Limping Along: Gordon Election Party

Thank God I avoided the Gordon campaign's election night party at Gruppo di Amici up at Jarvis Square, right across from the musty ward office of local gangster Joe Moore. However, just because I was not there physically, I was there nevertheless. RPB sees into the night, across great distances, and our network of informers, double agents, leakers and friends tells us things. Through our high-tech web of radio waves, copper wire and fiber optics, we learn things. Like this:

1. Don Gordon's campaign chair, Michael Harrington, was having a good time. Michael ran for alderman unsuccessfully four years ago.
2. None of the campaign team considered the fact that a television or a radio would be a handy thing to have. You know, to know what the hell was going on outiside the strife-ridden Gruppo di Amici. I mean, okay, they're not pros at this kind of thing. But any state senator's 16-year old intern would know to have electronic media available for information. My God. When Mikey was asked why there was no electronic ear to the outside world, he ALLEGEDLY yelled, "We aren't a 600,000 dollar campaign," a reference to the huge money Moore's campaign had to play with. NEWS FLASH, MIKEY: They have these things called "portable radios," which I hear can be purchased for six bucks, which by my math is 1/100,000 the amount of money Moore had.
3. There was a screaming match between a hired consultant and a local, uhm, activist. One of the staff, RPB is told, called the police. The argument did not become physical.
4. Don Gordon had a cell phone with him. He should have been answering calls, or at least returning them for several reasons: (a) it is polite; (b) someone might have been calling him with important information about the ballots; (c) at the time the call was made (11:43 p.m.), the outcome was still unknown, so a callback would have been good public relations; (d) had he returned that phone call before sunrise, I wouldn't be writing this paragraph. I'm still waiting for the return call.

The balloting will probably be challenged. I pray that Moore loses any challenge. I also pray that if Don Gordon wins the challenge and becomes the 49th Ward's alderman he has the good sense to purge his staff of the incompetents within it, most especially Mike Harrington.