I am tardy in getting back to you about a question I left unanswered. The question came in a post I wrote last week, titled “President Obama, Congressman Joe Moore, Alderman David Fagus.” I wrote that if Obama becomes our next president, various local officials would all get a bump up the ladder of power.
To review: If U.S. Senator Obama becomes President, leaving his Senate seat vacant. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is appointed to fill that seat.
With Schakowsky's seat in Congress vacant, 49th Ward Alderman Joe Moore would probably be named to fill her seat, thus becoming Congressman Joe Moore.
David Fagus, currently the 49th Ward Democrat Committeeman, would most likely be selected to be the ward’s alderman. He would become Alderman David Fagus.
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said I’d answer it earlier this week. Okay, better late than never. The question was, “So who will fill Fagus's vacated Committeeman position?”
Hmmm. This is actually tougher than the other positions to predict. But The Bench’s best guess is one of these three likely possibilities:
Katie HoganCo-owner of The Heartland Café in Rogers Park, Katie has been a local
apparatchik of the 49th Ward Democrat Machine for years. She and fellow traveler
Michael James are avowed socialists, verging on communists, but since there are no communists in power they settle for the likes of Joe Moore. Hogan has done a lot of footwork for the local Machine. She’s never met news crew she could resist chasing after, or a microphone she didn’t want to felate. Hogan, it is said, has dreams of running for alderman of the 49th Ward. But Fagus is more experienced and better connected. He knows where the money and bodies are, more so than Hogan. But Hogan is owed favors, and Democrat Ward Committeeperson would suit her.
Rene CamargoSmart money is not on Camargo, DevCorp employee known by many Rogers Park merchants as “The Weasel.” Hogan is merely annoying. Camargo, on the other hand, is threatening. He comes off as a charming (too charming) fellow if you’re not the owner of a struggling retail business in Rogers Park. But if you have a small retail store, odds are good that Rene Camargo has pressured you to make aesthetic changes to your business even though they are not required by code.
One example of this: Camargo (with help from Alderman Moore’s office) frequently tells merchants who are not in violation of code that they must remove the protective grating from their front windows. Why? Rene doesn’t like the way they look. They’re legal, however. Merchants rightfully ask, "If bad guys bust a window and steal merchandise, is Camargo going to cover the losses?"
Kevin O’NealAnother Joe Moore suck up, O’Neal might get the offer but he would probably turn it down. He’s too busy putting out propaganda for the rich physicians represented by the special interest lobbying organization known as the American Medical Association (AMA). Between his AMA work, heading up a CAPS group and writing anonymous and weird blog comments, O’Neal would probably beg off.
Perhaps the “office” of Ward Committeeman should just be done away with. It is an unpaid position. The sole purpose of a ward committeeman is to promote the political agenda of his or her political party (each ward has a Democrat and a Republican committeeman). The committeemen are the geniuses who select election judges. You know, like the ones who insist they were trained in the use of the Invisible Ink pens used on Super Tuesday, February 5 in Rogers Park. They were only used, by the way, in Rogers Park.
Crime is down in Rogers Park, Chicago? Well, well, it's UP at the 49th Ward Democrat Party offices, at W. Greenleaf and N. Ravenswood. (Click our file photos to enlarge)
ROGERS PARK (STNG) -- Police Thursday are investigating the break-in and theft of a computer from a political campaign office on the Far North Side. The ward's committeeman doubts the break-in was political in nature, though.
About 7:20 a.m. police got a call that a door was open at the office on the 1700 block of West Greenleaf, police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said. The 49th Ward Democratic Party campaign office is at 1774 W. Greenleaf Ave., according to 49th Ward Democratic Committeeman David Fagus. Full Story at WBBM AM...
WBBM also reported that "The office is used mainly by Ald. Joe Moore, Fagus said, and the group Organizing for America, a national Democratic group, also uses the space." Funny that WBBM doesn't know that the office space is also used by Congressthing Jan Schakowsky and Crook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin (13th District).
It is darkly amusing that Blagojevich fan David Fagus doubts that the burglary was political in nature. Now, really, who would break in to that office for political reasons? Hmmm? I wonder how long it will be before Moore blames the bloggers for this. (I've got an airtight alibi.)
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"Blagojevich Getting It Done!" is the hilarious post by 49th Ward Democratic Committeeman David Fagus. He wrote the piece in October, 2006. By then, most of us knew that Rod Blagojevich is a putz. But not Fagus, no siree. Too busy kissing Rod's butt to see the crack in it, Fagus penned his absurdity, which is - incredibly - still posted on his site as of 6:04 p.m., January 30, 2009. Uhm, someone might want to let Sycophant Fagus know that Blago was removed from office yesterday. Oh, let him know that Nixon resigned, too, and that the Berlin Wall has come down.
Rod Blagojevich has been making the kind of changes we had been anticipating for 30 years of Republican governors. With his 2002 victory we realized what life could be like with a Democrat leading the state government. We as Democrats had very high hopes for the Blagojevich administration and he has delivered. He has taken up the cause of many of the concerns we all had including health care, minimum wage, stem cell research, passing GLBT legislation to protect against discrimination, expanding pre-school programs, and funding for the vast array of social services and human rights programs that make the quality of life in Illinois better. 
Perhaps. Perhaps soon, according to some reports.
Hmmm. Fagus once wrote, "When I have my first opportunity to sit down with Todd Stroger I will again tell him that the number one priority of 49th Ward from county government is to have a health clinic in the 49th Ward. It is one thing that the county can deliver." (
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