What Cook County Doesn’t Need
A Public Relations department. They are the FREAKING GOVERNMENT! All they do is relate to the public! Maybe instead of spending that money on his childhood friend, Stroger would be better off spending that money on actually doing the work of the government. Hard work + good results = Happy public = reelection. That’s how I thought it worked. Apparently here you get: right name + incompetence + clout (machine backing) = reelection. I guess Stroger is afraid that that old equation won’t work, so he needs to multiply the power of his name with a PR campaign. He doesn’t have any military force at his disposal, right? That is just the governor? Because this is really starting to sound like we are headed to a dictatorship. We the people apparently just don’t understand the great leader, and need to be reeducated.
I don’t think you need to worry about a **Stroger** dictatorship. We already have Daley.
At least Daily is occasionally effective. His PR is on the side of trucks that are doing the work of keeping this city from falling apart at the seams. Though now that I think about it, that too is a little “great leader”esque. And those new video displays at the airport where the mayor welcomes you to chicago are downright creepy. We do live in a messed up place.
Ah, and apparently Strogers tax hike went through. On the back of Suffredin. Ugh, and to think that I used to like that guy.