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In-Depth Radio Interview

TomTee — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:05:38 +0000

Chicago media activist and public access expert Mitchell Szczepanczyk interviewed Tom for his radio show. “Ministry of Truth.” (30 min)

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Watch Tom on ABC News Chicago’s “NewsViews”

TomTee — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:14:49 +0000

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Tom on Fox News Sunday

TomTee — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:17:04 +0000

Watch Tom on Fox News Sunday, August 1, 8:30am. Listen to veteran political reporter Mike Flannery’s assessment of the corruption in Cook County.

Tom, Rich, LeAlan on “Chicago Tonight”

TomTee — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:24:12 +0000

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Tresser Profile In Chicago Examiner

TomTee — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:48:28 +0000

From Dr. Linda Shelton’s profile of Tom in the Chicago Examiner:

Tom Tresser, a long-time arts activist, prolific community development practitioner and consultant, organizer and educator, is an announced candidate for President for the Cook County Board of Commissioners. He is emerging as the dark horse candidate because, although a tenacious and talented activist and educator, he is relatively unknown. He is the Green Party candidate for board president.

Read the full article.

Tom Interviewed On Subject Of Corruption

TomTee — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:50:16 +0000

Mike Volpe, the intrepid online political commentator for The Provacateur, interviewed me the other day about the connections bet we en corruption in the city of Chicago and the county of Cook.

He writes:

“I first met up with Tom Tresser when I went to my first Olympics town hall event in the summer. Tresser lead the citizen activist group, No Games Chicago. They opposed the bid, as most have probably figured out. Tresser represented No Games, and their position, in the forum. Here’s how I described Tresser’s best argument that night.

Tresser, on at least five occasions, referred to Daley by the moniker corrupt. No one supporting the bid ever challenged this characterization. Instead, their defense was that the bid was a private non profit effort that is separate from the mayor’s office .

The corruption in Chicago’s City Hall was the number one reason to oppose the Olympics coming to this city. While the Olympics aren’t going to be here, the corruption is a major reason, the corruption hasn’t gone away with it. In fact, it’s a part of daily political life in the city of Chicago, the County of Cook, and the state of Illinois in its entirety.

Tresser announced his candidacy for Cook County Board President back in October. With several scandals hanging over the head of Todd Stroger, the issue of corruption was going to be a major part of the campaign. It is, however, the central part of Tresser’s campaign. In fact, Tresser first made a name for himself, politically, here in Chicago fighting against privatization. Privatization and corruption are now mentioned in the same breath here in Chicago ever since the parking meter debacle. It was this debacle that gave all Chicagoans a first hand taste of the corrosive power of government privatization. Back in 2007, privatization was still being done at the margins. That was when the Chicago Park District tried to give away one of its parks to the private Latin High School. Tresser lead a group of citizen activists to stop this and he succeeded. He also got a first hand taste of Chicago corruption.

As such, I sat down with Tom Tresser this morning for a sweeping interview all about Cook County corruption, its roots, and what a politician dedicated to ending it could do. To understand how serious Tresser, who’s running under the Green Party ticket, takes corruption, you only needed to look at the table we had the interview on. On this table lay three manilla folders stuffed with paper work: folder 1) Chicago corruption folder two 2)Cook County corruption and folder 3) Illinois corruption.” Read the full article.

Tom Interviewed on “Issue Forum”

TomTee — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:50:32 +0000

Frank B. Avila interviewed Tom for CAN-TV’s “Issue Forum.”