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[Judy Baar] Topinka's political history for sale
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Jan 05, 2007 08:30pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Saturday, January 6, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | For $18.50, you could walk away from Judy Baar Topinka's campaign office Friday with an armrest from a commercial airplane seat. Or for $4.50, a Prozac logo clock. Better still, for $2.50 there were any of a dozen plaques honoring, thanking or appreciating Topinka for three decades in politics and government.
Scores of items also will be sold from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in Topinka's campaign office at 7808 W. 26th St. in North Riverside. Browsers acquainted with Topinka declared it a fitting disposition of excess property by a woman who sometimes shops in secondhand clothing stores and who's unable to pass up an estate sale.
Here are some of the items for sale:
• Blender
• Bubble gum machine
• Busts of Abraham Lincoln
• Can opener
• Christmas tree decorations
• Couch
• Framed picture of a rooster
• Frisbees
• Ladder
• Large wooden elephant
• Office supplies (including staplers, highlighters, envelopes and paper)
• Romance novels
• VHS video tapes
• Water guns
-- Associated Press
Of course, the sale also underscores a turning point in Topinka's government career.
"It's sad, really," said John Trybus, 21, of Oak Park as he examined a dozen plaques honoring her. "All these things for sale, and many people don't really appreciate what they are. But it's part of the process of life." |
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