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

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.

(btw she is the head of Rahm's superpac: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140620/BLOGS02/140629984/emanuel-backers-form-super-pac-to-raise-millions)

So get this, it turns out *making* the donations is legally questionable, but *accepting* them is not. So, according to Rahm's PR hack, everything's cool.

man i saw her post on fb and she sure needs to use a lot of words to justify his behavior
smh

I didn't even bother responding to her after a while, there's nothing there but spin.

Considered saying "You've made more of a comment here than anyone from your camp has in the media, maybe I should fwd this to B3n J0ravsky?" but didn't feel like it was worth it.

yeah she's like a full laundromat

just forward it to the reader

saw him in a coffeeshop this evening, should have thrown a shoe

You'd probably make the paper!

Bummer that Amara Enyia dropped out of the race. No chance in hell of winning but I liked her better than
Fioretti.

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http://www.guysdrinkingbeer.com/lagunitas-political-contributions

Not Rahm but

http://chicagoist.com/2015/01/12/rauner_names_cabinet_team_meeks_to.php

At least the Blankenhorn appointment to IDOT director will probably kill the Illana Expressway.

The important stuff.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150113/BLOGS03/150109858/my-coffee-with-the-mayor

That's about the level of reporting I expect from Crain's.

“I hear about places and if I'm in the neighborhood, I'll try it,” he told me during our coffee meeting at Star Lounge in Humboldt Park. "By 'places' I mean schools, and by 'try it' I mean close them."