Annette C. Guzman, is a transplant from Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office, where she served as Chief Administrative Officer. Her appointment will have to be approved by the Cook County board. Before her time at the assessor’s office, Guzman was deputy chief administrator and chief of staff at the Chicago Civilian Office of Police Accountability. She is a University of Chicago Law School graduate and practiced finance law in Sidley Austin’s Chicago
In a bureaucracy, it doesn’t matter if you’re a University of Chicago graduate or a University of Podunk graduate. In general, bureaucratic jobs don’t require a high level of intelligence. In this case, what matters is whether the budget director will use taxpayer funds ethically, wisely, etc.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
In a bureaucracy, it doesn’t matter if you’re a University of Chicago graduate or a University of Podunk graduate. In general, bureaucratic jobs don’t require a high level of intelligence. In this case, what matters is whether the budget director will use taxpayer funds ethically, wisely, etc.
This is Crook County. The definition of “ethically” is not the same in Crook County as it is in your dictionary.