Chicago aldermen are pretty uninhibited during speeches on the council floor. So much so, they may well huddle together and take truth serum before the opening roll call.
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That morning’s papers had reported that Alderman Burton Natarus led things off by demanding, “Are you as good as [former budget director] Paul Vallas?” Aldermen John Buchanan and Allan Streeter favorably compared Aigotti’s physical appearance with Vallas’s. The Sun-Times’s Fran Spielman called it “a hefty dose of City Hall male chauvinism,” while the Tribune’s John Kass said the aldermen “acted more like schoolboys than legislators.”
“I happened not to be here the other day when Mrs. Lumpkin appeared before the Finance Committee,” Shaw began.
“But I’m for women–now I want you to know that, you people over there,” Shaw finished, waving toward the press box.
“This is a good project,” said Beavers. “Hopefully one day when–well, I’m almost a senior now. Maybe I’ll move down there. Heheheheh.”
