More theft involving elected officials??

Saturday January 31^st 2015,  many of our residents awoke to find their yard signs supporting Anne Schaible for alderman had been stolen from their yards. As a campaign, we are saddened by these attacks. The Matt O’Shea campaign and/or his supporters have violated their own clean campaign pledge, as well as, the freedom of speech rights of hundreds of our residents.  We call on Mr. O’Shea to denounce the actions of his supporters and /or campaign workers.  As for those in the 19^th Ward who were victimized, we are replacing the signs as quickly as possible, so please call the campaign office at (773) 780-1899 if you don’t receive your replacement sign within a few days.

Chicago politics out of control

           

Alderman Emma Mitt's 

 The current Chicago political situation is horrible.  As a community the fear instilled in voters, and residence is closer to terrorism than most other situations.  Politicians intimidating locals and nearly forcing voters to follow in their path. How can these people do such things to their residence.  From the 19th Ward to the mayoral race and more. Over the years we have seen things continually go from great to horrible. The powers at be, behind a lot of the struggle. Why now more so than ever? Because there is a lot at stake. The current mayor is looking at a run off , as well as quite a few other Alderman as well!!

                As I drove through Chicago today one ward really stood out. Emma Mitt's ward was in shambles.  I truly was disgusted with her signs all over. Even one with trash all over the place. It disturbed me a lot. I know it takes a community to care for a community but really true leadership starts somewhere.  How can you expect to lead a community and you cant even care for it? This really get's under my skin.  I feel as a leader you lead by example, like community clean up day's? Or grafatti removal week? Or how about focusing more time on youth and less on red light cameras? Did you know that if you took all the money spent on red light cameras and broke it down to youth in Chicago there wouldn't be a single hungry child in Chicago? Does this not bother you? If not you may just be heartless. We need real leadership, not thieves whom are out to spend our hard earned money.  Why is it that these alderman pocket so much, and become so imbedded in our community?

          

   The leaders really need to step their game up for their whole term, not just for RE - Election? Why does this style of games work? Why do we allow people to conduct business as usual? We need to for once take a stand. We as a state ousted a governor, now let's oust some of the current thugs in office. 

Schaible Sets Record Straight, Calls Out O’Shea Calls For More Public, Open Forum Community Debates, Transparency Chicago

     

Anne Schaible candidate for the 19th Wars. Top
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19 th Ward Aldermanic candidate Anne Schaible is calling on incumbent Alderman Matt O’Shea to appear before fellow residents at a series of forum debates to answer resident questions and offer explanations and solutions. Schaible said that contrary to O’Shea ‘s recent statement that such appearances and debates are “silly”, she does not find her fellow residents desire for answers and more transparency to be silly at all. 
“Whether it’s one resident or one thousand, I believe we owe it to our fellow residents to appear before them and answer their questions,” Schaible said. 

        Schaible said she found O’Shea’s statement to be condescending and insulting to her and every resident of the 19 th Ward. She said a call for solutions, answers and transparency is not “silly”. She added that to be an effective Alderman who fights for the best interests of your fellow residents you must engage in public debate day in and day out in the council chamber and there’s nothing silly about that. In a January 13 article in the Beverly Review O’Shea said, “Frankly, I think debates are kind of silly.” 

             “Public debate is the cornerstone of democracy,” Schaible insisted, “and that Mr. O'Shea honestly believes that public debate is a waste of time is anything but silly, it's disturbing, and it flies in the face of him claiming to want a substantive and issues based campaign.  Schaible said two important topics that need to be publicly discussed are the 19 th Ward SSA funds that have made no visible improvement to the ward’s infrastructure and the TIF Funs. She says a very public discussion of these two programs is long overdue. 

     “Under Mr. O’Shea’s watch we’ve collected these taxes yet we haven’t seen any tangible benefit. Where has the money gone Mr. O’Shea,” Schaible asked. Schaible also called on O’Shea to be truthful about the Campaign Ethics Pledge issue. While the League of Women Voters has put forth an objective Campaign Ethics Pledge, that is not the one O’Shea sent to Schaible. “I completely support the LWV ethics pledge,” explained Schaible, “but what Matt sent me and asked me to sign was his own version of that pledge. I will sign the LWV pledge but not a concocted campaign stunt version that O’Shea created for his own political advantage. 

Chicago Mayors race heating up

           

As the Chicago Election's move forward we see a lot of tension.  Chuy Garcia is currently the popular choice of voters in Chicago, as Rahm announces her will debate 5 times with the other candidates before election day.  This seems to be his ploy to  make himself seem transparent. Even with this the mayor may have his job rocked from right under his feet. With Willie Wilson falling from stardom and Jessus "Chuy" Garcia coming out as the front runner, the mayor be facing  the unemployment line along with former governor Pat Quinn.

         The city is upside down as well as most of the state . We currently are facing huge crises issues, from pensions to murders the city is taking hit after hit. We truly need real leadership with Chicago in mind.  The large reform and anti incumbent movement in the city continues to grow as does the push for a more transparent government. The people are sick of seeing their tax dollars stolen by burecrats whom do nothing more than lie,lie,lie.....

         As the race continues we expect the real race to be between Bob Fioretti and Jesus "Chuy"  Garcia.  Willie Wilson fell out as a top runner weeks ago, losing his position as  front runner.  Now the race is down to it's last 31 days and thing will begin to speed up and change as each candidate has a chance to debate and sling mud at the mayor. We feel the best will be Bob and Jesus , and Rahm. We predict the race will tie with Jesus and Rahm, with Jesus wining by 2 points. 

Melissa Chovan Easy Living

By: Melissa Chovan

"The Dali Lama stated that what perplexed him the most about humanity stated, “Man.  Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.  Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And, then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies never really having lived.”

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19th Ward SSA and Tiff funds

         As I walked through the 19th Ward meeting business owners and citizens the other day, on prevalent issue seemed to be the same among residence, where is their Tiff and SSA money, and why is it not being properly used? As a business owner the SSA 55 tax was raised by 17.5% and yet a lot of this money has not been used for what the community was told it would be used for. Business owners are upset because their streets are not re paved as promised, and they feel they are being bullied by local alderman Matt O'Shea. So why is it that alderman and local government continue to raise taxes and hit the business? Why are they not taken into account?

       The honest feeling I had found among both business owners and residence was fear, and distaste. As I pushed and push not a single business owner would go on record. Why was this you may wonder?  Fear... The current 19th Ward team has used fear for a very long time among it's residence. Some so scared they wouldn't even talk to us.

     Where is the justice in this situation? When will the business owners and residence see their streets cared for and there wants and needs taken care of? That answer I do not have.But what I do know is that things must change in the 19th Ward o Chicago.....

Endorsement notice in the 35th

(PS) We are glad to announce or endorsement for the 35th Ward to Alderman Rey Colon. Ray has worked hard in his community to better the living for each and every resident. As the alderman he has made many great changes, building a stronger and harder working 35th ward. We would like to give him our support in his efforts to be re-elected as the 35th ward alderman!