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

lisa madigan is as enmeshed in the corruption as anyone, but it's really good that she called for federal oversight. maybe there will be something of a cleanup as happened in some other cities after federally-mandated changes.

Actually Al what's grisly is how so many people clamped their hands over their ears for two decades even as the evidence effortlessly piled up, and how his shameful intimidation tactics coalesced with sympathetic politics.

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.