Posted on 04/07/2015 8:41:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Rahm Emanuel won re-election Tuesday as voters in Chicago’s first mayoral runoff decided that, despite his brusque management style, the former White House chief of staff was best equipped to deal with the many dire challenges facing the nation’s third-largest city.
Emanuel was forced to campaign furiously across the city to beat Cook County Commissioner Jesús “Chuy” Garcia after failing to capture a majority against four other candidates in a February election. The mayoral runoff was the first since the city changed the way it conducts elections about 20 years ago. […]
Emanuel raised far more money than Garcia, plastered the airwaves with ads and had support from his former boss, President Barack Obama, who cast an early ballot for him from Washington. …
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Well, this ought keep the gun murder numbers up.
Chicago is still a big ‘rat hellhole. The Ballerina aint gonna fix it.
Deadfish is happy so long as they “take their stuff to the alley”.
I wonder if there was any chance of voter fraud? s/
Makes me wonder how legit this election was. I mean is there a limit to how bad a Democrat can do or what? If he nuked the entire city would that make them elect someone else? What exactly would it take?
Chicago votes for what it deserves. again.
Well...he’s earned it (rolling eyes)
I wonder if the cast of Thriller will show up at the victory celebration?
The Clinton communists have defeated the Jarett/Obama Communists.
Hooray for Chicago!.
In this election, Chicagoans had a choice between completely screwed, and epically screwed.
they chose the slightly less lethally screwed option.
Dead Demorat voters were seen dancing in the streets.
It has lost population sense 1920 and Idiot is raising taxes on the Skyscrapers
Chicago will soon be the 5th largest city in the country
The stupid still vote for their largess and hope for change. Ironic isn’t it?
So what was that example/definition of insanity again?
Did he get the White Republican vote to win ? that was the talk.
Yawn.
You had a choice between a sleazy socialist and a hardcore Communist.
Typical in many big cities.
The Chicago mayoralty (and its--cough--"benefits") is a job poor Emanuel has coveted since he was a penniless Democrat machine go-fer back in the 1980s.....before he became (1) Bill Clinton's national campaign finance chairman and served a dual role as (2) Clinton's senior White House aide, AND, (3) a Goldman Sachs lobbyist.
After Rahm "accidentally" became a multi-millionaire, thanks to a measly few months at a Wall Street investment firm......he decided to run for Congress (was there for four terms).
Hard-scrabble Rahm's accidental stumble into politics culminated in Rahm picked as (1) Obama's White House chief of staff .... and a dual role as (2) Obama's hand-picked man at Treasury with an unarticulated "job description."
Later, when he left the WH--penniless, of course---Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago.
Then Rahm happily announced he had "accidentally" raised $30 million for his campaign "in just a matter of weeks."
Golly, I hope the poverty-stricken little bugger did not "accidentally" wire-transfer federal tax dollars offshore at the time he was in a dual role as Obama's COS AND in charge of the entire US Treasury.
Sob.
“Rahm Emanuel’s grandfather was a Romanian Jew from Moldova. The surname Emanuel which means “God with us”, was adopted by their family in honor of his father’s brother Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem.
Emanuel’s father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician at Michael Reese Hospital who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine. His mother, Marsha (née Smulevitz), is the daughter of a West Side Chicago union organizer who worked in the civil rights movement, and briefly owned a local rock and roll club and later became an adherent of Benjamin Spock’s writings. Emanuel’s parents met during the 1950s in Chicago.”
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