Shortshanks Lied Again

This ChicagoNewsCooperative is turning into quite a nice source for inside info regarding Chicago politics. They seem to be the only ones pointing out that Daley makes it a habit of lying through his teeth - and then backing it up:

• In news conferences over two days in October 2008, the mayor refused to comment on disclosures that Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, had met with the mayor to help advance Mr. Boender’s development plan. Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor’s press secretary, ultimately sent reporters an e-mail message saying that neither Mr. Daley nor his aides “can recall him meeting with the congressman on this project or anything else except for the city’s legislative agenda” in Washington.

  Fast forward to the Boender trial. A former city planning commissioner testified that Mr. Daley met with Mr. Gutierrez and Mr. Boender about the developer’s project, prompting mayoral aides to acknowledge that evidence of the meeting also appeared on the mayor’s personal calendar. City officials confirmed last week that federal investigators had questioned Mr. Daley about the meeting in March 2008, months before he dodged reporters’ questions.

So not only did the actual meeting appear on Daley's personal calendar, but shortly afterward Daley met with the FBI at a downtown hotel about this very same incident. You'd think that being questioned by Federal authorities might stick in your mind and make the Gutierrez meeting a little more memorable.

But then again, we've heard of people meeting feebs before and they described the experience as bland, sort of like meeting a loaf of white bread. Maybe Shortshanks is telling the truth?