 It would have enabled her [ Shiller ] to strangle commercial development in her Uptown ward and keep it poor . ... It was a flagrantly bad idea and deserved its defeat . It would have put Helen Shiller and her sidekick , Slim Coleman , in charge of a " community development corporation " whose avowed purpose would be to block private investment in the 46th Ward and use all available space for low @-@ cost housing . This would consolidate their own power by ensuring a constituency of poor and dependent voters . 
