Chicago Way w/John Kass: Count down to failure, an election story

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (03/28/24): After a week off, John Kass is back with veteran political advisor at Serafin & Associates and co-host of The Crisis Cast, Thom Serafin. Along with Jeff Carlin, the group discuss how the failures at the Chicago Board of Elections have raise a lot of questions about election integrity in Cook […]

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0:00.0	You know it was just in Florida, Southern Florida, in Naples Florida, to talk to a group of great people from the Illinois, Illinois Florida club.
0:09.0	We're at a beautiful golf course called Royal Ponsiella Golf Course and about 200, 300 people.
0:17.0	Dan Prof was sitting with me.
0:19.9	And the people wanted to know what's wrong with Chicago politics and I just kept thinking as because
0:27.0	they were counting votes as I left.
0:29.7	Chicago politics is always Chicago politics and Johnny Rocco,
0:33.0	remember from Johnny Rocco,
0:34.7	runs it down from Key Largo,
0:36.9	one of the great film noir movies of all time.
0:40.0	I won't get away with it, huh? How many times I heard that from dumb coppers I
0:44.3	couldn't count. I still say it. He gave you a left eye to nail me wouldn't you?
0:49.8	Huh? You can see the headlines, can't you? Local deputy captured Johnny Rocco.
0:57.0	Your picture had been all the papers.
1:00.0	You might even get the tell on the newsre, or you pulled it off.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	Well, listen, Hick,
1:07.0	I was too much for any big city police force to handle.
1:10.0	They tried, but they couldn't.
1:13.0	But the United States government had been a rap on me.
1:16.0	Yeah, and they won't make it stick.
1:18.0	Oh, you heck.
1:21.0	I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you ever get a ten buck raise.
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