Union leader says former Cook County Commissioner Ed Moody lied to union, public and can’t be trusted

By Ray Hanania

Former Cook County Commissioner Ed Moody had a bad habit of lying about how he would act on controversial policies from the prevailing wage to the one-cent per-ounce tax on soda pop. Published in The Regional News/Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News Herald. Click here to read the entire column

The public will only get to hear one side of the Federal case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, one-sided spin that will be absent of many of the facts.

Whether it is in Chicago, Springfield, or in Washington D.C., politics is built on building alliances among people who work together strengthening their organization to do what they believe is best for their constituents.

Sometimes it’s not the constituents who become the priority, as was the case of Ed Moody, a former precinct captain for the 13th Ward Democratic Organization and member of Madigan’s Democratic organization who held public office in Cook County.

Using his political ties with people he helped, Moody crawled up the ladder to hold two key jobs, the first was his appointment as Cook County Commissioner to succeed Joan Patricia Murphy in 2016. Murphy died that year.

Former Cook County Commissioner Edward Moody

As Cook County Commissioner, Moody had told me and others about how he would be a champion of the taxpayers, fighting repressive tax hikes, like the one-cent per ounce tax on soda pop.

But that’s not what happened when he got into office.

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning opinion columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.

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