Posted on 10/01/2010 5:15:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
October 1, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- He has a national reputation, but does Rahm Emanuel have the local clout to get elected the next mayor of Chicago?
Emanuel is expected to unveil his plans Friday in Washington. The Associated Press, among others, is reporting that he will leave the White House to run for Chicago mayor.
"No one has told me they're going to be out there supporting Rahm Emanuel yet," said Joe Berrios, the Cook County Democratic Party chairman and candidate for assessor.
Berrios echoed a growing sentiment among party regulars that the residency problem facing Rahm Emanuel if he does run for mayor is more than just talk.
"I'm sure that the other candidates that are going to be running will be challenging his residency, so he has a lot of things to think about," said Berrios.
Emanuel is expected to return to Chicago during the weekend and begin a "listening tour" in neighborhoods on Monday.
"If he's going on a listening tour, that leads me to believe he's really not in touch with Chicago," said 9th Ward Alderman Anthony Beale Thursday night.
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What’s the matter? Don’t they want Rahm to do for Chicago what he did for the country?
It appears to me that Rahm’s expectation is a coronation, not an election....
Old man Daley lived his entire life in Bridgeport, the quintessential blue-collar neighborhood. Little Richie moved to upscale Printers Row, but he was still a Chicago boy. Harold Washington, Bilandic, Byrne - they were all Chicagoans, whether you liked them or not.
Emanuel is a poser - his formative years were spent in the ‘burbs, and he’s lived most of his adult life in Washington. For what it’s done to the country Chicago probably deserves this jerk-off, but for the life of me I can’t see why they’d bother with a faux-Chicagoan when there a so many corrupt authentic ones they could choose from.
“Berrios echoed a growing sentiment among party regulars that the residency problem facing Rahm Emanuel if he does run for mayor is more than just talk. “
I am sure Obama will subsidize Rahmbo’s rent and let him hang at his crib. Also, what’s a piece of paper amongst Chicagoans? They’ll find something that says Rahmbo was never a resident of DC and always a Chicago native.
Maybe Obama should run for Chicago mayor?
They can make an issue of his lack of Chicago ‘roots’, but not his residency: all he has to do is have an address in Chicago even one day before the election, and he’s legitimate on that level. But there is a pattern here, and it’s a Lefty pattern: both RFK and Hillary CLinton were badgered and questioned about ‘residency’, when they decided to run as Senator ‘from’ and ‘of’ New York, after they saw that as the best steppingstone to their ongoing political career. It’s a Lefty thing, and it’s pretty blatant.
Didn’t hillary get on the ballot in NY with fewer residential qualifications?
This is a democrat guys, the rules don’t apply to them.
Chicago loves thugs and Kapos.
Are the people of Chicago so happy with their economy, their schools, their taxes that they would vote for this charlatan while all across the country people are saying ENOUGH ENOUGH
Rahm = Obama, and everybody knows it.
he’s a pansy compared to them boys..............
waving his fingers on his nose etc
what a wuss
Rahm’s not exactly jumping-off the Obama Titanic with any significant battle medals, or with any fond farewells either. In fact, you can check out the looney bin at DU and see that he’s not the most admired looney out there.
Translation: If RE wants our support, he's got to hand out some plums to us. We're not giving support away for nothing (didn't Blago something something similar about the Senate seat?). It's the way Chicago politics works.
Chicago is facing a dire fiscal crisis. Whoever is the next mayor is going to have to bear the brunt of the ensuing anger resulting from the fiscal austerity which will hit city employees.
Having said what I said in #7, still, I think you’re right.
Obama is no longer Chicago’s “favorite son” (sic).
RJ Daley Jr, was a big supporter of Obama’s , but that was
to be expected, since they figured an Obama Presidency in all its glory would validate Chicago, and consolidate another few decades of Democratic hegemony.
Needless to say , it didn’t work out that way, and Daley Jr. has left the picking up of the pieces to some other Democrat, since he’s officially out of politics now.
I say this as someone who grew up in Chicago, and even worked for Dems on the South Side, in Obama’s exact neighborhood, selling advertising for the HydePark-Kenwood VOICES newspaper, when I was 21, in the late 60s.
The people of Chicago don’t matter, it’s who the “MACHINE” wants that matters. The Chicago “Machine” never loses.
9th Ward Alderman Anthony Beale
Cook County Democratic Party chairman Joe Berrios
State Senator Rickey Hendon
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart
21st Ward Alderman Howard Brookins
Alderman Ed Burke
former Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean
Dick Mell (local yokle)
So, the question of whether Rahm is a actually a legal resident of Chicago has been flushed down the memory hole already?
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