Guzman the Gangster for Mayor

[Don Petrone]

Well, I was asking and looking for information on Guzman and here's what I found.

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[Danno]

Well, I was asking and looking for information on Guzman and here's what I found.

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Back when 287g was a hot issue around here, I was passing by the church across the street from the Post Office on Genesee St. There was a big sign outside inviting people in to an anti 287g rally that was being held at that time. I parked and went in the church and sat down in the furthest back pew. I quickly realized I was wasting my time because the people speaking were all speaking Spanish which I understand very little. I decided to leave and on my way out I took a flyer from a stack that was sitting on the back pew. The flyer was about the anti 287g program that night. (I could see that most of the people in the church had a copy of the flyer so it must have been handed out earlier.) As I walked out onto the sidewalk toward my car two men were running after me yelling at me to stop. I stopped to talk to them. One of the men was known to me as Jose Guzman. In an intimidating manner they demanded that I give the flyer back. I said I would not give it back... it was in my pocket and would stay there. It was at that point that Mr. Guzman threatened me by saying that I should think twice about my decision to keep the flyer because "he knew where I lived". I went to the police station and reported the incident.

[JeffK]

Apparently, there has been a police report filed regarding the restaurant situation. Sounds like a federal case to me.

[goodintentions]

I parked and went in the church and sat down in the furthest back pew. .

Just an observation - Danno back when 287g was a hot topic, I met you ... (standing in line at the lake front for a pass to the city hall meeting I believe)...
I'm thinking the back pew was probably a good place for you :-)

I'm kidding... nothing but respect for you.. Just wanted to chuckle!

[Danno]

I parked and went in the church and sat down in the furthest back pew. .

Just an observation - Danno back when 287g was a hot topic, I met you ... (standing in line at the lake front for a pass to the city hall meeting I believe)...
I'm thinking the back pew was probably a good place for you :-)

I'm kidding... nothing but respect for you.. Just wanted to chuckle!

Hey, I resemble that remark!

[fintan1010]

JeffK,
Very funny with the "federal case" comment. I laughed. Thanks.

[fedupinwaukegan]

Here is a picture of Mr. Guzman at the lakefront waiting for his ticket for the 287g council meeting. He talked to these lucky people for quite awhile.

[Don Petrone]

Thinking that somebody might be trying to set Guzman up and wondering if this was true, I called the police Dept. and was told that I would have to submit a Freedom of Information Act request to get the report.
That of course confirmed that there was a report. I didn't want to go through all that trouble but I couldn't stop thinking about how bad this is if it's true and my wife told me to just go get the reprot and be done with it.
So that's what I did and here it is.

Maybe the moderator can fix it so that it's readable.

[fedupinwaukegan]

I clicked on the picture of the attachment and it opened a new page/regular size -very readable. If you click on it again it goes large.

The report says that Zavala has telephone recordings of when G. called him after backing out his support. I wonder if a transcript of the conversations is available yet? G made threatening calls, allegedly, saying Zavala would have problems from backing out. Zavala said he backed out when he heard that the candidate had other run-ins with the law. Maybe those documents are available?

Fair game. If this person is running to be my mayor, I want to know about him.

Open the report -some reading.... hock:

[fintan1010]

please, please, please, research mr. guzman. his ideas are very scary. the download of the entire interview between mr. guzman and CREW is available on the CREW website.