Osterspeak

This account helpfully translates 48th Ward alderman's carefully worded deflections into language we can all understand!

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

Translation:

Reopening mental health clinics isn't real.
Taxing developers, corporations and LaSalle Street isn't real.
Fully funded public schools aren't real.

What is real: my landlord donors & promotions from the mayor.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

AS WILL I

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

.... democratic ... zoning? ... process? Huh?

Whatever happened to working out an entire plan with the developer and then telling having town halls where you tell the public to support it or they'll get nothing???

[Rossana Rodriguez 🌹🇵🇷✊🏽🏳️‍🌈 @RossanaFor33]

🧶In the 33rd ward we have a Community Driven Zoning Process (modeled after @CDRosa’s in the 35th) to democratize zoning decisions so that our communities have a say over how our neighborhoods are developed. The idea that all alders use their powers in corrupt ways is not true.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

Awesome Tom! I wish people could have been vaccinated before they got COVID from you illegally opening your restaurant.

https://t.co/tV2RR13L5G

[Alderman Bennett Lawson @AldLawson]

Tomorrow >110,000 vaccine appointments will be opening up at the new United Center vaccination site. Those over 65 can sign up either online at https://t.co/76lU1WmsxD or by calling 312-746-4835. Appts. open at 8:30 tomorrow morning.

[Louisa Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu]

Tank Noodle employees, past and present, I'd like to hear your story for @ChiTribFood: 'Tank Noodle to pay nearly $700,000 in back wages to 60 employees after federal investigation' https://t.co/F9Dxc0jXm9

[Joe Ward @JayDubWard]

Tank Noodle, whose owners came under fire for attending the Jan. 6 Trump rally, has been ordered to pay $700,000 in back wages to 60 employees.

https://t.co/wJEXauz7eG

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

As we all know, I have long opposed the undemocratic practice of appointments.*

Please remember this extremely progressive & principled act of bravery in 2023!

*does not apply to appointments that directly benefit me or my staff. Those are different!

https://t.co/O7zbrUARob

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I'm scolding my Southside colleague because my own constituents protested me for not supporting him. But I'm also voting for his ordinance. Someone explain me to me please.

[Alex Nitkin @AlexNitkin]

Wow from @48Ward: "Ald. Sigcho-Lopez been alderman for 18 months and has shown his inability to work with the administration and his colleagues to get something done." Says he supports the 6-month freeze to see if Sigcho can "develop plans and work w/ colleagues" and the admin.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

My friends,

I love cops. I love gentrification. You know this.

So when Pilsen said No Landmark Ordinance, I called my developer donors.

And when 48th Ward constituents came to my house tonight to demand I vote No, I called the police.

Police + Developers = Harry = <3

[Kelly Garcia @_KellyGarcia__]

Osterman just closed his living room blinds while protestors demand to speak to him

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

It's time for people to give up control over police reform policy! You know, the control that everyday people famously have over police reform!

[Alex Nitkin @AlexNitkin]

"GAPA has been stalled, not by its hard-working community leaders, but by those unwilling to give up control over police reform policy."

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

Let's take a look at the hard work I've done to protect renters and homeowners during the worst economic crash of our lifetimes:

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

Hearing about the verdicts on Breonna Taylor's murderers, I rushed to send this email to the ward, letting them know I shared their anger and that they should visit these local restaurants for a delicious meal!

Hope that communicated my priorities. I still oppose CPAC.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I am still against CPAC. I am still against Defunding CPD. I am grateful for the police, whose union endorsed Donald Trump yesterday.

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

What happens when Chicago cops speak up about police misconduct? Their lives are ruined, whistleblowers say. https://t.co/WAAAJEwUSN

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I'm taking proactive steps to wait until after homelessness hits our communities to act! Keeping the police who will harass those homeless people fully funded, though.

[Alex Nitkin @AlexNitkin]

Ald. @King4thWard says communities are "stepping up" to add homeless shelter capacity now, but city must prepare for "the larger issue" of increased homelessness as an effect of COVID. She and Housing Committee chair @48Ward say it'll be impt to consider in future budgets

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

We've done some smart things to fund our schools, like selling advertising space to realtors outside them (not kidding)!

I got that idea from NASCAR.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I'm doing supply drives for local schools! If only I sat on some sort of "City Council" where we could fund the basics that children need to learn.

Funny how the police never need supply drives!

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I'm doing supply drives for local schools! If only I sat on some sort of "City Council" where we could fund the basics that children need to learn.

Funny how the police never need supply drives!

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I'VE BEEN CHEWING MY PENCIL FOR 48 HOURS.... HOW DO I WRITE A VAGUE BOTH-SIDES STATEMENT ABOUT THE POLICE BEATING CHILDREN TO DEFEND A RACIST STATUE??? ... MOUTH FILLING WITH GRAPHITE!!!11...

[48th Ward Neighbors for Justice @48thNeighbors]

It has been 48 hours since the Black Indigenous Rally in which young activists were brutalized by the Chicago Police Department over a Columbus statue, and Alderman Osterman has not released a statement. Even James Cappleman has made a statement.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

As my alderneighbor to the south, James sends me a lot of his inner thoughts and "poems" as he calls them. Most are quite disturbing. What goes on his head, no man can comprehend.

[James Cappleman @JamesCappleman]

My response to all the recent turmoil.

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

When my constituents silently protest police violence and ask me to support CPAC at my office hours, I CALL IN BACKUP!

[Osterspeak @Osterspeak1]

I don't like this

[48th Ward Neighbors for Justice @48thNeighbors]

On Tuesday, Alderman Harry Osterman greeted our members by saying, "Are you here to defend @marydifino?" Clearly, five days after the town hall, he was still shaken from being called out.