Barton is right. This is a shakedown, the old fashioned Chicago way.. Total Alinsky, Blago, and Al Capone Daley machine style hardball politics.
“This is a shakedown, the old fashioned Chicago way.. Total Alinsky, Blago, and Al Capone Daley machine style hardball politics.”
In truth, it was another Chicago politician—Jesse Jackson—who honed the fear-driven shakedown to a fine art.