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

that or turning them over to charter operators

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174478/rahm-emanuels-zombie-pigs-vs-chicagos-angry-birds

It must be pointed out that this deal, even by the standards of shady stadium operations, has people scratching their heads. Building an arena for a third-tier college basketball program as the heart of a new convention center? Was his second best idea a new snack called Nuts & Gum?

HUGE D

only 100% out for himself, no one else, don't let him ever fool you otherwise

Don't blame me, I voted for del Valle.

^^^

Rahm Emmanuel: Why Gitmo Won't End

you know i did not vote for this clown

^^^

So sick of the war on the poor / south-siders ... the violence is instigated by policies dummies

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2013/05/29/5232/chicago-impact-study-assumes-depaul-will-nearly-quadruple-attendance-at-new-arena/

awesome - Rahm pushing that Arena will drive up attendance to DePaul B-Ball games, right?

http://www.debatepolitics.com/midwest/161962-chicago-s-choice-closing-50-schools-but-spending-100-million-basketball-arena.html

must-reads

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/who-has-access-to-mayor-rahm-emanuels/Content?oid=4887900

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/rahm-emanuel-meets-with-gop-and-mitt-romney-donors/Content?oid=6801482

"A look at Rahm Emanuel's calendar shows how wealth and access, far more than party identity or ideology, have come to comand the attention of politicians—leaving everyday people out of the conversation"

He has done so many individual slimy things that he's like a rat king. Focusing on one is losing track of the bigger (slimy) picture.

dudder than dud, he's a repulsive little man who deserves comeuppance

everybody hates him (well, something like 60-70% of the electorate) but there's this power vacuum post-daley that means that nobody else has the name recognition or muscle to defeat him. the spineless city council deserves as much of the blame here.

this is why people should not be mayor for 20+ years.

totally agree. the mayor of my hometown has been mayor since...1986? he's at that point where he thinks he's bulletproof, it's ridiculous. not recommended anywhere.

basically chicago needs a functioning democracy

btw as a north-side jew (who went to high school in the north shore) i feel like I _know_ this guy, which makes my hate for him all the purer

this guy is a complete douchebag and has been for as long as i've known about him. shame because his brother is one of my favorite people

Seems to be getting worse by the week.

my only hope is the stadium thing proves so ridic in wake of the CPS battles that people get their shit together and run his ass out

probably pointless but it's what I have

but hey, bike lanes!

fuck this fucking guy.

running his ass out presumes there is someone who replace them that has something resembling broad-based support?

who the fuck would that be?

feel like kanye could pull a "rahm emanuel doesn't care about black people" and it would be way more pointed

but then obama would call him a jackass again

shame because his brother is one of my favorite people

Ari or Zeke?

(Guessing the latter...)

ha, i meant zeke, don't really know anything about ari other than the entourage character

amazingly powerful family though

"though"

speaking of chicago politics, anyone want to weigh in on the latest from our representatives mark kirk and bobby rush? rahm sided with rush, for obvious reasons and also because he wants to curry favor (win-win for him!) but the fact that a lawmaker is suggesting mass roundup and incarceration of "gang members", that really freaks me out.

Mark Kirk's a piece of shit.

^^ trenchant political commentary

Any proposal that boils down to "round up brown people and stick them in prison" makes me too angry to be more eloquent.

marK KirK ifyouknowwhatImean

yes, he is repellent and awful
but he is an elected representative
where are we getting these clowns
and wtf are they thinking?

he'd be fun to kick in the nuts

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/05/31/two-parking-meter-deals-are-worse-than-one

I really don't believe that the city couldn't get out of that shitty parking meter deal. People break contracts all the time. Sometimes it comes with penalties, but the combined clout of all these bozos in city hall should be enough to keep those penalties to a manageable level. It's a lack of will more than anything else.

Also, seriously, if RE could get the city out from under that contract, he'd be heralded as a hero no matter how many public schools he closed. So obviously something deeply gross (even for Chicago) is going on here.

Also also, I really expected RE to be a lot more entertaining. When he won (don't blame me, I also voted for DeValle) I consoled myself with the thought that there would be lots of temper tantrums and hissy fits and other absurd bits of political theater for our amusement but nope. He's just a stealthy creep.

It's like Pat Quinn. He's just as crooked as Rod Blagojevich but without the amazing hair and hilarious public appearances. Fucking depressing.

Prediction: this Ventra bullshit is going to be as crappy for the city as the parking meter deal.

http://i.imgur.com/sBXbmT2.png

hahaha!

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

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).

It's grisly how the right's worst caricatures of Emanuel as amoral fixer have turned out true

People on the left said same. It was the "realistic, adult center" that demurred.

you know, Democrats.

Morbs otm in this case. Rahm is like Clinton ad extremum.

Chicago is the epitome of a "Democratic" city. Blue before the first vote is cast but frequently not exactly Democratic, democratic or even "democratic" in practice. The albatross of the city is partly what leads to the occasional Republican rebellion in the form of asshats like Rauner, whose biggest different from dicks like Rahm is that he doesn't even give lip-service to ostensibly lefty ideas. Both are equally destructive, Rahm on a micro level, Rauner on macro.

Pierce:

Over the past two decades or so, I've decided that there is no more inexcusable a figure in our national politics than Rahm Emanuel, who is, for the moment, the mayor of Chicago, but also someone who, throughout his entire career, has made it quite clear that he believes political power derives from being as much of a dick as possible to the people who ostensibly are on your side. He is angry and profane, but he also remains utterly graceless and completely without charm. He alienated enough people while he was working for Bill Clinton that his tenure in the White House was shorter than it would have been otherwise. In 2006, when Howard Dean's 50-state strategy delivered the Democratic Party a whopping victory in the midterm elections, he climbed over the people who did the real work to claim credit for the landslide. (And he succeeded: he is what passes in the political elite for a "tough guy" because he says "fuck" a lot. Google "Rahm Emanuel 2006" sometime.)

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a40161/rahm-emanuel-laquan-mcdonald/

Looks like Anita Alvarez is out. Pretty big deal, even on a national stage, the second biggest casualty of the scandals and the highest ranked right below Rahm to be removed. The police chief, Rahm fired, of course. Alvarez, the people have spoken. Rahm is no doubt sweating bullets.

No need to sweat, election isn't until 2019.

If he makes it that long.

unless someone physically takes him out, pretty sure he will be there til 2019

Yeah, assassination or federal indictment are the only ways he's leaving until 2019.

And god knows that we need that amount of time to find someone that can actually challenge him. Another Chuy caliber candidate just won't do it. Hoping that Waguespack decides that he can actually do the fundraising required for a mayoral campaign.

And more importantly that would open up an alderman spot for me to run for in my ward.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/hardball-tactics-gain-approval-of-watered-down-ride-hailing-rules/

At first, Emanuel refused to recognize Waguespack to give Transportation Committee Chairman Anthony Beale (9th) time to describe the compromise.

When Waguespack renewed his motion to delay the vote for one meeting, Emanuel dug into a bag of political tricks in a way he has never done during his five-year tenure as mayor.

Emanuel moved to adjourn the City Council meeting and summon aldermen back into session during a special meeting at 1 p.m. Friday.

Midway through the roll call to adjourn, Waguespack begrudgingly withdrew his motion. He acknowledged that there was no sense blowing a Friday afternoon in the summer when the mayor clearly had the votes.

“Your ordinance for the ride-share came to us . . . early this morning. It removed all of the protections . . . To come forward with an ordinance that takes all of that out . . . and expect aldermen to vote on it is not the way to run the City Council,” Waguespack said.

Ald. Willie Cochran (20th) countered, “We don’t read a lot of things that come before us.”

The ordinance was subsequently approved by a vote of 36 to 12. But the bitter feelings left behind by Emanuel’s use of the strong-arm tactics he was known for in Washington D.C. are likely to linger.

Ald. Nick Sposato (36th) called the entire meeting an “embarrassment.”

Ald. John Arena (45th) made a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Emanuel’s brother is an Uber investor.

“Stop letting corporations write our laws to benefit them at the detriment of our communities that are suffering. We are letting them self-regulate,” Arena said.

I was following the whole city council meeting on Twitter. It was a hell of a meeting, very contentious. They good thing is I think a good portion of the aldermen are finally standing up to the major, in particular the progressive caucus, but even those outside of it. You still have your rubberstampers, but their ranks seem to be lessening. And Waguespack will always be a needle in his side, for sure.

Ald. Willie Cochran (20th) countered, “We don’t read a lot of things that come before us.”

that's a winning argument if i've ever seen one...

https://twitter.com/brinepond/status/782791870787178498

#rahmdump rahm boasts to a very wealthy chicagoan and campaign donor that he is proud to have cut health care for retired city workers

https://twitter.com/MartinLRitter/status/811804549602283524

this whole thing is gold

all emails available here: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161222/downtown/rahm-emanuel-email-dump-private-emails-city-business

this sounds like the worst idea ever

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/us/chicago-high-school-graduation-requirement/index.html

it sounds suspiciously similar to what i had to do to graduate high school 25 years ago. i moved to kentucky in my senior year of high school, only to find that someone, somewhere, had decreed that in order to graduate high school there you had to come up with a "portfolio" over your four years of school. i guess so they had something to measure "accomplishment" other than grades? (on the plus side i had plenty of time to put together my "portfolio" as only one of my teachers gave a crap whether i showed up to class or not.)

not really anything new. "hey, our current criteria for success are garbage!" "oh crap, let's make up some new ones quick without first testing to see if they're any more meaningful!"

and that's my uncool conservative idea.

sounds like NCLB in that ostensibly it is designed to not leave children behind and in reality is likely to do just that

Rahm is a bad person

Chance is on the case

https://splinternews.com/chance-the-rapper-turns-up-to-testify-against-rahm-eman-1820257351

As if #ILMarchPrimary isn’t enough, in 54 weeks #ChicagoMayor19 takes place, today Garry McCarthy holds first fundraiser pic.twitter.com/Vj5zYJ9mw5

— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) February 11, 2018

fuuuuuck youuuu

Just now at UCLA: after being called out about the cover up of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald's murder by the Chicago Police Department, Rahm Emanuel smugly responded, "I didn't realize there were so many direct flights from Chicago." pic.twitter.com/seRMrkz2Gb

— Catharine Krebs (@CatharineKrebs) February 13, 2018

Fuuuuuck youuuuuu toooo

You miserable son of a bitch

I'd tell you to fall in Lake Michigan and drown but I like Lake Michigan too much

Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown, who is under federal investigation, appears to have issued a news release indicating she will run against Rahm Emanuel for mayor. Only in Chicago.

— Bill Ruthhart (@BillRuthhart) April 19, 2018

still maybe a better candidate than garry mccarthy?

I read "indicating" as "indicting" and got excited.

Emanuel: today, the time has come to make another tough choice, I’ve decided not to seek re-election. This has been the job of a lifetime.

— Becky Vevea (@beckyvevea) September 4, 2018

!!!!!

Holy. Shit.

Also: Fuck. Yes.

yesssssssssssss

https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-not-running-for-re-election-492400201.html

The mayor’s announcement takes place as Officer Jason Van Dyke’s trial begins in that case.

Emanuel said he and his wife decided to "write another chapter together" as their three children have left for college.

yes, now that the three children have left the house, it's time to spend more time at home

teenagers are awful, totally understand

Yom Kippur coming up, Rahm, it’s a good time to consider your misdeeds

Wow. But also the story of dude who quit being Chief of Staff to become fait accompli mayor of Chicago. If he's quitting even trying to be mayor of Chicago, no doubt he's got some massive money-making job waiting for him.

hardly surprising but definitely lolsy in the context of every online chicagoan gloating with joy today

The Rehabilitate Rahm Emanuel PR campaign begins. pic.twitter.com/4S7GpLc5Ze

— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) September 4, 2018

I guess you were a little too blitzed on Molsons to have noticed his pre-mayoral employment or this wouldn't have come as much of a surprise to you.

.....hence "hardly surprising" OL

Sorry, blitzed on Molsons rn.

lol

JUST IN: Former Commerce Secretary Bill Daley plans to run for Chicago mayor, a spokesperson says. His brother and father once held the office. https://t.co/pOifiThtL3

— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) September 14, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZZlQ4Tmrc

Notorious CPD commander Jon Burge dead at 70 https://t.co/LwENqn9niu pic.twitter.com/Ydqz6TALca

— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) September 19, 2018

enjoy being maggot food, motherfucker

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

Burge was convicted in 2010 for lying about torturing suspects. He was accused of leading the abuse and torture of hundreds of African-American suspects, some by use of a cattle prodder or suffocation by plastic, forcing confessions from dozens.