Why can’t Mayor Daley just be nice to Alderman
“Thank you, Mr. Mayor,” said Shiller, sounding a bit nervous, perhaps because she so rarely puts those words together in the same sentence. “I just actually wanted to just make a note that it isn’t often that we get to work collectively on something that we both support–”
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“We did it,” said Daley again.
Ouch. Every mother in the audience must have wanted to march up and hiss in his ear, “Be nice! Be nice!” And someone should have, because he was just as nasty when Shiller rose to speak during the budget debate.
Shiller started anyway. She said she’d hoped to learn several things from the budget process, such as the effects of the city’s privatization efforts and increasing TIFs. She complained about some 40 questions that city departments had failed to answer for her–a better record than past years, but she still had to file a Freedom of Information request for some information.
