[maggief]

Must have been some meeting with RE!

Rahm Emanuel, Jesse Jackson Jr.—both mulling Chicago mayoral runs—huddle Wednesday night
By Lynn Sweet on September 15, 2010

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)—both mulling Chicago mayoral runs—huddled in Washington on Wednesday night.

“It’s fair to say they had a conversation not only about the race, but about the city itself,” said a source who declined to be named.

Emanuel and Jackson are among the more than two dozen potential contenders pondering jumping in the Feb. 22, 2010 nonpartisan Chicago mayoral primary in the wake of Mayor Daley’s decision last week not to seek another term.

Jackson’s wife, Sandi, a Chicago alderman, also is on some long lists of maybe candidates.

Emanuel is wrestling with what is a major life decision for him, one being made in the context of having to juggle major domestic and international matters for the Obama White House.

Emanuel commissioned his long-time pollster, Stanley Greenberg to poll Chicagoans to help Emanuel test issues and his own viability.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/09/rahm_emanuel_jesse_jackson_jr-.html

[maggief]

JJJ meets with RE
JJJ breaks silence

PING!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I hope his pollster asks “is Rahm too tiny to sit in the Mayor’s chair without a booster seat”?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I think Don Wade summarized it best. 3J and RE made a pact to not use the Blago trail in their campaigns since someone could taint the jury pool with the mudslinging or end up ^having^ to testify this time around.

They both want to see Blago taken out without their participation.

Upshot? RE is running for mayor and 3J put out the word that he wants to be the ^only^ black candidate.

[Jolla]

He did say that one of the Indian-Americans began speaking in a language he did not understand, and said “I did not participate in any part of that conversation nor do I even remember hearing it, and I have witnesses present."

LOL

[Iron Munro]

"You talked on the Radio?
Who told you to talk on the radio?
I didn't tell you to talk on the radio.
Why'd you talk on the radio?
If you want somebody to talk on the radio you let me do it."

"I guess I screwed up, huh, Jackie?

"Your damn right you screwed up!
That's going to be a problem.
This a clear violation of your rights.
It's an infringement on your constitutional rights.
That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!"

[BunnySlippers]

Indian Americans! I’m confused.

Does he mean Americans who are of Asian Indian ancestry ... or American Indians?

Yipes!