Forrest Claypool Used Park District Employees To Score His Pickup Basketball Game With David Axelrod

In his various stints as hatchet man for Mayors Daley and Emanuel, Forrest Claypool has earned a reputation for being a rigid, penny-pinching bureaucrat.

       The article takes us back to 1998, when Claypool was Mayor Daley’s Park District superintendent, making his name by, among other things, privatizing high-paying city jobs.

       Now, I know you’re probably thinking that it’s hypocritical for a rules stickler like Claypool to so obviously flaunt the rules and waste everyone’s tax dollars on something as frivolous as directing a Park District employee to keep score of the boss’s pickup basketball game. Especially when the boss and his pals could easily track the score themselves.

No matter how many baskets the opposing team made, when he called out the score, Axelrod always had his team ahead.

       So I propose that CTU and CPS settled their differences with a one-on-one basketball game, pitting McDermott against Claypool.