do I really have to say it???
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
why even have an election
do I really have to say it???
Ole Rahm can run with the biggest and the baddest Chicago big dawgs. He’s a perfect fit for Chi-town.
Those people deserve everything they voted for. They have no complaints when things hit the fan.
Filthy old place. Now there’s a resident alien in charge of Chicago and a resident alien in charge of the country :)
who beleives elections are honest anymore....Chicago has had the fix in since at least the Kennedy’s.....
A Chicago jail is where he belongs (with his political friends).
So sad, Chicago is actually a very enjoyable city :(
Many conservatives live nearby and wish there would have been another outcome!!!
January 17, 2011
Blagojevich trial hangs over Rahm’s campaign
Excerpt:
Rahm Emanuel may have retained his spot on the mayoral ballot, but he’s also kept a spot in another, less desirable place — a federal subpoena.
An attorney for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Emanuel remains under defense subpoena for the upcoming retrial, scheduled for April 20.
“It’s certainly possible we would call Rahm Emanuel as a witness,” Blagojevich attorney Sheldon Sorosky said.
Sorosky said at the direction of U.S. District Judge James Zagel, all the subpoenas issued in last summer’s first Blagojevich trial would be still valid in the second trial.
Emanuel, who was captured on tape in conversations with Blagojevich and his staff, was not called as a witness in the first trial where Blagojevich was convicted on just one of 24 counts.
But Sorosky said if the government opens the door in this go-around, Emanuel could take the stand.
“We’d have to see just what evidence the government presents,” Sorosky said
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3345611-505/blagojevich-emanuel-staff-trial-gov.html
*yawns* Surprised? Didn’t think so....
Fixed from the get-go.
No surprise, the people of Chicago never surprise us, except when they retired Rosty in 1994.
Shortly after the city was founded in 1832 it was selected as the site for the big cash payoff to the Northern Indian tribes for their lands in the East.
That event attracted every con-man in North America and many of those in Europe. Except for those who accompanied the Indians West to Oklahoma and other sites carved out for them, the criminal class just never left the place.
Some analysts believe that Chicago's population was majority "criminal" for the next 100 years!
There is no hope.
How can conservatism win in ALL U.S. cities? This is what, still, needs to be done. If the electoral college is eliminated, then the cities will determine who all future U.S. Presidents will be, and this is the main reason why the left wants to get rid of the electoral college.
Poetic Justice
AMEN!!!!!!
My birth state, the Land of Lincoln has been destroyed!
Hear hear. I love Chicago.
I wanna know the most important question in all this: How many people did Rambo have to mail dead fish to in order to win the mayoral race? Well...how many?!?!?!?
Hooray! No more corruption in Chi-town!
He just finished speaking. I’ve never heard him give a speech. He’s awful. Makes Mayor Squeeky Daley sound eloquent. And he has the same Obama lisp....”Reporter” Mike Flannery explains that he’s not a speechmaker, he’s a backroom deal kinda guy.
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