Better than Stephanopoulos w/Arnold: Berkowitz w/Ald. Jackson on a Daley indictment, Cable tonight and Streaming 24-7 : .
Jeff Berkowitz: Didn’t Mayor Daley know what his patronage chief [Sorich] was doing?
Ald. Sandi Jackson[7th ward]: You know what, that question has not yet been answered. Hopefully it will come to light sometime soon.
Jeff Berkowitz: How would it come to light? Could the Mayor be indicted? [Watch the show w/Ald. Jackson]
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The "Public Affairs," show with Ald. Jackson airs throughout the City of Chicago tonight, July 14, at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and the show also airs tonight on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The Aurora station, Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10, reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
A partial transcript of the show is included, below. For another partial transcript and links to an additional partial transcript, a detailed list of show topics and information about Ald. Sandi Jackson, please go here.
To watch the show with Ald. Jackson at a computer near you, please go here.
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Keeping the Mayor honest.
Jeff Berkowitz: …is it your job in part to keep the Mayor honest and if so, is he a more honest guy now than he was a year and half ago?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I think it is the job of the entire City Council to be good stewards of the public’s money…you saw a lot more questioning of our city’s departments…about waste, fraud and abuse within the City’s budgeting process but dare I say—there is still more to be done.
Who was Robert Sorich?
Jeff Berkowitz: What about Robert Sorich? You know Robert Sorich?
Ald. Sandi Jackson [Chicago, 7th ward]: I know of him.
Jeff Berkowitz: What was he doing, and are there people doing the same thing now, even as we speak?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I know that that office has changed dramatically.
Jeff Berkowitz: What did Robert Sorich do?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: He was the Mayor’s official patronage person. He was responsible in the Mayor’s Intergovernmental Office for hiring and firing. And, apparently, this person had a scheme, some kind of chart made up, whereby people who fell within a certain ranking within that chart got city jobs. Some people who weren’t qualified to hold those city jobs got them anyway because of those connections.
Jeff Berkowitz: Political connections? Political rewards?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Political connections. Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: Violations of the Shakman decree?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Absolutely.
Did Sorich take a fall for others? Did Mayor Daley know what Sorich was doing?
Jeff Berkowitz: Which you would know about, because you’re a lawyer.
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Yes, indeed. And I think any time there are those kinds of violations, those things have to be prosecuted and so Mr. Sorich is exactly where he should be.
Jeff Berkowitz: Was he the fall guy?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: No.
Jeff Berkowitz: Didn’t Mayor Daley know what his patronage chief [Sorich] was doing?
Ald. Sandi Jackson[7th ward]: You know what, that question has not yet been answered. Hopefully it will come to light sometime soon.
Will Mayor Daley be indicted?
Jeff Berkowitz: How would it come to light? Could the Mayor be indicted?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I don’t know. I don’t know that answer.
Jeff Berkowitz: Could he?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I know that investigations are still going on. I know that there should always be intense oversight. Any time you have an entity that spends the kind of money that the city of Chicago spends-
Jeff Berkowitz: What do they spend?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Upwards of thirty billion dollars a year.
Jeff Berkowitz: Thirty billion? What’s the budget?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Thirty billion.
Jeff Berkowitz: Does that include the six billion dollars for the Chicago Public Schools?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: It does to a certain degree-
Jeff Berkowitz: Or is that separate?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Really, the state [city?] has fallen short, I have to say, on budgeting. On education issues.
Jeff Berkowitz: We’ll get to that. But the thirty billion includes six billion for the Chicago Public Schools?
Ald. Sandi Jackson[7th ward]: It includes the six billion for the Chicago city schools.
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Thanks to "Public Affairs," intern Amy Allen for preparing a draft of the above partial transcript of tonight's City of Chicago and City of Aurora editions of "Public Affairs."
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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 Obama, McCain, Giuliani and Cox, next week's suburban edition of Public Affairs with State Rep. Candidate Tim Stratton (R-Glencoe, 58th Dist.), last Monday night's Chicago and Aurora show with State Rep. Mark Beaubien (R-Wauconda), Tonight's City of Chicago and City of Aurora edition of Public Affairs w/Ald. Sandi Jackson, our prior show with 13th CD Dem. Nominee Scott Harper, State Sen. Kwame Raoul (D-Chicago); State Senator John Cullerton (D-Chicago), Comm. Forrest Claypool (D-Chicago), State Rep. Candidate Joan Solms (R-Aurora), 6th CD Democratic candidate, Colonel Jill Morgenthaler (Ret.), State Rep. Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) and shows with many other pols at www.PublicAffairsTv.com
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Now included on the Public Affairs YouTube page is tonight's show in the cities of Chicago and Aurora withAld. Sandi Jackson. Another very recently posted show on the Public Affairs YouTube page is next week's suburban edition of Public Affairs with State Rep. Candidate Tim Stratton (R-Glencoe, 58th Dist.), last Monday night's Chicago and Aurora show with State Rep. Mark Beaubien (R-Wauconda). Other recently posted shows include our prior show in Chicago, Aurora and across the State of Illinois with 13th CD Dem. Nominee Scott Harper, our prior show with Sen. Kwame Raoul(D-Chicago), Senator John Cullerton (D-Chicago)- watch here; State Rep. candidate Joan Solms (R-Aurora), Comm. Forrest Claypool (D-Chicago) on the Obama Presidential campaign and shows with many other pols
Ald. Sandi Jackson[7th ward]: You know what, that question has not yet been answered. Hopefully it will come to light sometime soon.
Jeff Berkowitz: How would it come to light? Could the Mayor be indicted? [Watch the show w/Ald. Jackson]
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The "Public Affairs," show with Ald. Jackson airs throughout the City of Chicago tonight, July 14, at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and the show also airs tonight on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The Aurora station, Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10, reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
A partial transcript of the show is included, below. For another partial transcript and links to an additional partial transcript, a detailed list of show topics and information about Ald. Sandi Jackson, please go here.
To watch the show with Ald. Jackson at a computer near you, please go here.
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Keeping the Mayor honest.
Jeff Berkowitz: …is it your job in part to keep the Mayor honest and if so, is he a more honest guy now than he was a year and half ago?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I think it is the job of the entire City Council to be good stewards of the public’s money…you saw a lot more questioning of our city’s departments…about waste, fraud and abuse within the City’s budgeting process but dare I say—there is still more to be done.
Who was Robert Sorich?
Jeff Berkowitz: What about Robert Sorich? You know Robert Sorich?
Ald. Sandi Jackson [Chicago, 7th ward]: I know of him.
Jeff Berkowitz: What was he doing, and are there people doing the same thing now, even as we speak?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I know that that office has changed dramatically.
Jeff Berkowitz: What did Robert Sorich do?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: He was the Mayor’s official patronage person. He was responsible in the Mayor’s Intergovernmental Office for hiring and firing. And, apparently, this person had a scheme, some kind of chart made up, whereby people who fell within a certain ranking within that chart got city jobs. Some people who weren’t qualified to hold those city jobs got them anyway because of those connections.
Jeff Berkowitz: Political connections? Political rewards?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Political connections. Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: Violations of the Shakman decree?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Absolutely.
Did Sorich take a fall for others? Did Mayor Daley know what Sorich was doing?
Jeff Berkowitz: Which you would know about, because you’re a lawyer.
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Yes, indeed. And I think any time there are those kinds of violations, those things have to be prosecuted and so Mr. Sorich is exactly where he should be.
Jeff Berkowitz: Was he the fall guy?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: No.
Jeff Berkowitz: Didn’t Mayor Daley know what his patronage chief [Sorich] was doing?
Ald. Sandi Jackson[7th ward]: You know what, that question has not yet been answered. Hopefully it will come to light sometime soon.
Will Mayor Daley be indicted?
Jeff Berkowitz: How would it come to light? Could the Mayor be indicted?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I don’t know. I don’t know that answer.
Jeff Berkowitz: Could he?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: I know that investigations are still going on. I know that there should always be intense oversight. Any time you have an entity that spends the kind of money that the city of Chicago spends-
Jeff Berkowitz: What do they spend?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Upwards of thirty billion dollars a year.
Jeff Berkowitz: Thirty billion? What’s the budget?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Thirty billion.
Jeff Berkowitz: Does that include the six billion dollars for the Chicago Public Schools?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: It does to a certain degree-
Jeff Berkowitz: Or is that separate?
Ald. Sandi Jackson: Really, the state [city?] has fallen short, I have to say, on budgeting. On education issues.
Jeff Berkowitz: We’ll get to that. But the thirty billion includes six billion for the Chicago Public Schools?
Ald. Sandi Jackson[7th ward]: It includes the six billion for the Chicago city schools.
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Thanks to "Public Affairs," intern Amy Allen for preparing a draft of the above partial transcript of tonight's City of Chicago and City of Aurora editions of "Public Affairs."
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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 Obama, McCain, Giuliani and Cox, next week's suburban edition of Public Affairs with State Rep. Candidate Tim Stratton (R-Glencoe, 58th Dist.), last Monday night's Chicago and Aurora show with State Rep. Mark Beaubien (R-Wauconda), Tonight's City of Chicago and City of Aurora edition of Public Affairs w/Ald. Sandi Jackson, our prior show with 13th CD Dem. Nominee Scott Harper, State Sen. Kwame Raoul (D-Chicago); State Senator John Cullerton (D-Chicago), Comm. Forrest Claypool (D-Chicago), State Rep. Candidate Joan Solms (R-Aurora), 6th CD Democratic candidate, Colonel Jill Morgenthaler (Ret.), State Rep. Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) and shows with many other pols at www.PublicAffairsTv.com
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Now included on the Public Affairs YouTube page is tonight's show in the cities of Chicago and Aurora withAld. Sandi Jackson. Another very recently posted show on the Public Affairs YouTube page is next week's suburban edition of Public Affairs with State Rep. Candidate Tim Stratton (R-Glencoe, 58th Dist.), last Monday night's Chicago and Aurora show with State Rep. Mark Beaubien (R-Wauconda). Other recently posted shows include our prior show in Chicago, Aurora and across the State of Illinois with 13th CD Dem. Nominee Scott Harper, our prior show with Sen. Kwame Raoul(D-Chicago), Senator John Cullerton (D-Chicago)- watch here; State Rep. candidate Joan Solms (R-Aurora), Comm. Forrest Claypool (D-Chicago) on the Obama Presidential campaign and shows with many other pols
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