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Kass: "Sanchez takes bullet for those calling the shots"
Today's big political news will be made by big political mouths, speechmakers with fine enunciation from Washington and Springfield. But I'm thinking about a little guy going down, a deese-and-dems guy with federal prison staring at him.President Barack Obama will whine about multimillion-dollar bonuses to AIG suits with federal bailout money, forgetting to mention he voted for the deal. And Gov. Pat Quinn will announce his stupendous state income-tax increase, putting government in line ahead of financially strapped taxpayers and their kids. But there's a fellow who'll likely be forgotten in all of Wednesday's political noise, Al Sanchez, who helped build a giant patronage army for Mayor Richard Daley and was the front guy at Streets and San. Sanchez is just another in a long line of chumbolones falling on the sword for the mayor on patronage abuse. I saw him falling in federal court Tuesday and thought, without guys like Sanchez, there would be no Daley machine.... Posted by: mom 2009-03-18 |
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