Alderman Bernie Stone on Showergate
Feb 23, 2008
“Who cares? What’s wrong with that?” asked Ald. Bernard Stone (50th). “These guys who work 14, 15 hours a day — that doesn’t bother me.”
Quote origin linked here.
Showergate, for those of you unaware, is the latest scandal (I use that term somewhat loosely) to break out of Chicago, involving an alleged $5,400 taxpayer-funded shower in the office of $155,600-per-year City Budget Director Bennett Johnson III.
The very thought of such an affair, such a monstrous, reckless abuse of taxpayer money, has been condemned by every politician in Chicago…except Alderman Stone.
Posted by Nicky Cheese |
Categories: Really? Really?!, Taxes and Spending | Tagged: Alderman, Bennett Johnson, Bernard Stone, Bernie, chicago, Showergate |
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