- Peter Holderness
- Karen Lewis and Ben at the Hideout on Tuesday night
For Tuesday’s big show—Karen Lewis live at the Hideout—they gave me the hand-held mike and told me to sit in the middle of the table.
But, alas, I saw that crowd of faces in the audience, and I just couldn’t pull the trigger.
Which probably got the mayor so mad he had to be restrained from closing 50 more schools—just to show her!
One of the evening’s highlights—at least for municipal-financing geeks—came when she suggested a tax on transactions at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as a substitute for hikes in the forever-escalating property tax.
I’d go so far as to wager that Chicago’s electorate is far more to the left than any of its mayors since, oh, Harold Washington. Who I wish were still alive—if only to be our guest at the Hideout.
“It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time . . .”
