If you live in Lisle, you probably received an ad in the mail yesterday from state representative Connelly, paid for by the campaign for Cawiezel, Boyle and Young. It seemed strange - three trustees running together? And why would a state representative have such a compelling interest? So I googled Connelly to learn more about him. Turns out this guy is a real piece of work -- he even has a special nickname: Mike "Ubi est mea" Connelly.
My initial reaction to the ad for Cawiezel, Boyle and Young was that it was funny and ironic. Funny because it reminded me of cliques in high school, and ironic because here we have 3 people who are asking us to elect them as community leaders, and they have neither the independent thinking skills nor the backbone to even run their own campaigns. Then I remembered seeing campaign signs touting Cook and Carballo for the Park District Board, and I recognized the pattern. It's not that Cawiezel, Young, Boyle, Cook and Carballo can't run their own campaigns (presumably they could if they were allowed to) -- what's behind their combined campaign advertisements is the political machine that they owe their political lives to. It might not be as large and efficient as the Chicago machine, but it's a machine nonetheless.
So the ad for Cawiezel, Boyle and Young is not funny. The boys chomping on cigars in the back room downtown are not laughing. They are telling you how to vote They are telling you to vote for 4 more years of Cawiezel, Boyle and Young - 4 more years of higher spending and higher taxes. They are telling you to vote for Cook and Carballo, so the Park District can continue to do less with more. Will you obey the machine? Will you do what you've been told? Is your vote owned by the machine that owns Cook, Carballo, Cawiezel, Boyle and Young? The machine that uses Mike "Ubi est mea" Connelly as its mouthpiece? We'll find out tomorrow morning.
p.s. if you don't take the time to vote in this election, your answer to the question posed by this post is "YES"
I had the same reaction - what kind of candidate does not run a campaign on one their own record?
ReplyDeleteCawiese has been in office for just over 1 year and Young has been in office for 12 years.
Young should be running on a record - but since his record is so dismal, he has to hide it.