Chicago Mayor Daley requests bodyguard detail after leaving office

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 5, 2011 | MICHAEL SNEED

[KeyLargo]

Daley requests bodyguard detail after leaving office

MICHAEL SNEED

sneed@suntimes.com Last Modified: May 5, 2011 12:16AM

Bodyguard brouhaha?

Sneed has learned Mayor Daley is requesting a retinue of at least three — around the clock — Chicago Police bodyguards from his mayoral security detail to accompany him into the private sector!

† Sneed also hears whispers Mayor Daley, who retires May 16, wants two vehicles at his disposal; one for himself — and one for his wife, Maggie.

† The request for personal security by Mayor Daley, concerned about serious safety threats, resulted in “the Chicago Police Department contacting the Secret Service to determine whether such security was necessary,” a top source said.

† The upshot: “It was determined Mayor Daley needed the security for a period of time,” the source added.

† What has yet to be determined is how long that period of time would be.

† A second Sneed source claims Mayor Daley initially asked for five bodyguards, but that may have included a number needed for constant surveillance.

† A history note: Although Mayor Jane Byrne, who lost her re-election bid to Harold Washington, did not leave office accompanied by a bodyguard detail, Sneed is told Mayor Eugene Sawyer — who occupied the office for a short period of time — was given a bodyguard. (Mayor Washington died in office.)

† The buckshot: In a time of economic downturn, such surveillance is gonna cost the city big bucks, and may cause a brouhaha.

Stay tuned.

[KeyLargo]

Wonderful! Now Mayor Daley gets 24-7 armed bodyguards for life while the Illinois taxpayers not only pay for it but remain unarmed thanks to Daley.

Illinois: Chicago Mayor Daley calls for more state gun control

Daley backed changes to state law that would require background checks for those buying a gun in a private sale, ban popular semi-autos, require that gun dealers be licensed and ration the number of handgun purchases to one per person per month. Those were all ideas that failed in previous legislative sessions.

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13538

February 14, 2011 Daley launches final gun control push He proposed four new state criminal laws aimed at reducing gun violence and vowed to battle bills that would bar cities and villages from enacting gun-control measures and allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/02/daley-launches-final-gun-control-push.html

[Track9]

I’m assuming that’s body guards with GUNS. Of course, liberals wont see the irony.

[dps.inspect]

Ya think?

[org.whodat]

The frigging idiot thinks he is a crown prince and not just some two bit failed mayor. Damn!!!!

[chickadee]

Crime lords should pay for their own body guards.

[org.whodat]

The frigging idiot thinks he is a crown prince and not just some two bit failed mayor. Damn!!!!

[KeyLargo]

DALEY’S BODYGUARD CATCHES KILLER; ‘WE SHOULD ALL BE SO LUCKY,’ SAYS SAF

For Immediate Release: 7/13/2009

BELLEVUE, WA – The capture of a convicted killer Monday near the Michigan vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley proves that guns in the right hands are necessary for personal safety, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

“Mayor Daley is protected by an armed guard,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “but what about the citizens of his city, who have no such luxury? The mayor is a world class hypocrite, who has bodyguards with guns to protect him from escaped killers like Charles Smith. Yet he is continuing to stubbornly fight against average citizens who are willing to protect themselves, but unable to because of Daley’s deranged double standard about firearms and personal protection.”

http://www.saf.org/viewpr-new.asp?id=299

Daley's old man had 24-7 police guards for life.

[pnh102]

Why doesn’t this guy pay for his own protection if he thinks he needs it so badly?

[DCBryan1]

Daley is one asshat that Henry Bowman needs to visit FIRST.

[Joe Brower]

I'd think Daley wouldn't have to worry about such things, seeing as he's already had Guido, Luigi & co. from the local mob looking after him for some time now.

On second thought, though, now that he's out of power, maybe his mobster buddies might get to thinking he knows too much.

No honor among thieves and all that...

[Jack Hammer]

Yeah, His Royal Majesty King Daley gets professional bodyguards, courtesy of the taxpayers; meanwhile, the commoners face the rampant criminals of Chicago b0ll0cks naked.

Modern politics.

[SC_Pete]

If he sells out his fellow crooks, the FBI could put him under the witness protection program. That would be a win/win.

[KeyLargo]

[neverdem]

BANG! The king is dead. Long live Prince Dick!

Let him protect his own sorry butt like everyone else.

[Do Be]

Let him protect his own sorry butt like everyone else.

Yeah, but make sure he follows the law against citizens being armed.