Judy Calls Me

8/29/6 - So, here I am typing and who calls me?

Of course, you know that from the title.

She didn’t say,

Hi, Cal,

which seemed a bit unusual since I remember when we went to get ice cream on South Grand in her freshman legislative year and the last time I saw her at an event she kissed me twice.

Boy, did she have a beater back then. I’m not sure it even had a back floor. Maybe it was a back seat missing. Maybe, a window had plastic over it. Anyway, it was a junker.

We met Senate President Bill Harris at the ice cream parlor and he told us he had an autoimmune disease.

Funny, the things you remember.

Well, anyway, Judy said,

My new plan freezes property taxes for two years.

And provides

more money for schools.

She went quickly on, not giving me a chance to even say,

Hi, Judy. Why are you calling?

Anyway, she said something like

My plan provides both gas and property tax relief.

I waited for her to ask me what I thought about her plan and whether I had any questions, but, eventually, one of those really irritating telephone sounds started.

I guess she didn’t want to talk.

I wanted to ask her about that Chicago casino proposal and whether Daley had agreed to support her.

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I was going to post my Monday piece on Michael Tristano here today, but since he still has a day of freedom and this is more topical, if you want to read it before tomorrow, you'll have to go to McHenry County Blog, where there is a second post summarizing previous stories.