Ever since I had this stroke, I feel like wearing woman's undies and being a big flaming liberal!
Sen. Mark Kirk's proposal for mass arrests to dismantle Chicago's Gangster Disciples triggered a small protest outside his Chicago office Monday just as Rep. Bobby Rush — who dismissed the plan as an "upper-middle-class, white-boy solution" — announced that he will meet with Kirk on Tuesday to talk about the issue.
Kirk, a Republican from Highland Park, told reporters last week that he wanted the 18,000-strong Gangster Disciples crushed and would seek $30 million in federal money for the effort. Last month, Kirk told Fox News in Chicago that he favored a "mass pickup" of the Gangster Disciples and wanted to "put 'em all in the Thomson correctional facility," which Illinois sold to the federal government last year.
Kirk's remarks last week led to a sharp, personal rebuke from Rush, a Chicago Democrat. Along with his "white boy" comment, Rush asserted that Kirk "knows nothing" about the problem and his proposed solution did nothing to create jobs, provide affordable housing or improve urban schools.
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