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

more tif fuckery

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

He's disgusting.

more tif fuckery

Misread this.

C on my Tifs

Serious question: do TIFs ever work? Like, they almost kinda sorta make sense to me, but then I feel like the money must always get wasted and funneled to politician's lovers, etc.

i think they work ok in rogers park?

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/09/27/at-saint-sabina-basketball-and-boos-for-mayor-rahm

And yet from what I understand, there are no viable candidates to run against him on the horizon. Although I say that with caution, since the media approached his victory as an inevitability and that may be happening again. Not to mention Chicagoans being well-trained to view mayoral elections as something that happens to them as opposed to something they ultimately control.

Anyway, somebody good run against this clown. I'll pass out flyers for you.

Maybe Tio Hardiman will run. He's definitely not going to be our next governor, but he would be an interesting mayor.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/11/01/mayoral-ally-thanks-police-for-ignoring-the-pot-decriminalization-law-he-sponsored

Solis was the chief sponsor of the pot decriminalization ordinance that went on the books in Chicago last year, making international news. At the time, he called it a good first step toward ending the vast racial disparities in who's busted while freeing police for more serious issues.

It hasn't played out that way. Officers have barely issued any tickets—just 1,117 between August 2012 and this October. Meanwhile, they've made more than 13,000 arrests for misdemeanor marijuana possession so far this year, a rate of more than 44 a day—higher than in 2012, records show.

...

The alderman has expressed his displeasure repeatedly over the last few months. In June he told me that he was going to demand that McCarthy publicly answer questions about what's gone wrong. "It's time to sit down and have him give us an explanation of what's happening," the alderman said at the time. "Why are certain communities still targeted? Why aren't we ticketing? What's it costing us?"

As recently as last week, he told the Sun-Times that he would urge McCarthy to get officers to "take it more seriously" and start writing tickets instead of hauling offenders to the station.

But Solis is one of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's key allies, and what happened next was what usually happens when aldermen who depend on the mayor gripe to the media: somebody sat him down for a chat.

By Thursday, Solis had seen the light. "Let me thank you for the meeting we had last week," he told McCarthy. "I think it's important to point out that what we have done has been very effective. I'd like you to explain to the rest of my colleagues and to the media what has been accomplished by this ordinance."

Jesus.

I talk abt Chicago politics with people out here sometimes and alot of them will say "chicago's a really liberal city huh" and I have to explain it's the most Democratic big city you'll ever come across but about as far from liberal as you'd imagine from that long held status.

I don't understand this really but it doesn't seem good: http://apps.chicagotribune.com/bond-debt/

It's always sadly funny to me when really Chicagoy civic booster type people sneer at Detroit and other cities as if that kind of thing couldn't happen here.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZZlY6BCcAAKX27.jpg

Is that the Hideout?

Author of Mayor 1% runs into Rahm at Dallas Buyers Club:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/11/20/a-party-for-mayor-1

But Solis is one of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's key allies, and what happened next was what usually happens when aldermen who depend on the mayor gripe to the media: somebody sat him down for a chat.

By Thursday, Solis had seen the light. "Let me thank you for the meeting we had last week," he told McCarthy. "I think it's important to point out that what we have done has been very effective. I'd like you to explain to the rest of my colleagues and to the media what has been accomplished by this ordinance."

gah this is so creepy. "just look into the light, my friend. look into the light."

my reaction to rahm emanuel--just the name, doesn't have to be a picture--is almost pavlovian at this point. i immediate start scowling and gritting my teeth.

chicago and illinois are run by shit heads. it's such an embarrassment. i think mike madigan is even more debased and cynical than mayor rahm if you can imagine.

it was apparent what Rahmbo was by 2006. Liberals really need to speed up.

Great job positioning yourself as morally and intellectually superior while not having actually done jack shit.

I thought I was over your boring vague scattershot cynicism as political ethos (oh you thought Rahm Emanuel was "up to something" in 2006? Congrats, so did literally everyone else in the world) but it's especially irksome when applied to local politics that do not impact you at all but do impact me, go fuck yourself.

lol @ morbs having figured the clintonistas out by 2006.

like patting yrself on the back for having the liberty league pegged by 1954

it was apparent what Rahmbo was by 2006. Liberals really need to speed up.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:53 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did I imply any of this was news to me?

also since does me = "liberals"?

you are a tedious fuck, morbs. my sympathies for having to live w/ yourself.

since WHEN does me

typos

I hadn't kept up with rahms career since getting to Chicago - worse than I feared

His eagerness to quit Washington and take over Chicago was the reddest flag of all.

InformationNo results found for "raw me manual".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYaeNMCCIAE8Af-.jpg

As if he wasn't already some sort of cyborg.

i wonder how he would score on the psychopath test

T-1000

Seeing this image everywhere lately really grosses me out:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bcg7uu-CUAEJLQI.jpg

don't ✶✶✶✶ with my city

don't barf with my city

Don't Rahm with my city.

HECKLED
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Activist-Who-Heckled-Rahm-Says-Mayor-Hypocritcal-about-MLK-241151911.html

http://www.esquire.com/features/rahm-emanuel-interview-0314

― JuliaA, Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get so depressed when people write about Chicago.

HE SUCKS SO MUCH ARGHHHHHHHH

Good article!

Like the political operative he once was, he frames any situation in the context not of what is right or fair or decent but of what is possible. The issue, in Rahm’s view, isn’t city workers who signed a contract filled with promises; the issue is that those promises were never real to begin with, and the only choice he has is to replace them with something that actually might happen. “Life is a series of choices,” Rahm says. “You may have to work longer, and that is pain. And it is also certainty. My view is I would like to give more certainty to more people, which doesn’t exist today.”

i cannot read that right now
i hate him so much

what a charmer:

A five-seven, fifty-four-year-old fitness fanatic who exercises seven days a week, whose weight fluctuates between 149 and 150 pounds, who as a child put pinholes in his mother’s cigarettes to protest her smoking, Rahm rebukes Walmart shoppers picking up alcohol and little else. “That’s a lot of beer,” he tells one young man hoisting an eighteen-pack of Modelo. “Don’t drink it alone.” (Rahm is what they call in Yiddish a kibitzer—he teases, he needles, he taunts, and even though he is in full greet-the-public mode, the booze hounds give him a chance to chide somebody.) Elsewhere in the store, Rahm sees a crying three-year-old standing next to a shopping cart, and checking first with Mom—or perhaps Grandma—he lifts him into the seat, calling for a pack of tissues from his press secretary to address the boy’s runny nose. “You okay now? Better?” Then the lesson. “What do you say to Tarrah?” he asks the boy, who is silent. “Thank you?” prompts the mayor, himself a father of three. Working his way to the front of the store, Rahm says “I’m ready” to his security man, and they head out to the pair of big black Chevy Tahoes idling outside.

Opponent for 2015?

http://inthesetimes.com/article/16321/amara_enyia_rahm_emanuel

A five-seven, fifty-four-year-old fitness fanatic who exercises seven days a week, whose weight fluctuates between 149 and 150 pounds,

I can't figure this out. I'm 5' 7", I rarely exercise and my weight hovers between 142 and 145. Does this mean Rahm has 5 pounds of pure muscle on me?

he's got an aluminum skeleton

he had some weights implanted in order to walk the brass balls walk in addition to talking the talk

http://inthesetimes.com/article/16321/amara_enyia_rahm_emanuel

Opponent for 2015?

http://inthesetimes.com/article/16321/amara_enyia_rahm_emanuel

― That's So (Eazy), Friday, February 21, 2014 3:38 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oops! Sorry! I should read first then post.

Anyway, I like this lady and while I don't think she'll win, I hope she helps spur some viable opposition.

me too -- i don't think he's a stick around forever kinda guy but i could see him going for another term until he decides what he will decimate next.