Chicago Mayor’s Race Is Cast as a Test of Liberalism

nytimes ^ | March 21, 2015 | JONATHAN MARTIN and JULIE BOSMAN

[Don Corleone]

Don’t know about that, Chicago was once a free market mecca. Chicago was the first truly American mega city.

Having been born and raised there I beg to differ. Chicago has always been a political cesspool dating back to the old Ward 1 pols and the Haymarket riots. As a college student in the 50's I was taught 'economics' by openly Communist profs and asst. profs at the Univ. of Illinois. (Navy Pier branch at that time). The politics that made the city work were not so much free enterprise as pay to play, exactly what you see these days in DC. Even at the local Ward level if you wanted anything it was well known that you had to pay off one way or another. Now what you see is one corrupt political faction fighting with another corrupt faction for the dwindling supply of money due to the policies of the Marxist adventurer (from Chicago) now in the White Mosque. No, Chicago may have a pretty front yard but behind the facade is a pile of garbage that made the old stock yards smell like perfume.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Chicago in the Gilden Age was a mecca for businessmen, industrialists, with high advancements in architecture and construction. Im talking about 1870 to 1900.

[junta]

I know a guy who lives in one of the cop ghettoes on the South Side and he told me a couple of years ago an explicitly Tea Party type almost won the State Rep race for his district. So its not like there are not some voters who will trend that way. IMO what Rahm is paying the price for is the treatment his media buddies gave the official black candidate the last election, they even poured the “racist” label over his head, quite brutal I thought and unnecessary.