Easy winner for the month of January was Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims. The trigger was pulled January 26 at a Cook County Board meeting. Commissioner Tony Peraica (R) was arguing for lower sales taxes.

What we need to do is concern ourselves with the taxpayers. . . . We have 11.2 unemployment rate in Cook County. In the African American community, it’s probably 40, 50 percent unemployment, among males in particular. This is not the way to help them. The way to help those folks is to let them keep their money in their pockets.

“Those folks“? Oh my God! Commissioner Sims (D) did not let this outrageous slur pass unremarked.

I’m offended. “Those folks?” If that isn’t the most racist statement that’s ever been made in this board. . . . You know, I’m not a person who . . . calls people names, but you are the worst person I think I have ever seen.

You know, I’m not a person who calls people names, but Commissioner Sims, though far from being the worst person I think I have ever seen, is a hysterical nitwit.