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How Mayor Daley and his crew hid their process from the public, ignored their own rules, railroaded the City Council, and screwed the taxpayers | By Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
FAIL: The Story of Chicago's Parking Meter Lease Deal
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Some of the best journalism I've seen lately. What an important piece to understand the under-reported dealings in city government.
This has to be the most detailed thing that's been written about the whole fiasco. It'd hard not to see this as an embarassment for the folks in city hall. They sold the parking meters to a private group that didn't have its act together.
I didn't see it in the story, but did they find any kickback taking place between the Morgan Stanley creeps and city hall?
The Morgan Stanley people aren't the creeps here, City Hall is. That's important to remember. No, there's no kickback taking place unless you consider the granting of the concession itself a kickback somehow. And it's important to remember that private business isn't somehow inherently evil like The Reader and other leftist publications would have us believe; no matter how many private jets get bought or expensive junkets get financed. I actually was really pleased with this piece because it placed the blame where it belongs: on the politicians who are looking out only for their interests, not ours.
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