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Live streaming video and open discussion thread for this Wednesday's Special Session of the City Council here on the Windy Citizen. Come here to see and react to Mayor Daley's budget address in real time. Should be interesting. The Daley administration is facing a deficit estimated at more than $500 million. The mayor said last week he wouldn't raise taxes or fees to dig out of the budget mess. Today he said he will order non-union employees to take off 24 days without pay next year.
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I'll be there. We've had fun with these threads in the past. With our new commenting system, I think we can really blow this one out.
I've got class and a meeting to go to this Wednesday, so :-( I won't be able to join everyone.
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Brad -- post the time you begin and an estimate of how long the meeting and livechat will last for those who are not connoiseurs of council sessions.
Meeting begins at 10 a.m. and runs for about 2-3 hours I think.
Here's a pdf of Mayor Daley's official call for this special City Council meeting: http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncil/agendas/2009/oct/MayorBudgetAddr...
if Daley goes on for 2-3 hours you will see aldermen pulling their own heads off
Which would be awesome.
Oh yeah. This is gonna be good.
Key Chicago City Council Committees too, Brad & Len?
Shall we invite a body language interpreter to help us master the subtle nuances? WVON's Cliff Kelly has served on the Chicago City Council & may understand what's actually being communicated. Kelly conceded that WVON pays "weakly" so he may be able to assist us with no more compensation than the gratitude of his new tech-savvy Windy Citizen acquaintances.
Send him an e-mail. Tell him to check the front page Wednesday morning to find the thread. The more the merrier.
bad headline - there will be no debate, I mean less than usual even, this is the annual special session for the mayor's budget address (and "for no other purpose whatsoever"); Daley will stumble thru a text, the alderman will applaud, then they'll adjourn.
tune in if you think Richard M. is a great orator - otherwise wait for the pdf to be posted
i was pretty happy to get a President that can manage delivering a speech in English - now if we can make some progress on our mayor, civic life would get a lot more enjoyable
All the more reason to gather together a gaggle of gawkers to gape and gigle at hizzoner's pronouncements.
upvoted for alliteration!
Ignore those natttering nabobs of negativism,fellow Windy Citizens! (thanks to Spiro)
Always appreciate alliteration a la Agnew, Q.
you're asking your friends & neighbors to listen to Richar M. Daley read a speech for 45 min - hour, why not just ask them to put one of their own thumbs in vice & tighten it? they won't come back for a real meeting
"City Council" and "debate" in the same sentence is dubious on a good day
I like to be the Pollyanna of Local Politics, and I say "listen and learn," but I suspect Hugh is right that this meeting is as tightly organized as a Kabuki play.
If we could get some alderfolks to be watching their Twitter feeds, and thus inject some sentiment from outside the council into the meetings, that could shatter the "4th wall" but that seems a tall order.
Kabuki is a good metaphor for understanding the Chicago City Council
Kabuki as performed by marionettes is even better
Having said all that you all have said ... the more folks who watch/observe/ comment/even sneer, the more those who govern might take note, and then who knows what might happen. Perhaps enough mental mass/opinion/thought on their part could conceivably shift in a new direction. We can always hope -- and V O T E ! Just watch ....
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