When Reilly was running for City Council, close to four years ago, she claimed that she baked her muffins with workers that are paid a living wage (at a SCAN forum no less). I found out that this was a lie and confronted her. Her response, “I can’t afford to pay all of my workers a living wage�.

So why the lie smiley Reilly? As usual she was working on a false image to gain the votes of radical and working class minded people in the community.

Now, four years later, she (and her supporters) are working on sharpening up those false credentials again.

Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal sit in prison for taking actual meaningful stands against war, racism, police-brutality, and other government repression. Yet we are supposed to be concerned about an FDA health inspection of Emily Reilly’s bakery.

Emily Reilly recently helped pass a city law that bans political tabling for more than an hour. I am still awaiting trial for being arrested under this unconstitutional law.

Under Reilly’s rule police repression and harassment of the poor, street musicians, and activists critical of the City Council has increased with more laws, no positive changes in the police force, and the abolition of any formal civilian oversight.

Meanwhile Emily Reilly refuses to act on passing a resolution demanding the U.S. withdraw troops from Iraq. Why? Because she is a dyed in the wool Democrat and the Democrats are refusing to call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops because they have more in common with American imperialist oil and weapons profits than with the lives and aspirations of American GIs and the Iraqi people.

The wealthy of America rule through two political parties that are playing a giant game of good cop, bad cop on the population. Both parties beat on you, but one starts promising to beat you a little less during the elections and you vote on your fear of the other. Not all of you, but many of you reading this. They make you think you need to find allies amongst those in the power structure. You want those allies so bad that you overlook the truth. You even get mad when someone like me says that the emperor has no clothes, and you presently have no friends in this government.

Change will come the more people can admit that disturbing reality and rely on their own strength organized in coalitions on issues, organized in unions, and organized in political parties that have no corporate financial or media backing.

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