"THE SILLIEST LAW EVER WRITTEN," is what Mayor Daley called Chicago's ban on foie gras (goose liver pate). Today, the Chicago City Council repealed the ineffective law by a vote of 37-6. The law, which banned restaurants from selling it, but could not prevent them from giving it away.(Snarky question: Does this mean that Joe has to give Dana Kohl's $30K campaign contribution back?)
Stores could still sell it, it was not illegal to buy or eat it, only for restaurants to sell it. The anti-foie gras ordinance was the pride and joy of its author, Chicago's 49th Ward Aldergoose Joe Moore, who wrote it in 2006. By tossing it out, the Chicago City Council gains a bit more respect.
Get this: According to the Associated Press, "The measure passed Wednesday by a vote of 37-6 with no debate. Its sponsor, Alderman Joe Moore, shouted his objections." Can you imagine mild mannered gooseboy Joe Moore shouting his objections to the rest of the Voters should remember this kind of ineffective, time wasting stupidity when Joe Moore runs for Congress in 2009.
A personal note: Joe, who is "discredited" now? The mayor - and millions of others - call your foie gras ordinance "the silliest law ever written." In spite of your lunatic fringe supporters, most of us see it that way. And today that silly law was soundly defeated. YOU, Joe Moore, are now an officially discredited fool, a laughing stock, the butt of jokes. And the national and international press is eating it up.
If Obama becomes our next president this November, we will likely see a special election called to fill the vacated Congressional seat of Jan "The Man" Schakowsky, who would likely move up to fill Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat. You can bet money that Joe Moore will be put up to run by the local Schakowsky-led Democrat Machine.
