Mayor Daley is one of THEM — a pro-big business Republican, that is.
Today, Business Week answered my question about why Mayor Daley protects big business like Old Navy more than folks in Old Town, among other places.
It's because ...
"With such pro-business policies, executives say, Daley would likely be a Republican anywhere else," writes Joseph Weber.
The story also answers another question we all have — Why is Daley such a proponent for putting Gigi Pritzker's pet project, the Children's Museum ,in Millennium Park?
Is it to fight racists who live in high-rises on the New East Side?
Nah.
"The Pritzkers of Hyatt fame added at least $161,500 to [Daley's] coffers in the last election. Penny S. Pritzker (page 12), head of the family's realty unit, credits the efficiency of City Hall with helping to get the 48-story Hyatt Center up swiftly from spring 2003 to its grand opening in mid-2005. "It's very easy to put up a building in this town," says Pritzker."
That must go double for a museum, huh Gigi?
Comments
Top 3 Chicago mottos (in no order of importance):
1. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."
2. "Vote early and vote often."
3. "The Mayor is a friend of mine."
Konkol Note: Or some people — I don't know whom exactly — might say No. 3 should be:
"The Mayor is a friend of ours."
Posted by: Taters | November 9, 2007 10:03 AM
Daley? A Republican?
Raise taxes first, ignore other solutions later isn't a Republican motto.
Posted by: WC WE | November 9, 2007 02:29 PM