From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Daley expected to head DOT
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:36:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.133051.13503@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.164127.11899@photon.com>, jbn@photon.com (Joe
>Naiman) writes:
>|> 
>|> President Clinton is expected to announce today that Mayor Daley's
>|> brother,
>|> William Daley, will head the Department of Transportation.
>|> 
>|> Does anyone know if that is good or bad?
>|> 
>|> Joe Naiman
>|> 
>  When was the last time you heard a "Good" decision
>  out of a president or president elect let alone Wash
>  DC. The last "Good"decision I remember was when Nixon
>  resigned...

Last I heard, Bill Daley has no real experience to qualify him specifically
for transportation, but does have a respectable business/financial
background.  And most of us who've been out of school for more than a few
years can probably agree that a good manager/executive doesn't necessarily
have to know jack about what his people are doing, as long as she can verify
that they are doing it well.  (Whether it's possible for the same person
to be a _great_ manager is another question...)

My biggest concern is that one of Mayor Richard Daley's pet projects over
the last several years has been to get a third major airport in Chicago.
The sites proposed so far have, at least in my humble opinion, completely
ignored air safety issues and shown disregard bordering on contempt for
general aviation in northeast Illinois/northern Indiana/southeast Wisconsin.
If Brother Bill's in charge of the DOT, I expect to see this project
moving forward much quicker.  Since the traffic they're trying to serve
would be better handled by a high speed rail infrastructure in the midwest,
the whole thing seems politically motivated.  But I guess Richie needs
the airport to get customers into his casino, the other big pet project.

I'd expect Bill Daley's effect on the future of motorcycling to be pretty
neutral.


ObGunControl:  Just to piss off gun proponents who might otherwise support
either Daley:  I heard on a local news broadcast this morning that
Mayor Daley is trying to start up a national gun control movement organized
along the lines of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.  While I'd expect this'd
be laughed off in some parts of the country, there will be strong local
support; a half dozen or more children have been killed in Chicago in
gang-related shootings in the past 4 months, and we had the Laurie Dann
shootings a few years back.  A lot of neutral folks who would normally
oppose gun control will go into the closet, because of the emotional
side of this issue.  If you support responsible gun ownership and use,
and oppose unreasoned gun control, it may be time to get active again.
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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