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No new Coroner's building? No bleep!

To quote the great Jay-Z, "If you're having facility problems I feel bad for you son, we got 98 capital projects but a new coroner building ain't one."

I may be taking some literary license there, but if anyone's even mildly surprised that the recent Kane County capital plan has no plans for a new Coroner's facility, then I have a landfill I'm willing to part with dirt cheap.

Having learned nothing from his plethora of previous political faux pas, like that allegorical male bovine in a Wedgwood establishment, Coroner Rob Russell immediately took his losing battle to the press by declaring, “I don’t understand how anybody could think that this office is not in need of a new facility. I’m very concerned about the possibility of ADA or OSHA violations in this building."

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Since "enlightenment" is my middle name and I'm always willing to share my vast wisdom, please permit me to explain just where the Coroner went wrong. And we'll do it Jeopardy style as in, "I'll take ways to aggravate the county chairman and virtually seal your political fate for 200, Alex. "

1. With the other elected officials holding the fiscal line, insist upon a 25 percent budget increase your first year in office.

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Yes! It is the indisputable truth that former Chairman Karen McConnaughay placed a bullseye squarely on former Coroner Chuck West's back and then did her damndest to underfund the office. But as any politico worth their salt knows, redressing that kind of political imbalance takes time - typically four years to be exact.

Continued at the TheFirstWard.net: http://thefirstward.net/2014/05/01/no-new-coroners-building-no-bleep/

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