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The [Wednesday] Papers
"Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer, who's weighing whether to try to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel next year, already has done her part to boost City Hall's finances," the Sun-Times reports.
"Records show that, since 2013, the three vehicles registered to Gainer's Lakeview home have been ticketed nearly 200 times for speed-camera, red-light-camera and parking violations."
Whoa. That hardly even seems possible - I mean, given that Gainer is white.
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"Gainer's family has paid more than $16,500 in fines over the past five years for a long list of infractions the City of Chicago has issued against their 2008 Toyota Highlander sport-utility vehicle and two BMWs - a 2011 BMW 328xi and a 2015 BMW 228xi."
That's a bad look, but let's not jump to conclusions; surely Gainer has a reasonable explanation for what seems from the outside to be gross entitlement and obnoxiousness.
"Gainer wouldn't answer questions about the tickets except to say by e-mail, 'These are family cars and all tickets have been paid.'"
Oh.
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Family cars, but public roads. I mean, it's like saying "These are family knives and the hospital bills of that dude I stabbed have been paid."
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At least she didn't say "I'm juggling a lot like every other working mother."
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The BMWs were not available for comment, but could be seen huddling with Gainer's million-dollar house.
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Game over, Gainer.
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New on the Beachwood . . .
Court Rules Government Officials Who Tweet To The Public Can't Block Users They Disagree With
First Amendment triumphs over Trump. But who will press the matter around here? Assignment Desk, activate!
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Free At Last | A Century Later, The First Black Heavyweight Champion Of The World Is Pardoned Posthumously
After Obama declined, Jack Johnson's Chicago family lost all hope.
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What Nazi Exhibitions Tell Us About How The Far Right Engages Audiences Today
Welcome to Kekistan.
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Ancient Coins Shine In Chicago Auction
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BeachBook
Common Cause Urges FEC To Enact Stronger Proposal For Disclosure Of Online Political Ads,
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Vitamins Don't Work.
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Park District Pulls Proposal For Floating Water Park At Montrose Beach.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
Trump has concluded. That was an extremely dishonest speech.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 30, 2018
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What I mean when I say a bigger issue than the lie-vs.-other-word debate is whether Trump's extreme dishonesty gets covered at all: try to find a story on that rally that notes he said more than a dozen things that weren't true, or just notes he was mostly detached from reality.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 30, 2018
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Pants on fucking golden fire.
So imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich wrote an op-ed for the @WSJ. We at the @BetterGov fact-checked it with @PolitiFact: https://t.co/FaTK1UGg7e
— John Chase (@chasejohn) May 29, 2018
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A WOW story from @elianayjohnson: In front of big-dollar donors, Trump shared classified details of clash with Russian forces in Syria. -->https://t.co/KaZmH4nNws
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 30, 2018
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Here is the President's son retweeting Roseanne Barr's *debunked conspiracy theory about George Soros and Nazis.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) May 29, 2018
*Soros was 2 when Dachau opened. pic.twitter.com/jWaKbLKWFR
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Apparently what this means is that (T)ronc doesn't think it's worth it to serve up its websites without tracking the fuck out of you.
News flash: A source at Tronc says not only have most of the chain's papers blocked EU visitors because of GDPR, but Tronc "currently has no plans to support the EU" because doing so is seen as not economically viable
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) May 29, 2018
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You mean Sen. John Cullerton can kill a bill that has overwhelming support in both Houses and passed by two Chicago referenda by 90 percent? Yep. #ERSBNow
— Parents 4 Teachers (@P4TChicago) May 29, 2018
At the capitol with the ERSB, dying at the hands of @ChicagosMayor and @ILSenDems. #ersbnow @RYHAction pic.twitter.com/gPe6U1r1Ad
— Parents 4 Teachers (@P4TChicago) May 29, 2018
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At least 4,645 people died amid the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico -- not the official government death toll of 64 https://t.co/y7qNpIx6NX
— Charlie Mahtesian (@PoliticoCharlie) May 29, 2018
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Trexit.
Posted on May 30, 2018
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