Archive for the ‘7’ Category
Alderman Brookins talks jobs & building a Walmart on the southside with Garrard McClendon on CLTV.
Duration : 0:8:49
Members of the Save Lincoln Square coalition join community members and citizens in protesting eminent domain at the chicago city council building.
Duration : 0:0:23
This fine upstanding citizen shows us why he should be elected to city council.
Duration : 0:1:11
London: 20 June 2009
Westminster City Council did a great job in providing free entertainment of the highest quality. It was West End Live 2009. Hundreds of people managed to get a spot. That number will be dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands who will watch these videos from the event. It is a great advert for the entertainment available. I have a pass and am fully accredited so no waiting around. I get a great spot at the front of the stage and am free to wander around as well. No fanline so no signing but plenty of music.
Jerry Springer as Billy Flynn in Chicago till 11 July at Cambridge Theatre 0844 412 4652.
Christopher Biggins Compere
As usual, please let me know of omissions, errors and comments. Thank you.
Original in AVCHD
Copyright elizabethtoni 2009
Duration : 0:7:33
Chicago minuteman rants about how much he hates Mexicans, and then former Carpentersville Grant Crowell comes in with a naughty zinger that has the minuteman’s lover on the city council, Judy Sigwalt, shriek with rage.
Duration : 0:2:34
NBC News Mary Rondoni speaks with City Council
Visit maryrondoni.com
Duration : 0:3:2
Alderman Helen Shiller (Chicago, 46th Ward) on the Children’s Museum at the June 11, 2008, meeting of the chicago city council.
Duration : 0:5:59
Sad day in the city council when the council gives themselves a pay raise in 2006 and raises taxes in 2007
Duration : 0:8:58
No, not Ald. Burt Natarus (42nd).
This one is courtesy of Arenda Troutman, the defeated incumbent alderman of the 20th Ward. Note: incumbent aldermen in Chicago only leave office if they die, or retire and appoint their children. To actually be VOTED out, they have to have screwed up really, really badly.
During her almost 3-minute tirade, she blames voting irregularities, the federal government and a media conspiracy against her.
The election results below her show the reason for her ire. With 86% of precincts reporting, she is being buried by challenger Willie Cochran, 62% to 32%.
She does not mention that she is being investigated by the feds for shaking down a developer concerning a vacant parcel of land that wasn’t even in her ward. (She’s on audio tape from that little episode calling herself and her city council colleagues “ho’s”.) Or that an envelope addressed from the Police Department to her at her office was found in the apartment of a drug dealer. Or that said drug dealer was seen driving her $50,000 Escalade.
This election, her friends deserted her. Worse for any politician, so did her enemies.
About 48 seconds in, you’ll hear a voice say “Quit whining, lady. You lost!” I wonder who that could have been;-)
On a happier note, 3rd Ward candidate Pat Dowell has forced incumbent Dorothy Tillman “The Hat” into an April 17 runoff election.
UPDATE: On April 17, Dowell won.
Duration : 0:3:0
Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th Ward, Chicago) debates and discusses city, state and federal issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz on this week’s Chicago Metro suburban edition of “Public Affairs.” Topics discussed include independence and reform in the City Council, holding the Mayor’s feet to the fire and Public Corruption in city government; oversight of the 30 billion dollar City of Chicago budget; oversight of the Chicago Public Schools, the more than $14,000 per kid, per year that is spent on elementary and secondary public school education in Chicago and School Vouchers-School choice as an option for parents.
Additional topics discussed on the show include financing education; tax swaps; charter schools and charter school caps; economic development in the 7th Ward and how to promote it; the readiness, or lack thereof, of Senator Barack Obama to be President; the Obama-McCain comparison; the Obama-Jackson family relationships (do they “hang,” together? will there be a “play date,” in the White House?); the world view of Barack Obama; Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, Father Pfleger, the bitterness comment and Obama judgment issues.
Additional topics discussed on the show include Ald. Jackson or Cong. Jackson as Mayor of Chicago; Ald. Jackson as a Congresswoman; Cong. Jackson as an Obama cabinet member or the first African-American Speaker of the House; lower taxes to stimulate economic development in Chicago; a living wage and the repealed big box ordinance—an impediment to economic development? Would handguns in the home improve public safety in high crime areas? Will Mayor Daley seek to impose a very high tax on handguns if the U. S. Supreme Court strikes down as unconstitutional the City of Chicago ordinance making their possession legal? More guns, less crime for Chicago? Concealed carry for Chicago?
Duration : 0:29:11