Or, you know, the vaguely constitutional monarchy of Cook County. Take your pick. We've effectively just exited the very brief Regency Cook County period -- with Todd Stroger as the board president regent for his medically incapacitated father -- and moved into Toddian Cook County, I suppose. Tragically, Regency Cook County didn't contribute much to the arts and letters. Such is life.
The best part of the article, however, is the "They said what?" sidebar. I'm still trying to figure out what Danny Davis and the US Postal Service have to do with anything.
Nineteen Cook County Democratic committeemen made a symbolic stand Tuesday against what their candidate called "family ties and pedigrees" dictating who gets slated for office. But even as they made their speeches, the writing was on the wall. Ald. Todd Stroger (8th) ultimately won 77 percent of the weighted vote of the Cook County Central Committee to replace his father, John Stroger, as the Democratic nominee for County Board president on the November ballot. The elder Stroger suffered a stroke in March and was re-hospitalized Friday.
"I seek this office as an end in itself, with a genuine passion for the mission of county government and not as a steppingstone to other office," Todd Stroger, 43, told the packed room of committeemen at the Hotel Allegro....
Hmph. Well, I suppose it's nice to know that someone regards you and yours as his personal inherited fiefdom. I guess...
Posted by iain at July 31, 2006 01:33 PM
