Mayor Dick Daley (D - Barackville)

"This is an important step in a landmark consumer protection initiative. This legislation will protect Chicago's children and send a clear message to other jurisdictions considering similar legislation."

- BPA, or bisphenol A, is used to harden plastics in many consumer products...The Chicago City Council passed legislation banning the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA; Mayor Daley will sign it into law.

**The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has determined BPA is safe, as has the rest of the world:

"The new Chicago law is contrary to the global consensus on the safety of BPA and ignores the expert evaluations of scientists and government bodies from around the world." - American Chemistry Council

But Chicago is "doing it for the children."...Isn't that nice?

Maybe someday Dick Daley will get around to doing something meaningful to help Chicago children: So far in the 2008-2009 school year, 36 children have been murdered in Chicago...Yet Dick and his pals in the Democrat-dominated ChiTown legislature find it more important to ban perfectly good baby bottles instead of cracking down on murderers.

Hmmm?!?!? Makes perfectly good sense, I guess...Perfectly good sense in Looney Tune Liberalville, that is.**