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

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."

lol

"But not if there are a lot of white people in the neighborhood," Emanuel clarified. "I wouldn't do that to my constituents," he chuckled.

A cleverer version of "What's on your iPod?"

http://inthesetimes.com/article/17533/how_to_sell_off_a_city

http://inthesetimes.com/images/uploads/InTheseTimesPrivatizationUnderRahm.png

DISGUSTING

I ran into a coworker/friend last night who encouraged anyone interested in removing this pustule from the mayor's office to volunteer for Chuy Garcia. He gave me some compelling reasons, one of which is that Garcia's experience working with the city goes back to Harold Washington's administration, so he has a lot of experience. I dunno. I'm sure he's not ideal but he's better than gd Goldman Sachs owning our preschools.

chuy garcia is great, a few friends are working for his campaign

Works for me. I volunteered to make calls or knock on doors.

That graphic makes me angry in the pit of my stomach.

illinois, you're in for it

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/28/illinois_new_gop_governor_declares_war_on_labor/

i.e. welcome to my world

What, you got a problem?

http://abc7chicago.com/news/mayors-motorcade-caught-running-red-lights---again-/496698/

Got my vote by mail thing today! I've never done this, will make voting much more likely for me.

enjoyable article about the career and life of Chuy Garcia http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/jesus-chuy-garcia-rahm-emanuel-chicago-mayor-race-karen-lewis/Content?oid=16255514
worth reading even if you don't have a Chicago zip code (hell plenty of Rahm's rich friends/campaign supporters don't have Chicago zip codes either and they are very literally invested in this mayoral race)