I want my bike lanes and Rahm out of office, too.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
the new gun control stuff is good, i'll admit. but any mayor of chicago would do that.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
he doesn't do anything for other people -- it's all for him. if it makes sense for him to engage in measures that increase gun control, he will. if it does nothing for him, he'll wait til it does and oh well if dozens of people die while we're waiting for gun control to be worth his time.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
well to be honest how many politicians aren't thinking of self-interest above all? he's an exceptionally egocentric politician but i think the different is in degree not kind.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
i like to believe that there are some. personal history would indicate that i'm not wrong!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
surely it is a no-brainer for the mayor of a big liberal city to push for gun control. but that doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.
all i'm saying is that he does it when it's convenient for himlike he does everything
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140709/wicker-park/rahm-campaign-donation-from-development-co-raises-concerns-wicker-park
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
haven't read this closely yet but it looks pretty good
http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2014/07/discussion-of-chicagos-crime-problems-ignore-what-rahm-emanuel-has-done-to-the-police-department/
― dan m, Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/exclusive-poll-karen-lewis-could-give-rahm-run-his-money/sun-07132014-302pm
If the mayoral election were held today, the lightning rod union leader who was the architect behind a 2012 teachers’ strike would beat Emanuel by 9 percentage points in a head-to-head contest, the survey found.Lewis was leading Emanuel 45 percent to 36 percent with 18 percent of the likely voters undecided.
Lewis was leading Emanuel 45 percent to 36 percent with 18 percent of the likely voters undecided.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 13 July 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
HMMMMMM interesting!
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 July 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
Well she needs to shit or get off the pot. And start raising a lot of money.
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
i don't think she should run, and i don't think she will. i have a lot of admiration for her, but she shares with rahm a difficulty in letting go of personal grudges and an inability when she's being interviewed to avoid taking little snarky potshots even though she has plenty more to say.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
That's the problem with most potential candidates. They spend so much energy being anti-Rahm that they don't actually say how they are going to fix things. Just being anti-Rahm isn't going to get them elected.
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 11:26 (nine years ago) link
true. but it will go a fairly long way!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
i just met a girl who's office window looks accross lasalle and directly in to rahm's city hall office
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 14 July 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
just imagining a slow zoom into rahm's office with him standing right by the window giving you the eye of death
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
apparently the workplace gossip last week was that someone saw "a woman sitting in rahm's chair"
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 14 July 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Does the chair face the window? Is he allowed to expose himself to that much light?
― La Lechera, Monday, 14 July 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nosferatuscoffin.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/noslookingoutwindow.jpg
I dream... of charter schools... everywhere...
― carl agatha, Monday, 14 July 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
Xpost I suppose, I can only speak to my voting tendencies, but I'll vote for Rahm again unless a viable opponent offers a compelling reason that they can do a better overall job.
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
you know, you don't have to vote if you're disappointed in all the candidates.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 14 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
True, also an option I would consider.
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
please consider it!
― La Lechera, Monday, 14 July 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Mayor of Chicago is such a crap job, it's amazing that anyone wants to do it.
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
mayor of any place is a pretty tough job
― La Lechera, Monday, 14 July 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
I'd at least rather be a mayor of a city that isn't in such dire straits financially.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Opinion-Beating-Rahm-Will-Take-More-Than-Good-Poll-Numbers-267036301.html#ixzz37TNHqrh2
― Jeff, Monday, 14 July 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-preckwinkle-wont-run-for-chicago-mayor-source-says-20140715,0,1763939.story
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
That's disappointing. I'd definitely rather for vote for her than Karen Lewis.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
"quinn likes talking to people face to face" is a good persuasive tactic for his campaign! i don't want to give him money or even talk with him especially, but "genuinely enjoys meeting people" is more persuasive to me than "rauner will eat your children's educations, digest them, and shit gold coins which he will then invest and use to purchase attack ads for his next campaign"
here's the email i received (i get them every day and enjoy giving a silent mental thumbs up or down to their persuasive techniques)
Governor Quinn loves watching the White Sox -- but you won't find him in the luxury seats.He sits in the upper deck with the fans.He likes to say he chose his seats because “You can see the game” from up there, but I know the real reason he sits there is that he loves talking to people.Bruce Rauner -- a billionaire who owns a stake in not one but three professional sports teams -- is more likely to be watching a game from the owners’ suite. And that’s pretty much how he runs for governor: behind closed doors, surrounded by other billionaires.That’s not the guy I want running my state. I’m voting for the guy who'd rather sit with me in the cheap seats.If you agree, donate $5 or more today to be automatically entered for a chance to join Governor Quinn at a baseball game.While Rauner hides behind millions of dollars of attack ads, the Governor is out there every day meeting people face-to-face, talking through problems, and fighting for solutions.He’s hoping to get a chance to meet you.You can enter as many times as you’d like, so even if you’ve chipped in already, there’s still time to up your odds.Enter today for a chance to win:https://www.quinnforillinois.com/cheap-seatsSee you in the stands,CarrieCarrie GlennSenior AdvisorQuinn for Illinois
He sits in the upper deck with the fans.
He likes to say he chose his seats because “You can see the game” from up there, but I know the real reason he sits there is that he loves talking to people.
Bruce Rauner -- a billionaire who owns a stake in not one but three professional sports teams -- is more likely to be watching a game from the owners’ suite. And that’s pretty much how he runs for governor: behind closed doors, surrounded by other billionaires.
That’s not the guy I want running my state. I’m voting for the guy who'd rather sit with me in the cheap seats.
If you agree, donate $5 or more today to be automatically entered for a chance to join Governor Quinn at a baseball game.
While Rauner hides behind millions of dollars of attack ads, the Governor is out there every day meeting people face-to-face, talking through problems, and fighting for solutions.
He’s hoping to get a chance to meet you.
You can enter as many times as you’d like, so even if you’ve chipped in already, there’s still time to up your odds.
Enter today for a chance to win:
https://www.quinnforillinois.com/cheap-seats
See you in the stands,
Carrie
Carrie GlennSenior AdvisorQuinn for Illinois
― La Lechera, Friday, 18 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Caption contest.
Also, Al-Jazeera asks Is Rahm Doomed?.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/emanuel-pac-created-destroy-eight-aldermen-fioretti-says/mon-08042014-757pm
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
thanks for closing half the mental health clinics in the city and then spying on protesters! http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/police-infiltrate-mental-health-clinics-nato-three/Content?oid=14519438
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
^^^that story gave me the rage
― dan m, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
closing 50% of the mental health clinics in the city without any studies/task force, plans for what to do next, or approval from anyone but his own decrepit unused conscience?!? that's reprehensible, but trying to squash dissent is some serious misappropriation of power
cannot stand him
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
genuinely worried about gov race though tbh
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/29378381-452/drop-cps-reform-strategy-cps-neighborhood-school-growth-outpaces-charters.html
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-received-more-100000-comcast-boosting-merger-1676264
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
>:|
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
you guys i know quinn is a dullard but we cannot let bruce rauner be the governor. we just can't. he is greedy and awful.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
That is a summary of every gubernatorial voting decision I've made since I've moved here.
Quinn is more than a dullard. He's as much of a crook as Blagojevich. He's just not as flamboyant about it.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
yeah he's horriblebut bruce rauner is worse! he could eliminate one of the state educational grants that keep me employed/provide so many low income people with access to higher education so i had to ask -- please do not let him be our governor
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
I would never vote for a repub governor, especially after seeing what kind if nasty bullshit they got up to in WI and NC (to name but two).
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
and OH!
but the democrats in OH have not exactly provided viable opposition. their current candidate is dead in the water because it was revealed that he has been driving without a license...for a decade!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit!!!
Man the hubris.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
i knowhe is a total loser
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Good piece in Jacobin about Karen Lewis' disappointing rightward shift:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/dont-back-down/
Lewis faces a choice of running a campaign that’s true to the principles she’s championed in the past, or running a conventional race in which she adopts mainstream policies to chase centrist votes while turning off a potentially wider working-class political base. Voter turnout in the 2011 mayoral race was a meager 40 percent. If Lewis becomes a conventional Democratic politician, working-class voters will likely stay home again.Just as the CTU strike succeeded because of the mobilization of the union rank and file, a Lewis campaign will need to be driven by grassroots organizations and working-class militants, not Democratic professional campaign strategists whose only political principle is “electability.”
Just as the CTU strike succeeded because of the mobilization of the union rank and file, a Lewis campaign will need to be driven by grassroots organizations and working-class militants, not Democratic professional campaign strategists whose only political principle is “electability.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.davidbowie.com/sites/g/files/g2000002506/f/201409/mayor_rahm_emanuel_insane_1000sq.jpg
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Sorry Lachera was going to warn you about the giant face
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link