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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
said, nth money used to try law­
sui could b u ed in a far 1 t­
t r way"
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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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