Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Ald. Sawyer on mayor-city council relations!

From the Tribune. They did talk to three other aldermen including 5th Ward Alderman Leslie Hairston from the nearby 5th Ward.
Ald. Roderick Sawyer, 6th, who voted against two of the mayor's initiatives:

"I'm still of the belief that we will come together on something as a council. ... And it's not something that's anti the mayor or anything like that, but just to show that we can get together on something and push forward something of our own, as opposed to us waiting for the mayor to propose something to us and us reacting."
Do you believe mayor-council relations are different between Mayor Emanuel and longtime Mayor Richard M. Daley?

4 comments:

  1. It's refreshing to read about a politician that has courage. That's one of the qualities it takes to be a leader.

    With that said, I believe the people in the 6th Ward are in control of their own destiny. We have the talent and skills to reinvent our community.

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  2. That courage got a large number of your neighbors mapped into a different ward.
    Wrong job for on-the-job training.

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  3. I'm pretty sure the person writing this comment is known as Casey Thomas from FB. He spouts some pretty toxic nonsense!

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  4. “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
    (President Theodore Roosevelt)

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