".....On Wednesday morning, Chicago State had issued a press release informing the public that the long-planned forum with Emanuel and mayoral challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia was to be held without the mayor’s previously confirmed participation.
“In an effort to give both students and voters in neighboring communities an opportunity to have their voices heard in the electoral process, CSU invited both Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Commissioner Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia to a Mayoral Forum. Commissioner Garcia has agreed to participate, however, we were recently informed that Mayor Emanuel has chosen not to attend the forum,” the university said.
“On behalf of the CSU community, we feel Mayor Emanuel is missing an important opportunity to address the needs and concerns of a community that is often underrepresented and underserved,” the university added.
The morning announcement led to the issue being hotly debated on black-owned radio station WVON, where callers and talk-show hosts expressed outrage, characterizing the alleged pull-out as a show of disrespect to the black community....
And by early afternoon, Chicago State issued a new press release announcing a change of events.
“Chicago State University is pleased to announce that both mayoral candidates will be in attendance for a candidate forum tonight,” the new statement read. “We are very thankful to both Mayor Emanuel and Commissioner Garcia for making themselves available to the students and community members of CSU......"
Reached later, CSU Professor Kelly Harris sheepishly admitted he never received written confirmation from the Emanuel campaign, but said he was led to believe he had a commitment after the campaign’s initial email expressing interest, and subsequent phone conversations with the campaign negotiating changes to the format.
Regardless, Emanuel was not going to allow stand a “false” impression that he had pulled out of a black community event, Mayberry said."........
Obama International Airport.
Where chickens come home to roost.
Maybe Rahm can name the Chicago Municipal Sewer System after Obama. They are both full of crap.
They could put a hammer and sickle on top.
If you like your flight, you can keep your flight.
From being named after a Hero
to being named after a Zero....
Although the phrase “flying INTO Obama” does have some appeal, NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO!
Flying in to Obama? Where many men have gone before!
If you think about it, it’s a perfect name for a Chicago airport. Re-naming O’Hare pays homage to a truly sleazey president and throws mud in the face of a Medal of Honor awardee.
Rename both airports after Obama? Sounds like something a lib would do. Sure glad hizzhonor solved all of the important things like that murder problem.
Please keep this in mind throughout your day - if you remove the vowels from Obama’s last name what do you have left - BM. How appropriate is that! See his name has a purpose because all we have left here in America is CRAP.
Go ahead, Rahm, I’m never visiting your stinking city again anyway.
Rename Meigs airport - oh wait cannot do that a previous Mayor bulldozed it.
Could rename Peatone- oh wait cannot do that either- democrats still cannot build that airport after what 20 yrs.
Rahm is panicking that the black vote is deserting him.
Could change the designation from ORD to POS.
Just in case you haven’t read the whole story of Butch O’Hare.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/butchandeddie.htm#.VRP30zco6BY
We have enough streets, roads, and bridges built after MLK JR we don’t need an airport named after the man who has destroyed our Economy to the point of Depression Era levels.
Chi can name a new street after him, rather than expend thousands of $$ to change all those air port signs.
Obama International Airport should be in Kenya...or at the scene of the Wing Airplane crash...
Why not Mohamed Atta International since we’ve obviously all gone insane?
If Dan Quayle had said this, every man, woman, child, cat, and dog in the U.S. would know about it by now.
Obama International Airport...?
Good Grief!!!