Public School closings in Chicago have divided the community. The Chicago Teacher Union, represented by President Karen Lewis, says the cuts just hurt the African American community and will not solve the larger, systematic problems the city faces. On the other hand, Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the closures will save the cash-strapped city millions.
While closing public schools might save us some money, I have a better idea. Why don’t we start saving money by cancelling the contract of McMahon Food Corp? McMahon Food Corp allegedly supplies massively overpriced milk to our Public School students. All together, the McMahons have churned a cash fortune to the tune of $162 million in city contracts in recent years. Reining in insane expenditures like these would probably save some troubled schools.
But as I often tell my friends, this is Chicago, where two plus two equals opportunity for the Political-Mob to make money off taxpayers (who I call tax-suckers) such as you and me.
Frank “Milkman” McMahon
Why should we start with McMahon Food Corp? Aside from the fact that a mandate to go after Chicago’s thriving kleptocracy could righteously begin almost anywhere, a mission to eliminate the empire of graft built by the now late Frank “Milkman” McMahon has a particularly satisfying tinge to it. His offensive behavior and willingness to openly brag about his active role in pay-to-play politics make him a particularly easy target.
A member of the McMahon family explained to one of my sources, “We give millions of dollars to the politically connected.” I can name names now, but I’ll let some quotes of the Milkman explain it a little later. The now late Frank is the oldest of eight children born to the late Catherine Keane McMahon and Frank J. McMahon, who founded a milk-delivery business called McMahon Food Corp., and a second business, Windy City Electric Co., which together have won $162 million in government contracts since 2005. He was very close to high-powered politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, including Illinois Appellate Court Judge and former DuPage County State’s Attorney Joseph Birkett, DuPage County Board member Michael McMahon and former Cook County State’s Attorney Richard Devine (who hired at least one of McMahon’s children).
