"I got a lot of votes at my part-time job in
the mall, after I got thrown out of the WH."
Posted on 02/22/2011 6:25:52 PM PST by Stayfrosty
(CNN) - Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a run-off vote, CNN projects.
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RE: “....Chicago has had the fix in since at least the Kennedy’s.....”
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LOL — it started well before 1960 — my family is from there; we left in ‘53. My whole life I heard about the corruption of Chicago govt. — from remaining relatives and family friends. Yecchh!!!
The few remaining relatives in Chicago vicinity live OUTside the city limits.
Amen! A huge and important distinction which needs to be constantly put forth!
Interesting analysis of Rahm’s election from a poster on the Second City Cop blog..
“I’ll tell you what the Barbra Streisand money donated to COOTUS’ (Community Organizer of the United States: credit to a poster on the Pajamasmedia Blog) former Chief of Staff is buying.
It’s not buying kick-back money from huge public works boondoggles of which Daley has sucked dry, nor is it land deals which Daley has also plundered. It’s not to get the inside track on the purchase of public assets or public pension monies which Daley and his cohorts have also picked dry like vultures.
It is to lock-in votes for President Sputtering Sparkle Farts in 2012
Chicago is a carcas of it’s once great GDP contributing might and engine of a growing middle class.
Now the single remaining thing it has to offer the bloodsuckers of politics is votes. It always was a fertile patch for votes but it also had some other nice pickins to wet the beaks of those who suck off the frugality of other American’s hard work in the name of do-gooderdom and Collective Bargaining. That’s right the Public Union has become the subjugator of the private workforce, working man. Then unionize you say? Can’t work that way, there is no one left to produce so a smaller class less productive can get their freebies.
This last election re-affirms, there is an abundance of eager dolts or leaches to vote for the next swinging d*ck sent down from upon high from a union controlled state.
Chicago is like the abused child who thinks love is abuse because it equates abuse with love, given it was the only type of parental attention it ever got. All it ever knew was a hug culminating with a kick in the b*lls. ‘Over the top? Yeah....Grow up you moronic sheeple!!
No matter how sh*tty the choices may have been and no matter how insignificant ones vote may have seemed, given this economy and the stewardship this state and city has received over the last 20 years under huge public union influence, and given the sacrifices made by those giving life, limb and their sanity, there should have been a g-d dammed lot more registered voters voting to say ENOUGH! — and to put a fire under the a**es of the status quo.
It wouldn’t have taken that much of a participating electorate to do it.
The turn out and spread, Quinn and now Emanuel? What a f**king joke. They and the media are going to run around yelling Mandate! Mandate! We got a Mandate. We WON big !!! Yea with what 12% of almost 3 MILLION people. Sick!!!!
Now they are laughing at the doltish voters. They know your b*lls are in there pocket.
I hope I’m wrong. I really do.
But it doesn’t look that way. Not with the stealth socialism that is evolving in D.C. and state governments between public unions, exclusive of PD’s & FD’s life threatening endeavors for relatively modest pay. But, pensions and healthcare for aldermen, teachers, clerks, paper pushers, truck drivers, prison barbers etc. on the backs of 85% of the rest of the working schmoes that have to self-finance their benefits?
NO F**KING WAY. It can’t work any more. The gravy train of robust manufacturing subsidization of it is gone.
Yes, I can understand the PD or FD may worry a cut back of theirs, and mine is next. But, if we keep going toward the cliff we are headed toward, there won’t be any for anybody.
We are turning in to Egypt, et.al.
Two classes:
Elites, the politicians, public employees and well-healed private business in an ever regulatory and controlling gov’t.
And the rest, the working schmoes- a super majority.
The Feb. 22nd turn-out and spread between candidates showed Chicago has lost its b*lls. It’s done.
If America is going to survive as the America we once knew it’s going to be up to the likes of those good ‘ole boys in Billy Bob land and flyover country.
Big city working democrats have their collective heads up their collective asses or it’s already every man for himself.”
-RantOff, not a cop
Rahm Emanuel spent lavishly (it worked out to about an average of $37.00 per vote). His spinners are touting his percentage, but close to sixty percent of Chicagoans who are registered voters sat out the entire election. Emanuel had the lowest vote total of a winning mayoral candidate since 1919.
It may be a hollow triumph. Hiding in the legislature or lining your pockets is one thing. Having to produce results or risk being held accountable is another. One newspaper forecast that Emanuel may be a one term mayor. Chicago’s economic problems may eat him alive.
I think that you are the right track. The Republicans picked up three formerly Democratic seats in outlying Congressional areas and this probably frightened Obama.
He will have to run up the vote totals in urban areas because in 2010 he lost the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas.
"I got a lot of votes at my part-time job in
the mall, after I got thrown out of the WH."
Well the Blacks pretty much fixed this for Rahm.
CMB came in 4th! with just under 9% placing her behind yuppie hipster favorite Del Valle. Pathetic, LOL at her.
A credible Black candidate, even with CMB still in probably would have forced a runoff with Rahm.
Same old same old for me 0 for 3. I voted for for Chico who appears to have been the favorite of GOP leaning voters (he carried the 41st ward). And I voted for the young Black challenger to my jerk Alderman (who won with over 80%). And I voted for the City Clerk Candidate that lost. City Treasurer was unopposed for the 3rd election in the row.
We have a couple important runoffs for Alderman.
The only Republican Brian Doherty retired. He says it doesn’t matter if the rats take it. I disagree, it’s of great symbolic importance. And it helps in statewide races not to have a rat Alderman to help turn out the vote.
The first place finisher was the rat Ward Committeeman Mary O’Connor. She faces the Doherty aide Maurita Gavin, officially a Republican who calls herself “a moderate Republican or conservative democrat”.
In the neighboring 45th Ward Republican Police Officer John Garrdio who lost the primary for County Board President faces some guy named John Arena about whom I know nothing.
I know of 1 other Republican that ran, former congressional candidate Antonine Members ran in the 17th Ward and placed third.
I feel your pain Impy...life in a “Blue” state.
Doherty is probably bitter because he was considered a surefire winner to take back the state house seat in his ward and get the Republicans 1 Chicago seat in the state legislature, but he lost to the RAT last November even with massive GOP turnout and the fact he has been representing that ward since 1991 and always won handily over RATs in the past. I suspect vote fraud.
At least Maurita Gavin made the runoff so she'll now have a chance at keeping the ward in GOP hands. Hopefully she'll win over non-machine Dems who are against O'Connor.
I'm surprised Garrdio was the top finisher in his ward, apparently the only Republican in the city who came in 1st. But he'll still have to win the runoff. Could be a good comeback after he did poorly in his primary campaign for Cook County board. I voted for Members when he ran against Rush in '08. Sad to see he came THISCLOSE to making the runoff but came up short, finishing 3rd of 6th. He's a terrific young black conservative. I endorsed him and touted him online but I'm not going out there to campaign, I'd be the only white face in the neighborhood and I'd get weird stares.
There were a couple other Republicans running (I suppose I can talk about it now that the election's over and RAT's won't be lurking about to informed their electorate):
4th Ward - Lori Yokoyama was the GOP candidate and she came in 2nd of 6 candidates, but there won't be a runoff as the RAT Burns got over 60% of the vote.
11th Ward - Carl Segvich is the Republican committeeman there and he's a staunch conservative and very anti-combine (refused to endorse Kirk). Sadly, he came in 3rd with just over 16% of the vote.
36th Ward - Brian Matos was the GOP candidate. I guess he was kicked off the ballot and ran a write-in campaign?
38th Ward - Tom Caravette came in 2nd with 22.2%. I think there WILL be a runoff here, as the top RAT got 47%
43rd Ward - Bita Buenrostro was the GOP-backed candidate. She came in 6th of 9th place, with 3.0%. Runoff will be between two liberal RATs.
On a related note, our local GOP organization in the 'burbs unofficially backed Anne Schaible in the 19th ward, as she was a self described "Independent" voter and did not support the RAT machine. She came in 2nd, but the machine RAT O'Shea got 61% so there will be no runoff.
Scott Waguespack
Danny Davis Jr.
Molly Phelan
Liza Madigan
Howard B. Brookins
Michele Obama
Ameya Pawar
Dan Hynes III
Ariel E. Reboyras
Luis A. Guiterrez
;-)
(Even the RATs have some Crook County judge out in the suburbs named "Jim Ryan"!)
What a surprize.
I doubt seriously that he actually won the vote.
I hope that all Cook Co. conservatives, who don’t like the election results, will persuade conservatives to run for GOP ward committeeman, in all 50 wards, in the 2012 primary. I think that only one ward committeeman is conservative, Carl Segvich.
I believe my Ward Committeeman, Frank Capuzi (been in the position forever), is a big time combiner and fried to the radical Hispanic rats that rule the ward.
He had a challenger last time but won easily.
In Doherty’s state senate race (10th district)
http://www.chicagoelections.com/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=26
He got only 53% in his own ward. Oddly low. He was creamed in other areas.
Topinka took over 60% in the 41st and won the 45th, the 38th and the 36th, she definitely carried that Senate seat.
Rutherford also won the 41st by a wide margin, Kirk carried it. And Quinn carried it narrowly and inexplicably.
So a bunch of Republicans ran huh, that’s a poor showing for the 43rd. And once again we run nobody in the 42nd one of the candidates for second most Republican ward. A Republican lost only 56-44 in 2003 against Natarus.
Still it will be a good result if we win both our runoffs and double up to 2. DJ do you know the last time their were 2 Republicans on the council? I think for a while it was zero before Doherty beat old man Pucinski.
Apparently the last two elected Republicans serving at the same time was John J. Hoellen (47th Ward) (1947-75) and Jack I. Sperling (50th Ward) (1955-73). Hoellen was probably the most prominent Republican on the Council and the biggest anti-Daley member. He actually came close to exiting the Council in 1966 when he nearly beat Roman Pucinski in the 11th Congressional district (a seat formerly occupied by Republican Tim Sheehan, who had also run against Daley Pere for Mayor).
Other than Doherty, Ald. Bernard Stone, who succeeded Sperling in a special election in 1973 when Sperling was appointed a judge, served briefly as a Republican from 1987 to 1990, but that was largely in opposition due to Harold Washington, and he’s since gone back to the Democrats when he couldn’t win a higher office as a Republican.
Carl Segvich isn't the only decent non-combiner conservative in the Chicago Republican Party, though admittedly they're a rare species. Only about 1/3rd of the Chicago Republican committeeman are decent GOP loyalists, and probably half of them are moderate or center-right rater than solid conservatives. There are a couple of really good conservatives though, another example is committeeman Kevin White in the 38th Ward. He ran for Congress in the 5th District (Rostencowski/Blago/Emanuel's turf) as a conservative Republican, a couple years back.
Being from the southwest suburbs, the ward nearest to me is the 19th, and as you can see from the map, it voted AGAINST Emanuel for mayor. It's probably the most "conservative" ward on the south side, and has a small GOP presence, but that's not saying much since most of the wards near it are 95% RAT. Mostly its because it's old fashioned "Lipinski Democrats" with a lot of cops and firefighters in that ward, and weak RAT leadership since the Hynes family runs that ward and Dan Hynes barely carried it over Obama. Still, it tends to be "safe RAT" except it unusual circumstances like GOP landslides.
The sad thing is we probably could win some races in Crook County when the RAT opposition is divided, except the state GOP won't lift a finger to help most Cook County Republicans, and we massive RAT voter fraud, and we have so many damn combiners here in bed with the RATs. A perfect example was last November when the cook county assessor race has a combine RAT and non-combine RAT running against each other in November, and they split the loyal RAT voter base almost 50%-50%. We could have won that race with only 34% of the vote (I think our candidate got about 26%). But that would have required the GOP to run an extremely visible campaign county-wide and spend lots of money. It also would have required unified conservative support, and we had some tea parties and other groups endorsing the non-combine RAT because he was "honest". An honest liberal RAT is still a liberal RAT, and he did not share any of our beliefs.
Rutherford's numbers are interesting. He was the highest polling Republican in my suburban township, and it seems to be similar results in the rest of the Chicago area. Rutherford's been bad on a handful of issues, but overall is very conservative. The key here is not only did Rutherford vote reliably pro-life, pro-gun, anti-illegal, etc. in the state Senate, but he's been vocally supportive of these issues, such as sending out newsletters to home schoolers, being active at gun events, etc. But the combine was apparently focused on Brady and pulled out every stop to defeat him on election day, yet didn't view Rutherford as a threat (or didn't think the office he was running for -- state treasurer -- would have much impact), so they ignored him. As a result, we have another staunch social (and genuinely fiscal) conservative who handily won suburban Chicagoland, and even some Chicago wards within the city. I bet Rutherford also won Kirk's district. Of course, they will ignore the fact an outspoken pro-life and pro-gun candidate won places where "moderate" voters are supposedly scared to death of anyone who's to the right of Hillary Clinton.
I don't suppose Kirk's fan club will rethink their position that all politicians "have to" love NARAL to "win" the 10th, now that Brady and Rutherford carried it.
Do you think that Treasurer Rutherford will run for governor, in 2014? I think that he’ll run, since he probably thinks that he’s the most electable Republican, in Illinois. The last two republican govenrors of Illinois (Jim Edgar and George Ryan) held statewide offices, when they were elected governor. Our state government has two Republcians, who won, statewide, Rutherford and Topinka. In Nov. 2014, she’ll be 71, so she’ll probably retire.
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