A few years ago, the Tribune published a superb series of articles on how Chicago’s City Council system stood almost proudly defiant as the most expensive and inefficient system of its type in the United States.
I wondered then why there issued forth no hue and cry–indeed, nary a peep!–from the electorate to scrap (or at least reform) the system. Now, with the Tribune dutifully reporting even more tales of widespread scandal and favoritism coming out of that same old system, maybe the electorate needs to punish Mayor Richard Daley and his City Council lackeys for their shameless interpretation of democracy that rewards themselves and their business associates rather than the weary voters/taxpayers, whom the mayor and the aldermen are supposed to represent.
Keep up the pressure, Tribune, until and after Election Day. Don’t let them get away with it next time!
