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There are lots of reasons Stroger is characterized this way, including the fact that some of it is true. But when election season comes around, precision matters less than perception and polling numbers. As a result, 2008 is looking like the Year of the Anti-Toddler.
It makes some sense that Tony Peraica would make a big deal out of his opposition to Stroger’s management and tax proposals. Peraica’s a Republican Cook County commissioner who lost a tough race to Stroger for the County Board presidency last fall–then led a collection of zealous supporters in an ill-advised storming of the County Building on election night.
Mismanagement in Cook County has been the center of Seventh Ward alderman Sandi Jackson’s campaign for Democratic committeeman against Stroger ally William Beavers and not-so-subtly alluded to by 28th Ward alderman Ed Smith, who’s challenging incumbent recorder of deeds Eugene “Gene” Moore.
