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| Author: | Jaw Breaker [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 2:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Alex Clifford |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 4576.story I hope he buries these motherfuckers -- Madigan, O'Halloran, Arroyo, all of them. |
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| Author: | redskingreg [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
The only strike against Clifford is that he was still happy to take $700,000 in hush money. But yeah, take Madigan the fuck down. Rail transit in Chicago is pretty important and going to get more important; Metra has bigger things to worry about than sinecures for some South Side Irish cronies. You couldn't make the Metra Electric not smell like pee, but you can do this. |
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| Author: | badrogue17 [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
Wow that was some testimony he gave. That's the kind of shit people in Illinois should be getting their dander up over. Not big news but Mike Madigan is a fucking piece of shit. How aren't people asking for his ass on a platter along with the entire Metra board? Why isn't his Caller Bob daughter investigating this ? |
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| Author: | Jaw Breaker [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
badrogue17 wrote: Why isn't his Caller Bob daughter investigating this ? Obviously the answer is fully contained in the question. Curious Hair's good point about taking the hush money notwithstanding, I think Alex Clifford should run for governor. Seriously. |
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
Jaw Breaker wrote: badrogue17 wrote: Why isn't his Caller Bob daughter investigating this ? Obviously the answer is fully contained in the question. Curious Hair's good point about taking the hush money notwithstanding, I think Alex Clifford should run for governor. Seriously. Is falling on the sword with no job prospect in hand a good idea? I don't know how employable guys like this are after "coming clean" because it is the right thing to do. Taking the money was probably the only option. |
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| Author: | Jaw Breaker [ Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
Quote: I don't know how employable guys like this are You're right...maybe not employable, but electable. Probably wishful thinking though. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
Electable to what? He's a railroad bureaucrat, and by most accounts sort of a dictatorial one -- though I suppose you sort of have to be when your job is to make the trains run on time. It's a pretty specialized thing to do, almost the kind of thing you do in opposition to elected politics. I'm not sure what kind of base he'd have: to the Democratic machine, he just fucked them over, to the collar-county Republicans, he ran a government agency that taxes them for something they may not use, and to downstate, he's from Chicago. He came here from Los Angeles (there's a joke here) to clean up a mess and will probably just go to another place when one opens up. Too bad. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
Also, I'm pretty sure the RTA exists solely for patronage and corruption, since it certainly doesn't seem like its job is, you know, coordinating transit. Metra and the CTA should be working together much more closely than they are, but there are all these complicated political/racial dynamics that stop them from getting on the same page. That and, you know, graft. You could say they have different roles, with one getting people into the city and the other getting them around it, but that ignores that Metra has to fill all the holes that the L doesn't get to, particularly on the South Side, and some of those stations are in such terrible shape and so underused that you wonder why they're even there. Then there's the transfer point at Jeff Park, which would be great but for the fact that Northwest trains never actually stop there, stopping widely being regarded by most experts as a critical part of changing trains. Meanwhile, you have these suburban board members and do-nothing cronies fiddling away on stupid projects like connecting Joliet to Schaumburg. OH, FINALLY. That's what expressways are for. Which friend is getting the money for these bullshit studies? We could have a hell of a comprehensive railroad system if all these people realized they were in the business of people-moving, but Metra is too beset with funny old men who want to play with the world's biggest model train set and with Madigan's dopes who suck up money for nothing. |
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| Author: | JORR [ Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
badrogue17 wrote: Wow that was some testimony he gave. That's the kind of shit people in Illinois should be getting their dander up over. Not big news but Mike Madigan is a fucking piece of shit. How aren't people asking for his ass on a platter along with the entire Metra board? Why isn't his Caller Bob daughter investigating this ? That's why it's so amusing that people seemed so concerned about a conflict of interest if she were running for governor when they elect her to a conflict of interest every four years anyway. |
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| Author: | Jaw Breaker [ Wed Aug 21, 2013 5:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
This story keeps getting more disgusting...people go to jail over way less than this. Absolutely sickening. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 0022.story http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... 0672.story |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alex Clifford |
The RTA is useless. |
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