Letters to the editor:
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Thank you, Michael Miner, for setting the record straight in “Weak Coffey” (8/20/99) regarding Raymond Coffey’s recent Sun-Times series about the problems in Uptown and their relationship to the current 46th Ward alderman, Helen Shiller. For example, the first quote listed in your article from Helen Shiller is very accurate– “I do not recall anytime having met him or anytime having talked to him on the phone.” This is so typical of her that she might as well have been speaking of me or any of the hundreds of concerned ward residents who find it difficult to reach her directly.
Lastly, I can’t thank you enough for exposing Raymond Coffey for the “partisan writer” that he is. No wonder he has received so many harassing phone calls and death threats since his series has been printed. Despite the Reader endorsement for Shiller during this year’s election or the rumor that you were fired from the Sun-Times, I am relieved to know that you would never stoop to Coffey’s level of partisan journalism. At least you have a conscience and can look at yourself in the mirror. It is unfortunate, however, and painfully obvious from the picture that accompanied your article, that Ms. Shiller doesn’t like mirrors. Maybe it’s her conscience? Oh, that’s another good one to ask her!
