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| Kass: "Sanchez takes bullet for those calling the shots" |
| 2009-03-18 |
| 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 |
| #1 "Those of us who live in Africa know from experience that this is the kind of thing we live with: white liberals climbing on the bandwagon of black nationalists movements, hoping to gain favours in return." Smith's Bitter Harvest, page 62. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-18 14:28 |