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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel resists calls to resign
MSNBC ^ | 12/02/2015 | By Amanda Sakuma

Posted on 12/02/2015 9:59:58 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday fiercely resisted calls to follow his police superintendent in stepping down, even as the city continues to roil over the dashcam video released last week showing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot by police.

Asked at a POLITICO Playbook event whether he planned to resign, the notoriously brazen Emanuel sneered and made light of the question. “No, because I really so much look forward to this interview and I wanted to have it. I just felt so good saying that to you,” Emanuel said, explaining that Chicago voters already put their faith in him.

~SNIP~

To fend off criticism, the mayor on Tuesday fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy for becoming a “distraction” in the case. Emanuel said that for more than a year, he faced mounting pressure to fire McCarthy. But Emanuel resisted, citing a drop in homicides and the overall crime rate under the police superintendent’s watch. And even days after the dashcam video was released and public fury was high, McCarthy maintained confidence that Emanuel supported him. “What I will tell you is the mayor has made it very clear. He has my back,” he said on Friday.

By Tuesday, things had changed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: amandasakuma; chicago; chiraq; fallguys; garrymccarthy; illinois; msnbc; playbook; politico; rahm; rahmemanuel; spikelee
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To: Responsibility2nd

Rahm...how you like this “crisis”?


21 posted on 12/02/2015 10:27:50 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Well, well, well.

 

Looks like Rahmbo has bug out plans....

 

Mayor of liberal utopian paradise Chicago headed to socialist utopian paradise Cuba for secret [tr]
Twitchy ^ | December 2, 2015 | Staff

Posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2015 12:19:48 PM by C19fan

Whoops!

While interviewing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago this morning, Politico’s Mike Allen let slip the supposedly off-the-record detail that the Emanuel family is going to Cuba on their winter break:

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22 posted on 12/02/2015 10:28:24 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: TBP

I wonder how many dead fish he has already received? lol what a stinkin’ mess, Lucy.


23 posted on 12/02/2015 10:28:44 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What’s he gonna do when the cops implicate him in the cover-up? Get out the 0dunga/Hillary playbook!


24 posted on 12/02/2015 10:35:19 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Responsibility2nd

He needs to go. He was big in slick willy era. He’s totally incompetent and a total asshat to boot.


25 posted on 12/02/2015 10:35:43 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Ever notice how the least competent people are the ones who are most resistant to getting out of the way so somebody who knows what they're doing can assume the job?

You're one of those people, Rahm. Step aside, pal. You suck.
26 posted on 12/02/2015 10:36:50 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Zathras

Another good reason to move to Indiana.


27 posted on 12/02/2015 10:38:19 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Got a little ‘crisis’ going there, eh, Rahm? How’s it feel?


28 posted on 12/02/2015 10:48:38 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: dfwgator

There's an actual online skywriting generator

29 posted on 12/02/2015 10:58:11 AM PST by abishai
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To: Responsibility2nd

Leave him alone you brutes. He is taking his family to the motherland for Christmas. Can’t a guy get a komrade pass?


30 posted on 12/02/2015 11:07:35 AM PST by Cyman
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To: Responsibility2nd

Leave him alone you brutes. He is taking his family to the motherland for Christmas. Can’t a guy get a komrade pass?


31 posted on 12/02/2015 11:15:05 AM PST by Cyman
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To: Responsibility2nd

As long as his friend is in the WH, he has a secure job.


32 posted on 12/02/2015 11:33:32 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Resign, ballerina Rahm!!


33 posted on 12/02/2015 1:36:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (I'm a bigot...because I don't want Muslims coming to America.....)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

November 2016 — be there.

Spike Lee slams Rahm Emanuel at ‘Chi-Raq’ premiere
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/12/02/spike-lee-slams-rahm-emanuel-at-chi-raq/


34 posted on 12/02/2015 1:36:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To fend off criticism, the mayor on Tuesday fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy for becoming a "distraction" in the case. Emanuel said that for more than a year, he faced mounting pressure to fire McCarthy. But Emanuel resisted, citing a drop in homicides and the overall crime rate under the police superintendent's watch. And even days after the dashcam video was released and public fury was high, McCarthy maintained confidence that Emanuel supported him. "What I will tell you is the mayor has made it very clear. He has my back," he said on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Demagogic Party scumbag mayor was teeing up behind his back.


35 posted on 12/02/2015 1:38:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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