Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz - Tony Peraica

Tony Peraica, Cook County Board Member and Republican Nominee for State's Attorney of Cook County debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz. Topics discussed include whether Peraica's focus on private sector legal practice is a plus or minus for the State's Attorney position; was illegal torture of accused criminal defendants occurring under State's Attorney Daley's watch? Did State's Attorney Daley and First Ass't Devine know about the torture in 1984? Did Daley and Devine know about the torture in the mid and late 80s and fail to prosecute Chicago cops involved in these activities? Should Anita Alvarez have done something about the failure to prosecute in the 80s?

Additional topics include the following: is there a legal conflict of interest between Democratic State's Attorney Nominee Anita Alvarez and her Finance Chairman Robert Clifford relating to the Girl X civil and criminal cases? Did Anita Alvarez improperly authorize only misdemeanor negligent driving charges in a case involving an off duty, inebriated police officer driving a car that killed two young Hispanics in an auto accident? Is this an instance of politics influencing how the State's Attorney office chose to prosecute, as Cmsr. Peraica suggests?




Democratic State's Attorney Nominee Anita Alvarez did not respond to invitations by show host Berkowitz to join Cmsr. Tony Peraica (R-Riverside) to discus and debate the issues on "Public Affairs." It would have been good to have her there to get her views about the State's Attorney's office, as well as her responses to specific issues relating to her raised by Republican State's Attorney Nominee Peraica.

Additional topics include the allegation by Peraica that politics is used to determine who is hired, promoted, as well as to influence many other important decisions in the State's Attorney office; is there a corruption tax in Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois and is this due in good part, as Peraica argues, to the failure of the State's Attorney of Cook County to prosecute public corruption; Is Peraica's lack of experience as a prosecutor an issue in the State's Attorney race? Is Anita Alvarez "one of the boys." Did Alvarez have implicit support from Mayor Daley, Speaker Mike Madigan and Ald. Ed Burke, as Peraica argues, in her primary?

Additional topics include whether street crime is out of control in Chicago and Cook County? If so, who is to blame? Did Anita Alvarez look the other way, as Peraica argues, when it came to prosecuting pubic corruption? Does the State's Attorney's office focus on the low hanging fruit- the self abusers, as Peraica argues, giving the folks running the drug operations, the pushers, a pass?

Has the Gang of Four on the Cook County Board been reduced to the Gang of Two? What happened to Suffredin and Quigley? Did President Todd Stroger win in his battle with the reformers? Is Cook County just not ready for reform? Are Peraica and Claypool blood brothers? Will the Cook County Board roll back the Stroger sales tax increase? Can Peraica win the State's Attorney of Cook County race?

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[housemanchi]

Do we really need 8 more yr's of his garbage, he stands for everything that is wrong in crook county!!! Please no more PHONY TONY!!!