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| Fioretti takes political pot shots at Daley son … |
Not
that he was someone who got things done. If anything, he was somebody that
reporter-type people could turn to whenever they needed a quote saying how
absurd the mayor or other officials were being in their actions. Not somebody who could talk about serious policy questions or details.
SO
IT WASN’T a shock that city officials used their last redistricting process of
ward boundaries to put Fioretti into a ward without many people who’d be inclined
to support him.
And
that when he tried running for mayor in 2015, he was viewed by the city’s
political establishment as the guy they most wanted to see go down to defeat.
He
was a loud-mouth who wouldn’t get anything accomplished, but would also make
other people feel awkward and miserable while they tried to go about their actions.
And
now that Fioretti is trying once again to run for mayor, it seems his
temperament hasn’t changed one iota.
FOR
FIORETTI DARED to make the most sacrilegious of suggestions – taking away the
name of the ultimate Hizzoner, Richard J. Daley, from the Civic Center that
serves as the Cook County courthouse.
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| … for suggesting Dan Ryan name change … |
What
would the Daley Plaza be, other than a place with a half-century-old Picasso
sculpture that most Chicagoans still can’t say exactly what it is.
Fioretti
on Friday suggested that the Daley Center building be the Chicago structure
that gets renamed to honor Barack Obama – the former president who made his
adult life in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Now
in all honesty, Fioretti doesn’t expect anybody to take his suggestion
seriously. He doesn’t really want to have the identity of the Big O himself
become tied to our civil courthouse and future generations of lawsuits that get
filed within the city of Chicago.
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| … to a tribute to Barack Obama |
WHAT
HE’S REALLY doing is taking pot shots at Daley’s son, William. Who’s also among
the masses of candidates wishing to run for mayor, and who is the one who suggested
that the Dan Ryan Expressway be renamed for Obama.
In
short, he’s trying to p’ off the powers that be who still hold the name “Daley”
as something sacrosanct and sacred.
Maybe
he even thinks he’ll gain a few votes for his mayoral bid from the kind of people
who were always eager to trash the Daley legacy and who view the idea of a
third “Mayor Daley” as an absolutely abhorrent concept for Chicago to have.
It’s
political trash talk; rancid rhetoric of the finest kind. It’s all about
stirring up the partisan pot. Which may well be why Fioretti is a long-shot to
actually become mayor, and probably wouldn’t be capable of competently serving
as mayor even if he could win an election.
FOR
EVEN WHEN he offers up a somewhat legitimate point, his rhetoric comes off as
so antagonistic that it prevents anybody from taking him seriously in the
least.
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| Richard J. isn't about to lose his namesake tribute |
Yes,
I actually think renaming the Dan Ryan is ridiculous. Then again, I tend to
think we should try to avoid naming streets and buildings for people who will
be forgotten a couple of generations from now. It only ensures that the few who
bother to remember will take great offense.
Just
think if we did name something now for Barack Obama, how much of a stink would
develop some time around the year 2070 when someone suggests ditching the name
to honor somebody who likely doesn’t even exist yet.
So
it may be so that Bill Daley is being short-sighted in even suggesting the
renaming of the Dan Ryan Expressway. But Fioretti’s willingness to go for the
punchline as part of his own mayoral dreams may well show us why he’s no better
qualified to work out of Richard J.’s one-time City Hall office.
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