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Article: Mell laments his feud with gov went public Alderman: 'I didn't start this thing. He smeared me'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 9, 2005
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Ald. Richard Mell (33rd) laments that it has reached this point.
He's numb, he says, now that a family feud has turned into a very
public civil war within Illinois' first family.
The powerful Chicago alderman returned from Florida on Saturday
and faced the headlines after saying Gov. Blagojevich, who is married
to one of his daughters, was ripping his family apart following a
Will County landfill dispute.
"I wish that it would have never gotten to this point," Mell said.
"I've got two other kids in the middle of this. They love their
sister. They picked us up at the airport and warned us it would be a
rough few days."
Mell was publicly humiliated by Blagojevich's administration,
which ...