Ald. Allen has treated us like second class citizens. If you know who Dave Wannstedt is, they speak the same. Out of the corner of the mouth. This is fact, not fiction. Watch Allen sometime and let me know if I'm wrong. I never trust people that do this. My opinion. Now lets get into what he has done to hold us down in the past year or so.
1) 2007 Lets wait for the gas prices to stabilize. We then can consider a raise.
2) Later: The prices have now stabilized over 4.00 per gallon, a raise in the rates of fare isn't needed.
3) Late September 2008 The raise in the rates of fare has been due for quite some time now. Lets see if we can do something NEXT YEAR.
He also spoke on national public radio about the current lawsuit and said : those guys better be careful about what they ask for. No surcharge and no raise might be what they get here.
Even if we end up getting the raise AFTER the Olympic committee makes it's decision it will have been DELAYED by two years by a side talking Alderman named Tom Allen.
Tell me he's not a bs'er.
PS Allen couldn't even win a democratic primary this spring and was beaten by a previously unknown female contender. I'm not the only one that distrusts him.
