EAST CHICAGO | Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. is pushing to remove East Chicago Mayor George Pabey from his leadership of the city's Democratic precinct organization in the wake of Pabey's indictment on a public corruption charge.
McDermott, the Lake County Democratic chairman, said Feb. 9, "I hope Mayor Pabey will step down. This is an important election cycle for Democrats, and George Pabey has bigger problems on his plate. He needs to worry about the criminal charges pending against him and voluntarily step aside."
"(Pabey) hasn't had any communication with Tom McDermott. He doesn't feel comfortable commenting on that," Damian Rico, a spokesman for Pabey, said.
If Pabey does step down temporarily, McDermott said he would run this city's organization in Pabey's absence. "I will fill vacancies and work with people to run fairly. If he clears his name, we will give it back to him a day later," McDermott said.
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/foreign-la ... 5d83f.htmlMaybe this makes more sense if McDermott were not an elected official in another city. But this idea reeks of the appearance of evil! Pabey doesn't care about the citizens he was elected to represent. In all these years he doesn't even show up for city council meetings. I wonder how many hours a week he even spends in the city limits. And of those few hours how many are spent in his office and how many are spent at a certain establishment which just happens to serve alcohol. If he did care about East Chicago or the reputation of the Democratic Party he would have resigned from office so that city government could function. From what I've read with the mayor in the midst of this mess of his own doing the city is at best in limbo.
Hey George don't you dare resign nothin for nothin. The GOP thanks you for sending the voters their way.