Public Affairs w/Quigley
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley (D-Chicago), a veteran of a decade on the Cook County Board, debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal r...
Public Affairs w/Quigley
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley (D-Chicago), a veteran of a decade on the Cook County Board, debates and discusses the issues with show host and executive legal recruiter Jeff Berkowitz.
Commissioner Quigley, in addition to his Cook County Board duties, is an adjunct Lecturer at Loyola University, whence he got a law degree. Comm. Quigley, the first reformer to join the County Board (1998), has taught in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago for seven years, teaching courses on environmental policy, local government, and politics.
Mike Quigley got his start as a community activist in Lake View, where he has lived since 1982 and currently resides with family. For more about Comm. Mike Quigley, please go to http://www.commissionerquigley.com
Topics discussed on the show include "the four horsemen," on the County Board and what is reform; taxing, spending and borrowing issues on the Cook County Board; the independent board at Cook County's Bureau of Health and how that came to be. Also discussed is the unfolding race in Illinois' 5th Cong. District to replace Cong. Rahm Emanuel, who will be resigning to become President-Elect Barack Obama's Chief of Staff; those considering a run in the 5th CD and Quigley's decision to run or not to run in that race; Quigley's views on raising taxes on families with incomes greater than 250K, term limits, same sex marriage, national healthcare issues and much, much more.
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