FINALLY THE VILLAGE IDIOT IS LEAVING CHICAGO: RICHARD DALEY WILL FINALLY LEAVE, GOOD RIDDENS AND GREAT NEWS FOR RESIDENTS!!

Chicago was a great city, WAS is the operative word.

Between the first Richard Daley, starting about 50 years ago, hardly any city resident can name any of the other short lived mayors during the last 50 years, who "graced" (or disgraced) the fifth floor of City Hall.

I can, there was a guy that could not figure out how to get the unionized, bloated, overpaid and under-worked snow removal crews to remove the snow in his first snowstorm and the city remained literally paralyzed for weeks.

I remember well as I was living in my downtown condo and had to commute to my office every day though literally impassible major streets for weeks! This great mayor was promptly voted out and a furious population replaced this village idiot with a furious woman who lasted just one term. That village idiot who was driven out due to incompetence, then went on to become the Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court as his reward!

After some more wrangling, local politicians finally elected another "Daley". This time a former attorney, who took so many times to attempt to pass his Bar Exam, that everyone quit counting. His great work as an attorney was basically to use his name on insider type of work, using his name and connections to assist large developers to get favorable ta and other perks in the city.

Then thought his illustrious career as the Mayor, he managed to totally destroy the city's industrial base, most manufacturing moved out to the suburbs, even service industries started moving out due to a creative "head tax", whereby employers had to pay a monthly TAX penalty for every employee.

There are so many things that this incompetent did to drive out business and employment while increasing the downfall of the infrastructure and gang presence that this posting would cover a 100 pages. The most famous of his stupid actions was to bulldoze in the middle of the night a lakefront airport that attracted many a corporate flight and even an airline offering service from such a unique and convenient location.

Even I as a new private pilot landed there and enjoyed the unique location and its convenience to city attractions. But no more thanks to this village idiot.

Some of his other more notable accomplishments was to have the highest price for gasoline always in the area, as well as having the highest sales tax in the nation so as to drive retail sales away from the city and County.

The public schools are so bad, even under the first Daley where 50 years ago my parents sent me to parochial school due to the sad state back in the 1960's.

His big thing was putting in planters in the highly visible public areas in a small area of the downtown as well as a shopping area on Michigan avenue...the rest was all driven right into the ground.

There were so many fraud scandals though all sorts of city department, which he claimed no knowledge while department head after department head went off to jail. He saw nothing and he knew nothing. Some of his explanation of the lack of knowledge were so convolute, and replete with incomprehensible grammar that I was convinced this guy never passed the 5th grade.
The city will have a $700 million shortfall in its bloated budget...under-worked union workers over-staffing all city departments, multiple department heads, a 33% daily absentee rate and no end in sight to its problems.

Additionally he has sold the TOLLWAY, even sold the parking meters each for about $1 billion, which was supposed to last 75 years...it is all gone...pensions, and bloated budgets is what was paid.

Good riddens Mayor Daley, it is about time you left...your legacy was a debt burden, crumbling and unsafe city riddled with gangs shooting it out all over the city. I used to be able to feel safe driving into downtown using the city streets...but after seeing a car hijacking right out on the busy street, that was the last for me.

The following was a letter sent and posted by a resident...describing the Daley dynasty.

Dear Mayor Daley:

I was born and raised in Chicago. Your father was an honorable and good Mayor that deserved my vote. Unfortunately, unlike your father you have miserably failed.

Your father was a fiscal conservative that spent taxpayer money wisely. He cared about the citizens above all. Being a cop under your father was an honor if for no other reason he showed real concern for their welfare and safety.

Your father was no fan of gun rights but he took no steps to leave Chicagoans defenseless through gun bans. He brought free but unneeded gun registration and promised everyone it would not infringe further.

You have turned over the streets to armed criminals. That’s because you left the law-abiding defenseless by violating their Civil Rights to protect themselves under the Second Amendment.

Cops always used department provided ammunition to qualify on a firing range four times per year. If they had to shoot extra ammunition to qualify that was also provided.
Now you have police qualifying only once per year with a measly 30 rounds. That endangers the police and public. Additionally it creates liability issues potentially costing many millions of dollars.

Shoulder fired weapons are both easier to shoot and substantially more powerful. Under your leadership only the street thugs have these and but for few exceptions the police are miserably outgunned as a result.

By comparison, every police car in the state of California has both an M-4 carbine and a repeating .12 gage shotgun.

Under your father’s leadership there were as many as 14,100 cops protecting the city. Today, even with the cooked manpower books there are substantially fewer.

Under your father’s direction all Chicago cops were bright, large and strong men. That changed with affirmative action and as intelligence testing was altogether eliminated. Instead dumber, weaker and much smaller cops were put in the trenches and that has impressed nobody especially dangerous criminals.

Under your woefully unqualified Superintendent more cops have been ambushed, killed or maimed despite wearing modern body armor. Your superintendent may have worked for the FBI but he never once patrolled the streets of a large city enforcing laws. In fairness, no police superintendent can keep a lid on violence under the Daley/Burke administration.

You have traded public safety for frivolous projects that Chicagoans did not want or need to feed you campaign contributors hundreds of millions of precious tax dollars. That, as you have turned taxation into an extortion program, that has chased vital business and productivity away.

As a direct result of your mismanagement and disastrous leadership the City of Chicago is so badly broken, the needed repairs will take many years.

Last night two more cops were gunned down and the body count keeps climbing. Instead of well armed and trained police you rely on cameras, computers and now summit meetings with dangerous criminals.

Law abiding Chicagoans must be allowed to protect themselves with firearms when they are outside of the safety and comfort of their own homes. Right now only well-armed criminals and marginally armed cops have any firearms at all.

The voters of Chicago need leaders that can enable employers and tourists to return to Chicago.

Mr. Mayor you need to walk away from City Hall and not look back. The city needs real leadership like your father once provided.

Sincerely,

Paul Huebl

Good riddens....best of luck to the new Mayor..he will need it!