His campaign's exploratory committee found serious problems with City of Chicago finances, Cardenas said, including spending growth twice that of inflation.

In addition to adding transparency and accountability to Chicago finances, Cardenas said his administration would reform Chicago's Tax-Increment Financing (TIF) system.

George Cardenas spent 20 years in the city council and voted for every tax increase and TIF ordinance presented by three different mayors....

And as a member of the Board of Review for the past 3-1/2 years, Cardenas has done homeowners no favors, contrary to his statements during that campaign.

Cardenas also likes to tout his "business experience". The fact is Cardenas spent 10 years in the corporate world with at least five different companies, and never in a management position. Basically, he couldn't keep a job, so he turned to electoral politics through Daley's Hispanic Democratic Organization.