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Chicago

Brickbat: The Chicago Way

Charles Oliver | 10.31.2023 4:00 AM

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The Chicago Board of Ethics fined Ald. Jim Gardiner $20,000 for retaliating against a frequent critic. The city Inspector General's office found Gardiner "directed city employees to issue unfounded citations for overgrown weeds and rodents to the home" of the critic.

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  2. Fist of Etiquette   2 years ago

    Well, I don't know what zoning ordinances are for if not for politicians and bureaucrats to use as ordnance against their subjects. Except maybe to make money.

    1. SQRLSY One   2 years ago (edited)

      The peons will pay for made-up crimes, and LIKE it! And I don’t NEED no stinkin’ badge; I am BOSS of the badges!

      AND if someone tries to badger me, I will barge right in, badly badge-badgering them right back! I am the BADDEST of the beastly bad-ass barging badge-badgerers of them ALL!!! BWAH-ha-ha-ha!!!!!

  3. Adans smith   2 years ago

    Sounds like he's practicing to be that next mayor.

  4. mad.casual   2 years ago

    unfounded citations for overgrown weeds and rodents

    No ROUSs. Normal-sized rodents only.

    1. Idaho-Bob   2 years ago

      Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

      1. InsaneTrollLogic   2 years ago

        Then you ain't seen Chicago rats. They stand on two legs, maybe 5 to 6.5 feet tall, and inhabit the area around Washington and Clark Streets.

        1. mad.casual   2 years ago

          ROUSs. The original Trunk Bears.

  5. Crackers Boy   2 years ago (edited)

    I’m guessing that the $20,000 was paid by a “professional liability” policy, paid for by the city, for all Aldermen. I could be wrong. It’s just a guess.

    CB

  6. Rubbish!   2 years ago

    The peace officers around here dont look like the one in that photo.

    1. mad.casual   2 years ago

      Right. They all work out here in the burbs (and don't always stay in that shape for very long). What's the point in looking like that if you can't leverage it to get a cushy gig where you aren't a bullet sponge?

  7. Earth-based Human Skeptic   2 years ago

    All politics is local. And sometimes very local.

  8. Dillinger   2 years ago

    unfounded citations are the lifeblood of an Alderman why else be one?

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