Susana Mendoza has no shame.
This election day morning she blasted out, by email and social media, information about her Comptroller’s office releasing funds for veterans’ homes in Chicago (where she is in the mayoral election) and elsewhere.
Here’s a snippet from her press release, which she is also has on Twitter.
She has in fact done nothing beyond her routine clerical role as Comptroller, which is to write the checks.
As the Beachwood Reporter put it on Twitter this morning, it’s as if the Comptroller’s office is also announcing release of funds to buy you a free donut and cup of coffee on your way to the polls today.
Her full press release is linked here.
-Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
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But…but…soccer player!
Mendoza strikes me as a person who could not function outside machine politics. Could you see her performing actual Accounting functions like interpreting GASB? Does she know what an encumbrance is? Could see balance a single journal entry or read a trial balance? If it wasn’t for machine politics, Mendoza would be working as an office manager for some local union.
Every day of her adult life has been spent working for the machine.
I think we have another movie reference: Mendoza is Brooks Hatlen from Shawshank Redemption, the lifetime convict who couldn’t function outside the prison walls and, shortly after his release, hung himself. Although Brooks was infinitely more likable.
She can sign all Comptroller documents as “BROOKS WAS HERE”