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Al Sharpton's Chicago Town Hall Erupts into Revolt Against Machine Politics
Breitbart ^ | 12-21-2013 | Rebel Pundit

Posted on 12/21/2013 8:53:47 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather

On Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence exploded into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out their elected officials.

One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s south side communities such as Altgeld Gardens and Trumbull Park.

“This was a historic event,” Paul McKinley of V.O.T.E. (Voices of the Ex-Offender) and former 2nd Congressional District GOP nominee to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr. told Breitbart News. “Not because of Al Sharpton coming to town,” he continued. “This was first time since electing Mayor Harold Washington in the eighties that all of these grassroots groups and community organizers have come together under one roof to talk about the problems plaguing our community.”

While the stated goal for Sharpton was to bring the many different groups together to discuss solutions to the city’s violence epidemic, he may not have gotten the types of responses he was looking for. Calls for more gun control laws and getting guns off the streets were nonexistent and not mentioned by residents throughout the session.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; machine; revolt; sharpton
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I hope this movement explodes.

Al Sharpton doesn’t represent anyone but himself.


21 posted on 12/21/2013 9:25:49 PM PST by struggle
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Ping


22 posted on 12/21/2013 9:29:21 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: rdcbn

23 posted on 12/21/2013 9:31:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Now that is what I call “hope and change”. Now if only they could keep up that spirit. We might actually see some good things.


24 posted on 12/21/2013 9:32:02 PM PST by Moorings
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To: rdb3

Ping.


25 posted on 12/21/2013 9:36:54 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: struggle



26 posted on 12/21/2013 9:48:01 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Hmmmmm.....

Hmmmmmmm.......

Call for Tea Party style meetings?

Hmmmmmmm......verrrrry interesting, but I am 100% certain that the call for "Free Stuff" will be just as loud as ever.

It definitely bears watching.
27 posted on 12/21/2013 9:48:17 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: sheikdetailfeather

That was inspiring. But I’ll believe it when I see it.

Watch for the next Travon to be in Chicago to get everyone back on the plantation.


28 posted on 12/21/2013 9:49:41 PM PST by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Tea party should go in and connect with them

They may already have and dispelled the slop that the MarxistMedia® has been dishing for almost 5 years.
29 posted on 12/21/2013 9:53:35 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: virgil

The sheep looked up. Rahm and his machine won’t like this at all. Watch for the crackdown.


30 posted on 12/21/2013 9:54:41 PM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: 98ZJ USMC

I watched and listened to it. What I heard could be taken two ways, including this way-”Obama isn’t paying our mortgages and filling our gas tanks like he promised. Whoever comes through with the free stuff (that the dumb working stiffs pay for) gets our vote. “

And based on what i’ve witnessed for decades, that’s how I’ll understand it until I see different.

Also, one person said that they couldn’t “just” blame YT for the gun violence in their communities. I’d be interested to hear how YT gets the blame at all, unless it’s for manufacturing mind-altering guns which make the possessors commit crimes.


31 posted on 12/21/2013 9:55:49 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“Tea party should go in and connect with them.”

Exactly what I was thinking. I just hope this thing takes off as I agree with what they were saying.


32 posted on 12/21/2013 9:58:11 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Ellendra
Watch for the next Travon to be in Chicago to get everyone back on the plantation.

Good call. I agree.
33 posted on 12/21/2013 10:05:29 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: mrsmel
I have heard some rumors of rumblings in the black community in Chicago, but likewise, I'll believe it when they get common sense vocal.

AFAIAC, they're still nothing but FrEeSh*taRmy.
34 posted on 12/21/2013 10:09:39 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Bump


35 posted on 12/21/2013 10:19:28 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Vince Ferrer

Now we see the reason for the nonstop allegations of racism leveled at the tea party.


36 posted on 12/21/2013 10:21:42 PM PST by pluvmantelo (...the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Obama.)
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To: henkster

“Rahm and his machine won’t like this at all. “

Well, Chicago would be a better place if Rahm’s father had used a condom! And that goes for his equally worthless brother Ezekiel, “Father” of Obamacare! The whole Emmanuel family are nothing but a bunch of Capos.


37 posted on 12/21/2013 10:39:34 PM PST by vette6387
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To: RightGeek

Hey, I need that for bowl game season. My goal is to watch at least a part of every single bowl game. Of course, I will require lost of sustenance to get me through it.


38 posted on 12/21/2013 10:40:23 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: 98ZJ USMC

Yes, I agree. They called for Tea Party style meetings, but not Tea Party type solutions to their problems. They want politicians to fulfill all the promises they made to these people, and that is impossible. Politicians always make promises they can’t keep, but voters keep on believing in these crooks.

They will just replace one set of crooks with another.


39 posted on 12/21/2013 10:49:35 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: mrsmel
”Obama isn’t paying our mortgages and filling our gas tanks like he promised. Whoever comes through with the free stuff (that the dumb working stiffs pay for) gets our vote."

Yep, that's how I read it too.

Also, what is 'YT'?

40 posted on 12/21/2013 11:22:21 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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