As part of my ongoing effort to be more civic-minded, I figure I should help aldermanic candidates correctly answer Mayor Emanuel’s endorsement questionnaire.
So if you don’t want Chicago Forward to pound you like a pinata, you have to answer these questions and answer them right.
“Would you be willing to support tough but necessary steps, such as increases in property taxes . . . to help further reduce [Chicago’s] structural deficit?”
The other types of schools on the list are generally noncontroversial. So with this question, the mayor’s stealing a trick he learned from that scene in Bananas where Woody Allen’s character buys copies of Time, Commentary, Newsweek, and the Saturday Review to cover up his purchase of Orgasm magazine.
“Will you champion tougher gun laws that will help prevent illegal guns from entering our city and hold those accountable who sell these guns?”
I’d be tempted to answer no on the grounds that the mayor’s minimum wage ordinance is largely his attempt to protect big businesses from giving workers an actual livable wage. And that by year 2018, $13 will probably be as inadequate as $8.25 an hour is today.
