As the great Harry Caray used to say, "hello again, everybody!"

This weekend's rain storm drove home the central point of our campaign and the reason residents are flocking to our cause. Many residents experienced their fourth instance of flooding in just the past six months. We have had enough "hundred year floods" to transport us with Buck Rogers to the 25th Century. (Anyone under 4O may need to Google that or ask their parents.)

The mayor's plan to deal with it? Float a bond (pun very much intended) to build a new police station. My plan? Upgrade and better maintain our sewer system, build more and bigger main sewers and relief sewers, seek federal funding for building retention areas under what is left of our city's open space, lobby our state and federal legislators to get communities upstream along the Des Plaines River to build retention areas of their own, and do whatever else we can think of. Now! In general, leave no stone unturned. Enough is enough!

The residents of this community should emphatically reject Frimark's plan to unbalance the budget and increase our city's debt to build a new police station while you wade around in your basements yet another year. Vote no on the police referendums, and vote no on Frimark.

On a much lighter note, I want to thank the talented performers at Washington School and Field School who treated me to delightful performances at their V-Shows last weekend. I had a great time. However, there was one disturbing moment during the Field School show when a third party candidate for mayor came on stage and made a pitch for votes. I would like to have been given equal time. I call upon all voters in the Field School district to reject the candidacy of that Quimby guy. You cannot trust him.

I also want to thank Cheryl Parmet and Bridget Urban who hosted gatherings for me last week. As with the other meet and greets, the company was great and the questions were thoughtful and sincere.

The debates start this Thursday. Stay tuned. It's about to get very interesting. Talk to you soon.