Mayor Bob, WTF?

[WalkTheWalk]

Citizens of Waukegan need to attend City Hall meetings! Alderman Sam Cunningham slept through most of the meeting and only awakened after two hours of lively debate towards the 11 o'clock hour to "table" a matter that Sam had just slept through. Sam is so trifling that he couldn't he more benign unless he were Edith Newsome. You could actually see Mayor S. working Edith Newsome like a PUPPET (her constituents would be amazed that she actually admitted to having nothing--budget, prior meeting minutes, etc-- with her and not able to answer the simplest of questions) as she plainly sat there like she was at home in front of the TV. During the audience comment period, it was brought up that most-nearly none of the people working industry at the lakefront actually live in Waukegan and that the aldermen and Mayor should actually REPRESENT the people/interests of Waukegan and not the lakefront industry that contributed heavily to "especially one alderman's campaign chest". The speaker did not mention the alderman's name but pointedly looked at Alderman Sam Cunningham at the end of the room--as did everybody else in the room--to which Sam was sleeping, and all chuckled and tittered at the "bought" man. Larry Tenpas was the only alderman actually prepared for city business and right on his parliamentary points although at times the audience wished that he would acquiesce and let Mayor S. cherry pick what he wanted on the nights' agenda--never mind parliamentary law. Newton Finn (who will charge our city TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS for his salary), sadly, does not have any grasp of parliamentary procedure or knowledge to running a meeting. His PREDESSESOR had to chair the previous judiciary meeting(!)that night. Waukegan citizens would be embarrassed at the charade of our new Mayor behaving exactly like he did during Lake County Board meetings with high-handed tactics that smacked of entitlement (or signs of his bi-polar illness) only to resign every-gosh-darn-single committee that he was ever appointed to because as our Mayor S. said: "....he could not get along with fellow committeemen....". I am not sure if Mayor S. will be able to be anything to our city except a lightning rod of divisiveness and truculence. What was evident during the meeting is that our new Mayor has no clue to dealing with the EPA and cleaning up our lakefront as he repeatedly told us that during meetings with the EPA they verbally said "this" and would ensure "that" so "not to worry". Is he KIDDING us? Does Newton Finn have any idea of how foolish and stupid the new mayor and he will look in a couple of years when the EPA does nothing of what Mayor S. "S A I D" that they would do? The old council, Jeff Jeep, who litigated--and successfully so--the EPA to clean up the lakefront the PROPER way got up there and said that everything that the mayor and his council were "TOLD" was against everything that he had in WRITING. Hmmm, is our new mayor and his chief council so naive that they believe what they are TOLD from the EPA? Hint: get everything from the government IN WRITING and SIGNED. Does Mayor S. really think like this? People were talking that it's obvious that Mayor S. and Newton Finn know nothing about the harbor/lakefront clean up and we all wished that Jeff Jeep could continue to press the EPA on our behalf. Then again, there was all of the lakefront industry money going into the coffers of Mayor S. and Alderman Cunningham one way or the "other".
Yes, Waukegan citizens should attend their City Hall meetings to see what's going on. It's a shame.