Way better than Brokaw w/Laura Bush: Berkowitz w/Cmsr. Mike Quigley on Cook County Board/ Todd Stroger issues and a 5th CD run, Cable and Streaming
Jeff Berkowitz: So, yes or no, you running for Congress in the 5th Cong. District? If you had to say today, Nov. 23 [2:00 pm]…
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (watch here) (D-Lakeview): There’s no answer. I wish I could tell you, [but] there’s no answer. [On the other hand, what a difference a few hours makes, See here].
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Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check [no secret ballot for a vote by employees in a decision whether to form or join a union], Mike Quigley?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview): Labor is not the enemy here—is my answer. This is a complicated economic picture that is worldwide right now.
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check?
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Mike Quigley: President Stroger’s people are trying to put a good face on
what has been a horrible first term in office and I can’t imagine how he can
get re-elected.
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This week’s suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) (D-Lakeview)discussing and debating with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz issues relating to taxes, spending, borrowing, reform, bluster and bloat on the Cook County Board and political and substantive issues relating to Quigley's potential run to replace Cong. Emanuel in Illinois' 5th Cong. District See, below, for a more detailed list of topics discussed with Cmsr. Mike Quigley.
See, below, for the Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule of "Public Affairs,"
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You can now watch this week's suburban episode of "Public Affairs," with Cmsr. and possible 5th CD candidate Mike Quigley This show was taped on November 23, 2008.
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A partial transcript of this week's suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is included, below
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Jeff Berkowitz: …In terms of [income] taxes, Barack Obama said [do] not increase the taxes on families with incomes less than $250,000. Over two hundred or two hundred fifty thousand dollars, yes [he said], raise their taxes. Do you agree?
Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley: I don’t agree with any tax increase.
Jeff Berkowitz: So you differ with Barack Obama?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview): On the tax issue. I think in this downturn you cannot ask anybody for more money.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check [no secret ballot for a vote by employees in a decision whether to form or join a union], Mike Quigley?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview): Labor is not the enemy here—is my answer. This is a complicated economic picture that is worldwide right now.
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: I am not even going to get into card check right now because it is taking …one fiftieth of the bigger issue, here…I am not going to pick one part and say it’s labor’s fault, they have to solve this issue before we go forward. I think the bigger issue is management and the mistakes that they have made.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Would you do that? If [Cong. Rahm Emanuel] made a deal and said, “I’ll support you and in two years, you’ll step down and I’ll come back.”
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: Never do anything in politics that has the word “deal,” in front of it.
Jeff Berkowitz: Is that your motto? You make no deals?
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Jeff Berkowitz: So, yes or no, you running for Congress in the 5th Cong. District? If you had to say today, Nov. 23 [2:00 pm]…
Mike Quigley: There’s no answer. I wish I could tell you, [but] there’s no answer. [On the other hand, what a difference a few hours makes, See here].
Jeff Berkowitz: Because you just have to focus on the Cook County stuff? That’s it?
Mike Quigley: There is a lot to consider here. I mean—who would take my seat. Who is there that I trust-- would take my seat? No. 2, who would I commit to?
Jeff Berkowitz: [A selection of a replacement for you] will be decided by whom? The committeemen?
Mike Quigley: Yeah, that’s right.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, you don’t have a weight? Are you a committeeman?
Mike Quigley: No.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, you don’t know who would take it, it’s up to somebody else—
Mike Quigley: It could be somebody who would go along with the Mayor and increase taxes.
Jeff Berkowitz: But, there is nothing you can do about that. I mean it is what it is, right?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: All I can do is support somebody who agrees with me…
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Jeff Berkowitz: [Todd Stroger] is going to run in 2010 [for re-election to Cook County Board President] saying he was a reformer. He is going to tell people he came in with a mess [facing the County], without raising taxes- he managed to balance the budget [in the first year]. [He will say] he had to raise taxes eventually. Now, he has put the County on sound [fiscal] footing. This is what he is going to say. He is going to say he established an independent health bureau board [and that] that was his idea, and so that that efficiency is his. You understand this, right?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: Oh, I know what he is going to say.
Jeff Berkowitz: He is already saying it. Eugene Mullins has already said this stuff. And, he is [Stroger’s] communications guy. Is anything that I have just said- that Mullins is saying—accurate?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: Oh, none of it is.
Jeff Berkowitz: Okay.
Mike Quigley: I mean, but—
Jeff Berkowitz: It is all, would you say—one big lie?
Mike Quigley: I don’t want to characterize it any other way. They’re incorrect. They’re campaigning already.
Jeff Berkowitz: Who is they?
Mike Quigley: They’re putting their best faces out there.
Jeff Berkowitz: When you say they, who is they?
Mike Quigley: President Stroger’s people are trying to put a good face on
what has been a horrible first term in office and I can’t imagine how he can
get re-elected. But, I am going to do everything I can to move [Cook]
County forward in the Democratic Primary, the only race where it matters.
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Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview), a veteran of a decade on the Cook County Board and a possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate, debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.
Commissioner Quigley, in addition to his Cook County Board duties, is an adjunct Lecturer at Loyola University, whence he got a law degree. Comm. Quigley, the first reformer to join the County Board (1998), has taught in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago for seven years, teaching courses on environmental policy, local government, and politics.
Mike Quigley got his start as a community activist in Lakeview, where he has lived since 1982 and currently resides with his family. For more about Comm. Mike Quigley, please go here.
Topics discussed on the show include "the four horsemen," on the County Board and what is reform; taxing, spending and borrowing issues on the Cook County Board; the independent board at Cook County's Bureau of Health and how that came to be. Also discussed is the unfolding race in Illinois' 5th Cong. District to replace Cong. Rahm Emanuel, who will be resigning to become President-Elect Barack Obama's Chief of Staff; those considering a run in the 5th CD and Quigley's decision to run or not to run in that race; Quigley's views on card check and secret ballots for employees, bailouts of financial institutions and automakers, raising taxes on families with incomes greater than 250K, term limits, same sex marriage, national healthcare issues and much, much more.
This Program was taped on November 23, 2008.
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Public Affairs Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule.
The show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) is airing this week in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot:
Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette
and Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) will also air throughout the City of Chicago on Monday night, December 8, 2008, at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and that same night 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.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) will also air throughout the City of Rockford (and in surrounding areas) next Friday night, Dec. 11th at 8:00 pm on Cable Ch. 17. The surrounding areas reached by Ch. 17 include Byron, Cedarville, Cherry Valley, Loves Park, Machesney Park, Mount Morris, New Milford, Portions of Ogle County, Oregon, Polo, Stillman Valley, Winnebago, Portions of Boone County and Poplar Grove.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) may also air throughout the State of Illinois on the Illinois Channel. **********************************************************
Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. *************************************************************
"Public Affairs," is a weekly political interview show airing in Chicago on CANTV, in the Chicago metro area, Aurora and Rockford on Comcast and also often on the Illinois Channel. You can watch the shows, including archived shows going back to 2005, here.
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Recently posted shows on the Public Affairs YouTube page include shows with Senator Kirk Dillard (R-Westmont), Cook County Commissioner and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview), State Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skokie) and Cook County Cmsr. and Obama Media Team Member Forrest Claypool and much more.
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Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (watch here) (D-Lakeview): There’s no answer. I wish I could tell you, [but] there’s no answer. [On the other hand, what a difference a few hours makes, See here].
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Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check [no secret ballot for a vote by employees in a decision whether to form or join a union], Mike Quigley?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview): Labor is not the enemy here—is my answer. This is a complicated economic picture that is worldwide right now.
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check?
*************************
Mike Quigley: President Stroger’s people are trying to put a good face on
what has been a horrible first term in office and I can’t imagine how he can
get re-elected.
*************************
This week’s suburban edition of "Public Affairs," features Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) (D-Lakeview)discussing and debating with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz issues relating to taxes, spending, borrowing, reform, bluster and bloat on the Cook County Board and political and substantive issues relating to Quigley's potential run to replace Cong. Emanuel in Illinois' 5th Cong. District See, below, for a more detailed list of topics discussed with Cmsr. Mike Quigley.
See, below, for the Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule of "Public Affairs,"
****************************************************
You can now watch this week's suburban episode of "Public Affairs," with Cmsr. and possible 5th CD candidate Mike Quigley This show was taped on November 23, 2008.
******************************************************
A partial transcript of this week's suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is included, below
************************************************
Jeff Berkowitz: …In terms of [income] taxes, Barack Obama said [do] not increase the taxes on families with incomes less than $250,000. Over two hundred or two hundred fifty thousand dollars, yes [he said], raise their taxes. Do you agree?
Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley: I don’t agree with any tax increase.
Jeff Berkowitz: So you differ with Barack Obama?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview): On the tax issue. I think in this downturn you cannot ask anybody for more money.
**********************************************************************
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check [no secret ballot for a vote by employees in a decision whether to form or join a union], Mike Quigley?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview): Labor is not the enemy here—is my answer. This is a complicated economic picture that is worldwide right now.
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you support card check?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: I am not even going to get into card check right now because it is taking …one fiftieth of the bigger issue, here…I am not going to pick one part and say it’s labor’s fault, they have to solve this issue before we go forward. I think the bigger issue is management and the mistakes that they have made.
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Jeff Berkowitz: Would you do that? If [Cong. Rahm Emanuel] made a deal and said, “I’ll support you and in two years, you’ll step down and I’ll come back.”
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: Never do anything in politics that has the word “deal,” in front of it.
Jeff Berkowitz: Is that your motto? You make no deals?
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Jeff Berkowitz: So, yes or no, you running for Congress in the 5th Cong. District? If you had to say today, Nov. 23 [2:00 pm]…
Mike Quigley: There’s no answer. I wish I could tell you, [but] there’s no answer. [On the other hand, what a difference a few hours makes, See here].
Jeff Berkowitz: Because you just have to focus on the Cook County stuff? That’s it?
Mike Quigley: There is a lot to consider here. I mean—who would take my seat. Who is there that I trust-- would take my seat? No. 2, who would I commit to?
Jeff Berkowitz: [A selection of a replacement for you] will be decided by whom? The committeemen?
Mike Quigley: Yeah, that’s right.
Jeff Berkowitz: And, you don’t have a weight? Are you a committeeman?
Mike Quigley: No.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, you don’t know who would take it, it’s up to somebody else—
Mike Quigley: It could be somebody who would go along with the Mayor and increase taxes.
Jeff Berkowitz: But, there is nothing you can do about that. I mean it is what it is, right?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: All I can do is support somebody who agrees with me…
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Jeff Berkowitz: [Todd Stroger] is going to run in 2010 [for re-election to Cook County Board President] saying he was a reformer. He is going to tell people he came in with a mess [facing the County], without raising taxes- he managed to balance the budget [in the first year]. [He will say] he had to raise taxes eventually. Now, he has put the County on sound [fiscal] footing. This is what he is going to say. He is going to say he established an independent health bureau board [and that] that was his idea, and so that that efficiency is his. You understand this, right?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: Oh, I know what he is going to say.
Jeff Berkowitz: He is already saying it. Eugene Mullins has already said this stuff. And, he is [Stroger’s] communications guy. Is anything that I have just said- that Mullins is saying—accurate?
Cook County Cmsr. Mike Quigley: Oh, none of it is.
Jeff Berkowitz: Okay.
Mike Quigley: I mean, but—
Jeff Berkowitz: It is all, would you say—one big lie?
Mike Quigley: I don’t want to characterize it any other way. They’re incorrect. They’re campaigning already.
Jeff Berkowitz: Who is they?
Mike Quigley: They’re putting their best faces out there.
Jeff Berkowitz: When you say they, who is they?
Mike Quigley: President Stroger’s people are trying to put a good face on
what has been a horrible first term in office and I can’t imagine how he can
get re-elected. But, I am going to do everything I can to move [Cook]
County forward in the Democratic Primary, the only race where it matters.
**************************************************
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview), a veteran of a decade on the Cook County Board and a possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate, debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.
Commissioner Quigley, in addition to his Cook County Board duties, is an adjunct Lecturer at Loyola University, whence he got a law degree. Comm. Quigley, the first reformer to join the County Board (1998), has taught in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago for seven years, teaching courses on environmental policy, local government, and politics.
Mike Quigley got his start as a community activist in Lakeview, where he has lived since 1982 and currently resides with his family. For more about Comm. Mike Quigley, please go here.
Topics discussed on the show include "the four horsemen," on the County Board and what is reform; taxing, spending and borrowing issues on the Cook County Board; the independent board at Cook County's Bureau of Health and how that came to be. Also discussed is the unfolding race in Illinois' 5th Cong. District to replace Cong. Rahm Emanuel, who will be resigning to become President-Elect Barack Obama's Chief of Staff; those considering a run in the 5th CD and Quigley's decision to run or not to run in that race; Quigley's views on card check and secret ballots for employees, bailouts of financial institutions and automakers, raising taxes on families with incomes greater than 250K, term limits, same sex marriage, national healthcare issues and much, much more.
This Program was taped on November 23, 2008.
*************************************************
Public Affairs Chicago Metro suburban airing schedule.
The show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) is airing this week in the North and Northwest Chicago Metro suburbs in its regular slot:
Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, parts of Inverness, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette
and Tonight (Tuesday) at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) will also air throughout the City of Chicago on Monday night, December 8, 2008, at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 (CANTV) and that same night 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.
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) will also air throughout the City of Rockford (and in surrounding areas) next Friday night, Dec. 11th at 8:00 pm on Cable Ch. 17. The surrounding areas reached by Ch. 17 include Byron, Cedarville, Cherry Valley, Loves Park, Machesney Park, Mount Morris, New Milford, Portions of Ogle County, Oregon, Polo, Stillman Valley, Winnebago, Portions of Boone County and Poplar Grove.
*********************************************************
The "Public Affairs," show featuring Cook County Cmsr. and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview) may also air throughout the State of Illinois on the Illinois Channel. **********************************************************
Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. *************************************************************
"Public Affairs," is a weekly political interview show airing in Chicago on CANTV, in the Chicago metro area, Aurora and Rockford on Comcast and also often on the Illinois Channel. You can watch the shows, including archived shows going back to 2005, here.
**************************************************
Recently posted shows on the Public Affairs YouTube page include shows with Senator Kirk Dillard (R-Westmont), Cook County Commissioner and possible 5th CD Dem. Primary candidate Mike Quigley (D-Lakeview), State Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skokie) and Cook County Cmsr. and Obama Media Team Member Forrest Claypool and much more.
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