Dallas Cook doesn’t feel safe and he says that Belleville crime and street conditions are his priorities. Listen to his plan to put more police on the streets and make Belleville more exciting and he plans to do it working less than 40 hours per week.
In this interview we discuss Cook’s upbringing as the son of a Belleville police officer and his childhood in Belleville’s Stolberg Lake neighborhood. He explains why he doesn’t feel safe for himself and his family in Belleville and what he wants to do about it. He also discusses his association with shock jock, Bob Romanik and his followers.
Cook explains how he feels that the job of Mayor of the largest city in Southern Illinois shouldn’t be a 70-hour-per-week job with perks such as a provided automobile.
Dallas Cook for Mayor Website: http://dallasbcook.com
Dallas Cook Personal Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009079336469
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I can offer this absolute truth: i was contacted by Cook’s campaign via facebook as they sought signatures to put Cook on the ballot. This was our first interaction.
Cook presented information that I questioned. I was quickly confronted then blocked from his page and my dissenting opinions deleted.
I find him thin skinned and petty. This interview further supports my first impression. He has not earned my vote.
Dallas has my vote!
His top 3 priorities:
1. Crime
2. Infrastructure
3. TIF reform
Belleville needs a change, Mark Eckert’s 20 years as an elected official is too long!
I knows this is not a 40 hour work week job.
You cannot do that in a 40 hours. What is he going to do, clock out at 4:30 because it’s the end of day, so what about if he was in the middle of meeting with his new police chief on is he just going to leave because he put his time in for the day and it can wait until tomorrow or Monday if it’s Friday. Oh I forgot if it’s Friday it’s a early day the weekend is starting.
So what about all the meetings that is done after hour is he going to cut the day short so he doesn’t work overtime. What about if there is a city emergency after hours is he not going to wait until the next work day to check into it. Is he not going to be on call?
I have worked over 40 years and any dedicated person does not put 40 hours or less in unless he is the type of person who is just there to collect a pay check.
Sorry but I want my city to have someone in charge who would put more than 40 hours a week in.
His priorities are himself, political party – which is the republicon party and bringing down America from within – and his friends. We do not fit into his plans, look at his actions so far. He wont show up at work, is linked to corrupt people like romanik, his father and who knows who else. Its time to make this clown among the unemployed. Belleville has enough problems without adding to them by electing somebody who doesn’t know what office he wants so he runs for them all without concern for anybody butttt himself….
Cook is just a shill for the republicon party and the ex-con romanik. His father was as corrupt as they come and wants to shut down Mid America airport, that’s just insane! His plans for us shows the true contempt he has for us. He got 80 grand from romanik to get the judges thrown off the ballot so his partner in crime, the lawyer/judge could slither into office. Cook even voted for trump, bost and rauner. That shows he doesn’t care about this area, state or country. There is no redeeming value in cook or the republicon party. The sooner we throw these corrupt creeps out the sooner America and this area will start thriving again…..