[PBRCat]

The real canary in the coal mine could be heard squawking last week in the form of 40th Ward alderman Pat O'Connor, Emanuel's City Council floor leader. In an interview with the Sun-Times, O'Connor said he was considering retiring from politics—especially if Rahm declined to saddle up for another term. O'Connor cited myriad reasons for retirement but the one that stuck out was what he sees as the lack of moderation in Chicago.

[goldstategop]

Chicago dominates the state.

Its the only reason Hillary won there in 2016.

Downstate IL is heavily GOP.

[KavMan]

If Rudy decided he wanted to be Mayor of Chicago & to finally clean up the Streets, I bet he can win

[Pearls Before Swine]

Chicago had a center? Who knew?

[rstrahan]

Chicago has been a Democrat bastion, driven by corruption and wars politics, with pay-to-vote being the accepted norm. Chicago is no longer working, with rising taxes, an outflow of population and violence rising.

[so_real]

I am wondering if Rahm is :

1) going to retire,
2) going to be incarcerated,
3) going to expatriate,
4) going to aspire to higher office

I doubt #1 and #4 are likely ...

[Gay State Conservative]

New York City,the last major city on earth to need one,has a Commie Mayor.London does as well.

Is Chicago about to follow suit????

[SERKIT]

The calm, matter-of-fact way that Rahm's rule...

Translation:
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Rahm performed "management by news conference" while Chicago bled itself into a coma.

[Sooth2222]

Compared to the rest, Emanuel is conservative!

Expect Chicago to go Full Screaming Moonbat when Rahm leaves. Is there any way to sell short an entire city?

[Roccus]

And more broadly, we're seeing symptoms of the creeping national decline of a kind of technocratic centrism practiced by the Clinton and Obama machine over the last 25 years.

"CENTRISM ??"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[originalbuckeye]

‘And then campaigning (and governing) slightly to the Left’

WWWHHHAAATTT???

[Buckeye McFrog]

That Marxist union leader would have beaten him last time if she had not been diagnosed with cancer.

Chicago is about to become our first openly Communist city IMHO.

[olepap]

The evil communist Rahm Emmanuel. Hey Rahm, I thought you communists knew how to run a city!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Progressives ruin everything they touch. Always have, always will.

[Jimmy Valentine]

“Satan, your kingdom must come down “ 😪

[A_Former_Democrat]

But Pat’s Guaranteed Big Fat Lifetime Pension will play NO role in his decision

[Retvet]

The next Mayor of Chicago won’t make a difference. The political Democratic party will see to that.

[AppyPappy]

The Center????

[fella]

an ObamaNation will take up the reigns.

[poinq]

I have worked in Chicago for over thirty years, a member of the Economic club of Chicago and former President of a Chicago based company. I have lived in a close in suburb of Chicago since 1965.

From my vantage point I can tell you that Chicago has always been a union town. And those unions have controlled everything and the Daley’s worked with the unions. But the unions started to break from Daley the younger as pensions grew. Thats especially true of the teachers union in Chicago which is totally communist. Mayor Daley on his last speach at the Economic Club of Chicago said. “The public unions of Chicago are destroying the city.” That’s pretty harsh, even for an out going democrat mayor.

Rahm, who went to High School with me, was actually trying to reform the city. But the unions were resisting him every step of the way. They own the state and the county and now they are taking full control of the city. Its always been Chicago that has kept Illinois solvent. Chicago is one of the best cities to live in and work in. From downtown to the north and northwest and the suburbs are great.

But these union bosses are taking down the city and are going to attack every part of the executive class of Chicago. Democrats will own every part of the City, State and county after this election. Which they have controlled for most of the past two decades. But things keep getting worse. And now its no longer good enough to be democrat. You now have to be progressive and pro public union.

You of course have heard about the shootings every weekend in Chicago. That has been happening for over thirty years. Its actually lower now than in the past. In the 1990s it was over a thousand murders a year. Now we are less than half that most years. But its all in the black community. Chicago is very safe everywhere else. But bullets fly in the black neighborhoods. And its very very hard to get a gun permit in Chicago. But Rahm can’t do anything about it. Because shootings actually make Rahm look bad. So the police and the black community are not actually going to help get the shootings down. So Rahm running for re-election will actually cause shootings.

Chicago and Illinois are going to crash and burn soon. The debt is huge and its getting bigger after Rahm is gone.

[KMac1945]

Hmmmm Wonder if Michelle Obama or Valerie Jarrett will run for Chicago Mayor? In any event the question is what far lefty is going to win the election after R E is gone?