in Broadview and Chicago are clueless when it comes to dealing with the public. After receiving an email from the Obama camp in early August requesting supporters of the President to contact our representative to schedule an appointment with our rep. I called the Broadview office and the response from the staff was a whiny complaint about all of the calls they had been receiving and a statement that it was not necessary for Rep Davis to meet with his constituents and I could check the website for his positions. Then came the message from the Obama camp to RSVP for a town hall in Maywood, which I did. Yes, the address was incorrect, but it was not difficult to find the actual address of the church. I recruited friends to meet me at the church and we printed the signs that we were asked to display. We showed up on time and guess what–we were turned away. Today I contacted the Chicago office to express my dismay and I was met with a surly staff member “responsible” for Rep Davis’s schedule who told me that the Obama camp “lied” about the scheduled appearance. She also told me that there had been an earlier “health care town hall” which seems strange since that is not what the Broadview office told me when I called in earl August. Now Rep Davis wants to runs for to replace Todd Stroger. I don’t think that is change we can believe in. PS – I forgot to mention that after the non-town hall I left a message with the Broadview office and they never returned my call.
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