Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Kicks Off Bid for Second Term

[JI7]

<Four years ago, recently departed White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel chose the crowded gymnasium of a North Side elementary school to formally kick off what he'd been building up to for weeks: a run for mayor of Chicago.

On Saturday, Emanuel again will launch a campaign for mayor. This time, however, he won't do it at a school, a location that might conjure up images of his most controversial decisions: nearly 50 closed schools with doors chained shut and angry teachers walking the picket line for a week.

The mayor's rally at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, where shows like "Chicago Fire" and "Boss" have been shot, is a friendly location for the only union that endorsed Emanuel during his first campaign: the Teamsters. The union's president was an early proponent of the studio, which received state grant money and has created work for truckers.

The top half of his campaign website's home page doesn't feature photos of him, but an interactive Chicago map of city improvements. His campaign slogan has been rebranded from Chicago for Rahm to Chicago Together. And his first three TV ads haven't included him uttering a single word, but instead supporters lauding his specific accomplishments.

In the first of those ads, activist Kim Wasserman credited Emanuel with shutting down two Southwest Side coal plants she and others had fought against for years.>



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-campaign-kickoff-met-1207-20141207-story.html#page=1

[Scootaloo]

1. So Chicago will be getting its first republican mayor since 1931. disappointing.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Rahm is a cancer on the democratic party, the damage he and his DLC cronies have caused

to real progress and American prosperity can not be understated.

When Obama tapped Rahm I knew we would be in for a disappointing start to his term in office. It turned on on Rahm's advice Obama more of less wasted the huge opportunity for positive change his first two years in office presented.

Even if we ignore the mixed bag of Obama-care, we still have the first bailout where half of the money went into tax breaks which every real economist said were not only useless in helping the economy but actually slowed the recover down due to the perverse incentives it created.

[JI7]

3. the democrats in the solidly democratic city of Chicago seem to disagree

[Exultant Democracy]

4. No shit, DLC has a stranglehold on our party and all the money they need to sell the big lie.

If he wasn't getting himself and the rest of his republican-lite allies elected he wouldn't be a cancer.

It like saying Bush wasn't a cancer on America because the people of our country elected him twice.

The only time the party has preformed well in the last two decades was when Dean managed to wrest control from him and his corporate overlords for two election cycles.

[JI7]

5. what's the big lie ? republicans in california are always spending a lot and losing big

it's not always about money.

[Exultant Democracy]

6. Well then no reason to worry about citizens united, nice to know that.

Can you seriously with a straight face claim that he would have won Chicago without the money avalanche?

Can you seriously claim that he was right to disagree with Dean in 2006 calling Dean's plan quote "fucking stupid" or do you agree that Dean was right in 2006 and Rahm was wrong?

[JI7]

7. i said it's not always about money , landrieu had more money than the candidate who beat her

of course citizens united matters. just like it matters even if republicans in california lose big after spending a lot.

but you didn't tell me what the big lie was which gets him elected mayor .

[Exultant Democracy]

8. The big lie that DLC democrats and their agenda are not a cancer to the democratic party.

[JI7]

9. i don't think this has even come up in the election

[Stellar]

10. Rahm Emanuel...PLEASE!!!

And his first three TV ads haven't included him uttering a single word, but instead supporters lauding his specific accomplishments.

In the first of those ads, activist Kim Wasserman credited Emanuel with shutting down two Southwest Side coal plants she and others had fought against for years.

So Rahm gets a woman that I though was Hispanic, Kim Wasserman, to sell his behind. And then he gets a black woman saying how well most students graduating from junior college are doing.

Oh yeah, and the crime rate is (supposedly) coming down...don't you know. He can make his mouth say anything that it want to hear, doesn't make it true. He is the same sob that laughed at us for trying to get rid of Blanch Lincoln and it failed. But we won out in the end, she's gone.

And, I see that "Rahm Emanuel Kicks Off Bid for Second Term" in neutral territory, where he appears to be putting all of his money on that side of town...where the people mostly like him, I guess.