Todd+Mike=Higher Taxes
BY CAROL MARIN
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
July 2, 2008
Soaring taxes lead to sore taxpayers
There it was, right in front of me, the face of the Dump Todd Stroger Revolution. I witnessed it at the Starbucks on Racine and Wrightwood at 6:38 a.m. Tuesday.
The guy ahead of me was getting his usual, a grande coffee, caf not decaf.
Just Say No To Incompetent Government
Chicago Sun-Times - June 17, 2008
STEVE HUNTLEY
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
How to say 'no' to incompetent government
Voting matters. Sometimes folks find that out the hard way. That unhappy lot would include Cook County suburbanites jousting at windmills in their uphill campaign to secede from the county.
Two years ago these suburban residents probably didn't think it much mattered who ran county government -- only half of the registered voters cast ballots in the election that made Todd Stroger Cook County Board president. He rewarded their indifference with a big 1 percentage-point increase in the county sales tax. That will bring in more than enough money to cover a current budget shortfall -- enough to ensure more spend-thrift business-as-usual in county government for years. Now, despite the secession dreams of Palatine and a few other suburbs, voters have little choice but to wait until the 2010 elections to register their displeasure with Stroger.
