Quigley's Replacement-The FIX IS IN,if we dont stop it.

Hey Folks,

Today I attended the Forum for Candidates to replace Mike Quigley on Cook County Board at Truman College . The Candidates who appeared were Jay Paul Deratany, Michelle Smith (43rd Ward Committeeman) ,Bridget Gainer(AON CORPORATIONS CHIEF LOBBYIST and former Daley hack and Current Daley Crony) ,Kimberly J Walz (Quigley's Chief of Staff) and some guy named Michael S Hickey III (a Cook County Electrician who has the in enviable pleasure of having to attend every Cook County Board Meeting because he has to tape them .LUCKY HIM!!)

To tell you the truth there were a lot of good ideas and I would say that Deratany ,Smith and Walz were in a three way tie but get this, the candidate who performed miserably is being setup to get the job because she is Daley's favorite .... the incredibly connected Bridget Gainer. Word has it that the Committemen who count: Ald TOM"More Money"TUNNEY(20.5% OF WEIGHTED VOTE), Carol "Double Dip State Pensioner" RONEN ,a former North Side state senator, spent eight weeks working for GOVERNOR BLAGOJEVICH(you remember him, the guy who is going to look good in an orange jumpsuit in about a years time) and will now receive an additional $37,995 a year for the rest of her life in addition to the $75,301 annual pension she was already in line for. (Free of state taxes of course!!.) (http://divisionstreet.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/ronen-keeps-it-rollin/) has 19.9 % of the weighted vote , Tom Sharpe 46th Ward Committeeman with 19.1 % of the vote and bringing up the rear is Michelle Smith , the 43rd Ward Committeemen with 17.1 % of the vote .Well you can pretty much guess that Smith is going to vote for herself ,because guess what???, she can . This stinks enough but the stink on Candidate Gainer is even worse.

First of all if Bridget Gainer is appointed she is going to be in a direct conflict of interest on ANY Cook County Health Care Issues because her husband, Dennis Kibby co owns/owned a medical collections company, Great Lakes Medicaid with his law partner ,James A Kneppper. This company ,GLM for short, had a sweetheart contract for medical collections with Cook County to collect unpaid Medical Bills owed by indigent Cook County Hospital patients. What makes this even worse is that they were paid over $700,000 on this contract based on $30 million in accounts receivable that they and two other companies who also won the Cook County Bid ,brought in.But get this , they left $100 MILLION out there and the county has basically had to write off the debt as non collectible. REAL NICE WORK GLM!!! (http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=Dennis+Kibby++great+lakes+medicaid&fr=yfp-t-501&u=www.suffredin.org/news/newsitem.asp%3Fnewsitemid%3D2582&w=dennis+kibby+great+lakes+lake+medicaid&d=O9ijf52uSboj&icp=1&.intl=us)


So when Bridget Gainer gets crowned as the new CC Commissioner, will she and John Daley(Chairman of the Finance Committee) and President Stroger just sweep that under the rug and hope it goes away?

The story here keeps getting worse for GLM. They were also connected to Lacey Thomas ,former CEO of Cook County Hospital , who is now under indictment for fraud at University Medical Center in Las Vegas NV. Mr. Thomas gave what amounts to "ghost payroll " contracts to GLM for work they never did .(http://web.archive.org/web/20071018202754/http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Jan-19-Fri-2007/news/12071178.html)

Secondly ,Gainer used to be the Director of Lakefront Parks for the Chicago Park District. Which means that she was in charge of Operations when Park Grill got a sweetheart deal on its lease in Millennium Park ,including free garbage pick up (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341395/posts).Gainer was also in charge of the landscape and trades operations , which means she was in charge when the Director of Landscaping,Shirley Mc Mayon , took over $100,000 in kickbacks and steered $8 million in projects to James Michael Inc. Shirley Mc Mayon, was later convicted.(http://www.ipsn.org/indictments/park_district/mcmayon_ind_final.pdf)(http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2005/pr0804_01.pdf) I would imagine good old Shirley ,who got 34 months is either out now ,or counting the days to her release.Either way , Gainer was her boss and should have known what was going on in the department she was running. AND NOW WE WANT TO APPOINT HER TO REPLACE MIKE QUIGLEY???


This begs the question, JUST HOW STUPID DO MAYOR DALEY ALD."MORE MONEY" TUNNEY ,and DOUBLE DIP RONEN THINK WE ARE?? This just stinks of cronyism and does not reflect the wishes of 10th District residents and voters. We need a good reform minded person to replace Quigley, not some Committeeman who will only vote for herself or whoever Mayor MAO TSE DALEY of the Peoples Republic of CHICAGO wants to anoint. Everyone in the 10th District needs to speak up about this injustice and do it fast.The meeting to decide this is April 11th,2009 at Truman College.It is open to the public so I hope you will attend and speak up to this injustice.
Go Get Em,

Danny Fernandez