Aldermanic repression climbs to new heights

First Amendment here?  Proposal Would Limit Protests in Council Chambers – Chicago News Cooperative.

But what of the principle that says you can swing your arm at will, but not when it comes in contact with someone else’s nose?

In this case legislators conduct business but do not deserve dead air around them while doing so?

Naomi Wolf @ WALL ST. BAILOUT PROTEST.
In the street: Naomi Wolf @ WALL ST. BAILOUT PROTEST. (Photo credit: eyewash)

And what if not a cute diversion is Chi News Co-op’s reminding us that co-sponsor Mell stood on his desk “infamously” in the 80s?  Couldn’t resist it, apparently.  The co-op, I mean.

Dems gonna lose one in Oak Park?

Russ Stewart on something new in Oak Park:

In years past, every self-respecting, politically-correct liberal white Oak Park Democrat would automatically vote for a black over a white, especially for a female black, and even more urgently for a minority and/or woman over a white male whose surname ended in a vowel. To do otherwise would cause a paroxysm of guilt.

But times have changed. And such an aberration is exactly what may occur on March 20 in the Democratic primary for the newly-configured 78th District Illinois House seat. Unless Harmon, like Horatio at the bridge, piles up a huge Oak Park margin to rescue Camille Lilly, the obscure black incumbent, white challenger Mike Nardello may win.

Lily doesn’t relate, being “the quintessential non-politician, viewing public office more as an entitlement than a privilege,” says Stewart, who couldn’t get an interview with her — “not atypical,” says Nardello’s campaign manager Oak Parker K.L. Daly.