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Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Your Day to Make a Decision for Peru................VOTE
If you are in a contested Peru city ward, get to the polls and VOTE. This is your city and tell them how you want to go forward or how you are happy with things now. It is your decision.
17 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Talk about selective enforcement, St. John's Church on Shooting Park Rd & Peoria have event signs up more than 2 weeks prior , and are on city property, and they never paid a deposit to the city to put the signs up. If the rules are to be enforced then they need to be enforced for everyone , otherwise you get favoritism and pissed off citizens!!
I would like to know when peru police department is releasing info about minors to employees of hair salon...and she is posting them all over the place
Sounds like an issue for me minor information should never be disclosed
The people spoke loud and clear. Congratulations Dave, Dave and Tom. You stood up and remained so positive in the face of such dirty negative politics. Peru won big time tonight. To the losers your 15 minutes is over.
Well, now we can get back to the business of government. All those pesky "people" out of the way. It will be two more years before we have to think about those annoying "voters".
Yes, congratulations Peru citizens. You have once again failed to make an effort to scratch the surface of an administration so intent on maintaining sole power over common sense and decency they are blinded by their own arrogance.
These comments are the kind of mentality we have in this town. The things that happened during this election were brought about by the incumbent candidates themselves. They disobeyed ordinances, confronted individuals, and patted each other on their backs. It's over. They won. This is what people want for their representatives. They don't want leaders who will represent them and work for and with them. I, for one, would prefer transparency and a representative that I can approach and talk to as a fellow citizen of Peru. My opinion.
Thank yous all around to Rod, Travis and Chico. It takes great courage to challenge the status quo crowd in Peru. They will always revert back to their standard mantra of "we can't allow change of any kind". Change baaaad! Last night as the election results were unfolding I heard a great sigh of relief that echoed throughout Peru. It came from the bloated bellies and egos of King Harls, TEST, Chamlin, the Super-Chiefs, and all the other phony appointed and elected officials in the city of Peru. There was great happiness for all at the grand victory gathering last night. The Gravy Train will roll on unchecked. The threat of honesty and accountability was successfully thwarted. They were sweatin bullets for a few months there. There is an epic battle of good vs. evil in Peru and it will continue. Yesterday a minority group of citizens chose to strengthen the hold of the dark-side on Peru politics. Someday it will be all the sweeter when this administration comes tumbling down. Don't ever give up.
Every election in Peru has had change. Baker to Harl, Jack O'beirn to Perez, Mertel to Radtke, Ankiewicz to Sapienza, Heuser to Bartley, Wren to Lukosus, Mykyska to Mayszak, Mayszak to Radtke, Perez to Payton. There has been significant change in Peru over a very short period. 1:12 pm what are you talking about? The city has a engineer, a finace officer, new Public works. What do you mean? The city has had more change over than any other around.
To 11:38 AM , You are so absolutely wrong and you miss the point completely. A few faces changing means nothing when the "policies and Mismanagement" remains the same. City Engineer means nothing unless Chamlin's influence and excessive invoices are reduced. They are not. Finance Officer means nothing unless wasteful and inefficient spending is eliminated or at least redueced. It has not. New Public Works. Not sure what that is supposed to mean, but if you mean infrastrucure work being done that is not change and it only continues to increase the influence Chamlin and TEST has over the spineless alderman and mayor. Change is not defined by changing faces. Change is defined by changing policies and attitudes of elected officials. Think of it like this, The definition of stupid in this case is "electing people who Rubber-Stamp the same old policies and expecting things to change". Peru is the most inefficient and poorly managed community within a large area of the state based on these facts. A huge per capita sales tax base that is completely consumed by a bloated payroll and administrative positions. Unqualified department heads lacking the practical knowledge to efficiently operate and maintain the physical public service systems. A mayor that has concocted, and a city council that has approved a "mongrel system" of managers and assistants so entangled and overlapping in duties and responsibilities that make any possibility of efficiency impossible. The current system in Peru is nothing more than a "hybrid" of the same system of patronage and cronyism that Don Baker ran for 40 years. The only difference between the Harl administration and the Baker administration is back in the day everybody knew who was clearly in charge. In today's chaos of Peru city government for those of us who have access to the inside knowledge, the real influence and decision making is made by the most unlikely people in the most unusual ways. One thing is for sure. It's not a democratic process. It's a purely political patronage system. so it seems the more the faces change in Peru governemnt, the more things stay the same. Oh wait, Tom Payton says he has some ideas. Mr. Payton will soon get educated to the reality that the Peru city council chamber is the place where ideas go to die a quick and painful death. Ideas? LOL.
17 comments:
Talk about selective enforcement, St. John's Church on Shooting Park Rd & Peoria have event signs up more than 2 weeks prior , and are on city property, and they never paid a deposit to the city to put the signs up. If the rules are to be enforced then they need to be enforced for everyone , otherwise you get favoritism and pissed off citizens!!
yes. and it looks like one is attached to a traffic sign.
Call Boro, he got the job done correctly for $10/hr.
I would like to know when peru police department is releasing info about minors to employees of hair salon...and she is posting them all over the place
Sounds like an issue for me minor information should never be disclosed
12:49
It's ok to have political signs up since December? And your worried about the church? Why give the church two weeks and alderman sign up 15 weeks?
Good point 320
The people spoke loud and clear. Congratulations Dave, Dave and Tom. You stood up and remained so positive in the face of such dirty negative politics. Peru won big time tonight.
To the losers your 15 minutes is over.
The circus is finally over. 4 years was enough. Congrats to Tom Dave and Dave. Your wards have spoken loudly.
Peru is doomed for the next 2 years !!
Well, now we can get back to the business of government. All those pesky "people" out of the way. It will be two more years before we have to think about those annoying "voters".
Congratulations to the winners. The voters of Peru spoke where it counts, the voting booth.
Peru is doomed for the next 2 years !!
Yes, congratulations Peru citizens. You have once again failed to make an effort to scratch the surface of an administration so intent on maintaining sole power over common sense and decency they are blinded by their own arrogance.
These comments are the kind of mentality we have in this town. The things that happened during this election were brought about by the incumbent candidates themselves. They disobeyed ordinances, confronted individuals, and patted each other on their backs. It's over. They won. This is what people want for their representatives. They don't want leaders who will represent them and work for and with them. I, for one, would prefer transparency and a representative that I can approach and talk to as a fellow citizen of Peru. My opinion.
Thank yous all around to Rod, Travis and Chico. It takes great courage to challenge the status quo crowd in Peru. They will always revert back to their standard mantra of "we can't allow change of any kind". Change baaaad!
Last night as the election results were unfolding I heard a great sigh of relief that echoed throughout Peru. It came from the bloated bellies and egos of King Harls, TEST, Chamlin, the Super-Chiefs, and all the other phony appointed and elected officials in the city of Peru. There was great happiness for all at the grand victory gathering last night. The Gravy Train will roll on unchecked. The threat of honesty and accountability was successfully thwarted. They were sweatin bullets for a few months there. There is an epic battle of good vs. evil in Peru and it will continue. Yesterday a minority group of citizens chose to strengthen the hold of the dark-side on Peru politics. Someday it will be all the sweeter when this administration comes tumbling down. Don't ever give up.
Every election in Peru has had change. Baker to Harl, Jack O'beirn to Perez, Mertel to Radtke, Ankiewicz to Sapienza, Heuser to Bartley, Wren to Lukosus, Mykyska to Mayszak, Mayszak to Radtke, Perez to Payton. There has been significant change in Peru over a very short period. 1:12 pm what are you talking about? The city has a engineer, a finace officer, new Public works. What do you mean? The city has had more change over than any other around.
To 11:38 AM , You are so absolutely wrong and you miss the point completely. A few faces changing means nothing when the "policies and Mismanagement" remains the same. City Engineer means nothing unless Chamlin's influence and excessive invoices are reduced. They are not. Finance Officer means nothing unless wasteful and inefficient spending is eliminated or at least redueced. It has not. New Public Works. Not sure what that is supposed to mean, but if you mean infrastrucure work being done that is not change and it only continues to increase the influence Chamlin and TEST has over the spineless alderman and mayor. Change is not defined by changing faces. Change is defined by changing policies and attitudes of elected officials. Think of it like this, The definition of stupid in this case is "electing people who Rubber-Stamp the same old policies and expecting things to change". Peru is the most inefficient and poorly managed community within a large area of the state based on these facts. A huge per capita sales tax base that is completely consumed by a bloated payroll and administrative positions. Unqualified department heads lacking the practical knowledge to efficiently operate and maintain the physical public service systems. A mayor that has concocted, and a city council that has approved a "mongrel system" of managers and assistants so entangled and overlapping in duties and responsibilities that make any possibility of efficiency impossible. The current system in Peru is nothing more than a "hybrid" of the same system of patronage and cronyism that Don Baker ran for 40 years. The only difference between the Harl administration and the Baker administration is back in the day everybody knew who was clearly in charge. In today's chaos of
Peru city government for those of us who have access to the inside knowledge, the real influence and decision making is made by the most unlikely people in the most unusual ways. One thing is for sure. It's not a democratic process. It's a purely political patronage system. so it seems the more the faces change in Peru governemnt, the more things stay the same. Oh wait, Tom Payton says he has some ideas. Mr. Payton will soon get educated to the reality that the Peru city council chamber is the place where ideas go to die a quick and painful death. Ideas? LOL.
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