Gary Slagel during the last election sent out a political piece about "trust?" which was a play on not trusting him.
He and his "coalition of friends" tried to discredit certain people. Some were definitely about ongoing spats and power grabs. But with a few of them, they just simply, honestly did not give their full trust to him and did not agree with certain things and did not and would not go along with him on those things. What was the reaction toward people who refused to go along with questionable things? Can you say vindictive bullying. Spiteful attacks on those who didn't pledge allegiance to him and agree that Gary Slagel should be Mayor (for Life?, to borrow an award term from his protege, Angie Chen Button), and their version of "The Richardson Way." With no repentance or dealing, people who could not be strong armed were personally attacked and therefore their spouses and families. Has it spawned anything in return? Yes, it has. Many things.
In this particular public audio recording I am listening to it to determine if I should type up a transcript of it, and compile many other public statements and public records of much greater importance, with conflicting information within them, but of longer length and better audio and video quality, but that some people have never seen, heard or read in the news.
"That governor" Mayor Gary Slagel refers to is Gov. Rod Blagojevich (who is awaiting retrail and sentencing, currently convicted of lying to the FBI). Is putting the word "that" before a generic description of someone a way to distance? My opinion is it is and it may be effective with people who have not seen this done before. It does remind me when Bill Clinton said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
The news partially covered the questions surrounding the Illinois contract with no real follow up, among other stories of his various activities, where there in Illinois, Gary Slagel and his company (his board of directors) were not winning a toll contract but in the end surprisingly won the contract. However, he has indicated that while consultants had told him and his board that they "needed to participate in state politics" and "that's what happened," with his board, not him, giving a donation to "that governor." He claims that it didn't have anything to do with winning the contract, that they were "sorta victims," "that's what happened." (The contract ultimately did not end well for at least all the parties concerned, just like other contracts involving Mayor Gary Slagel. This is a continuing theme it seems, especially for tax payers in the places.)
His board, he has indicated, are the guys who gave $12 million to the company and it was their money. What about the city incubator rent where the mayor's and his board of directors business was being incubated for years? Whose building was that, and was the full market rent paid, in full? Proof of the full market payment was not provided publicly. There was money from the mayor's and his board's company to pay to Governor Blagojevich's political fund so there should have been money to pay the tax payers who were footing the bonds that pay for the special incubator building that the mayor had put his and his board's business into, as in "so, it's really their (the taxpayers') money."
Would you like a fly over bridge (embedded commemorative brass plates included)?
