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Debate over gay business contracts resurfaces

Started by Natasha, July 30, 2009, 11:45:34 AM

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July 30, 2009, 11:45:34 AM
Debate over gay business contracts resurfaces

http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1689040,gay-contracts-chicago-tom-tunney-072809.article
FRAN SPIELMAN
7/29/09

Chicago's first openly gay alderman on Tuesday reopened the volatile debate about whether City Hall should establish contract set-asides for businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered residents.

Six years after raising the issue only to drop it like a hot potato, Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) brought it up again during a Budget Committee hearing called to extend until 2015 a construction set-aside ordinance for minorities and women.
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