{"id":527943,"date":"2010-04-14T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01347fe04fe7970c"},"modified":"2010-04-14T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T20:14:21","slug":"daley-picks-beale-to-lead-city-council-police-and-fire-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527943","title":{"rendered":"Daley picks Beale to lead City Council police and fire panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 3:14 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Mayor Richard Daley has named Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, to the influential post of City Council Police and Fire Committee chairman.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cHe\u2019s very good,\u201d Daley said today when asked why he picked Beale. \u201cAnthony has a good career. He works very hard for his community. Up and coming political leader. He\u2019s very good. Good government official. He works very hard in the community.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>If approved by his colleagues, Beale will take the post held until by ex-Ald. Isaac Carothers, 29th. Carothers resigned in February, the same day he pleaded guilty in federal court to accepting bribes in exchange for favorable consideration of a zoning change.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Carothers, a close ally of the mayor, was considered a political force to reckon with. By contrast, Beale is known for his affable manner and is well liked by his colleagues.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Beale was first elected in 1999, when he wrested control of the Far South Side ward from the Shaw brothers with the help of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Rev. James Meeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 3:14 p.m.Mayor Richard Daley has named Ald. Anthony Beale, 9th, to the influential post of City Council Police and Fire Committee chairman.\u201cHe\u2019s very good,\u201d Daley said today when asked why he picked Beale. \u201cAnthony has a good career. He works very hard for his community. Up and coming political leader. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}