Keep DuPage free from Chicago pols
I am a native Chicagoan who grew up in the City when the first Mayor Daley was just building his empire.
They often referred to "His Honor" as Da King, and when you are born and raised in the city, you accepted those terms in the same manner as you accepted the bookies on the corner, the accepting of money in return for voting, paying the local precinct captain to get your kid a driver's license and, yes, the guy selling great Chicago hot dogs out of a cart on the same corner as the bookie.
I guess Chicago and Cook County can still be considered a monarchy in a way because it seems that when one politician gets tired of his job or dies or decides to hang 'em up, there is a nearby relative to take over, ala Stroger, Jones and so many others before them.
I am sure that will continue until this monarchy reverts back to a republic, if ever.
A true republic is described and considered to be a state in which the supreme power rests within the citizenry, and their wishes and desires are carried out by the people they elect. Yes, the key word is elect and not appoint, or is it anoint?
In the '60s, I moved my family to DuPage where I knew a republic actually existed and was thriving.
Many told me my taxes would be higher, and maybe they were, but my kids received the finest public school education, my family enjoyed open spaces of our wonderful parks and forest preserve, we experienced very little crime in comparison to the city and Cook County, and voted in elections where the people actually elected qualified candidates into office.
Today, these people with Cook County ideologies are infiltrating DuPage County wanting to turn DuPage blue, you know, the same as Cook. Now why would anyone want to do that?
I admit DuPage is not perfect in the political sense and what community is?
The bottom line is that I prefer a republic, I like what DuPage has to offer, I like the status quo with maybe a few improvements here and there, and if that is what red is all about, then I prefer to keep DuPage red.
Am I better off than those people living in Cook? No doubt about it.
Do I want to see what I have been accustomed to all these years change to blue? Not a chance.
Jerry Marchese
Wayne