Posted on 09/04/2018 12:53:27 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
In a stunning decision, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday morning that he will no longer seek a third term in office, signaling the end to what has been a tumultuous – and at times transformative – eight years in office.
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Maybe entertaining, but I'm only 25 klicks to the west. Well inside the fallout zone.
No Rahmbo III?
As they play pin the tail (tale?) on the donkey, Rahm, does not want to remain on the scene of the crimes.
A new home in a gated community in California is probably in his future.
Maybe he will pirhouette for office next year.
So what’s next?
My best guess is Dick Durban is retiring in 2020. That’s what Rahm is after.
Nothing happens in the IL Democrat Party hierarchy that is not pre-arranged.
That’s true, but you have to remember that the black activists in his own caucus HATE Rahm. They hate him for settling the Laquan McDonald case quietly. They hate him for opposing a city income tax that would let them distribute boodle to junkies and the gang members that prey on them on them. They hate him for daring to not bend to the Chicago Teachers Union, which keeps most of their activists employed, most of all. I could see Rahm throwing his hands up trying to keep his coalition of people that hate each other (rich libs like the Pritzkers, human garbage like Toni Preckwinkle and Karen Lewis and the relatively well-to-do Hispanic “leaders” like Luis Gutierrez) together. He might want to run for Senate but I’m sure he’s sick of this thankless job, too. Rahm was the only thing standing between we, the taxpayers, and a city income tax that will go directly into Lewis’ fat pockets. He wasn’t perfect, but he, at the very least, was willing to fight the corrupt unions. Whoever replaces him won’t even try.
“I think I’ve messed up things enough. Mission Accomplished!”
“Run, Rahm, Run” sticker on the front of a dented up bus.
Just when you think Chicago couldn’t get any more corrupt, Rahm drags it deeper down.
You are all about to see that we can and will do worse than Rahm. Another good reason why he’s probably stepping aside (other than Dick Turbin’s seat which is being kept warm for him): the city’s non-bike-lane infrastructure is garbage. A 122-year-old water plant blew up last week. O’Hare is in the middle of a major overhaul. Whoever becomes mayor next has to deal with paying or all of it and the projects are going to be too big to use TIFs like Rahm did for the new DePaul Arena. It’ll predictably be a Marxist who will raise taxes and say it’s “for the children,” of course.
Put a fence around it all and let it collapse.
You have 1 year to get out with whatever you can sell off.
Don’t be stupid.
Dump it all and get out.
Since Obama is gone, the Emanuel personal pipe into the US Treasury is closed off
He can’t steal so why put up with the crap
Re post 12, good advice.
Has occasional-kotex from New York got a relative that would like the job?
” Rahm was the only thing standing between we, the taxpayers, and a city income tax that will go directly into Lewis’ fat pockets. He wasn’t perfect, but he, at the very least, was willing to fight the corrupt unions. Whoever replaces him won’t even try.”
YES!
Question, long ago I had read about Daley the younger giving the teachers a very small line item that BALOONED INTO A MASSIVE budget item over the years? Perhaps you had heard of it?
( I kind of liked the old man and he MADE that free throw, first try, his last day)
Yea!! Like he has a chance in hell of reelection!!!
so he will need to do something to keep him busy and out of trouble...
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