Stroger bumbles on budget questions. No one is surprised.
03/24/09
This is almost certainly, without a doubt, one of the worst interview appearances ever made by a politician. If you're Todd Stroger and you're the much maligned, lowly regarded President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, and you know you're going on a program to discuss the county's much discussed and debated budget, you might want to come prepared to appear hawkish on fiscal management.
You should at least know some hard, specific examples of good things in the budget to rebut the questions on the pointless pork projects in there that you'd have to know where coming.
But, that would be to give Todd Stroger too much credit. Here's how it actually went down:
And for all you reformist, good-government Democrats out there... this was a man endorsed as a "good, progressive Democrat" in 2006 by then-Senator Barack Obama. Toss in Obama's endorsement that year of incumbent Gov. Rod Blagojevich the same year, and he's two-for-two.