Lhota: City Council Needs Its Own Inspector General  Rob Bennett
for The Wall Street Republican mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota
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(4 of 4)  View all Comments »     • I suggested an IG for member
items on 3/27 in a tweet to a Politicker journo in respects to
Speaker Quinn withholding necessary member items from districts
because she had a little spat with representative. Who knew
Lhota would steal my idea from an FBI sting showing councilman
trying to steal $80K in member items.        While I agree we
need less government and not another bureaucratic layer, there
are elected officials that can be given authority to oversee
member items. The charter might need changing but you do not
need to create a new layer of government. I will make this a key
platform issue for my council campaign.      • The city needs
less government not another layer for an ‘inspector general’.
• I respectfully disagree Mr. Baird.        Let me begin by say