1 Mayor Rahm Emmanuel

2 ?rahmbo?

3 Life just isn't as long as it used to be

4
I hope it's ass-cancer.  The painful kind.

5 Fuck Rahm.

6 lol well there goes Alexi's savior... even DALEY is abandoning ship.

7 This ought to feed into the "Dirty Chicago Politics" story that's become part of the larger "Obama - What Were We Thinking?" message.

8 Big job for Daley in Osama Obama regime in 5...4...3...2...1....

9 I guess this means I am the official pollster of AoSHQ. 

Girls, the line forms to the right.

10 Mayor Obama. He'd take it in a New York minute.

11

In other news:

LONDON (Reuters) – A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road.

He died instantly in the freak accident on Friday afternoon.

Giant.

Bale.

of.

Hay.

12 looks back upon the lamentable Daley rule, and tosses out a horrible name for successor: Rahm Emmanuel.

We knew he left Obama for a reason. Hey, maybe we could get Castle to run for mayor of Chi-town.

13 Maybe the Machine is retrenching, having realized the White House was a grift too far?

Nah.  Me either.

14 Rahm Emmanuel as Chicago mayor?

Fish will be a favored dish...

15 Mayor Rahmbo.  A newspaper-wrapped fish on every doorstep.

16 #11 No one ever expects to be taken out that way. If I saw that barreling towards me, there would be nothing left to do but...laugh at it all.

17 11:  There's a great one-off Doctor Who episode in there.  (Torchwood is still suck on "Butts and Boob"...)

18 That union thug Trumka.  Is he from Chicago?  He'd be perfect.

19 What, am I chopped liver?

20 No way Emmanuel even runs. This office belongs to the largest minority group in Chicago: Latinos.

21 You know I might be available

22 Is he the one who tactfully closed down the historic airport by having giant "X"s plowed into the runways in the middle of the night?

23 That seat's gonna be f'ing golden!

24

as much as i hate the Daley's and the stain they have left on American democracy, I will always have a tiny bit of respect for Mayor Dailey's handling of the 1968 Democratic Convention.

Watching hippies get beaten to a pulp always brings a tear to my eye.

25

Daley is out?!....Daley is out? 

The city hasn't been the same since Eugene Sawyer assumed the reins in a midnight coup. 

26 Is he the one who tactfully closed down the historic airport by having giant "X"s plowed into the runways in the middle of the night?

That's the guy.  And one of the worst Olympic bids in the history of Olympic bids.  Now, he needs a billion more to finish the O'Hare reconstruction project.

27 I would like to thank Mayor Daley for a lifetime of service to the people of Chicago. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

28

I guess he sees the giant bale of hay coming. Good for him.

I'd like to have that governmental job....it's a real cash cow if you have no soul/are a ginger.

29 This one calls for the Mickey Mouse skull (credit to Roe Conn, WLS).

30

 Is he the one who tactfully closed down the historic airport by having giant "X"s plowed into the runways in the middle of the night?

An' now dat property is a bee-yoo-tee-full concert facility for da peeple ah Chicaga! Plus da swells in da yacht harbor next door get to hear C & W concerts free for nuttin! Dey love it! Dey better love it......Dey ain't got no choice!

31 Rahm wants to be Speaker of the House.

He would have to be re-elected to Congress.  Which is likely not a very big problem for him.

32 http://tinyurl.com/2dsjqmw

That poll had him at 35% before the Oly debacle.

33 I will always have a tiny bit of respect for Mayor Dailey's handling of the 1968 Democratic Convention.

Watching hippies get beaten to a pulp always brings a tear to my eye.

Posted by: Ben at September 07, 2010 03:03 PM (wuv1c)

Daley Sr. would have no place in modern Democrat Party. Hell, he was barely welcome in the 70s. Getting kicked out of the 72 convention and replaced with Jesse Jackson. Daley Jr on the other hand is a brainless little toad who blindly follows the liberal line.

34 Never fear; someone just as bad will replace him. It's the Chicago Way.

35 Remember that weird press conference where Daley picked up a rifle and semi-threatened to shoot  a reporter who asked him a good question about the useless gun ban?

He's not quite right in the head.

36 I'll believe it when I see it. If he doesn't run, one of his young kids will run and win

37

Get your popcorn, this could be interesting.  Neither one of the Mayors Daley every groomed a successor.  When Mayor Daley I died in office of a heart attack, it was a free-for-all.  Then when eventual successor Mayor Washington died in office of a heart attack, it was a free-for-all.

This Mayor Daley has not indicated any sort of successor.  Which means the free-for-all begins today.  The city is a non-melting pot of various interest groups, with the Jesse Jacksons competing with the Luis Guitterezs competing with the Alderman Dick Mells of the world.  (Dick Mell is Blago's father in law, the guy who got Blago into politics.)

Mayor Daley's accomplishments?  A clean and vibrant city, beautiful public spaces, a terrific downtown.  His non-accomplishments?  High crime & lousy schools.  And his biggest gaffe - turning the city's parking meters into a tax farm, by selling off the parking meter revenue to JP Morgan for 75 years, for an upfront payment of a billion dollars.  Which has already been spent. 

38 Boots-- The list of things Daley has done wrong would take days and pages to catalog. Yes, the city is clean and the north side is safe. But the waste and graft boggles the mind. He signed on to an exorbitant 10-year deal for the city unions so they wouldn't make trouble during his Olympics fantasy. He has outsourced a lot of services, but the cost of doing so may even be higher than the employees they replaced. We've had unconscionable growth in the employee roles in traffic "cops", park district employees, S&S, etc., etc. It's the unseen squandering of the city's riches that will be his legacy. And I haven't even mentioned his carving up of Meigs Field in the middle of the night... He's a disaster. There are few people who could so comprehensively screw up a city.

39 A clean and vibrant city Er...been to the South Side recently? Joliet? Or around Calumet City, or Lansing? (You can blame the blight on Gary, I guess.) Not so much. Downtown? Yeah, better than it used to be (but that's a pretty low bar to clear).

40 I didn't know about the Meigs Airport incident. Wow, he didn't even tell the FAA before doing it, and airplanes were stranded there. What a nut case.

41 The deal to sell off your parking meters was full of win for someone, maybe they were at least Chicago residents.

42 Well, if he's polling at 30% approval in Chicago, this can only mean one thing:  a run for a national office!  Failure is epic win in the Democratic party--remember when the leftelligentsia was lamenting the fact that Jennifer Granholm being born in Canada excluded her from running for president?  Apparently, Obama found a way around that, though.  (Stop throwing stuff at me!  I'm just kidding--I'm really not a birther!)

43 Er...been to the South Side recently?

LOL, when I was at "A" School in 1970 me and another guy took the train into Chicago and then a bus to the museum of science and industry.

It looked pretty bad even then.

BTW, if any of you Morons are ever in Chicago that museum is a cool visit. We spent about 4 hours there and didn't get to see half of it.

44 Oooh, I can already see Hillary Carpetbagger Clinton starting to print up her Hillary for Mayor signs.  She will win Chicago, and then she will rule the world--bwhahahaha!  (It seemed to work well for her frenemy, Barry.)

45

BTW, if any of you Morons are ever in Chicago that museum is a cool visit. We spent about 4 hours there and didn't get to see half of it.

 

Are you talking about the Field House Museum? 

The Shedd Aquarium is also very cool.  I love visiting Chicago.  They have a great marathon too.  I would never want to live there, though.

46

Monty & Fresh Air - The waste & graft & flagrant spendthriftiness boggles the mind, and I would not try and sugar coat that.  I was looking at the city as if I had parachuted in, and wanted a look around.  Downtown is beautiful. 

Think about other major American cities.  Detroit?  Cleveland?  Miami?  NYC?  Los Angeles?  All in various states of filth or outright blight.

I remember the downward spiral the city was in once upon a time, and I was glad to see it stopped.  But.....the parking meter deal is just one of many outsourcings that is costing more than keeping it in-house.  Plus it has destroyed local mom & pop businesses in the process because now the street parking is gone.  The administration is pushing for more big box stores (Wal-Mart) to replace the mom & pops, and imho that's a disaster.  The city spends money to acquire land, forms TIF districts so that tax revenue that should go to local schools & whatnot is taken away, and then the land goes to the big box store to develop. 

And the crime that's rampant on the south & west sides isn't staying there, the north side can't stay safe forever with the police force down almost 2,000 officers.

47

The Shedd Aquarium is also very cool. 

Posted by: runningrn at September 07, 2010 03:41 PM (8GYOu)

It used to be so much better though before they renovated it

48 Any chance that Harold "Fuck It" Washington wins the job from beyond the grave? 

Given the history of voting in Chicago, I'd think it would be very appropriate for someone representing the dead to win the office.

49 See, this is what happens when laws against gun ownership are struck down ...

Some politicians realize that they can't get re-elected ...

Sticking a gun up someone's ass doesn't work so well when that "someone' has a gun ...

... and there's a lot less political smart mouth.

50 Are you talking about the Field House Museum?

No, The Museum of Science and Industry is what I was talking about. I believe it is on Lakeshore Drive but as you can see from my post, it has been a long time since I was there.

51 Two words:

Dit ka

52 Two words: Dit ka Two more words: Alkie holic

53 Dit ka

He would be the only way a conservative could win in Chicago

54 Rahm is too much of a thug and an asshole to be Mayor of Chicago.

Really.

55 Rahm is too much of a thug and an asshole to be Mayor of Chicago.

Really.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 07, 2010 04:04 PM (T0NGe)

then you don't know the Windy City

56

Are you talking about the Field House Museum?

No, The Museum of Science and Industry is what I was talking about. I believe it is on Lakeshore Drive but as you can see from my post, it has been a long time since I was there

 

Yeah, that's the one I mean--it's in The Field House that was built for the Chicago World's Fair.  Great book on all that went into what went on to get everything designed and built for the World's Fair juxtaposed onto a great story about America's first serial killer is "The Devil in White City" by Erik Larson.

57

Poop! Sock!

58 Dit ka He would be the only way a conservative could win in Chicago

In the 1970s, NYC lost 10.4% of its population.

In the 1990s, NYC gained 9.4% of population.

What was different?

59

then you don't know the Windy City

Posted by: Superman at September 07, 2010 04:05 PM (gAmQ1)

No, I do.  There's an upper limit on what even Chicago will put up with.

60

Rahm is too much of a thug and an asshole to be Mayor of Chicago.e

Mike Lee is too Mormon to win in Utah.

61 The only reason Chicago hasn't turned into a sh*thole just like every other city in the mid-west (Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, etc., etc.) is because Daley and his machine are corrupt enough to keep everyone happy, including businesses and employers.  They didn't sell out to unions, race-baiters, or any particular industry group (steel, cars, etc.).  Daley is as good as Chicago is going to get.  If Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone like him becomes mayor, that's the end of the city.

62 Polling 35%... no problem, just pass some more gun control (confiscation) laws and your number will soar Mr. Mayor.

63

Peter Fitzgerald?

Jack Ryan?

64 Unfortunately, as anyone who lives in or around Chicago (or IL) can tell you, there is simply no way that a Republican could be elected mayor of the city absent some crazy sort of fractured 3rd-party-Dem scenario where a messiah-like Republican (he'd have to be that good) wins with 35-40% of the vote.

It just ain't gonna happen.

65 Er...been to the South Side recently? Joliet? Or around Calumet City, or Lansing? (You can blame the blight on Gary, I guess.) Not so much. Downtown? Yeah, better than it used to be (but that's a pretty low bar to clear).

I will say this about Daley -- the South Side is *much* *much* safer than it used to be in the '80s and early '90s, from Hyde Park on down all the way even to Calumet Heights, which ain't no disco but isn't the slough of despair it once was either.  Seriously, the improvement in quality of life wasn't just felt in the white parts of town.  Hyde Park alone has been revolutionized, and it wasn't the University of Chicago's doing, it was Daley's.

66

O/T, but it is Illinois politics:

If Mark Kirk wants to win the "Obama" US Senate seat in Illinois, he needs to up his game. 

A good starting point would be to find the film clip of Obama talking about his role as a (honorary?) campaign manager for Blago.  Obama even says something to the effect of "you betcha" when asked if this is good for Illinois.  The interview was on Chicago Tonight--saw the clip a coupla years ago--it's out there but I don't have the google-fu to find it...

Also, Kirk should explain that his Cap-n-Trade vote, while tailored to the north-shore enviros is certainly NOT what is needed for the rest of Illinois and the country.

67 If Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone like him becomes mayor, that's the end of the city.

Not necessarily.  If the example of Harold Washington's first term as mayor hold true, then the Daley Machine could severely hamstring any of Jesse Jr's attempts to get too cute in that job.

Jesse Jr. has his own problems on top of that.  If Blago looks like he's going up the river, he could take Jesse Jr. with him over Obama's Senate seat.

68 Alright, who are the bungholes who are giving him a 30% approval rating? Out yourselves, freaks!

69 Daley Leaves Office: NRA Fund Raising Hardest Hit

70 Hey, Monty, any thoughts on how the mayor of Chicago could possibly fix Joliet and/or Cal City? I realize we talk about "Chicagoland" as a single entity, but those two towns have their own mayors screwing things up. How Joliet managed to land a minor league baseball team is utterly beyond me. That town is a near-total sh*t-hole.

71 Alright, who are the bungholes who are giving him a 30% approval rating? Out yourselves, freaks!

Posted by: Cathy in Chicago at September 07, 2010 05:50 PM (Y/X5L)

City workers

72 #71 Posted by: Jeff B. at September 07, 2010 04:40 PM (NjYDy)

I agree. Daley did a lot of good in the beginning and revitalized a number of areas of the city. But then he was pro-business and safety. In the last few years he's gone off the rails with all of this liberal shit that would have his father spinning in his grave. The cops hate him (at least the ones I know do) and business isn't coming into the city any more and his idiot solution is more taxes. Plus crime is getting out of hand in certain areas and he refuses to address it.

73 Maybe he knows some ill shit we don't.  Water chases rats out of the bilges first.

74 Daley is almost 70 years old.  Politicians do go on and on, but considering he had a heart attack, and his wife has cancer, I think it's fair to say he actually is simply retiring.

There is no conservative base -- tiny or otherwise -- in Chicago.  The free-market types, traditional republicans, etc., all exist.  But the businesses in the city have simply made the deal to pay off the liberal/city worker base in the city, and not make waves, in a kind of partnership.  This serves in keeping the sizable Leftard population out of power.  Unlike New York, there is no gentlemanly Republican society that has clout in the city -- the city workers and unions have much more say here than in, say, New York.  It's more like Boston or Philadelphia in the sense of permanent Blue.

If Rev. Wright ran for mayor he'd get near a sizable majority just by default.  There is that Plfager/Wright contingency -- the afore-mentioned Leftards -- that are strong here.  Thankfully, not as strong as, say, Los Angeles.

I think the odds-on favorite is that alderman who is a bit of a law-and-order type who is championing the firemen/police.  I forget his name, but he'll be up and coming.

I can't see Rahm Emmanual becoming mayor.  Not because he's too much of a bastard -- but he seems like a bastard without redeeming personal characteristics, and no line of "favors" that people owe him.  Whatever clout he had got thrown in the hole with Tony Rezco.

My $.02 as a Chicagoan, if anyone cares.

75 Him and  Nancy !!!! on the same ticket !!! . How long do the effects of LSD last ?

76

as much as i hate the Daley's and the stain they have left on American democracy, I will always have a tiny bit of respect for Mayor Dailey's handling of the 1968 Democratic Convention.

Watching hippies get beaten to a pulp always brings a tear to my eye.

I'm not so sentimental.

I remember getting lost on Chicago's southside as a teenager, driving my dad's car.

My strategy was to head west and get on the freeway.  I had to drive miles and miles parallel before I hit an on-ramp and what a desolate freak-show of poverty I saw, as I drove.

Literally, people living under the shade of a towering, pulsing artery of commerce that had no connection to their almost bucolic backwater existence.

Later, I asked my dad (who knows his driving) about this anomaly and he explained, that before I was ever born, Mayor Daley made it so that all of the black people, living on the south side should have limited or no access to transportation.

"It's very nice of you to offer your city friends a lift home and you were smart when you got lost, to head west and search for a freeway but now you know that that won't work on the south side of the city.  So, next time you need to go near Hyde Park just get on Lakeshore Drive and hit it.  The worst that could happen is you'll end up in Indiana."

"Okay Dad. You're right.  I always thought that Indiana was creepy and to be avoided at all costs but there are parts of Chicago that are like another goddamned planet!" 

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