Daley gets Distinguished Service Award U.S.Conference of Mayors

[Stuart G]

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January 19, 2011 (WASHINGTON) (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his wife, Maggie, attended a state dinner at the White House for Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday night.


The guest list was dominated by the usual diplomatic heavyweights and business leaders, including the CEOs of Chicago-based Boeing and Motorola.

Daley will host a dinner for President Hu on Thursday when he will travel from Washington to Chicago.

Earlier in the day, the mayor received a standing ovation after receiving the distinguished service award by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which is meeting this week in Washington, D.C.

. After nearly 22 years running the nation's third largest city, he was recognized as the Dean of American Mayors.
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I posted this because this is the same Richard Daley that I met in the early 80s at an event at a Chicago High School..At the time,
he was States Attorney of Cook County. Head prosecutor of the county that Chicago is in, prosecutor in the court system.

In the story that I posted yesterday about Jon Burge and torture in the Chicago Police Department, during some that time,
Daley was in a very high profile job prosecuting criminals, while torture was being committed. Daley's father was also mayor of Chicago so the son had the very best of political connections to all aspects of city government
obviously, since he was elected mayor later and served for 22 years as mayor. (and is still serving now, he is not running for re-election)

While there is no proof, and that has to be stated, cause these people cover themselves and have layers of cover.., it is very very likely that Daley knew about the torture by Burge, since he was prosecuting cases from Burge's arrests in the early 80s. Also, Burge had very strong political connections since this took so many years to get prosecuted and publically exposed. Guess who was in charge of political connections in Chicago during much of this time?..that is correct, the same Richard Daley ,and his organization ,who got the award yesterday from U.S. conference of Mayors, and this man was the son of the other Richard Daley who ran Chicago for many years in the 60s and 70s...

To get to be a Commander in a Police Department and head of a police district, which is what Burge later became, one needed very strong political connections.
So, Burge had those connections and used them.