Rahm Emanuel not the only loser on election night

Chicago Tribune ^ | 26 feb 2015 | John Kass

[rellimpank]

There were plenty of winners and losers in this week's Chicago city elections, and you can always follow the losers by the echoes of their shrieks through the alleys.

And there are famous names of Chicago Democratic politics among them, names like Berrios and Mell and Daley and Preckwinkle. We'll get to them.

The biggest loser of all, of course, is Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

He was forced into a runoff campaign with Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, and given the unrest in the wards and Emanuel's huge likability deficit, it's looking as if he could be a loser in April.

So an argument to back Emanuel for another term is forming, a consensus stitched together like a suit of clothes at a tailor's. And it sounds like this: Chumbolones stand tall in Chicago mayoral election Chumbolones stand tall in Chicago mayoral election

Rahm is a mean little man, yes, an arrogant frightened little man whose rampant insecurities account for his likability issues. But there's one good thing: He's our mean little man.

And when it comes to city finances, sure, Rahm has kicked the fiscal can down the road. But his opponent, Garcia, will kick that can even farther. Then he'll bury it in a hole dug by the teachers union.

[Steely Tom]

Why can’t he do like his hero and just ignore the results of elections that don’t go his way?

[Sacajaweau]

I think that’s what he did the last time. IIRC, he wasn’t legally eligible to run....as he wasn’t a resident...something like that...

[Sacajaweau]

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/10/rahm_emanuel_experts_say_not_a.html

[Tenacious 1]

In Chicago, voters are given a choice when electing the leaders.

1.) This candidate will execute subjects via starvation.

2.) This candidate will execute subjects via Suffocation.

3.) This candidate will execute subjects via drowning.

4.) This candidate will execute subjects via dehydration.

The analogical point here is, there will be little difference in who they elect. Their next leader will do no better to help people and will get to the same ends via some subtley diffent means.

[yldstrk]

Residency requirements mean nothing to pols anymore

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Gotta subscribe to the “on-line” Trib to read Kass. Too bad.

[norwaypinesavage]

It’s a sad day in Chicago, as well as in America, when an election loss by Rahm Emanuel is bad news. Much as I smile by reading of his loss (non-win), the alternative seems to be even worse.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I can see the headlines after the election “the Godfather loses to Jesus”
Freegards
LEX

[Liz]

True---the skinny little runt Rhambo was a big loser---forced into a
humiliating runoff. But Obama was a bigger loser---after all, he came
to Chicago to campaign for his ex-COS.

SOURCE: cnn.com

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And let's not forget---Dem stronghold Illinois just elected (horrors) a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR......

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Mayor Rahm "raised" and spent zillions of campaign monies. His " name recognition " garners much more donations, spending and more fundraising.

BACKSTORY Since leaving the White House as President Obama’s chief of staff in 2010 to run for mayor the first time around, Emanuel (cough) raised about $30 million..... $15 million alone for this election-----an eye-popping four times as much as the total of his four challengers combined.

Mexican Chuy Garcia (backed by MoveOn.org, the progressive group begging Senator Elizabeth Warren to run for president) has raised about $1 million, mostly in teachers’ union money.

Plus---Emanuel is spending freely, nearly $7 million to monopolize the airwaves with ads.

Rahm ran 4,600 TV ads since Nov.......while his opponents are nearly invisible.

[bigbob]

Some truth there, Gatcia is even more left-wing.

[rellimpank]

—I can usually sneak by the “5 articles” firewall by doing a search and then going to a “cached” copy—

[cincinnati65]

Anyone else see the strange irony in Jesus vs. Emanuel?

[VerySadAmerican]

Rahm is a Jew who sides with those who hate Israel.

[bgill]

He’ll have a few weeks to fix the election machines. Vote early. Vote often.

[Dilbert San Diego]

True. But this has got to be a shock to Rahm and his boys that he wasn’t popular enough to win the first round.

I’ve heard city finances are in disarray, that people are upset that he closed a number of neighborhood schools in black neighborhoods, and that he and his people just haven’t gotten a handle on all the violence in the city.

Clearly over half of voters felt he didn’t deserve a 2nd term. But in the runoff, will voters coalesce around Chuy Garcia so as to kick Rahm out of office? We’ll see in the runoff in April.

[Dilbert San Diego]

It’s a sad day in Chicago, as well as in America, when an election loss by Rahm Emanuel is bad news. Much as I smile by reading of his loss (non-win), the alternative seems to be even worse.

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Yep. I’ve heard that Garcia is very very liberal, from the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democrat party. If he’s elected, it may just hasten a further decline in Chicago, as more businesses flee, more productive people move out of the city, and we see crime fester.

[Jane Austen]

lol

[Yellowstone Joe]

You will rue the day you supported the evil NAZI Rahm
Emanual

[nascarnation]

Jewish guy vs guy named Jesus

should make for some fun campaign signs