Franklin D. Roosevelt purged or curbed the Democratic-party bosses elsewhere: Tammany’s James J. Walker of New York (Beau James), Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, James Michael Curley (The Last Hurrah) of Boston, Frank Hague of New Jersey. But the Kelly-Nash-Arvey-Daley machine in Chicago held seven Democratic conventions from 1932 to 1968, staging the farcical “draft” of FDR to a third term in 1940, the ejection of Henry Wallace and insertion of Harry Truman as vice president in 1944 (both on Roosevelt’s orders), and the elevation of Gov. Adlai Stevenson in 1952 (the only major-party presidential nominee from Illinois between Lincoln and Obama), this last because Arvey thought “an intellectual would be good for our image.” The Chicago machine effected the outright theft of Illinois for John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon in the razor-thin 1960 election by 9,000 votes out of over 5 million cast, with a strategic disappearance of ballot boxes still theoretically under investigation, and the bloody debacle and “police riot” of the 1968 convention, when Hubert Humphrey defeated Eugene McCarthy after the withdrawal of Lyndon Johnson and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Mayors Daley, father and son, have won twelve mayoral terms and have ruled in city hall for 43 of the last 54 years. Richard M. Daley was reelected mayor with 79 percent of the vote in 2003 and 70 percent in 2007, but in the aftermath of the Olympic fiasco is at only about 30 percent in the polls now.
Chicago is beautiful, largely safe, clean, well-organized, and human in scale despite its vastness. No American city has done a better job of keeping its core alive and vital, or its waterfront as ecologically pleasing and accessible. But Chicago is subdivided into scores of wards and minor municipalities that are riddled with corruption and conflicting legal crusades. A terrifying and high-handed U.S. attorney picks off Daley acolytes like clay pigeons, and the Cook County prosecutors are trying to muzzle a Northwestern University law-school project of examining false prosecutions by the machine. The project has saved a number of people from the death penalty and liberated many other innocents, but is now being prosecuted for its inconvenient humanitarian efforts.
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Interesting! By someone in the media as powerful as Conrad Black naming Joe Fosco in one of his articles, Fosco has achieved national spotlight attention, in the mainstream arena. This is very impressive considering that Fosco’s publication, KTF, is a grassroots media group. I congratulate Joe Fosco on his success! Joe, when is the book coming out?
Way to go joe! Accolades like these not only lend further creedence to your work, further draw attention to a culture of corruption that chicagoans have accepted as status quo, but i believe will also aid your personal safety as you battle what i see as a dangerous group of juvenile minded ill intentioned thugs.
Thank you Rick and Vince. I am not pretending to be an Angel. I made my share of mistakes in the past, however, I am a new person the last several years and I fight crime the best that I can. My safety is a concern, but not as much as the safety as my loved ones.
joe,
you were never a labor arbitrator. prove it.
yes, you’ve never been… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – repetitive rants are considered harassment by our management team and forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
i hear you owe… money. why is that? (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – repetitive rants are considered harassment by our management team and forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
oh no! joe fosco has an ip address. did you ever think i could be using a computer at an apple store, library, or borrow someone’s comoputer at a coffee shop for $5? i could use someone’s cell phone for god’s sake… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – libelous statements are forbidden on this site. Furthermore, your comment proves your intent to harass. Every time you ask someone to barrow their phone to send harassing comments to this site, you are exposing your physical identity to an eyewitness. Thank you, American News Post).
mr. cerone still has all the voice mails you ever left him… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – libelous statements are forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
i never… (YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN MODIFIED – false statements and insults are forbidden on this site. Thank you, American News Post).
Dear IP Address 66.251.244.218,
I thought it was understood that I was never an actual labor arbitrator; I have never stated that I was. In fact, I explain it in detail here: http://americannewspost.com/?p=66
Yes, my finances are somewhat compromised right now. You are asking me why my finances are compromised. Ask John and Peter DiFronzo, Rudy Fratto, Jack P. Cerone, Esq., and Joseph L. Giacchino, Jr.
As to the voice mails that I left Jack P. Cerone, Esq., regarding the threats on my life that he played a part in, you may read the court transcripts, which detail the voicemails, here: http://americannewspost.com/?p=278
In addition, you may access this article, http://americannewspost.com/?p=819, which provides a very clear understanding of the details pertaining to the voicemails that you have mentioned. Thank you.
Please Cease And Desist With Your Lunacy!
Sincerely,
Joseph Fosco