10.16.2006

Politics Chicago style.

In a city that celebrates its history of ballot-box chicanery, Abel Gomez thought it perfectly reasonable to trade his vote for a promise that the city would chop down the hated maple tree in front of his house.

"If you're going to vote for somebody, they should do something for you," said Gomez, a maintenance worker who lives in a two-story frame house on the city's Southwest Side....

So the machinery of politics arrived at Gomez's home in the form of a chain saw....

(Chicago Tribune)

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