Posted on 09/30/2014 8:16:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Rahm Emanuel won election as mayor of Chicago three years ago in part because of his strength in the African-American community, but enough black voters have since soured on him that a black labor leader is emerging as a potential rival in the city's February election.
Emanuel easily won the majority of voters in every African-American ward in 2011 to become mayor of Chicago, the nation's third-largest city. Since then, a persistently high murder rate, the closing of 50 public schools and a sense that Emanuel is out of touch have hurt his position and invited a bid from Karen Lewis, president of Chicago's teachers' union.
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No surprise. He’s incompetent and a political appointee. He got his job by decree of the democrat party.
And so on February 22nd 1966, at Luton airport...
Even the police began to sit up and take notice
(Monty Python: The Piranha Brothers sketch)
Doesn’t matter. Chicago has the highest number of disqualified votes and the highest vote fraud. Emmanuel is safe, and he knows it.
Doesn’t matter; goodies, freebies, socialism, who ever replaces will be voted for again.
This means nothing. They would vote for Bull Connor who was a Democrat.
“But blacks vote skin color.”
Yes, but if Emmanuel is in real danger, she will not be the only black candidate in the race.
Well, she could cause a landslide, but not the electoral variety.
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80813420/
Is she gravitationally challenged?.........
She looks like a bipedal hippopotamus.
REALLY???
After HALF A CENTURY OR MORE of third rate educations, high crime rates and spiraling unemployment, they FINALLY get it???
Post 9 is a fine succint summation.
Since when has Chicago been in the real world ?
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