What happened to the parking:
FROM: http://www.corruptpolitics.net/?tag=chicago-parking
... In the midst of our current financial crisis, Chicago, IL. attempting to ward off all the crisis it has has laid off a slew of their tradesmen or limited their services. This past few days snowfall and cold weather has run havoc on the people and their cars. The drivers of plows and salt trucks sent home at end of normal day and if something happens on the weekend it will have to wait till Monday.
Now for the parking! Chicago has subbed out a lease for the parking meters. A 75 year lease! It is expected that the price for a vehicle parked for an hour will go up from $.25 to up to $6.00.
Now I don’t know what the situation is with welfare at the moment but what will this increase do to all the folks working at minimum wage there at $7.75 an hour and driving downtown???
Blank-o’s Calender
From:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor_calendar
...The meeting with Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, also was attended by Tom Balanoff, president of the Illinois chapter of the union, which has been Blagojevich’s largest campaign contributor.....
...Other entries on Blagojevich’s calendars for September, October, November and December include the governor attending a party for Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell, who is trying to sell the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, lunch with the Cubs’ general manager and a meeting with a wealthy former Senate candidate.
Some of the people who appear on the schedules are also referenced by pseudonyms .
....SEIU spokeswoman Michelle Ringuette said Tuesday. She declined further comment, citing the ongoing federal investigation.
Balanoff is mentioned in Obama’s report on his transition team’s contacts with the Illinois governor. The report says Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Balanoff discussed the notion that Blagojevich could be appointed Health and Human Services secretary, which Jarrett dismissed as “ridiculous.”
....
Blagojevich also had scheduled September meetings with former Senate candidate Blair Hull and J.B. Pritzker, the brother of a close adviser to Obama. He attended a party Sept. 27 for Zell and had lunch Nov. 21 with Cubs general manager Jim Hendry....
...The schedule shows Blagojevich met on Sept. 8 with Blair Hull, an independently wealthy businessman who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2004 — the seat that Obama won. The schedule also indicates the meeting was attended by “Lon,” an apparent reference to former Blagojevich chief of staff Lon Monk, who appears in the complaint as “Lobbyist 1.” Authorities acknowledge Monk’s phone was tapped, too. ...
...Sept. 2, Blagojevich was scheduled to have breakfast with investor J.B. Pritzker, whose sister is Obama supporter Penny Pritzker.
Guerrero said he knew nothing about the Hull and Pritzker meetings....