The Silent Majority
But the ban’s supporters haven’t figured out how to persuade Daley to take their side. “You don’t want to publicly attack him,” says one strategist, “because then it gets personal and he could hold a grudge.” Yet they don’t want to give him a pass. “At some point you have to hold people accountable,” says another ban supporter.
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“‘Cause we’re working on the stuff, and I’d rather not say.”
It’s hardly Watergate, but according to City Hall sources, Mayor Daley personally ordered the removal of the pedestrian crosswalk on Lake Shore Drive at Buckingham Fountain. It’s such an open secret that city workers told Kathy Schubert he was responsible.
She called 311 and asked to speak to the mayor’s office. “The operator wouldn’t connect me there,” she says. “I said, ‘I don’t need to talk to the mayor, just his office.’ But it didn’t happen.”
Bond said Daley had nothing to do with the closing of the crosswalk, that it was at the recommendation of traffic engineers. She didn’t know if they’d done a study.
