Dear Pat Arden:
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I am the founder of CUPP, Citizens United Against Poverty Pimps. CUPP, and Larry Ligas personally, advocate affordable, quality housing with responsible management for the law-abiding low-income residents, and safe parks and quality education for all residents of Chicago. In one sentence, Mr. Kleine sent an extremely harsh, powerful message, artfully crafted, posing me as a campaign strategist who is coldhearted and against assisting the less fortunate. He insults not only me but all volunteers who participated and are working against Alderman Helen Shiller.
Although my name is mentioned as demonstrator, you failed to mention that the protest was well-organized by CUPP, with several dozen participants (the article is misleading, as if I was acting solo).
Helen Shiller has mastered the art of spin and hiding her true agenda, and projecting herself as Ms. Ethics and the only person who cares about the dispossessed, the poor, the homeless, the drug addicts, etc. She exploits the poor, keeping them believing that without her they would have nowhere to live. Shiller makes no attempt (or has failed) to assist people in becoming self-sufficient.
Poverty Pimps
