Scott Wagaspak

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59 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 12 Dec

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Planet Money · When Chicago pawned its parking meters · 12 Dec 2025 podcast

And one of the aldermen next to me, Dick Mel... Thank you, Mr. President.

He stood up and he said... How many of us read the stuff when we do get it?

That was his quote.

Okay.

And so I hold it up and I kind of yelled out.

I was like, I read it.

I read it.

All right, we've got it.

And lo and behold, this thing kind of got jammed through.

And the final vote was basically five people voting against it.

It was essentially...

okay, well, if you take 150, 200 meters out of operation for four days,

They came back and said, here's the cost of taking those meters out.

One day, I'm sitting in my office here, right where we're doing the interview, and somebody called up and I could hear they were angry.

So I jumped in my car and I go over there.

So I go into the alley.

And there are piles and piles of paper and bags and some of it shredded and some is not.

And I got kind of angry and I was like, man, who throws all this stuff out here?

So I started digging through the piles and I started finding all sorts of meter deal documents.

And I thought, what in the heck is this paper?

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