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Article: Foie gras ban shows Daley's losing his grip: Scandals weaken mayor's clout over City Council
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 30, 2006
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The City Council opened itself up to ridicule last week when it
banned foie gras, a liver delicacy most Chicagoans have never tasted
and cannot afford.
But the vote that made Chicago the nation's first major city to
ban rich man's chopped liver was about more than misplaced
priorities. It was about Mayor Daley's diminishing clout over a
legislative body once viewed as his rubber stamp.
The Hired Truck, city hiring and minority contracting scandals
have so weakened Daley -- and neutered the Mayor's Office of
Intergovernmental Affairs that's supposed to lobby aldermen -- that
the mayor can no longer afford to waste his diminishing political
capital on the frivolous.
Never mind that Daley ...