Back in the day - I'm talking about a previous century here, boys and girls - you couldn't even get a copy service to run off a box of flyers absent cash in advance. I donated time to a few, but work for one? Are you kidding? If they lose, they're broke and if they win, they're in jail (I'm talking Illinois politics here) and even if they're not, you were thinking about sending a bill collector to City Hall? Or the White House?
Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park -- despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.
"The Democratic National Committee has not yet paid us,'' Peter Scales, a spokesman for the city's Office of Budget and Management, said Thursday after questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. "We're reaching out to them this week."
[From Obama victory bash owes city $1.74 mil. :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: 44: Barack Obama]
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C'mon. They get thirty days don't they? The check's in mail....
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