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 Todd
Stroger not concerned that 8th Ward applicants get a leg-up in County
hiring
Rumor
is over $100,000 was raised in the month of July by Todd when he asked
"county employees" for donations
Todd
Stroger is using the city of Chicago taxpayer funded office to run his
campaign
Patronage
runs amuke in Cook County with over 20 % of the 27,000 County jobs are
in John Stroger's (Todd Stroger's) 8th ward
Todd
Stroger not concerned that 8th Ward applicants get a leg-up in County
hiring
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Clout
wins out in county hiring, too
Chicago Sun-Times
August 21, 2006
Test scores get changed in Cook County government
for the benefit of politically connected job seekers just as they
do at Chicago's City Hall, according to a county Highway Department
supervisor.
Eric Petraitis, 41, tells the Chicago Sun-Times he felt coerced
by his bosses to change the low scores of clouted candidates for
county jobs so they could be hired over qualified people.
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So Petraitis put away the "oral interview evaluation" form
with Robinson's low scores and wrote up a new one with better ratings
for Robinson -- who he would later learn was active in Stroger's 8th
Ward Democratic Organization, he said. He saved the first version, which
appears with this story.
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'Hey, Mr. Alderman'
Soon after Robinson was hired, the 6-foot-5-inch, 300-pound soldier
in Stroger's 8th Ward Democratic Organization started bragging about
his clout, Petraitis said.
"He talks about how he's so involved," Petraitis said. "He
was hired as a machinery operator, but he didn't know how to operate
anything. He did not know what to do. They could not give him too many
assignments."
Petraitis was in the field with Robinson when Robinson's cell phone
rang. Robinson said to Ald. Todd Stroger, Stroger's son, "Hey,
Mr. Alderman. How you doing?"
The younger Stroger was slated last month by 59 of Cook County's 80
ward and township Democratic committeemen to replace his father on the
ballot this November because of the elder Stroger's stroke.
"Every once in a while, I call Dwayne when I have problems with
my phone -- he helps me," Ald. Stroger said. "I know him like
a neighbor. He is a neighbor. I can only speak of Dwayne from working
in the [8th Ward Democratic] Organization. He's a hard worker, dedicated,
spends a lot of time making sure the picnic, the back-to-school parade
get done."
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full article here
Rumor
is over $100,000 was raised in the month of July by Todd when he asked
"county employees" for donations
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What
would you do if your boss hit you up for money?
Todd Stroger sent out fundraising letters, using taxpayer funded offices,
equipment, and personnel, to all Cook County employees before he was
even nominated for Cook County Board President. The anointed one is
taxing without representation even before the coronation.
In response Republican candidate Tony Peraica issued
a challenge to Alderman Stroger asking to join him in a "clean
campaign pledge" and refrain from accepting donations from County
officials. As of late, Todd has not responded.
Peraica
challenges Stroger to make campaign contribution pledge
Medial News Service
August 2, 2006
In front
of Stroger's South Side aldermanic office where the large poster of
his father, recently retired board president John H. Stroger, remains
proudly displayed, Peraica challenged his competitor to join him in
a "clean campaign pledge" by no longer accepting campaign
donations from county employees and vendors.
Peraica accused Stroger of alleged improprieties by using
his taxpayer-funded ward office to conduct work on his political campaign,
a violation of Illinois election law.
He then cited a January study conducted by the Better Government Association
that found more than half of John H. Stroger's campaign donations over
a six-year period came from county employees or those with contracts
with the county.
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full article here
Todd
Stroger is using the city of Chicago taxpayer funded office to run his
campaign
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Fox News Chicago's Dane Placko visited
8th Ward Alderman Todd Stroger's office yesterday to find out why
he is sending out political fundraising letters from his taxpayer
funded Ward office with his taxpayer funded phone number on it.
Have a look and a listen to the creative answers of Ald. Todd Stroger
and his staff…
Click
here to watch the segment from the July 5th Fox Chicago News at
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Patronage
runs amuke in Cook County with over 20 % of the 27,000 County jobs are
in John Stroger's (Todd Stroger's) 8th ward
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County
workers push Stroger's bid
Chicago Sun-Times
March 2006
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As Cook County's Democratic committeemen try to rustle up votes
for county board President John Stroger this weekend, some will
work as though their very jobs depended on it.
At least 17 of the party's 80 ward and township committeemen are
on the county payroll, some in jobs directly under Stroger.
"You're right I'm going to go out there and bust my tail
for him," said Cicero Democratic Committeeman Charles Hernandez,
a $68,000-a-year investigator for the county's chief administrative
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After former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese
fired Hernandez from the Cicero Police Department in 1997, "John
Stroger looked at me, looked at my credentials and gave me a chance
to put food on the table for my family."
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