The Big-Money Guys Behind Rahm

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1. Susan says:

   April 5, 2015 at 3:04 pm

   Hope Garcia wins…it will speak volumes about democracy winning over greed and corruption.

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2. Chiara says:

   April 5, 2015 at 4:33 pm

   “Such is the current state of politics in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago. President Obama’s friend and former chief of staff kept in power by the same donors behind Republican presidential hopefuls Scott Walker and Jeb Bush. ”

   Democrats followed Republicans on attacking labor unions just like Democrats followed Republicans on privatizing public schools. “Follow” is the key word there.

   There’s a fundamental problem- Democrats don’t have any ideas. They adopt the GOP agenda on economic issues because they don’t have anything original to offer. There’s only so many times they can trot out raising the minimum wage. This political Party is bankrupt. They lead on nothing and they stand for nothing.

   One can at least give Republicans credit for coming up with an economic agenda. Democrats don’t even have that. They simply copied the GOP agenda and announced it was “progressive”. How can anyone respect that?

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   • MathVale says:

     April 5, 2015 at 9:28 pm

     Both are bankrupt and merely puppets of the 1%. Republicans used to value families, middle class, small business. Democrats used to value labor, civil rights, accessible education. Or maybe not? It seems to have gone downhill starting with Reagan. On Plunderbund, there was a blogger arguing that punishing teachers as Ohio Republicans want to do will improve urban schools as a civil rights issue. What!??!? When Richard Courdray – a well respected politician – was voted out and Kasich in, I knew Ohio had really gone off the rails. It is like the Great Recession caused the frontal lobe to shrivel all across Ohio. I don’t get it. Do people really want to destroy the schools?

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   • MathVale says:

     April 5, 2015 at 9:31 pm

     And don’t look to close at the Republican economic agenda and budget. It is rebranded tickle down, dismantling social programs, increasing war spending, with vague fuzzy math coupled with gimmicks.

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     • dmaxmj says:

       April 6, 2015 at 7:22 am

       Exactly. They’re smart enough to not say “trickle down”-because they know it ain’t true, but that’s what they’re selling.

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3. Chris says:

   April 5, 2015 at 4:33 pm

   The SEIU is also funding Chuy.

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4. retiredbutmissthekids says:

   April 5, 2015 at 4:52 pm

   Yes, Chris–they have been funding & airing some really good commercials. Hope there’s one coming up about the lousy TIF deal for the DePaul (a PRIVATE university) Arena/Marriott Hotel, in the millions, & the statement, “& THIS is how to solve the budget crisis?” Targets every taxpayer where they live (I mean, in the pocket).

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5. Hannah says:

   April 5, 2015 at 9:36 pm

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/05/if-you-cheat-to-escape-a-corrupt-accountability-system-who-is-really-to-blame/

   Mayor 1% is only a small fraction of this article… but it speaks to the larger problem of putting people in impossible situations.

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6. Chi-Town Res says:

   April 5, 2015 at 10:20 pm

   David Sirota has been reporting all this weekend on Emanuel’s failure to comply with FOIA requests for emails and:

   “Rahm Emanuel blocks release of secret contracts he gave to the “independent” official overseeing Chicago’s election”

   http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-elections-chief-got-lobbying-contracts-rahm-emanuels-adminstration-1869898

   I will be shocked if this does not turn out to be a rigged election.

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7. Christine Langhoff says:

   April 6, 2015 at 12:09 am

   Stand for Children, ILL.

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8. Linda says:

   April 6, 2015 at 7:54 am

   The Pritzker villainthropy is involved with Goldman Sachs in the Frankensteinish social impact bonds.

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9. Gordon Wilder says:

   April 6, 2015 at 12:47 pm

   Hooray for “Citizens United”?????

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