Showing posts with label MWRD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MWRD. Show all posts

Thursday, March 10, 2016

why Andrew Seo's responses to N'Digo are more BS than good policy...

On January 31, 2016, N'Digo (Hermene Hartman author/publisher) published "Andrew Seo Q&A1054". Andrew Seo(1) is a candidate for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (Wikipedia)in the March 15, 2016 primary.

Seo is running for the two-year term created by Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson leaving before the expiration of his six-year term. The other two candidate on the ballot are Tom Greenhaw (whom I support) and Marty Durkan.

Having worked in local media, I know bringing in sufficient revenue is tough. And there are people working in media who lack expertise in public policy matters. The questions Seo answers in the N'Digo interview allow Seo to get his campaign message out without getting challenged whether his ideas make sense.

Rather than campaign on what MWRD does (deal with storm water and wastewater), Seo is campaigning on a massive change to the status quo. MWRD would takeover City of Chicago (but not suburban Cook) Water Department.