Federal Judge: Ald Jim Gardiner Violated First Amendment by Blocking Critics from Official Facebook Page wttw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wttw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Politicians serve all of their constituents, not just the ones who vote for them. Apparently 45th Ward Ald. Jim Gardiner never got that memo. One of Gardiner’s constituents is Pete Czosnyka, who, as is his right in a free country, puts together a Facebook page that has been openly critical of Gardiner. A few months after Gardiner took office in 2019, Czosnyka was hit with $675 in tickets for .
Editorial: Chicago s IG says Ald Jim Gardiner hit a constituent with a phony fine for weeds The Board of Ethics should whack him back in the pocketbook chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Watchdog: Ald Gardiner Violated Ethics Ordinance by Slapping Critic with Unfounded Tickets wttw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wttw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Chicago Ald. Jim Gardiner violated the city’s ethics code when he allegedly retaliated against a constituent and vocal critic by directing staffers to issue bogus citations against him, Chicago’s top watchdog found in an investigation that makes the embattled alderman the first to be slapped with a probable cause finding in an ethics violation. The specific alderman was not named in the Office .