Travis Bickle is the name of Robert De Niro's character in the movie "Taxi Driver."
Try again.
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Nathan made a 20k total recovery for me back in'96. This was a result of a serious accident in which I was hurt and my vehicle was badly damaged. I didn't have any insurance other than liability at the time. No health insurance as well. I got the medical care I needed, the money to fix my vehicle, and 10k for my pocket. No courts and in less than 10 months. While the liability was pretty clear cut, I wouldn't have gotten squat other than my bills paid if I tried to do it alone.
Nathan has made a living off of our industry for the last 30 or 40 years. The time is my guess since I know his age. He was a driver that put himself through school. In the 80's-90's he was a great guy to use for personal injury. He always took cases from cab drivers and tried to help even if the other party lacked insurance. He even once chased a guy to Alaska to collect a property damage bill for a fellow driver I know.
I guess what I'm trying to tell you is that Don Nathan is a good egg. If he is guilty of anything its trying to help us. Sure he's been dragged into this arguement nonsense. I have been too. Mr. Prez Foulks specializes in turmoil in my opinion.
Nathan is a good person and will help a driver in need. He has great value to us and best of all he knows when to pass the ball to a specialist if needed. Malpractice isn't his middle name. It is a shame that George can't see eye to eye with Don Nathan. It is a loss for all of us in this industry. There is a famous saying about leading a horse to water. I wish I could make all of you guys drink it. We would be stronger for it.
You're right George. Just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. The other things I mentioned were 100 percent the truth. Don Nathan can verify this for you.
You might not have noticed, but the "president" makes us all want to go to "war". The funniest thing about him is that he does admit his group can meet in a bathroom stall.
Don Nathan can work with anyone. Even those that berated him at one time or another. He doesn't carry a grudge. My opinion. Enger is a real strange bird that has improved over the years. He is the kind that wants to make you puke until you get to know him. Again opinion. I would never nominate him for a leader although he has done good work with his group so far. Even I am surprised by this. I thought he was a total loser until now. A great example of a guy that comes off the wrong way but is good inside and is willing to help his fellow man.
Do you think we all will ever be able to put our differences aside to work together? Is this an unrealistic idea? Unfortunately for us all, I think it might be. What do you think?
"Do you think we all will ever be able to put our differences aside to work together? Is this an unrealistic idea? Unfortunately for us all, I think it might be. What do you think?"
Actually I'd say that a lot of drivers and driver groups have put their differences aside and are willing to work together.
Several driver groups have come together to listen to Mr. Geoghegan. Drivers are willing to work together to achieve the common goal we all want.
So the question is are you brave enough to step forward and work with everyone else? If so, why not reveal yourself to everyone so we can move forward?
George
george came with ted to airport and threatende police and police threatended to write lots of tickets to drivers if george publish their name.
be careful of george. he has a temper and don't know how to talk to people polite.
ted is a sweethart but he also gets to angry too fast
"pauli" "johal" "mr. hernandez" and "hassan" seem to be the same person...Peter Enger?
PLease see the new thread posted above.....
-Mike Foulks
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george came with ted to airport and threatende police and police threatended to write lots of tickets to drivers if george publish their name.
be careful of george. he has a temper and don't know how to talk to people polite.
ted is a sweethart but he also gets to angry too fast
Mr. Nathan,
I'm not surprised that you "lost track" of your copy of the CCO Articles of Organization.
Anyone who is a current Chicago cabdriver may participate.
There is no provision concerning felonies.
Convicted felons may vote the same as non-felons.
I believe a felony conviction shouldn't bar anyone from participating in any election.
I believe that convicted felons should be able to run for public office and hold public office. The collective wisdom of the entire body politic deciding who represents them is more important than what a single judge or jury may decide in any particular case.
I, as President of the Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO), will supervise the next the CCO election and the counting of the ballots, which shall be done publicly.
Despite being a wrongly-convicted felon.
The rest of your comments aren't worthy of a response.
-Mike Foulks
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Do the CCO Articles - I've long ago lost track of the copy you sent me - provide for felons to run for office in your organization? Can convicted felons vote for officers in the CCO?
Apropos nothing, do you think it proper for convicted felons, whether they've entered guilty pleas or not, whether they claim to have been wrongfully convicted or not after entering guilty pleas to vote in elections of ANY sort? to hold public electoral office? to run for public electoral office? to count votes in a CCO election? etc.
These are simple questions of credibility. You might appreciate how some of the overwhelming majority of those of us who have never been convicted of felonies might wonder how a convicted felon could be trusted to do any of these things. In fact, the overwhelming majority of cabdrivers have never even been arrested for ANYTHING like a felony much less convicted - rightly or wrongfully.
L:ike I said, I'm a little old man. You can blow and hoe, but you'll never threaten me into being silent. You might shoot me in the head and kill me, but you'll never wear me down. I'm going to go on with the truth about the likes of you. Get used to it. Just cause you tower over me, you'll NEVER intimidate me. And if you try, you'll go down like a ton of dirty bricks on an indictment you'll never beat.
You'll learn what it is to say NO MAS.
Donald Nathan, Esquire
Former C/L #11473
Read the law, and you'll learn how to find the truth.
(10 ILCS 5/3‑5) (from Ch. 46, par. 3‑5)
Sec. 3‑5. No person who has been legally convicted, in this or another State or in any federal court, of any crime, and is serving a sentence of confinement in any penal institution, or who has been convicted under any section of this Act and is serving a sentence of confinement in any penal institution, shall vote, offer to vote, attempt to vote or be permitted to vote at any election until his release from confinement.
Confinement for purposes of this Section shall include any person convicted and imprisoned but granted a furlough as provided by Section 3‑11‑1 of the "Unified Code of Corrections", or admitted to a work release program as provided by Section 3‑13‑2 of the "Unified Code of Corrections". Confinement shall not include any person convicted and imprisoned but released on parole.
Confinement or detention in a jail pending acquittal or conviction of a crime is not a disqualification for voting.
(Source: P.A. 94‑637, eff. 1‑1‑06.)
"Clueless",
Learn how to read, and you might find the truth about Illinois law.
Convicted felons, wrongful or not, may vote as long as they are no longer "confined".
Maybe Donald Nathan, the "director/lawyer" for the CPTDA can explain it to you. Maybe not.
-Mike Foulks
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Read the law, and you'll learn how to find the truth.
(10 ILCS 5/3‑5) (from Ch. 46, par. 3‑5)
Sec. 3‑5. No person who has been legally convicted, in this or another State or in any federal court, of any crime, and is serving a sentence of confinement in any penal institution, or who has been convicted under any section of this Act and is serving a sentence of confinement in any penal institution, shall vote, offer to vote, attempt to vote or be permitted to vote at any election until his release from confinement.
Confinement for purposes of this Section shall include any person convicted and imprisoned but granted a furlough as provided by Section 3‑11‑1 of the "Unified Code of Corrections", or admitted to a work release program as provided by Section 3‑13‑2 of the "Unified Code of Corrections". Confinement shall not include any person convicted and imprisoned but released on parole.
Confinement or detention in a jail pending acquittal or conviction of a crime is not a disqualification for voting.
(Source: P.A. 94‑637, eff. 1‑1‑06.)
I'm satisfied. It's enough for me to hear that felons have the right to hold office in the CCO and vote in its elections. It's enough to know that the only person counting votes in a CCO election is a convicted felon. That's good enough for all of us in the taxi industry who don't have felony backgrounds - which is everyone.
No doubt there will be an even bigger lunch crowd voting in the CCO election on November 19. This will certainly be the case with cabdrivers who want to associate with a convicted felon - who want to rub shoulders with an admitted criminal who made death threats and routinely threatens physical violence in his postings on this forum to little old men like me.
I'm so frail it's shameful that anyone would make such threats. Really, I should report them to the proper authorities, but it would perhaps offend George Lutfallah, and I don't want to do that out of my profound respect for George.
So perhaps in this next CCO election, there will be a huge number of cabdrivers who will want to rub shoulders with a felon. Foulks will have his next day to show us how popular he is with the real Travis Bickles out there - "You talkin' to me?"
I'm done with that Bozo, George, as long as he doesn't attack people in the taxi industry around this town and acts like a decent human being.
If he gets plucky again and picks on people, however, I won't let him bite their throats. I'll craft a few Dickensonian barbs he would well deserve and leave him feeling like El Toro after the picadors have had their hour. By now he probably knows it's not a nice feeling. And it only gets worse because others gang up on him when they see I'm not afraid to call him down for being the bully he is.
His shins are going to stay red forever - even though I'm a little old frail weakling - over 60.
Donald Nathan
Mr. Lutfallah,
Please remove this post per new forum policy as it contains lies.
The first lie is: "...the only person counting votes in a CCO election is a convicted felon."
You may contact John Rees to confirm that he also counted votes in a CCO election. I do not believe that John Rees is a felon, unless decorating one's cab in the whimsical way he does is felonious.
The second lie is: "...a convicted felon - who want to rub shoulders with an admitted criminal who made death threats and routinely threatens physical violence in his postings on this forum to little old men like me."
While I pled guilty to felony telephone harassment, however involuntarily, I never admitted to a specific crime. I never admitted to "making death threats".
Also, I have never "threatened physical violence", certainly not "routinely". If Mr. Nathan takes exception to my figures of speech, he can contact a police department in an attempt to file charges against me. He will find that his interpretation of what constitutes a "threat of physical violence" is quite different from actual law. He himself makes my argument by suggesting that my "shins are going to stay red forever".
I may be nitpicking at this final point, but I don't know of any other "little old men...on this forum" than Mr. Nathan, who isn't that "little" or "old" in the first place. It is indicative of how Mr. Nathan can distort reality to exagerrate his point to leave an unknowing reader with a completely wrong impression of the facts.
There are no "little old men". There is a self-described "little old man". His name is Donald Nathan.
He needs to stop using this discussion forum to defame me. So do others who are not "little" or "old", or even "men", in my opinion.
If they persist, I suggest that you consider warning, suspending, and banning the IP addresses of these disreputable remarks.
Mr. Nathan is not a "a little old frail weakling".
I even doubt that he is much older than 60, if at all.
-Mike Foulks
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I'm satisfied. It's enough for me to hear that felons have the right to hold office in the CCO and vote in its elections. It's enough to know that the only person counting votes in a CCO election is a convicted felon. That's good enough for all of us in the taxi industry who don't have felony backgrounds - which is everyone.
No doubt there will be an even bigger lunch crowd voting in the CCO election on November 19. This will certainly be the case with cabdrivers who want to associate with a convicted felon - who want to rub shoulders with an admitted criminal who made death threats and routinely threatens physical violence in his postings on this forum to little old men like me.
I'm so frail it's shameful that anyone would make such threats. Really, I should report them to the proper authorities, but it would perhaps offend George Lutfallah, and I don't want to do that out of my profound respect for George.
So perhaps in this next CCO election, there will be a huge number of cabdrivers who will want to rub shoulders with a felon. Foulks will have his next day to show us how popular he is with the real Travis Bickles out there - "You talkin' to me?"
I'm done with that Bozo, George, as long as he doesn't attack people in the taxi industry around this town and acts like a decent human being.
If he gets plucky again and picks on people, however, I won't let him bite their throats. I'll craft a few Dickensonian barbs he would well deserve and leave him feeling like El Toro after the picadors have had their hour. By now he probably knows it's not a nice feeling. And it only gets worse because others gang up on him when they see I'm not afraid to call him down for being the bully he is.
His shins are going to stay red forever - even though I'm a little old frail weakling - over 60.
Donald Nathan
I want all of you sissies to stay off this site. It belongs to George and I advise all you to get your own site. If you sissies can't act civilized, than you have no rights to use this site for critizing and making fun of Mike foulks who is reaching out to help cabdrivers.
This site is only for those who are civilized, and you sissies are not civilized! You are all sissies!
I think this is more of an example of the junk that needs to be removed. Perhpas this poster is the other cco member that is known to us. 26 voted but I only know of Mike and Mr. McGee as active members.
Do you have John's phone number? You can email it to me or call me with it, as he might not want it to be made public.
George
george and ted argued with police and george threatedne them and they threatened to write drivers lots of tickets if george publish thier name. my friend saw this.
do not believe lies in dispatcher
george also writes for ted. ted don't know how to write that good.
george does not delete posts because he says he knows they have lies. he deletes posts he doesn't like because they have the truth about him. or opinions about him that he don't like.
give it up george. the drivers are too smart to follow you anywhere.
"pauli" "johal" "mr. hernandez" and "hassan" seem to be the same person...Peter Enger?
PLeas see the new thread posted above.. ..
-Mike Foulks
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george does not delete posts because he says he knows they have lies. he deletes posts he doesn't like because they have the truth about him. or opinions about him that he don't like.
give it up george. the drivers are too smart to follow you anywhere.
I do not believe the courts can take a guilty plea if it is involuntary.
Here is a quote from Mike Foulks: While I pled guilty to felony telephone harassment, however involuntarily,
I think the only way this plea could have been entered involuntarily
would have been if someone was twisting Mikes arm behind the judges back. If one were to use good common sense here what would be the conclusion he/she would come to?
I ask attorney Nathan to tell us if involuntary guilty pleas are taken in a court of law.
There's no point in responding - my posts keep being deleted.
Respond to the issue and your posting won't be deleted.
Did your posting get deleted because you responded to the posting? Or do you think it could have been deleted because of your continued attempt to undermine the forum?
This site is for the free exchange of ideas. I pay for the site. I have paid thousands of dollars to promote the site.
If you have it in your mind somewhere that you are entitled to undermine it with your antics, think again.
If you think there's no point in your responding, you're not alone. A lot of people see no point in many of the things you post.
George
George, I'm with you 100 per cent.
george is a ego maniac and only wants to see things his way. he won't listen to critics and he wants to appoint leaders but won't name them
"pauli" "johal" "mr. hernandez" and "hassan" seem to be the same person...Peter Enger?
Please see the new thread posted above.......
-Mike Foulks
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george is a ego maniac and only wants to see things his way. he won't listen to critics and he wants to appoint leaders but won't name them
who are you? i don't know you or peter enger. are you frined of george lutfallahs? that is why you attack everbody? can you get a life? are you one of georges leaders who want to hide behind his skirts?
It would seem that George L. does not always value your opinions. It is a shame that someone that brings to the table what you do is shunned. The old story about a horse and water applies here.
The word "control" must be one of the issues. Why, I don't know. Nathan is a team player.
Responding to big fat mouth,
Listen, if you don't have anything positive to say, than don't waste your time on this site.
Responding to Ted: A while back you said you were quitting this site. Something to do with no time since you now had a girlfriend. My own thoughts follow:
When did Thaddeus become the ruler here? Did the girlfriend bail?
My last comment: Why not ask others that are familiar with my posts if I know the issues before throwing me out. I have stirred the pot sure, but have also made some of you guys more aware of the issues. Maybe even made a few rethink a stance or two. Ted, what have you done for us? This is a serious question, not trying to make fun.
I have done plenty for you. I walked my feet off collecting signatures on a petition for a fare increase, and I've done it several of times.
I also walked my feet collecting signatures on a petition against the city, to stop the eight hour classes for bogus tickets like seat belts. The only progress I've made was having the class reduced to four hours for the first traffic ticket. I didn't have anyone help me collect 2000 signatures, I've done this by myself in 34 days.
So, this is what I've done for you. I hope you didn't forget that!
Ted, you're a nice man. I know you love George Lutfallah. You've walked through fire for him. But what does this have to do with him deleting my posts? Who cares whether you've collected signatures for him relative to the thread of these postings? What does it have to do with anything posted?
If you feel the need to stroke George, do it I suppose. But do so in some other thread of postings.
Forgive me if I suggest this. I am a non-cabdriver. I have no right to do so according to certain people who post on this so-called "Forum" even though I've been involved in the taxi industry one way or another for the past 40 years.
Gee, that's longer than George or certain felons have been alive.
Donald Nathan
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I have done plenty for you. I walked my feet off collecting signatures on a petition for a fare increase, and I've done it several of times.
I also walked my feet collecting signatures on a petition against the city, to stop the eight hour classes for bogus tickets like seat belts. The only progress I've made was having the class reduced to four hours for the first traffic ticket. I didn't have anyone help me collect 2000 signatures, I've done this by myself in 34 days.
So, this is what I've done for you. I hope you didn't forget that!
Mr. Nathan,
You are careless, insulting, and ultimately useless or distracting.
Ted Budzynski was answering a direct question from "Big Fat Mouth", who questioned Ted Budzynski's worth and record of actual work helping Chicago cabdrivers.
It seems that "Big Fat Mouth" doesn't really know which way is up. Literally hundreds, if not over a thousand (soon to be 2,000) Chicago cabdrivers have had a short conversation with Ted Budzynski and signed a petition he was circulating.
Ted Budzynski actually did most of this on his own...and got results.
Classic Donald Nathan: mischaracterize Ted Budzynski's devotion to his fellow cabdrivers for loyalty to another target of Donald Nathan's: George Lutfallah.
You are a piece of s.h.i.t, Mr. Nathan. I would love to have the opportunity to beat your ass. Perhaps I will get it someday.
I will "beat your ass" figuratively after your lawsuit against the City is concluded. I suggest that you focus more attention on it as it could be your personal Waterloo, Napoleon Dynamite.
You have no right to be elected leadership of the Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO) as you aren't a current Chicago cabdriver anymore.
Thank you so much for constantly demonstrating why outrageous outsiders like you who have no personal interest in this industry shouldn't be any part of this.
You aren't unionizing Chicago cabdrivers. You aren't uniting them either. You aren't helping much at all.
You can't even follow a question an answer from one comment to the next.
Please stop threatening to go away. Just go away. Hurry up and die already. I, for one, look forward to your funeral.
I won't be attending.
-Mike Foulks
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Ted, you're a nice man. I know you love George Lutfallah. You've walked through fire for him. But what does this have to do with him deleting my posts? Who cares whether you've collected signatures for him relative to the thread of these postings? What does it have to do with anything posted?
If you feel the need to stroke George, do it I suppose. But do so in some other thread of postings.
Forgive me if I suggest this. I am a non-cabdriver. I have no right to do so according to certain people who post on this so-called "Forum" even though I've been involved in the taxi industry one way or another for the past 40 years.
Gee, that's longer than George or certain felons have been alive.
Donald Nathan
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I have done plenty for you. I walked my feet off collecting signatures on a petition for a fare increase, and I've done it several of times.
I also walked my feet collecting signatures on a petition against the city, to stop the eight hour classes for bogus tickets like seat belts. The only progress I've made was having the class reduced to four hours for the first traffic ticket. I didn't have anyone help me collect 2000 signatures, I've done this by myself in 34 days.
So, this is what I've done for you. I hope you didn't forget that!
Mike, Can the bylaws be changed once you're out of office?
"Travis Bickle",
You asked: "Mike, Can the bylaws be changed once you're out of office?"
The answer is YES. They can also be changed before then.
-Mike Foulks
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Mike, Can the bylaws be changed once you're out of office?
Mike, Your behavior isn't fitting that of a leader. Perhaps there still is time for you to mend your ways before the November election.
"Travis Bickle",
You wrote: "Mike, Your behavior isn't fitting that of a leader."
What "behavior"? I am not interested in leading the likes of people who hide behind screen names like "Travis Bickle" or "Big Fat Mouth".
You wrote: "Perhaps there still is time for you to mend your ways before the November election."
I am not even sure if I am running for re-election. There will be an election, however.
-Mike Foulks
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Mike, Your behavior isn't fitting that of a leader. Perhaps there still is time for you to mend your ways before the November election.
He seizes the opportunity - threatening violent attack ("I would love to have the opportunity to beat your ass. Perhaps I will get it someday."), felon foulks foams at the mouth again. This time he does so jumping in at the defense of his dedicated friend, Ted Budzynski.
I don't see Ted as an enemy. His heart is a good one, and he works like a dog to make life better for drivers in so many ways. I don't think Ted sees me as an enemy either even though felon foulks would try to create that sentiment.
Stop trying to foment trouble, felon foulks. We all see what you're up to, and it stinks.
Mr. Nathan,
Don't go down any dark alleys. Bad things can happen...and often do.
You aren't a friend to Chicago cabdrivers who want to organize and unite independently of self-interested outsiders like you and Prateek Sampat.
You inflate your self-importance if you think anyone considers you an "enemy". You are a simply an annoyance.
Congratulations for being that. You win nothing.
-Mike Foulks
-Mike Foulks
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He seizes the opportunity - threatening violent attack ("I would love to have the opportunity to beat your ass. Perhaps I will get it someday."), felon foulks foams at the mouth again. This time he does so jumping in at the defense of his dedicated friend, Ted Budzynski.
I don't see Ted as an enemy. His heart is a good one, and he works like a dog to make life better for drivers in so many ways. I don't think Ted sees me as an enemy either even though felon foulks would try to create that sentiment.
Stop trying to foment trouble, felon foulks. We all see what you're up to, and it stinks.
Dark alleys don't frighten me too much even though I'm a little old man next to you Big Mike. You tower over me, so I'll try to stay out of any rat infested dark alley by the Chinatown Hotel. God knows, someone might threaten to kill me over the phone there if I don't give him $125,000 - or would it be $250,000?
It strikes me that George's hired lawyer who is an "outsider" is certainly "self-interested". But on what bases do you conclude I have any "self-interest"? I have nothing I need to gain at this point in my career. At this point, I'm semi-retired. That's why I have time to answer your foolishness.
There's nothing to win - or to lose. There's no competition - for me, that is. But I'll still avoid the dark alley by the Chinatown Hotel so I can be of some use to cabdrivers who might need help one way or another.
By the by, I am awaiting the City's reply brief in the case of The Maginificent Seven. The matter is set for its next status hearing on September 22 at which time Judge Epstein is likely to set the City's motion down for contest sometime in October or November. If the City wins it, likely the Seven will be granted leave to file a Second Amended Petition.
No doubt you are rooting for the City. Why would you want cabdrivers to win?
Donald Nathan
Glad to hear the guys will be allowed to refile if the city gets the first suit dismissed. You have a pledge of money from me to help here.
The alley has some rats in it for sure. However, the roaches inside are the ones crawling around between the ears.
George used this term in the latest issue: Veiled threats. Yours are pretty thin Mike. This isn't the way to treat others. This doesn't look like a president of anything speaking. Its looks more like a felon.......
To tell you the truth, Big Fat Mouth, I'm not quaking in my combat boots about this guy foulks towering over me. He may be a quarter century younger, but I don't think he knows much about doing anything other than threatening people.
That felon foulks would be well advised to keep his distance from me. I won't get more specific.
Donald Nathan
To Don Nathan:
I didn't collect signatures for George, I collected them for the cab drivers and handed them to George. Someone by the name BIG FAT MOUTH asked what did I do for them? I reminded him about the signatures I've collected, and I'm sure you've heard the news that I was stopped by police and the aviation department at O'Hare Airport for passing out fliers. I am boycotting the food stand at O'Hares staging.
I don't always agree with George on everything, but I always let him know what I don't agree with and we try to settle it one human being to another. It also goes the other way around. So I'm not stroking George. If you done something for me, I will return you a favor. It feels good to return.
I have no objections as a non-driver reaching out to help someone.
I like anyone who is nice to me, I don't kiss anybodies feet. When I had a few personal problems, George was there for me when nobody else was. I don't turn my back on anyone because that's the christian way.
Also as a christian, the good book tells us that we should be forgiving, or God won't forgive us. It would be great if we all practice that.
I read The Good Book too. And as a fellow child of Abraham, I share the same beliefs you do even though felon foulks has called me 3/8 schmuck on several occasions. I know you are a decent soul who would never call me an epithet because of my ethnicity - unlike foulks.
My profound respect for your efforts needs to be made clear, Ted. I know you brought back those signatures after making a Herculean effort. And I know full well it DID make a difference. I also know that the boycott of that ptomaine stand has been an important effort you've organized pretty much alone, and I admire you for your courage for standing tall in doing so. Not many would have the balls to do that kind of thing.
I do hope I can do you something good, Ted. You're the kind of man I'd far rather have for an ally in the taxi industry.
Donald Nathan
Thank you Mr. Nathan for the kind words.
Mr. Nathan,
Your pandering to Muslims is pathetic and obvious.
You wrote: "I read The Good Book too."
Really? How often? Do you understand and practice what you read? How so?
You wrote: "And as a fellow child of Abraham, I share the same beliefs you do even though felon foulks has called me 3/8 schmuck on several occasions. I know you are a decent soul who would never call me an epithet because of my ethnicity - unlike foulks."
So tell us, Mr. Nathan, are you a Muslim, Christian, or Jew? What "ethnicity" are you?
How is calling you a "schmuck" an epithet based on your "ethnicity"? Who brought up your "ethnicity" in the first place? I certainly did not. You did.
I couldn't care less about a person's ethnicity other than to understand "where they're coming from" sometimes.
In fact, I am one of the minority of "whites" who can use the word "******" in an appropriate context.
Let me prove this by responding to the rest of your post which panders to Mr. Budzynski and his religious beliefs...
******, please!
(For the record, Mr. Nathan, I quickly upgraded you to 100% schmuck based on your "baiting" objections...or did you conveniently forget?)
YOU ARE NOT A SCHMUCK BECAUSE YOU ARE 3/8 JEW OR ANY FRACTION OF ANY "ETHNICITY".
YOU ARE A SCHMUCK BECAUSE YOU ARE A SCHMUCK, MR. NATHAN. 100%.
-Mike Foulks
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I read The Good Book too. And as a fellow child of Abraham, I share the same beliefs you do even though felon foulks has called me 3/8 schmuck on several occasions. I know you are a decent soul who would never call me an epithet because of my ethnicity - unlike foulks.
My profound respect for your efforts needs to be made clear, Ted. I know you brought back those signatures after making a Herculean effort. And I know full well it DID make a difference. I also know that the boycott of that ptomaine stand has been an important effort you've organized pretty much alone, and I admire you for your courage for standing tall in doing so. Not many would have the balls to do that kind of thing.
I do hope I can do you something good, Ted. You're the kind of man I'd far rather have for an ally in the taxi industry.
Donald Nathan
A slime felon who attacks a member of the Bar does not deserve a response. You pander to a nazi mentality, and there is some of that in every industry including the taxi industry. I pander to no one.
What earthly difference is it what my ethnicity is?
You are the scum who called me "3/8 Schmuck" in postings as far back as last summer. I'll bet "Clueless" could find those posts and toss them up onto the screen, but why bother? We all have your felon number anyway.
You have an appeal of your guilty plea going? Ha ha. You make a great name for yourself in the community through your words on this website. They do get quoted to people who deserve to see them: i.e. Appellate Court Justices. I wonder what affect that might have on your "appeal". Maybe none. That's a chance you take, foulks, when you keep up your assaults on those who struggle for cabdrivers needs and rights.
Your big mouth is how you got yourself convicted. It's likely to be the basis for the denial of any appeal too.
As they say: "What goes around, comes around." See if I'm not right. Take it from an old man.
Donald Nathan
Thank You Mr. Ted for helping us. Are you affiliated with any of the drivers groups?
Thank you for the kind words Mr.Travis Bickle
"Big Fat Mouth",
You wrote: "It would seem that George L. does not always value your opinions. It is a shame that someone that brings to the table what you do is shunned."
What EXACTLY does Donald Nathan "bring to the table"?
You wrote: "The word "control" must be one of the issues. Why, I don't know. Nathan is a team player."
What "team" is Mr. Nathan on? How is he a "team player"? Who is his "coach" or "manager"?
A lot of what you write to "defend" people is full of empty, non-specific phrases, "Big Fat Mouth".
Your screen name that you hide behind is quite appropriate at times.
-Mike Foulks
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It would seem that George L. does not always value your opinions. It is a shame that someone that brings to the table what you do is shunned. The old story about a horse and water applies here.
The word "control" must be one of the issues. Why, I don't know. Nathan is a team player.
You, felon foulks, are on the felon team. You are a criminal. You are a violent man. You live in a gutter. You've accomplished virtually nothing in life, and you know little other than to try to tear down those who are doing things that benefit society.
I am not on a "Team". I have no "Coach", no "Manager". I support groups: UTCC and CPTDA come to mind right away. What do I "bring to the table"? Try 40 years of experience in the taxi industry. That's longer than you've been alive. I also have some rather extensive education and ability to speak and write in the English language, enough to be of use to a lot of cab drivers who have trouble expressing themselves at times. I have my uses.
On the other hand, the only use you seem to have is to bite at the throats of those who try to do things for cabdrivers. Why not stop the foaming at the mouth?
Donald Nathan
Mr. Nathan,
Why don't you tell us why you have to be on a "team"? I certainly never suggested that you must.
I think any "team" with you on it is a "team" in trouble.
You wrote: "You, felon foulks, are on the felon team."
I am a wrongfully-convicted felon, Mr. Nathan. Thers is no "felon team".
You wrote: "You are a criminal."
I am not a criminal.
You wrote: "You are a violent man."
I have never even been arrested or charged with a violent crime.
You wrote: "You live in a gutter."
I live at the Chinatown Hotel. It isn't "the gutter" or a "flophouse".
You wrote: "You've accomplished virtually nothing in life."
You know nothing of what I have or haven't "acomplished in life", Mr. Nathan.
You wrote: "you know little other than to try to tear down those who are doing things that benefit society."
I know little of what little you've done to "benefit" cabdrivers. There's nothing of yours to "tear down". Whine, whine, whine.
What you really "bring to the table" Mr. Nathan is a condescending attitude and an arrogance which doesn't match your contributions, real or imagined.
Your "uses"? You are virtually useless, Mr. Nathan. You have proved incapable of defending cabdrivers' interests at 400 W. Superior.
I am not "foaming at the mouth", Mr. Nathan. I am not a "dog".
However, Mr. Nathan, if you were a "dog foaming at the mouth", I wouldn't hesitate to "put you down".
In fact, I think I just did.
-Mike Foulks
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You, felon foulks, are on the felon team. You are a criminal. You are a violent man. You live in a gutter. You've accomplished virtually nothing in life, and you know little other than to try to tear down those who are doing things that benefit society.
I am not on a "Team". I have no "Coach", no "Manager". I support groups: UTCC and CPTDA come to mind right away. What do I "bring to the table"? Try 40 years of experience in the taxi industry. That's longer than you've been alive. I also have some rather extensive education and ability to speak and write in the English language, enough to be of use to a lot of cab drivers who have trouble expressing themselves at times. I have my uses.
On the other hand, the only use you seem to have is to bite at the throats of those who try to do things for cabdrivers. Why not stop the foaming at the mouth?
Donald Nathan
Read the posting above. It says it all. Low lives deserve no responses. All of foulks assaults are being quoted verbatim to those who need to read them.
You can delete my postings or ban me from your site, but you will never censor or control my thoughts. I have no intention of continuing to post. It is evident that you do not want information to reach the eyes of cab drivers and others in the taxi industry through your forum from my pen.
There are other avenues of communication: the UTCC Voice; the Taxi Website for national communicatons; Wolf Weiss' CPTDA website. And I have other means of making myself heard.
If I have something to say that seems important, perhaps I will post it. But I think I will just join Weiss and boycott your forum, George. I wish you well with your One Big Union. I'll watch from the sidelines to see how hit goes and keep reading the Dispatcher when I pick it up out of the ashcan of Baba Palace. God knows I won't pay for it.
Donald Nathan
"But I think I will just join Weiss and boycott your forum, George."
I literally laughed out loud when I read this. Don, when did Wolf decide to boycott this site? After I banned him a month ago?
That comment was so funny that I have decided to lift Wolf's ban from this site. There's no need to ban him if he's boycotting it.
George
The short answer is "NO". Read Illinois Supreme Court Rule 402. That having been said, there is a whole body of case law about people who claim their voluntary plea was really involuntrary. Since the area of law is not one in which I practice routinely, I am reluctant to comment on it at length.
A specialist in the area of criminal defense law should comment. Over the years, I have probably handled no more than 20 misdemeanor cases for cabdrivewrs and no felonies.
Donald Nathan
Thank You for the answer Don. I for one didn't think a court would accept an involuntary guilty plea. Usually the question of one that pleads guilty is if this is of your own free will.
mike
please stop making a joke out of elections and the cco. for almost one year you have 2 elections, no meeting, no organization, no platform, no goals no strategies, no campaigns no representatives except you calling your self president'. give it up anymoe already. it makes people confused and laughing at americans
"pauli" "johal" "mr. hernandez" and "hassan" seem to be the same person...Peter Enger?
PLease see the new thread posted above........
-Mike Foulks
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mike
please stop making a joke out of elections and the cco. for almost one year you have 2 elections, no meeting, no organization, no platform, no goals no strategies, no campaigns no representatives except you calling your self president'. give it up anymoe already. it makes people confused and laughing at americans
What if Enger is posting under those names? He's saying the right thing. Who cares what he wants to call himself?
