Marathon Pundit: CNN Chicago Tea Party attackee identified

Friday, April 17, 2009

CNN Chicago Tea Party attackee identified

Hot Air has the scoop, again, and they have a great post about Norman, the man badgered by the now-vacationing Susan Roesgen at Wednesday's Chicago Tax Tea Party.

Norman's a blog reader. Cool.

As you know, I was at the Chicago party, and while the crowd was spirited, it was not hostile--So if anyone wants to claim the Tea Partiers were looking for a fight--they're wrong. Although I did not see the confrontation--I was on the north side of the plaza, Norman was on the south side.

Let me debunk Roesgen's "point" about how we're all getting tax rebates from the federal government. First of all, the Tea Party was not just about taxes, or Obama, but about the expansion of government and the lack of accountability of elected officials from both parties.

Assuming Norman is a Chicago area resident, there's a good chance that like myself, he lives in Cook County. I live in Cook, and I pay the nation's second-highest sales tax. Chicagoans--the city is the Cook County seat--pay the nation's highest sales tax.

Read the below posts for more, but news just today broke about Cook County Board President Todd Stroger hiring a busboy to work for the county. Quickly he became a $58,000 administrative assistant for Donna Dunnings, the county's chief financial officer; she is also Stroger's first cousin. Dunnings twice bailed her ex-busboy out of jail. As for Stroger, he effectively inherited the job after his father suffered a massive stroke. The elder Stroger won the Democratic Primary in 2006 for County Board president a week after he was stricken. Then he withdrew from the general election and party bosses placed "The Toddler" on the ballot. Cook is a Democratic county, but when it looked like Republican Tony Peraica could win, Dem heavies, including Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, threw their support behind Stroger II.

We could have Tea Parties just about Stroger here.

Roesgen, you just don't get it.