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Originally Posted by cannedairspray
It's fine if you're upset this project has hit a snag; I like it a lot, too. But all this bitching about Reilly is really weird and misplaced at best, at worst just an emotional response that's not rooted in any rationality. The guy is doing what the people in the ward want. You might say they're dickheads, but it's their ward, not yours or mine. Does anyone have any plans to move there or do we just like walking around their neighborhood sometimes, seeing the pretty pictures, and enjoying the view when we're on the LSD?
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I was in Reilly's ward for a large handful of years, and there were times where he did not act in line with what
most residents wanted. He let a small, but vocal, minority dictate what should happen with various projects - a few that got completely shot down dead in the water never to be resurrected again. I don't think it's misplaced at all, especially if you know his history and he's represented you before. If I remember correctly at one point he had sent some of us surveys on various projects, but also remembering correctly I thought it was only for a little bit and it just randomly stopped. It's gone both ways even - there were projects he approved that I thought had dumb factors to them and could tell he wasn't even in line with what was going on around there on a daily basis. Some of them he approved without much hiccup which was great and others he let die or change a bit because of a small but vocal minority.
The first thing I thought when I read about this was "what a dick" because he actually represented me for many years and I remember him making decisions that many of my neighbors and I would talk about - and the consensus was that most of us were not even being asked what we thought about these things in the first place. Maybe it's the residents, but this isn't the first thought that comes into my head when I hear other aldermen reject things. Reilly though? Yeah - after living in his ward for many years, that's basically the first thought that comes to my head with that guy. I have also suggested things to his office and each response basically showed me that he's an asshole.
Regardless, I'm still curious what the objections against a 175 key hotel are in this spot.