Say what?!
From the N&O's updated article on yesterday's city council work session:
Stith was asked whether someone else's action was politically motivated? And he doesn't know? Holy cow!
Tell you what. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the meeting that's going to happen between Ron Hodge and Jose Lopez this afternoon*, that's for sure.
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* No, i have no idea whether or not Hodge and Lopez are meeting today, or met last night, or will meet next week, or whatever. But be real. Something about this whole process smells like yesterday's fish. The DPD may have internal disagreements about how to implement policy. But those are supposed to be aired behind closed doors. The deputy chief should not be going before council and presenting a policy statement that is, as Thomas Stith put it, "180 degrees" removed from what the chief says.
That ain't right.
Stith was asked whether he thought the swift turnaround in the Police Department's position on the issue was in any way politically motivated.
"To me, it's just very curious," Stith said. "Whether politics was involved, who knows?"
Stith was asked whether someone else's action was politically motivated? And he doesn't know? Holy cow!
Tell you what. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the meeting that's going to happen between Ron Hodge and Jose Lopez this afternoon*, that's for sure.
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* No, i have no idea whether or not Hodge and Lopez are meeting today, or met last night, or will meet next week, or whatever. But be real. Something about this whole process smells like yesterday's fish. The DPD may have internal disagreements about how to implement policy. But those are supposed to be aired behind closed doors. The deputy chief should not be going before council and presenting a policy statement that is, as Thomas Stith put it, "180 degrees" removed from what the chief says.
That ain't right.
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The Stith fun continues. Tonight I arrived home to another robo-call from my buddy Thomas making sure I knew about the violence that happened in the city this weekend.
Then, after dinner, I get a "survey" phone call that after a few innocuous questions moves on to leading questions about Bill Bell and his relationship with UDI and their "receiving 26 properties for $1". At which point I asked if this was a survey or a campaign call. They caller turns out to be from out of state and is "just reading the questions as he gets them".
Ugh. If Stith keeps this up, I might need to go back to my "vote early and often" Chicago roots!
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