Wild spending Aurora Alderman Bob O'Connor says TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS wouldn't be enough of wasting taxpayer funds, so he needs 4 years to spend more as Alderman-at-Large.
Many had expected O'Connor, one of the worst elected officials in Aurora's history, to retire after this term since it's clear that his only role is to rubber-stamp whatever the mayor asks for and to collect $75 checks for attending committee meetings.
However, like one of those expired containers that gets stuck in someone's fridge, O'Connor wants to continue stay rotten and hope you'll just freeze him where he's at for another term while your taxdollars melt away.
Alderman Rick Lawrence, who announced recently he would be running for Alderman-at-Large, said his decision had nothing to do with O'Connor running or not running. His goal is to improve the city overall and says that he will change the position of Alderman-at-Large so that it's effective and not simply a position to collect checks and attend parties.
O'Connor says he wants to continue to be "involved" and points to his accomplishments as working to rubber-stamp fiscal schemes, corruption and projects such as the $145 million police palace, dumping $7 million for two bars, $7 million for Shodeen, $7 million for a temporary parking lot for Waubonsee and being part of BILLIONS AND BILLIONS in wild spending over the last 27 years.
As Chairman of the Finance Committee, O'Connor has given the green light to massive spending, tax increases, corruption and incompetence.
Here's an example of the typical finance committee under O'Connor:
19 comments:
Good luck Bob,
The sane people of Aurora will back you against Rick "the Home Invader" Lawrence.
The lawyer vs the law breaker
The only new blood in these races comes from the Leonardi family...I'd take the older one though. Life experience does count!
Is there a correlation between the financial problems at the Old Second and the financial problems with the City of Aurora? Is there a common link between the two? Just askin'
Which one is Lou's kid? That's good people!
To Al's question,
I do not think that there is any relationship, the City would never put tax payers money in a risky bank.
Does the City report where they deposit tax payer's money?
I would hope that the school districts are just as responsible.
Don't be so hard on Old Second.
The loss to common shareholders this year is only $5,000,000.00 that is a great improvement to the 2011 loss of $11,000,000.00.
Heck if it wasn't for the $73,000,000.00 of tax payer Tarp money they would be long gone. Too bad they can't pay it back or at least pay the dividend.
How do you spell sucker, US TAXPAYER.
Mike is Lou's son.
Dignity, class, integrity, bridge builder, true civic interest vs. ?????
"Dignity, class, integrity, bridge builder, true civic interest"
None of which ever has, or ever will be displayed by Openline.
Heard a Leonardi radio ad!
8:19 is right. This election for alderman at large will prove to be a lesson in how badly the embarrassment will be beat.
Lawrence supports BIG pay raise for mayor!!
Lawrence supports $12,000 fee for Stedman Graham to speak in Aurora!!
What happened to the old Rick Lawrence?
Lock your doors, Rick's in town
Hey Rick, your blog is bashing you.
Lawrence might want to reconsider a run in the 4th ward. He will go down in flames in a city-wide race.
Don't be surprised if Rick's at-large campaign goes the way of his mayoral race and he returns to a 4th ward race.
What goes around comes around!!!!!!!
Good old Openline is suppressing the voice of the people again! It's an old story; when the trend of the comments goes against Openline's bias because so many people are trying to tell the truth, he shuts down comments on that post. Of course that means any comments supporting him also get shut down. Look -- the post on him endorsing Fee had lots of comments -- all gone now. The post naming the so called "Madigoons", comments not allowed. The post on Kifowit living outside the district she's running in, no comments. The post on Biggert living outside the district she's running in -- oh, that's right, there's no post on that because Openline favors Biggert.
Well, here we go again. Openline posting another hit piece against Kifowit that he obviously knows is false. How can we tell? He doesn't allow comments on it. Openline is a coward and can't handle the truth, and being called on it. Instead, I'll post my comment on the "endorsement" from carefully selected aldermen here. So who do we have in this contrived piece? Alderman Rick Mervine, Alderman Alan Lewandowski, Alderman Rick Lawrence, Alderman Juany Garza and former Alderman Chris Beykirch. We already knew Rick "Illegal Entry" Lawrence was against Kifowit, because Openline takes his marching orders from Rick. Bit of a last Hurrah from Rick, since he'll be off the council after the next election. As Openline frequently points out, Garza the "Christmas Killer"'s opinion doesn't count. Mervine and Lewandowski both have minimal time on the Council, and were hand-picked by Weisner, who, according to Openline, is the next to be indicted by the Feds. And then Beykirch, who sold his soul when he abandoned his constitutents and quit his aldermanic seat for a city paycheck. I also love the "Kifowit could not be reached for comment". Openline probably didn't even try, and if they did why would Kifowit bother responding to this rag? You'd only misquote her and twist her words, anyway.
I'm sure this comment will be deleted, as Openline has been VERY busy deleting and shutting down comments lately. That's because there are so many people watching Openline and making sure the truth comes out. And Openline can't handle the truth.
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