There will be an aldermanic candidate this Tuesday, February 1 at 7:30 p.m. It will be at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St. It's my understanding that all the candidates have agreed to attend.
It's being presented by BAPA, Beverly Improvement Association, Vanderpoel Improvement Association, Mount Greenwood Civic Association, Southwest Beverly Improvement Association, Southwest Morgan Park Civic Association and League of Woman Voters of Chicago.
I hope that many residents from all areas of the ward will be able to attend.
For more information, call 773-233-3100 or e-mail Matt Walsh.
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Will residents get to ask questions? If so, how?
The forum is designed as others have been. The audience can write down questions in advance, and some of those will be read so that the candidates can address them.
A represenative of The League of Women Voters of Chicago is the moderator of this event and a panel of League members will gather the questions from the audience and forward them to the moderator.
Thank you for the info.
Due to the weather and the safety of the 19th Ward residence, Dr.Anne Schaible, Phil Sherlock, Ray Corannado, and Mr. George Newell will NOT be attending the Political Forum. Please for your safety, STAY IN
I can not believe you didn't cancel this. Thanks for thinking of our safety. How selfish.
I was out running necessary errands after work in the snow. I didn't have any more difficulty getting to BAC than I have driving in the snow throughout my entire life. All these hours later, the weather is worse, but at 7:30 it was typical of a Chicago snowstorm, at least in our neighborhood. If the forum was cancelled, you would have said that O'Shea engineered it, and blamed him for it. You ninnies complained when he didn't attend a thrown-together-at-the-last-minute event when he had a previous engagement. I'm glad he and Diane Phillips had the courtesy to drive the few blocks to BAC. I live further than most of the candidates, as did many of the interested residents who attended. Naturally, attendance was much lower than it would have been if there wasn't heavy snow. Any of you candidates could have, and should have attended. I drove home without incident and am glad to be in my house, but just as glad that I took the time to see the forum. Stop blaming Matt O'Shea for the forum going forward. Enough of your self-promotion disguised as concern for us. Man up and show up. If I could get there, so could the candidates. Also, the people conducting the forum made the decision to honor the date, yet you call Matt O'Shea selfish. It merely appears that you are sorry you didn't fulfill your responsibility. By the way, I made 7 stops after work today. No problem. I simply drove with caution. Residents and candidates could have shown up at the forum, but some of you would rather whine.
hey 10:28pm--you're a d-bag!!!! at least all 4 of the other candidates had concern for everyone else's well-being and safety. only matt" i only care about myself" o'shea wouldn't cancel. everything else was cancelled for 2nite and 2morrow. only police fire and hospital workers had to go out. i'm sure mattie who even tho had 30 days notice but claimed only 2 days notice will use this to his advantage. most people realize you're a fool to go out in this weather.
Actually, I'm not a douchebag, but it's nice of you to use that language on this site. Class act. Save the nasty talk for the other blogs that promote that kind of language. Maybe you haven't spent much time looking at this site, or you would have noticed that the tone is different. The fact that you didn't spell out the whole word is irrelevant.
I was completely safe at BAC, as was everyone else there. I can drive a short distance without fear.
If the other candidates were to be elected, would they stay home when the weather is bad, even though there is serious business to attend to? Matt O'Shea and Diane Phillips didn't facilitate the forum, and since it wasn't cancelled, they understood that they should attend.
I can assure you, if Matt had cancelled first, Schaible and Sherlock would have found fault with it. Like I said - I got to BAC EASILY and they should have too. At 7:30, driving down our thoroughfares was no different than any other snowy night. You merely drive slower.
In the future, at least on this site, refrain from the nasty talk. Keep the discussions of douchebags between yourself and your friend, the gynecologist who is running. That's a personal matter between the two of you.
I would like to ask that everyone posting maintain a CIVIL tone. I may express opinions, but I'm not insulting you. I'd appreciate if it exchanges here could remain civil, otherwise your comments will be deleted. Thank you!
Our street was drifted in. It would NOT have been safe for us to get to BAC for the forum. I've seen almost no traffic past our house in the last several hours. I assume the same is true for many in the neighborhood tonight.
I appreciate the fact that 4 of the candidates showed enough common sense and concern for others to suggest staying home. It would have made sense for this forum to be postponed.
There was little value in having it tonight with the majority of candidates not attending.
You don't need to get mad at two candidates and the voters who CHOSE to show up. You chose not to because you had a snow drift. Four candidates chose not to for various reasons. You were not harmed by the event going on without you. If Anne Schaible got her wish, the forum would have been cancelled and she STILL would not have spoken before a crowd. Instead, the forum went on without her and she didn't speak in front of the crowd. The outcome was the same. She got what she wanted,which was to stay home, and those of us who chose to attend so that we could hear the candidates had a chance to hear from two candidates. Stop speaking for me. The people who were there are glad someone came to speak, and we don't think the candidates were selfish. Don't worry about us; we're all safe. You, your candidate, and others don't need to be so concerned for us. We are Chicagoans and we know how to drive. We drove in the snow. So what? Now, because your candidate looks bad, you try to spin this that people who go out in the snow are selfish. Are you kidding? Think about what you're saying: PEOPLE WHO GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS IN THE SNOW ARE SELFISH?
If Anne Schaible wants to have another forum, she can try to schedule one; this one went on without her. Simple as that. She should have showed up. I put on a lot of mileage today, as did the people I encountered when I was running many errands. I question the kind of alderman a person would make when he or she doesn't want to be inconvenienced by bad weather. Selfish? Hmm.
By the way, if it is selfish to attend, then Schaible is pretty selfish for sending someone there who was updating her during the forum. Interesting. She's not so considerate to urge a supporter to stay home. Why was this person there when it was known that Dr. Scahible wouldn't be?
two candidates???? d. phillips is NOT on the ballot. plus she needs a police escort to "racist mt. greenwood". you seem very concerned about what schaible is or isnt doing. there were 4 candidates who agreed to postpone the forum because of the blizzard. matt, who only cares about himself, wouldn't even take calls from any of the 4 to talk about a re-scheduling. so im sure matt just continued to lie and make broken promises to his loyal followers just as ginger did for 20 yrs
Something alot of you don't know is that Anne DID call MATT O'Shea to talk to him about rescheduling but he refused to take her call. Now if she really was doing this for other reasons WHY WOULD SHE HAVE CALLED MR.O'SHEA. In case this is denyed The call was made around 4:00pm on Wednesday and Marty Joyce took the call. Also 4 candidates decided not to go NOT JUST ANNE so how is it that she is the only one being attacked for this? The candidates just wanted to RESCHEDULE NOT CANCEL.
As far as her voting record goes. It is the same as Mr. OSheas as far as when they voted, not for who so I really have no idea what you are talking about.
Noone seemed to mind it when Mr. O'Shea didn't show up to the Baptist church forum.
That he has an arrest record
He is also using taxpayers money for his campain...
Examples: Mailings in MT.GREENWOOD SERVICE CENTER stationary
Email address from the Ward Office
His campain posters in the windows of the ward office.
No matter what was done by the other candidates they would have been criticized.
2/02/2011
Are you serious? Schaible's voting record is not the same as O'Shea's. She blows off elections, and he ALWAYS votes. You can verify this at the Board of Elections. Even after she expressed her intention to run for alderman, she blew off an election (the primary in 2010, which was HUGELY important). CORRUPTION was discussed constantly, as Blagojevich was going to trial several months after the election. Schaible, who talks about corruption a lot, didn't vote. She STILL won't explain this, though she could have at the forum, which is probably why she didn't attend. That she called Matt O'Shea at 4:00 to get him to agree not to attend the forum is irrelevant. He wanted to go, as did the 50-60 adults who can make up their own minds and chose to attend. If Schaible and the other candidates want us to understand their last-minute cancellation, they shouldn't have shot their mouths off so much when Matt O'Shea stated in advance that he was not able to be present at the forum at the church in Mount Greenwood. Why are they criticizing him for notifying the forum hosts that he couldn't make it to that event, and now criticizing him for making it to the forum Friday night when they didn't want to be there? Double standard. Why would he want to cancel the forum Friday night after they all went after him for not attending a forum last month? Either way, they want to blame him.
Also, some of you need to educate yourselves on what the 19th ward office is. Matt does not use tax payer dollars for mailings. He rents space from that office, as do other office holders with space there. They pay separately for their space, and are not funded by the taxpayers of the city. If I send a letter from my apartment, I don't put my landlord on the envelope for the return address or the name of the building; I put my name and the address of the building because I pay rent to occupy that space. The mailings are paid for with campaign contributions and money from the organization fundraisers, which serve no other purpose than to pay for such items. The people who attend those fundraisers every year pay for those mailings. Because they are involved, informed residents and voters, they understand that the purpose for the fundraisers is to fund the organization to cover such costs, and that is the reason they write checks. Obviously these people are supportive of the efforts of the organization, and they understand that a committeman's role is to help bring in these funds. Please learn about the process. If you ever bothered to get involved with any candidate who already holds any office, you would know that they are continually raising funds. If Schaible were to become alderman, she would do the same because that is how it is supposed to work. People who are supportive finance the cost of the candidate(s) who represent(s) them. If you want to see how O'Shea or any candidate raises money or spends money, why don't you look it up? You have the right to that information. Not sure if you are ignorant about that, or know it full-well, but are bent on spreading rumors.
O'Shea does not have an arrest RECORD, though he is open about the scuffle with a campaign worker who assisted a candidate in committing (and pleading guilty to) election fraud. If you're from Mt. Greenwood, you should be appalled by that incident, as the campaign literature was designed to appeal to the racist tendencies that the other candidate asssumed Mount Greenwood has. Furthermore, they put the name of a third candidate on that literature in order to attribute the flyers to that third candidate. The person who distributed the literature was caught red-handed distributing it to Mt. Greenwood homes. Someone should have beat his ass rather than scuffled with him after he tried to run away with a big bag of the garbage he was handing out. If you had been taking an interest in your community back then, you would have read about this. Those who didn't live here are have an excuse, but if you were a resident at the time, you should be embarrassed about your ignorance on these matters. Maybe, like Anne Schaible, you didn't vote (which, by the way, is the bare minimum a person can do to take action and participate in decision-making for your community).
Lastly, why do all of Schaible's signs at her office indicate that she IS the alderman, rather than that she is running for alderman? Must be deliberate. If it was an oversight on her part, someone would have pointed it out to her before those signs were ordered for that building. Her goal is to create confusion, obfuscate facts, spread rumors, and spin the truth.
Incidentally, this morning, while it was still snowing hard and the wind was blowing, there was a forum for mayoral candidates held at the Union League Club. The club chose not to cancel the forum, despite the fact that streets weren't cleared and public transportation was difficult at best. Three of the four invited candidates attended: Gery Chico, Carol Mosely Braun, and Miguel DeValle. Rahm Emanuel declined the invitation. While 200 people responded that they would attend the forum, 60 made it there, which is understandable. Had the weather been different Tuesday night, I expect that about 200 people might have attended the forum at BAC. I counted 50-60 people. This is a quote from today's Trib regarding the mahyoral candidates making it to the forum at the Union League Club: "The candidates called themselves 'tough Chicagoans' for making it out in life threatening conditions. 'We don’t let a little weather get in the way of our appointed rounds,' said Braun." I believe Gery Chico concurred, and the Union League was comfortable in it's decision to make the forum available to any who chose to venture out to attend. Without a doubt, the attendees at that event downtown, and the candidates, had to work much harder to get there than anyone had to for the aldermanic forum at BAC. The article link is provided here.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/02/three-chicago-mayoral-candidates-debate-despite-blizzard.html
In my recent post about the BAC forum, I referred to it as a Friday night event, when I should have said Tuesday. Sorry if that was confusing.
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