Stroger Watch

I know that Chicago politics is ugly, but this guy is a caricature. Stroger doesn't think he gets a fair deal from the media. He thinks his political opponents (Commissioners Forrest Claypool and Tony Peraica) don't understand county government. I'm pretty sure they don't. At least not the way Todd does government.

Chicago already has the highest sales tax rate in the nation because Todd's expertise couldn't figure out how to reduce expense while simultaneously adding loads of new employees and still act like the traditional fat cat. All the while his friends and relations muddle through the days playing governemnt under his "tutelage".

Now a Trib report (of a Sun Times report, no less) tells us of the ill-fated Cook County magazine. A magazine that cost $24,999 because $25,000 requires approval from the county board. A magazine that was so poorly produced that it is "riddled with misspellings and other errors". A Frankenstein monster of a magazine that is so hideous and humiliating to it's creators that the 5,000 copies are stuffed away in the halls of government, never to be distributed.

I don't think this is what Todd had in mind when the magazine was commissioned to create a "non-threatening news environment that ensures regular, positive press -- to counter-balance negative press often found in the mainstream media."

We love you, Todd. Just not in that way. Stop fucking up my world with your bullshit.