Posted on 07/06/2006 8:21:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Rude, race-baiting questions are not my first choice in the journalistic quiver. But I couldn't help firing a few at Tony Peraica, the Republican candidate for president of the Cook County Board.
Tony, just when are you going to turn into an evil white racist? In September or October, when you'll be known as a man bent on disenfranchising African-American voters, like the rest of those Republicans?
"Excuse me?" Peraica said.
We were sitting in the quietly exclusive atmosphere of CND Gyros during an interview on Wednesday. It's quietly exclusive because it's not expensive enough for most politicians, leaving taxpayers alone to drink a beer and munch on a gyros for a reasonable price, while wondering how the heck we're going to pay our ever-increasing property taxes.
"I'm a racist? What?" Peraica said.
If you're not a racist now, I said, you will be. Because that's how politics works around here.
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Business as usual in Chicago...
Chicago politics *ping*
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