Rahm Emanuel: C/D? (probably going to be a Chicago politics complaint thread too)

Hadn't heard about Kirk's gang plan. In the wake of his stroke and his subsequent support of gay marriage, I'd softened toward him, but yeah, that's dumb.

Is Mark Kirk up and running again, or he he locked away somewhere, issuing statements from the shadows?

He returned to the Senate earlier this year.

I wrote this dude off after his request for emergency dictatorial powers in advance of some g8 meeting or whatever was rebuffed

what i really really really want to know is what the fuck does mark kirk know about our judicial system that makes him think this is legal, much less a remotely good idea?
how out there is this guy?!

i'm still pissed about mark kirk and the people who voted for him

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, May 31, 2013 1:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair the democratic opponent was a joke

and also to be frank bobby rush is a useless blowhard these days.

a pox on pretty much every chicago politician.

Yeah I'm with you, but I'm just wondering what it will take for Chicago to demand less clowny representation/leadership.

I am a Jan (Schakowsky) fan. She's good. State rep Heather Steans also good iirc.

he shops at my sister's CVS, she said he's like 4 ft tall

I too am a major Jan Fan. She is straight up awesome.

Congressman Mike Quigley and State Rep. Anne Williams are also aces. Locally, Toni Preckwinkle seems to be doing the lord's work as Cook Count Board Prez and I hope she keeps it up. There were rumors she might run for mayor and I would actually go out and campaign for her (and not bc I want a city job, as I am done-zo with gov't work in this state/county/city. Barf).

I heard the Preckwinkle for mayor stuff too. The bossman at my former employer was buddy buddy with her.

Patrick FItzgerald got out while the getting was good I guess.

Jan's been in the house for a long-ass time, since the late 80s, iirc.

Schakowsky is my mom's district. she's good (except on Israel, which she coddles too much, but maybe she has to in order to retain Rogers Park Jewish vote?). i doubt she's interesting in running the city. i could see her running for senator, although her husband's political scandal would be an impediment.

although honestly who wants to be in the senate?

I'd give it a whirl.

http://www.wbez.org/news/take-peek-mayor-emanuel%E2%80%99s-tax-returns-107527

Tax returns!

State of the city, 2013:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mayor-spends-tax-dollars-on-sports-arena/Content?oid=9769374

God, I'd totaly run for Senate if ILX financed it.

what would be your platform?

Untrammeled sexual relations with Jake Gyllenhaal clones and compulsory Bryan Ferry listening parties

that might get you Ft Lauderdale

Brooklyn and San Francisco too.

Think I' ll try for a seat in three states.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mayor-emanuel-locks-in-parking-meter-deal/Content?oid=9931786

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/the-most-yolo-congresman-on-facebook

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/16/rahm_emanuel_is_losing_control_of_his_city/

thread needs:

http://i.imgur.com/JduZ79i.jpg

thing is, if there's no well-organized opposition with a charismatic candidate (there isn't), rahm'll still be reelected.

fuuuuuuuuuuuck

note that i heartily approve of anti-rahm graffiti.

btw they closed my mom's old elementary school (she went there in the 1940s/50s)

they even sent in some folks to start stripping the WPA murals from the walls while class was still in session

someone posted this link to a comment that jon/via/chicago made on facebook about the school closings - it's probably the clearest and most damning refutation of the government's claims about why it closed schools: http://www.wbez.org/news/fact-check-chicago-school-closings-107216

thanks -- saving for next semester's "check your facts" lesson
if you can read the word "schools" and not hear Lind@ Lutt0n saying it, i envy you

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/07/01/illinois-appellate-court-tells-city-cough-up-public-records

i hope dumke has protected himself

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/teachers-fired-vienna-beef-gets-tif-subsidy/Content?oid=10294370

On June 11 Mayor Emanuel officially recommended giving about $5 million to Vienna Beef to move its hot dog factory from the north side to Bridgeport. The mayor hailed it as a shrewd investment that will keep at least 250 jobs in Chicago for the next 15 years.

I was gonna post that yesterday but it was so depressing I just stared at it and thought about what I would say if I ever ran into this guy.

is he dead yet

he deserves boiling hot dogs poured over his head

Musically Smearing Rahm Emanuel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgyn5DpVeak#at=15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgyn5DpVeak#at=15

saw this like 5x and lol every single time

He's frottering the heck out of tha chair.

have we discussed this?

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/rahm-files-teachers-and-hoards-tif-funds/Content?oid=10422212

what a sick fuck he is

just a little slice

My guess is that Mayor Emanuel deliberately timed the release of the TIF portal announcement to gain a little positive PR on the day he was firing a couple thousand of school employees, in part because of the millions of TIF dollars he's hoarding.

It doesn't get much more cynical than that.

Just so you know—it wasn't the mayor who broke the news of the latest firings. No, it seems the mayor's never around when the bad news has to be announced.

He was skiing in Utah when CPS announced which schools were being closed. And he was vacationing in Europe when the early round of budget cuts were announced this summer. For all I know, he was skinny-dipping in the Bahamas when word broke of Friday's firings.

He wasn't seen in public that day. Most of the teachers got the bad news in calls from central office bureaucrats who were reading from scripts.

Now that the cuts are official, Emanuel is blaming them on the teachers—or at least the $400 million contribution he has to make to the teachers' dastardly pension system. Speaking of cynicism.

so deb mell huh

amaya pewar just said on facebook that his tif accountability ordinance (discussed here: http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130719/downtown/city-post-tif-district-information-online) has passed

EZ just posted this in the Chicago thread, but I thought it deserved a place here. This shit makes me furious.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/privatization_fetish_grows_how_corporate_stooges_are_costing_cities_millions/

more tif fuckery

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/09/25/mayor-rahm-finds-92-million-for-his-south-loop-deal

lol

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enjoy being maggot food, motherfucker

if you gotta pee on a grave, his would be a good one to choose

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