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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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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.


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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Trexit.

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Posted on May 30, 2018