Do you want to know where a fabulous summer jobs program exists in 2008? At Cook County's Metropolitan Chicago Water Reclamation District.
It's controlled by elected Democrats.
But to score one of these jobs, which pays $13 an hour, it helps--a lot--if your parent is a Cook County politician.
Fox Chicago's Dane Placko says "According to insiders, each (Water Reclamation District) commissioner is allowed submit more than a dozen names for jobs each summer."
The summer jobs, there are about 200 of them, are not publicized. Imagine what Obama the community organizer would have said about that!
And it's not just Water Reclamation District commissioners taking advantage of this jobs program. Aldermen, high-ranking city employees, state legislators, union leaders, and ward committeemen all have relatives who are employed by the District this summer. Several campaign contributors of District President Terrence O'Brien, let me use my favorite Chicago word, "coincidentally" have summer jobs with the MWRD.
From Fox Chicago:
With the economy hurting and employment at a premium, Better Government Association President Jay Stewart says those jobs should be available to the children of all taxpayers. "You get these politicians saying we need a summer jobs program," Stewart said. "For who? Them or everybody else?"
Watch part one of the Fox 32 segment here. And then check out part two.
When will Barack Obama speak out on the jobs-for-pols' kids farce?
Don't hold your breath.
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Phone and email contact info for all of the Commissioners, as well as Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Director of Personnel, Patrick Foley at http://www.mwrdgc.dst.il.us/commissioners/default.htm
ReplyDeleteWell taht's great and this is an old story
ReplyDeleteBut Honestly, You reallllllllllly Sound uneducated putting it up....
The Metro. Water Rec. is not a unit of Cook County Government.
It's a fully seperate unit of government. If this is your attempt to throw shit against the wall to make it stick.
That Dog dont' hunt :)
So my suggestion is that you do some research before you spout off It may work for you :)
My, touchy aren't we? Exactly where did I say the Water Rec District was part of county gov't?
ReplyDeleteHowever, most, if not all of the districk lies within Cook County.
http://www.mwrdgc.dst.il.us/
As for the Fox 32 story, the pols' kids who got jobs were offspring of Chicago (in Cook) or county official. These agencies are quite incestuous, by the way.
And finally, most of my readership is outside of the Chicago area, so for the sake of brevity, it's easier to say "Cook County" WRD...
Oh...one more finally...you didn't bother to address the nepotism issue.