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

60 million dollars

they're playing "don't stop believing" at the rauner HQ

quinn HQ is "quiet"

I feel literally sick right now, like nauseated for real.

You and me both. Major bummed. My wife is from Wisconsin, and her twin sis is a teacher there - get ready for Walker-like attacks on labor & education budget slashing here too. Gee thanks Citizens United for making it easier for rich nutters to get into office. Just sick to my stomach ...

Meet Illinois' new governor.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/17314/bruce_rauner_will_run_illinois_like_his_businesses._that_should_terrify_us

My mom, who campaigned for Carol Moseley Braun in '92, voted for Rauner.

Did she say why?

She said she likes candidates with "raun" in their last name.

I got a Rauner exit poll robo call yesterday and answered the questions out of morbid curiosity and the one about "Do you think Bruce Rauner is pro life or pro choice?" really pissed me off because it narrows the focus of that issue so much as to make it almost pointless. Like you can support Roe v. Wade but also destroy women's access to healthcare and it will have the same effect as making abortion illegal.

When asked whether I would prefer to have a beer with Bruce Rauner or Pat Quinn, I said Bruce Rauner because he's rich so I assume he'd buy.

Also: death to that question forever, fuck.

the do raun raun raun the do raun raun

Seriously, though, I don't know the specifics, because I didn't want to engage her when she told me. But I know she was not a fan of Quinn. I also know that she has grown more conservative over the last 10 or 15 years. By no means a Fox News-watching wingnut -- but before she retired, she had become an executive in a hospital system and just generally became more sympathetic to management over labor. Had nothing but scorn for unions. Also, Rauner kind of reminds me (and maybe her?) of her husband.

This question feels kinda dense but I really don't understand the logic behind spending $60 million of one's own personal cash in order to have the right to slash the educational budget for an entire state. It just doesn't make sense to me. I'm worried about the MAP grant and my students' access to higher education and also my job. Trying not to catastrophize this, but man my innards flop around every time I think about it.

it helps to be overseas this year, but yeah, as a state employee I don't want to think about what this means for higher ed statewide, if/when I return to campus.

esp since the president & chancellor of the U of I have been such bunglers already this year

I just hope the fucker gets indicted sooner rather than later.

history's on our side!

You're not just getting a new governor, you're getting his golfing partners.

save us o rahm

jk we r fucked

By no means a Fox News-watching wingnut

Whatever the realities are of what's going to happen, I noticed this too -- people who would never vote for someone campaigning on a conservative social platform supported Rauner as a "smart-businessman Republican" or whatever.

I will ruin you! I will destroy your family! I will eat your children. /rauner

Great. What kind of press is this going to get nationally. How embarrassing.

Speaking of moms, I don't think my mom has voted for an Illinois Democrat in YEARS, because of some weird personal beef (Durbin excepted), and she voted Quinn because she was so scared of Rauner. Illinois is just weird. I think voters just thought, "fuck it. Let's do something new."

I think your last point is a good one. That's definitely where Rauner was pitching his campaign ads.

i feel pretty low about this

2x

Yeah, I did my best to not pay too much attention to this election, but the results are still kind of crushing.

Maybe the voters want Jim Edgar to come back.

Whatever the realities are of what's going to happen, I noticed this too -- people who would never vote for someone campaigning on a conservative social platform supported Rauner as a "smart-businessman Republican" or whatever.

these are the only kinds of republicans that get elected statewide in illinois IIRC, so of course rauner is going to pitch himself that way.

honestly, of all the elections yesterday that went sour, this one bothers me the most, since i wasn't paying quite enough attention to realize that rauner had a real chance (i'm up in wisconsin and sadly assumed Walker was going to win here).

rahm should be ecstatic, he and rauner are buds.

quinn already moved to eviscerate state employee pensions, i can't imagine what rauner will do.

the good news is that none of it matters because human civilization will be wiped out in a few decades anyway.

silver linings

I just found out a friend of mine waited NINE HOURS to vote yesterday.

what

i think a lot of people voting for rauner probably saw the mess that is illinois and said, "well, it can't possibly get any WORSE." they are wrong.

xp Sounds as if his polling place was one that was hit by the election judge robocalls.

Which, btw, is one of the most underhanded dirty things I have ever heard of.

now we will have a sociopathic mayor AND governor, it'll be lovely

But so many free cool summer events!!! Sobsobsob

I've had to actively try to raise my spirits today.

9 hours and Rauner still winning is like waiting for Hot Doug's and the shop closing right before you get in. And then a piano falls on you.

Owe ya a beer if i ever meet ya Jeff 'cause I'm totally tweeting that.

Quinn won the 43rd Ward by only 0.7%:
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20141106/lincoln-park/43rd-ward-split-between-rauner-quinn-vote-totals-show

http://blogs.wttw.com/chicagotonight/files/2011/02/43rd-Ward-Map.jpg

What a wacky ward.

doe trixies vote?

does

they all live in logan square now

http://www.chicagoreader.com/binary/f20a/1415996071-bx152_1480_9.jpg

RIP Jane Byrne

Tony Arnold ‏@tonyjarnold 41 minutes ago

Emanuel says he wouldn't be mayor now without Jane Byrne and Harold Washington breaking glass ceilings before him

demographic check mark 1
demographic check mark 2

yeah - that's pretty screwed up he'd even say something like this - maybe we'll have a future mayor from naperville that'll thank Rahm for breaking the residency glass ceiling

Meanwhile:
http://www.chicagonow.com/kelly-truth-squad/2014/11/rahm-emanuel-bruce-rauner-violate-sec-pay-to-play-rules-with-pension-cash/

Female population of Chicago/America - 51%/51%
Black population of Chicago/America - 32%/12.6%
Jewish population of Chicago/America - 1.1%/2.2% or less

xp I posted that link on fb because somewhere along the way I picked up a Rahm insider friend, B3cky C@rr0ll and I hoped she'd bite. She did, calling the writer a far right tea partier and the article a bunch of BS, so I said I didn't know anything about the writer (I don't) and asked if the report it was based on is false (http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-accepted-campaign-contributions-financial-firms-managing-1723396). She hasn't yet responded.