MAYBE KENN MILLER WILL PROPOSE A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM FOR NAPERVILLE GIRLS WHO DON’T WANT TO WORK AT SHOW-ME’S (SIC)

4/3/11
I sent the below e-missive to the campaign of one Kenn Miller, a candidate for Naperville mayor whose latest pandergram lauds himself as “champion of diversity” and contends “an Enterprise Center that focuses on Chinese trade would be beneficial to (sic) promoting the importance of Naperville as a center of excellence and entrepreneurial support.” This latest example of Mr. Miller’s never ending determination to spend our money to advance his political career adds ominously, after that last quoted sentence “It (the Enterprise Center) is just one step of many.” Given the mental horsepower displayed in most political discourse, my opposition to Mr. Miller’s ever expansionary plans will doubtless be attacked as a manifestation of some sort of anti-Chinese bias. Such is that state of public discourse in the U.S. these days.

Sadly, our alternatives in Naperville are few. The most salient act of the incumbent, George Pradel, in my mind, is his suggestion to my wife that my daughters, aged 16 and 17, will soon be working at Show-Me’s (sic), a nearby “sports bar” that can best be described as a Hooters, Tilted Kilt wannabe…only with far less class. Then we have one Doug Krause, a city council member who has been hacking around Naperville politics forever. Pradel, who is popular with Naperville residents, who apparently loved being talked to like they are six year olds and being told that their daughters are good only for tarting themselves up to titillate voyeuristic losers who apparently encounter problems getting any attention at home, will in all likelihood win against a divided opposition.

Luckily the mayor of our town has no real power.

Thanks.


4/3/11
Kenn and crew,
And just what else would you like the government to do? Or, probably the better question, is there anything you think the government SHOULDN'T do? An Enterprise Center? Naperville as a center of excellence and entrepreneurial support? C'mon. If you want to support entrepreneurship, how about, rather than picking and choosing which “entrepreneurs” are worthy of government support (a’la Richie Daley), lowering the tax burden and improving services so that entrepreneurs continue to find Naperville an attractive place to locate their businesses? True entrepreneurs aren’t lining up for handouts from ambitious and meretricious politicians; they just don’t want to be taxed needlessly and shaken down ceaselessly so that the local political class can fortify their egos and enhance their public sector futures by appealing to those who don’t stop to think that all that the politicians promise comes out of our pockets.

Your e-mails seem to have become a litany of proposals for government busybodiness designed to "improve" our lives. How about just leaving us alone instead of looking for more things to do with our money?

I can't possibly vote for the buffoon who is currently mayor, who thinks nothing of delivering gratuitous insults to my daughters and my wife while chortling in his normal incoherent, witless manner, and I thought I was going to vote for you, Kenn, but this ceaseless drivel about all that you want the government to do for (to?) me is quickly changing my mind. You sound like a typical Republican who is against big government...unless it is growing in his direction. We don't need more of this excerebrosity; the taxpayers can't afford it.

Mark Quinn