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Moseley-Braun considering run for mayor
suntimes.com ^
| 10 Sept 2010
| Abdon Pallasch
Posted on 09/10/2010 11:43:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Guess who else is feeling a draft to run for mayor of Chicago?
Carol Moseley-Braun, who held Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat from 1992 to 1998, says she started getting calls as soon as Mayor Daley announced he would not seek re-election.
Actually, someone texted her as Daley made his announcement, she said.
“This is all very new — I’ve been out of politics a long time,” Moseley-Braun said. “But I’m seriously considering this.”
Moseley-Braun’s last official post was ambassador to New Zealand from 1998 to 2001. Now she runs her own organic food company called “Ambassador Organics.”
The Hyde Park resident is a former state legislative leader and Cook County Recorder of Deeds who won an unlikely victory over longtime Sen. Alan Dixon. After her ambassadorship ended she moved briefly to her family farm in Georgia but has been back in Chicago since 2001.
She even tried running for president in 2004, but pulled out and endorsed then-Democratic front-runner Howard Dean.
Moseley-Braun was last in the news for getting mugged near her home three years ago.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: carolmostlyfraud; chicago
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To: smokingfrog
“This is all very new — I’ve been out of politics a long time,” Moseley-Braun said.
Not long enough, you crook.
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:45:16 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(You might think that, *I* could not possibly comment.)
To: smokingfrog
Great. Just what Chicago needs...
To: smokingfrog
The same who said she wanted a flag from our men walking on Mars?
LOL
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:46:24 PM PDT
by
RachelFaith
(2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Welcome to "The Hunt for Red November".)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:49:19 PM PDT
by
teletech
(Say NO to RINOS!)
To: RachelFaith
That would be Sheila Jackson Lee.
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:50:03 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(freerepublic.com - Thanks JimRob! The flags are back! - 8/17/2010.)
To: DemforBush
Not long enough, you crook.
“You crook” — and hence her credentials...
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:50:07 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
To: RachelFaith
OMG. Poor Chicago. Rahm vs. Carol. Dang.
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:51:37 PM PDT
by
BuckyKat
(Green is the new red.)
To: smokingfrog
Guess I can’t tell one fruitcake from the other.
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:52:07 PM PDT
by
RachelFaith
(2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Welcome to "The Hunt for Red November".)
To: smokingfrog
But, Rahm is stumping for it.
She's going to be creamed by innuendo.
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:52:29 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: smokingfrog
Well that oughta make Chicago Detroit East in about 18 months or so....
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:52:35 PM PDT
by
mo
To: smokingfrog
The masochists in Chicago love getting their asses kicked by their politicians.
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:54:37 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Algore is a politician and a con artist. He is NOT a scientist.)
To: BuckyKat
I hope they eat each other alive!
Can you imagine if we had a Republican mayor?
I’d love to see Tony Peraica run !!
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:56:33 PM PDT
by
RachelFaith
(2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Welcome to "The Hunt for Red November".)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
The Millennium Park Kidney Bean Statue would make a better mayor!
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posted on
09/10/2010 11:59:40 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
To: DemforBush
Oh please, please....stay out!
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posted on
09/11/2010 12:01:42 AM PDT
by
DallasSun
(Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
To: smokingfrog
“This is all very new — I’ve been out of politics a long time,” ------------------------------
You've been out of your mind a long time.
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posted on
09/11/2010 12:04:32 AM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: BuckyKat
Apparently, most Chicagoans deserve what they get in their politicians.
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posted on
09/11/2010 12:05:07 AM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: RachelFaith; Impy; chicagolady
Peraica doesn't live in Chicago. He lives in Riverside. Aside from that, he's got some major baggage. I kind of think of him as the John McCain of Illinois... fairly reliable conservative voting record on most of the important stuff, but did something inexcusable on an issue or two, stabbing the GOP base in the back, and he LOVES the media spotlite. Like McCain, there are a handful of conservative activists who absolutely hate his guts and would prefer a RAT over him (although in both cases, I happily campaigned and knocked on doors for Peraica and McCain when they were the opposition candidate to an slimy race-baiting marxist)
In short, it would never happen.
Although I must admit for sheer entertainment value, A Peraica vs. Moseley-Braun run-off election would be ideal.
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posted on
09/11/2010 12:06:42 AM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
To: smokingfrog
"After her ambassadorship ended she moved briefly to her family farm in Georgia but has been back in Chicago since 2001."Mashup of "Green Acres" vs. "The Jeffersons" themes running through my head...
To: DallasSun
"Oh please, please....stay out!"Bet she runs -- so far, she's the 'name' black candidate -- and then serves as the pivot (wo)man for Rahm to nail down the black vote in the general after she takes 80% of that group in the primaries. Imagine the grift!
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