Sunshine Superman! -- Updated!

By: daniellefave

Many of you may remember that back in March Alderman Dave Schmidtzkrieg got into trouble with Mayor Howard and his council lapdogs for daring to disclose public business to the public.

The PRU Crew decided to nominate Ald. Dave for a Sunshine Troublemaker of the Week award, and Ald. Dave won!

The Open Records blog wrote, "Alderman Schmidt’s response to a “resolution of condemnation” signed by the Mayor and several other alderman is that it is an: …illegal resolution [which] will have absolutely no effect on how I conduct myself as an alderman, so the mayor’s behind-the-scenes machinations were a complete waste of time.”

As with most things, time is the test. So we are very pleased to see that Ald. Dave is making good on his promise to continue to be open and honest with the public. And we are very pleased to see Ald. Dave has made that promise part of his campaign platform.

Addendum -- The fine folks over at the Open Records blog have taken notice!

We Have A Winner!

Congratulations, Alderman David Schmidt!

17th Winner of the STOTW!
(Sunshine Troublemaker of the Week - click above link to read)

Carry on and enjoy a rewarding weekend!


"Here Comes The Sun" - performed by Nina Simone
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Goodmorning, Sunshine!

As we told you last week, Mayor Hammer Time Howard and his council lapdogs were busy putting the screws to Alderman Schmidtzkrieg (1st Ward) for daring to disclose public business to the public.

We wanted to do something to try to make Schmidtzkrieg feel better about his terrible behavior. After all, what's this world coming to when a representative actually goes around representing?! Can't have that. Surely Schmidtzkrieg is chastened.

Still, as all seasoned mid-westerners know, February can be one very dreary month. But March is now here and the calendar is progressing as expected toward Spring. We are looking forward to some nice warm sunshine!

So one of the Crew was given the task to look for warm sunny online images of warm sunny sunshine. And that tasky, surfing Crew member found something even better.

Nominations for Sunshine Trouble Maker of the Week!

Schmidtzkrieg, consider yourself nominated! But rest assured, we didn't call you "Schmidtzkrieg" in the glowing email we sent.

The Sunshine Trouble Maker of the Week awards are part of the “State Sunshine and Open Records” blog which is associated with the WikiFoia, a project of the Lucy Burns Institute. It's all about open and transparent government.

We're not kidding.