only 100% out for himself, no one else, don't let him ever fool you otherwise
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Don't blame me, I voted for del Valle.
― i, norbit (jaymc), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Rahm Emmanuel: Why Gitmo Won't End
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
you know i did not vote for this clown
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
So sick of the war on the poor / south-siders ... the violence is instigated by policies dummies
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.debatepolitics.com/midwest/161962-chicago-s-choice-closing-50-schools-but-spending-100-million-basketball-arena.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Seems to be getting worse by the week.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
but hey, bike lanes!
fuck this fucking guy.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 30 May 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
running his ass out presumes there is someone who replace them that has something resembling broad-based support?
who the fuck would that be?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
feel like kanye could pull a "rahm emanuel doesn't care about black people" and it would be way more pointed
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
but then obama would call him a jackass again
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
shame because his brother is one of my favorite people
Ari or Zeke?
― i, norbit (jaymc), Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
(Guessing the latter...)
― i, norbit (jaymc), Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
ha, i meant zeke, don't really know anything about ari other than the entourage character
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
amazingly powerful family though
"though"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 30 May 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 31 May 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Mark Kirk's a piece of shit.
― carl agatha, Friday, 31 May 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
^^ 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
― carl agatha, Friday, 31 May 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
yes, he is repellent and awfulbut he is an elected representativewhere are we getting these clownsand wtf are they thinking?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 31 May 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
he'd be fun to kick in the nuts
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 May 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/05/31/two-parking-meter-deals-are-worse-than-one
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Friday, 31 May 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Prediction: this Ventra bullshit is going to be as crappy for the city as the parking meter deal.
― carl agatha, Friday, 31 May 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/sBXbmT2.png
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 31 May 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha!
i'm still pissed about mark kirk and the people who voted for him
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 31 May 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Friday, 31 May 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Is Mark Kirk up and running again, or he he locked away somewhere, issuing statements from the shadows?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
He returned to the Senate earlier this year.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Friday, 31 May 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
I wrote this dude off after his request for emergency dictatorial powers in advance of some g8 meeting or whatever was rebuffed
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 31 May 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
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?!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 31 May 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 31 May 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
and also to be frank bobby rush is a useless blowhard these days.
a pox on pretty much every chicago politician.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 31 May 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
he shops at my sister's CVS, she said he's like 4 ft tall
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― carl agatha, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the Preckwinkle for mayor stuff too. The bossman at my former employer was buddy buddy with her.
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
Patrick FItzgerald got out while the getting was good I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
Jan's been in the house for a long-ass time, since the late 80s, iirc.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 1 June 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
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/
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
No need to sweat, election isn't until 2019.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
If he makes it that long.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 03:00 (eight years ago) link
unless someone physically takes him out, pretty sure he will be there til 2019
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 05:16 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, assassination or federal indictment are the only ways he's leaving until 2019.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
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.
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.
― Any Given User (Eazy), Thursday, 23 June 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
that's a winning argument if i've ever seen one...
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 24 June 2016 03:07 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/brinepond/status/782791870787178498
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
#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
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
this whole thing is gold
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
all emails available here: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161222/downtown/rahm-emanuel-email-dump-private-emails-city-business
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
this sounds like the worst idea ever
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/08/us/chicago-high-school-graduation-requirement/index.html
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 July 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 July 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
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
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 10 July 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
Chance is on the case
https://splinternews.com/chance-the-rapper-turns-up-to-testify-against-rahm-eman-1820257351
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
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
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:04 (six years ago) link
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
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
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
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Thursday, 19 April 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
still maybe a better candidate than garry mccarthy?
― na (NA), Thursday, 19 April 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
I read "indicating" as "indicting" and got excited.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 April 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
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
!!!!!
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Holy. Shit.
Also: Fuck. Yes.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
yesssssssssssss
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
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.
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
teenagers are awful, totally understand
Yom Kippur coming up, Rahm, it’s a good time to consider your misdeeds
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
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
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
.....hence "hardly surprising" OL
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Sorry, blitzed on Molsons rn.
― Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
lol
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 September 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
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
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
if you gotta pee on a grave, his would be a good one to choose
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link