r person,
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8y RON SEIGEL
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hat In _ uing h city
the m yor was p ying or his
c t rn y. out of h city bud t.
Th CI tv c uncil nd cl rk w re
fo d t . hire their own attor
n ys In ON r to de end th m-
elve in th uit, h aid.
"Thi suit and v rdict)
proves that the Mayor is spend
ing the taxpayer's money fool
ishly," McClary said. "It shows
he has no respect for the taxpay
ers and the money they are
spending in Highland Park."
Franklin aid she "fully ex
p ct .. th Mayor's suit would
e di missed "I t was no sur
prise to me," she said. "We were
doingev rything the Home Rule
Act tells us to do."
Mitchell refused to tell the
·MLclugan. Citizen whether Por
ter would appeal th verdict.
Franklin said tha she was
told by Porter that he would not
appeal it.
Porter ha another suit
against the three council memo
b Involving council' refusal
to approve payment for people
he contra with claiming he
had no right under the charter
. to contract with them
harpe id, "Th1. lawsui
will go. Th jud will di mis
his. to
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Christin Franklin id that in
both resolutions, the council em
phasized that while they w re
upporting lobbying efforts of
both firms for casino gambling,
nothing bound the city to accept
eith r firm.
Franklin called this a "eour
t y resolution" rguing that
both firms could lobby the legis-
1 ture no matter what the city
b n p id.
With Highland Park's" en
ous deficit pro lem," Sharpe
city's Gaming ommis-
ion, id h a with th
rna r th t who t nadu i do-
ing hould b ept "for a
hort length of time" to k p the
d al from falling through.
"I do not know about Xan du,
and I am the head of the Gaming
Commission," he id.
S tty Wainwright, Porter's
administrative assistant, said
that what Xanadu was doing
was not simply lobbying for le-
galized mbling but rupport-
ing an onomic plan for th
stat which would include gam
bling Th plan' ould involv
wh re ca inos would band
what provi ions hould made
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"1 t is not a case of th:�LlUJ."
h m rri r," W inwright sa'
Trying to pre ent an ltemate
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ca ino proposals Wainwrii ht
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