Better Than Monday Night Football: Ald. Allen on Cable, Streaming and You Tube
Jeff Berkowitz: So, wouldn’t Daley have to say to Devine: "Let’s find out what’s going on here and let’s do the right thing."
Ald. Allen: Well, that’s what would happen in my office-- if I were the prosecutor
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Ald. Allen: Well, I’d call it-- torture is the word everyone is using now-- I’d call it beating a confession out of somebody. Okay, I don’t use fancy words. When you put a plastic bag over someone’s head and try to get him to talk, you put a telephone book on someone’s head and hit it with a baseball bat--
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Tonight's City of Chicago and City of Aurora editions of Public Affairs features Chicago Alderman Tom Allen, who is running in the Democratic Primary for State's Attorney of Cook County
Ald. Allen debates and discusses with show host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz a broad range of State's Attorney public policy issues.
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The show with Allen airs through-out the City of Chicago tonight [Nov. 12] at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV] and tonight at 7:30 pm on Aurora Community Television, on Comcast Cable Ch. 10 in Aurora and some surrounding areas. The Aurora station reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
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You may also watch the show with State's Attorney candidate Allen, along with other recently posted shows, including State's Attorney Candidates Comm. Suffredin and Ald. Brookins, Senator Cullerton, Rep. Lang (D-Chicago), Rep. Hamos (D-Evanston) and Senator Garrett (D-Lake Forest), 14th CD Republican Primary candidate Mayor Kevin Burns and former Senator Rauschenberger on your computer at PublicAffairsTV.com.
In addition to those shows, prior shows on the "Public Affairs," podcast page feature Presidential candidates Obama, Giuliani, Richardson, McCain and Cox, and many other pols, including Obama-Bean in April, 2006, Congresswoman Bean in January, 2006 and Congresswoman Schakowsky in October, 2005 and opinion makers. You may also watch these "Public Affairs," shows and others at www.itunes.com
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Having trouble watching the Suffredin, Brookins and Allen trilogy on the Public Affairs podcast page or at Itunes.com? Not to worry, you can now go here to watch them all on YouTube.com as well other Public Affairs shows, e.g., our extended interview with Presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson. I am told that almost anybody who has a computer should be able to access Youtube, so no longer will you have an excuse for not watching Public Affairs, as all of our shows, going forward, and many prior ones, will posted on YouTube.com.
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For more on tonight's show, including a partial transcript topics and the guest, go here.
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For a compare and contrast of State's Attorney Candidates Suffredin, Brookins and Allen, go here.
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A partial transcript of tonight's show is included, directly, below.
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1.5 million dollars for the Dem. State’s Attorney nomination
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you have a million and a half dollars to get elected?
Ald. Allen: I will. I will.
Jeff Berkowitz: That’s what you need to get elected in the Democratic Primary [for State’s Attorney]?
Ald. Allen: I will.
Jeff Berkowitz: You’ve got $500,000 that’s committed to you already?
Ald. Allen: I have and it’s very gratifying that people are enthusiastically supporting my candidacy and it’s humbling, so I’m ready to go.
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What did Daley and Devine know and when did they know it?
Ald. Allen: …they were arrested and there were physical signs of abuse and it was hard to refute but yet it was public and people heard it for the first time. It was a bad time in Chicago—
Jeff Berkowitz: They heard if for the first time.
Ald. Allen: Well, they heard and saw, pretty good solid evidence of police abuse of a prisoner in custody.
Jeff Berkowitz: Torture? Torture to get a confession?
Ald. Allen: Well, you can call it what you want.
Jeff Berkowitz: You’d call it abuse?
Ald. Allen: Yeah, well, when you put a plastic—
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, you were the public defender, how would you refer to it”?
Ald. Allen: Well, I’d call it-- torture is the word everyone is using now-- I’d call it beating a confession out of somebody. Okay, I don’t use fancy words. When you put a plastic bag over someone’s head and try to get him to talk, you put a telephone book on someone’s head and hit it with a baseball bat--
Jeff Berkowitz: That will get him talking; that may get him confessing to things he didn’t do.
Ald. Allen: The point is its wrong. The point is it shouldn’t happen…
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Ald. Allen …all I know is there were rumblings among defense lawyers. The system at 26 th and California was talking about it and it was always area 2 and it was Lt. Birge.
Jeff Berkowitz: Mayor Daley’s First Ass’t then was now state’s attorney Dick Devine.Ald. Allen: That’s correct.
Jeff Berkowitz: He has been the State’s Attorney for the last 11 years.
Ald. Allen: Yeah, right.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, wouldn’t Daley have to say to Devine: "Let’s find out what’s going on here and let’s do the right thing."
Ald. Allen: Well, that’s what would happen in my office-- if I were the prosecutor.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, did Daley ever tell people, has he said publicly, “that’s what I was doing, I was talking to Devine, we were trying to find out, but we couldn’t. Is that what Daley said?
Ald. Allen: Oh, I don’t know what Daley said.
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Chicago Ald. Tom Allen, candidate in the Democratic Primary for State's Attorney of Cook County, IL, as he is airing tonight at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21, CANTV on the City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs and tonight at 7:30 pm on Aurora Community Television, on Comcast Cable Ch. 10 in Aurora and some surrounding areas. The show was recorded on October 21, 2007.[You may also go here to watch Ald. Allen and some of his competitors in the Democratic Primary, i.e., Comm. Suffredin and Ald. Brookins; as well as 8th CD Republican Primary candidate Kirk Morris, Cong. Bean [January, 2006], Presidential Candidates Obama and Giuliani and many other politicians on PublicAffairsTV.com].
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. You may watch "Public Affairs," shows with Presidential Candidates Richardson, Obama, McCain, Giuliani and Cox and many other pols at www.PublicAffairsTv.com
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Ald. Allen: Well, that’s what would happen in my office-- if I were the prosecutor
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Ald. Allen: Well, I’d call it-- torture is the word everyone is using now-- I’d call it beating a confession out of somebody. Okay, I don’t use fancy words. When you put a plastic bag over someone’s head and try to get him to talk, you put a telephone book on someone’s head and hit it with a baseball bat--
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Tonight's City of Chicago and City of Aurora editions of Public Affairs features Chicago Alderman Tom Allen, who is running in the Democratic Primary for State's Attorney of Cook County
Ald. Allen debates and discusses with show host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz a broad range of State's Attorney public policy issues.
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The show with Allen airs through-out the City of Chicago tonight [Nov. 12] at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV] and tonight at 7:30 pm on Aurora Community Television, on Comcast Cable Ch. 10 in Aurora and some surrounding areas. The Aurora station reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
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You may also watch the show with State's Attorney candidate Allen, along with other recently posted shows, including State's Attorney Candidates Comm. Suffredin and Ald. Brookins, Senator Cullerton, Rep. Lang (D-Chicago), Rep. Hamos (D-Evanston) and Senator Garrett (D-Lake Forest), 14th CD Republican Primary candidate Mayor Kevin Burns and former Senator Rauschenberger on your computer at PublicAffairsTV.com.
In addition to those shows, prior shows on the "Public Affairs," podcast page feature Presidential candidates Obama, Giuliani, Richardson, McCain and Cox, and many other pols, including Obama-Bean in April, 2006, Congresswoman Bean in January, 2006 and Congresswoman Schakowsky in October, 2005 and opinion makers. You may also watch these "Public Affairs," shows and others at www.itunes.com
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Having trouble watching the Suffredin, Brookins and Allen trilogy on the Public Affairs podcast page or at Itunes.com? Not to worry, you can now go here to watch them all on YouTube.com as well other Public Affairs shows, e.g., our extended interview with Presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson. I am told that almost anybody who has a computer should be able to access Youtube, so no longer will you have an excuse for not watching Public Affairs, as all of our shows, going forward, and many prior ones, will posted on YouTube.com.
**********************************
For more on tonight's show, including a partial transcript topics and the guest, go here.
**********************************
For a compare and contrast of State's Attorney Candidates Suffredin, Brookins and Allen, go here.
******************************
A partial transcript of tonight's show is included, directly, below.
***********************************************
1.5 million dollars for the Dem. State’s Attorney nomination
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you have a million and a half dollars to get elected?
Ald. Allen: I will. I will.
Jeff Berkowitz: That’s what you need to get elected in the Democratic Primary [for State’s Attorney]?
Ald. Allen: I will.
Jeff Berkowitz: You’ve got $500,000 that’s committed to you already?
Ald. Allen: I have and it’s very gratifying that people are enthusiastically supporting my candidacy and it’s humbling, so I’m ready to go.
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What did Daley and Devine know and when did they know it?
Ald. Allen: …they were arrested and there were physical signs of abuse and it was hard to refute but yet it was public and people heard it for the first time. It was a bad time in Chicago—
Jeff Berkowitz: They heard if for the first time.
Ald. Allen: Well, they heard and saw, pretty good solid evidence of police abuse of a prisoner in custody.
Jeff Berkowitz: Torture? Torture to get a confession?
Ald. Allen: Well, you can call it what you want.
Jeff Berkowitz: You’d call it abuse?
Ald. Allen: Yeah, well, when you put a plastic—
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, you were the public defender, how would you refer to it”?
Ald. Allen: Well, I’d call it-- torture is the word everyone is using now-- I’d call it beating a confession out of somebody. Okay, I don’t use fancy words. When you put a plastic bag over someone’s head and try to get him to talk, you put a telephone book on someone’s head and hit it with a baseball bat--
Jeff Berkowitz: That will get him talking; that may get him confessing to things he didn’t do.
Ald. Allen: The point is its wrong. The point is it shouldn’t happen…
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Ald. Allen …all I know is there were rumblings among defense lawyers. The system at 26 th and California was talking about it and it was always area 2 and it was Lt. Birge.
Jeff Berkowitz: Mayor Daley’s First Ass’t then was now state’s attorney Dick Devine.Ald. Allen: That’s correct.
Jeff Berkowitz: He has been the State’s Attorney for the last 11 years.
Ald. Allen: Yeah, right.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, wouldn’t Daley have to say to Devine: "Let’s find out what’s going on here and let’s do the right thing."
Ald. Allen: Well, that’s what would happen in my office-- if I were the prosecutor.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, did Daley ever tell people, has he said publicly, “that’s what I was doing, I was talking to Devine, we were trying to find out, but we couldn’t. Is that what Daley said?
Ald. Allen: Oh, I don’t know what Daley said.
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Chicago Ald. Tom Allen, candidate in the Democratic Primary for State's Attorney of Cook County, IL, as he is airing tonight at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21, CANTV on the City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs and tonight at 7:30 pm on Aurora Community Television, on Comcast Cable Ch. 10 in Aurora and some surrounding areas. The show was recorded on October 21, 2007.[You may also go here to watch Ald. Allen and some of his competitors in the Democratic Primary, i.e., Comm. Suffredin and Ald. Brookins; as well as 8th CD Republican Primary candidate Kirk Morris, Cong. Bean [January, 2006], Presidential Candidates Obama and Giuliani and many other politicians on PublicAffairsTV.com].
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. You may watch "Public Affairs," shows with Presidential Candidates Richardson, Obama, McCain, Giuliani and Cox and many other pols at www.PublicAffairsTv.com
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