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African-American leaders unite around Carol Moseley Braun for Mayor (Chicago)
Tribune ^ | 1/1/11 | John Chase and Kristen Schorsch

Posted on 01/03/2011 9:30:37 AM PST by tcrlaf

frican-American political leaders rallied around former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun on Saturday as a unity candidate best qualified to be Chicago mayor, capping a holiday week of private negotiations that left her the only major black politician in the campaign.

Flanked by prominent black elected officials who dropped out and endorsed her bid, Braun told a crowd at the weekly Rainbow/PUSH Coalition meeting on the South Side that she has "the most credentials and the most qualifications and experience of all of the candidates running" to replace retiring Mayor Richard Daley.

"And so they just chose the most qualified candidate for the job," said Braun, who made history as the nation's first black female senator but dropped out of elected politics after losing her re-election bid in 1998.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: carolmoseleybraun; chicago; illinois; mayor; moselybraun
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To: tcrlaf

This race could be fun to watch. Rats eating rats, who will Obama stand with, his former chief of staff Rahm or Mosely-Braun? Grab you popcorn.


41 posted on 01/03/2011 10:15:45 AM PST by kenmcg (jUS)
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To: tcrlaf

How about candidate Marion Berry, also?

Do Democrat voters ever consider the ethics & morals of their chosed candidates??


42 posted on 01/03/2011 10:16:39 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: A CA Guy

Asking a public official to balance a checkbook is a hopeless task.


43 posted on 01/03/2011 10:20:08 AM PST by OddLane
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To: donna

Carol Mostly Fraud!

You’re probably remembering her stealth visit to the Nigerian
dictator while under sanctions and against US policy.

She, like Hussein, always put Africa first.


44 posted on 01/03/2011 10:27:22 AM PST by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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They can do for all of Chicago what they have done for the South and West sides of the city: make it unlivable for law-abiding, productive, taxpaying citizens. Daley had many faults, but he saved Chicago from becoming another Detroit or Gary. True, parts of Chicago look like Detroit now. But that is a demographic problem that has remained unsolvable just about everywhere in the nation. Certain demographics not only bring blight, but seem to revel in it. Should this crowd get the electoral license to destroy the entire city, it could go very quickly.
45 posted on 01/03/2011 10:31:43 AM PST by Godwin1
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To: tcrlaf

What a wonderful place to spend some stimulus cash regardless who counts the votes. There has to be ‘big’ money just signing up for an election in liberal cities.


46 posted on 01/03/2011 10:38:02 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: bareford101

FINALLY! Someone who says the TRUTH instead of moaning about integration and ‘coming together as a nation!’ It’s their choice to isolate themselves in ghettos.


47 posted on 01/03/2011 11:25:52 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Niuhuru
I consciously made the decision recently that 1) I was not in politics, and 2) I would no longer toe the party line in their political correct speech

In the past 2 years, since the obamanation regime began, I have seen people afraid to talk to one another in restaurants, etc. if the conversation was in anyway about the current news! That was NEVER the case in years past. Discourse was not mean, nor hateful, but it was truthful. No longer is that so. I'm tired of being afraid to speak the truth because it might cause the government to harm me. I'm no longer afraid of that. The minorities speak to one another in Twitter, etc using the most fowl, nasty racial words and NO ONE says a thing about it! but let a white person speak their mind, and it's “hate talk”... enough is enough.

48 posted on 01/03/2011 11:32:15 AM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: ScottinVA; PhilCollins

There is no primary. There is a non partisan first round where if the leading candidate does not get 50% of the vote +1 there is a run off between the two leading candidates.

Why Meeks or Davis pulled out is a puzzlement both have more experience and a lot less baggage than Braun. If Braun gets past the first round to face Rham (which I hope she won’t, she’s a shill for Rahm both are going after Cesco). Chicago in either case is a big loser and the big push for the 2012 re-election of Obama is what this is all about will be on..


49 posted on 01/03/2011 11:34:26 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("To punish a province Let it be ruled by a professor " Frederick The Great paraphrased)
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To: kenmcg
This race could be fun to watch. Rats eating rats, who will Obama stand with, his former chief of staff Rahm or Mosely-Braun? Grab you popcorn.

I'm rooting for Carol Mostly Fraud in this one. She's incompetent, but Rahm is just pure evil. I wonder how the black community in Chicago feels about Bill "The First Black President" Clinton campaigning for Rahm against "their" candidate?

50 posted on 01/03/2011 11:37:45 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: tcrlaf
Rahm vs. Braun
Democrat Party scavengers fighting over the
the soon to be decaying carcass of Chicago.


51 posted on 01/03/2011 12:12:05 PM PST by StormEye
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To: bareford101

After all that has been done for them, still they choose to isolate and hate us for no reason at all. I’ve ahd to live in Pontiac, MI for the past three years and I’ve experienced a TON of racism and hateful disdain. They are simply colonizers, not citizens. When they had ot work for freedom, they weren’t like this.

And you’re right about the fear that surroudns the US. When Obama was elected, I felt like a Jew in Germany, right after Hitler being elected and I am for one not surprised at the fear. Fear is how the scum got elected. A bunch of blacks threaten to burn this nation to the ground, go figure, we should have let them. They’ll burn the nation to the ground when Obama is out of office, in 2012 0r 2016 for that matter since they won’t want him to have to leave.

As always, they’ll want the rules bent for them.


52 posted on 01/03/2011 12:14:10 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: tcrlaf
I see "Mostly Fraud" is saying the middle class is over taxed now.

These folks are totally power crazy liars........

53 posted on 01/03/2011 12:16:04 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: JRios1968

Good point!


54 posted on 01/03/2011 12:16:06 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: MNnice
I know, let’s tell everybody to vote for the political candidate who’s the same race as you. It’s the right thing to do.

Consider that idea stolen. I'm going to use it. A lot.

55 posted on 01/03/2011 12:27:28 PM PST by Steve0113 (Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -A.L.)
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To: tcrlaf

-——no matter how corrupt she is——

The more corrupt the better.

Knowing how to rifle the till is the primary attribute of all Illinois Gubernatorial candidates. The blacks have learned that the way to rob the whites is to elect the most corrupt candidates they can find. It is the African way, all over America.

Robber by proxie means the voter gets the loot but no jail time.

Hosana, hosana Charlie Rangel!!


56 posted on 01/03/2011 12:32:18 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: mosesdapoet

I knew that the race is nonpartisan. I mentioned that in post #27.


57 posted on 01/03/2011 2:38:07 PM PST by PhilCollins
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To: tcrlaf
I'm sure that 'Carol mostly Wrong' will want to expand the Chicago homeless program where bums are allowed to sleep in Chicago police stations.

Read more: Second City Cop Blog

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/

58 posted on 01/03/2011 3:30:29 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Tupelo
Slick Willie appointment.
59 posted on 01/03/2011 3:34:31 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: donna

Read all about it here:

Carole Moseley-Braun’s Skeleton Closet

http://www.realchange.org/moseley.htm


60 posted on 01/03/2011 3:36:26 PM PST by KeyLargo
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