Thanks to Fred Klonsky for alerting me to this analysis of the mayoral election in Chicago, in which two African American women are in a run-off, the establishment candidate William Daley came in third, and privatizer Paul Vallas got about 5% of the vote. Voters voted no to Rahm’s school closings and charter favoritism.
Curtis Black writes:
“The election that advanced two black women to the runoff for Chicago mayor is certainly historic. And voters who backed Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle were certainly demanding change.
“But the election was also a complete repudiation of Rahm Emanuel’s record as mayor of Chicago. All the candidates ran against Emanuel’s program. All of them rejected complete mayoral control over the school board, which has enabled wholesale school closings and charter expansion. All of them called for more investment in neighborhoods. The candidate closest to Emanuel ideologically, Bill Daley, even ran against the mayor with a slogan of “no more excuses.””
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Now Rahm can go back to making $17 million a year as an “investment banker” (euphemism for cashing in on political favors).
Rahm will be dining with Duncan at the finest restaurants, served by wait staff who earn wages so low that that they and their families are food and shelter insecure.
If it’s a public restaurant instead of a private club, when we see them, we can mock Rahm and Arne for trying to rob the kids of the working class, in an attempt to relegate them to digital schools-in-a-box instead of education.
It was a repudiation of neo-liberals like Emanuel and establishment Dems like the Gates-funded CAP.
Emanuel and Christie are touring the political talk show circuit acting as though they are making a victory lap. The people impacted by their callous, bullying leadership know differently.
When Christie was on “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert,” rather than enter to wild applause (as most Colbert guests do), he was met w/silence. Little–VERY little–if any applause for C2’s comments, answers. Happy to see Colbert embarrass C2 by quoting his 15% approval rating (& repeating it). Of course, C2 blustered out words to the effect that he didn’t care what people thought about him.
Just like he didn’t care about his constituents, the people of New Jersey.
An arrogant fool who, hopefully, we don’t have to hear anything more about in the future…we don’t care if you wrote an “expose” lambasting IQ45, C2. Not interested in what you have to say…
Oh, & Rahm was on Bill Maher (don’t know what else he’s been on).
I couldn’t even watch.
Good RIDDANCE. Whenever I saw his face on TV or in pictures, I noticed his eyes … windows to the soul. I only saw evil, even when I tried to find some “light” and “morality” in him.
Rahm was a horrible mayor and Chicago deserves more.