I spent several years as a volunteer for Project LEAP, which stands for Legal Election in All Precincts. First few years, I was a poll watcher. Then I was a Troubleshooter, working with our poll watchers and the State's Attorney's office to prevent vote fraud from taking place.

Project LEAP, incidentally, was founded by Republicans, eager to provide enough Republican Election Judges that the polling places all had Election Judges from both parties.

Chicago hasn't had a really dirty election since before the election of Harold Washington as Mayor. When Harold died, there was some fancy dancing in the City Council and the Deputy Mayor, David Orr, did not become Mayor. Instead, the Aldermen voted in Eugene Sawyer. (We have "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak to thank for that.) Despite its reputation as a “boss-dominated” city, Chicago's governing structure is that of “strong council, weak mayor." That was how the "Vrdolyak 29” held the whole city hostage under Harold Washington's first term.

Chicago may have had a reputation as a city with dirty elections, but a lot of that has changed for the better over the decades. Also, We are now known worldwide for the Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan, the basketball player, than we ever were for Al Caponetti, also known as Al Capone.

Catch up with reality before you make these generalizations, please.

Currently, Fast Eddie is up on Federal Charges for making developers pay him a kickback on their developments in his ward.

Well my friend, "Joe the Plumber" has turned out to be someone else. I know research is something you don't partake in, but for once take a cruise and find out about Joe not only not even being a plumber or having any money to start a company but he owes back taxes and has relative connections back to the days of the Keating 5. And this is only the day after. Listen, it's this hollow rhetoric that people are sick of and a big reason why your man McCain is sinking. We all know Obama and his tax plan favors 95 percent of Americans instead of the 3 percent who are in line to get yet another tax cut if by some fantasy the Republicans get a third term. I don't understand you, your party bankrupts the country and you look for lies and blame with really such transparency. Give up the lame Dem-Libs stuff, it's the Independent voters creating the earthquake below the neoconservative rule the world and bankrupt America. Your dog doesn't hunt anymore...