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The City Council’s ________ [NOUN] committee met ________ [ADVERB / DAY] to discuss a seemingly well-intended ordinance on ________ [IMPRESSIVE, AWE-INSPIRING ADJECTIVE + NOUN] pushed by the Daley administration but disliked by just about everybody else affected, including _______ [NOUN], _______ [NOUN], and ______ [NOUN]. Even aldermen typically loyal to the mayor _______ [ANGRY SOUNDING VERB] the measure, but because committee members had previously agreed to sign off on it, the proposal ______ [VERB THAT MEANS “PASSED”] unanimously.
“We don’t see it as an inherent danger,” said the commissioner. The alderman appeared satisfied.
Perhaps the bluntest assessment came from ___ [ORDINAL NUMBER] Ward alderman _____ [NAME], who often challenges Daley administration initiatives in committee meetings but rarely votes against them. “The issue we’re dealing with here has been around a long time,” he/she noted. “We often wonder when sometimes we pass something, ‘How did we get that on the books?’ after we read it. . . . We have a crisis and then we as legislators, we overreact. We go to extremes.”
