‘Scrooge’ Daley Squanders $$ Defending Gun Ban; Shuts Down Chicago Services
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is sending city employees home without pay on Christmas Eve, “just like Ebenezer Scrooge would have done,” yet he continues squandering scarce city funds defending an unconscionable, and soon–to–be unconstitutional, handgun ban, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“This is an indefensible ban designed to leave Chicago citizens defenseless,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “yet Mayor Daley is perfectly comfortable pouring public funds down a hole darker than the grave of Jacob Marley, clinging to a law that has been a public safety disaster.
“This folly has cost the citizens of Chicago untold thousands of dollars,” he continued, “and what do they have to show for it? Public employees don’t even get a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings, only a day off without pay. Daley has had years to repeal this law and turn over a new leaf, but his only response has essentially been ‘Bah, Humbug’!”
Harold
