As soon as I read about Bill Daley’s call for a referendum on reducing the city council from 50 to 15 aldermen, I had three questions: Would it pass? Would I vote for it? And what does this have to do with ratgate? In short, the answers are: yes, not sure and…don’t get me started!
How else to explain how we bitch and moan about every dumb, rubber-stamping thing the council does, and then turn right around and re-elect the folks who voted for the dumb, rubber-stamping things. On the grounds that—hey, man, he returns my calls.
November’s election came and went and Quinn’s still in court fighting with Rahm’s lawyers to force the city to, at the very least, release the results of that referendum.
Now the question is—would I vote for it? Well, in contrast to other cities, we sure have a lot of aldermen. New York City has 51, but they have a population of over 8 million. So it works out to about one alderman for every 169,000 residents.
Oh, that Pat Quinn—he’s a regular Mrs. Maisel.
Like this one from Alderman Matt O’Shea: “Where I come from, if you wore a wire, someone’s gonna kick your ass.”
