Emanuel formally announces run for Chicago mayor

[somone]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7293178.html

Emanuel formally announces run for Chicago mayor
By DON BABWIN

CHICAGO — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel officially announced his candidacy for mayor of Chicago Saturday, promising to fight any tax increase for city residents.

"We cannot ask taxpayers for more when families are struggling to stay afloat in this economy," he told supporters packing an elementary school auditorium on the city's North Side. "We cannot price Chicagoans out of their homes, their schools and their communities."

Emanuel, who's been campaigning unofficially since he left the White House weeks ago, made some other common political promises as well: to fight crime, create jobs, improve education and make government accessible to residents.

He promised that before the Feb. 22 election he would make three speeches outlining specific ideas in education, crime and gangs, and the city's finances.

[notesdev]

1. Chicago deserves better

Hell, Sodom and Gomorrah deserved better

[ibegurpard]

2. i bet i can guess his policies:

education: privatize it all.
crime and gangs: let them run the banks.
city's finances: tax cuts for the wealthy and eliminate civic services.

Now, to whom do I send money to end this weasel's political career once and for all?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. My condolences to the Windy City.

:cry:

[Segami]

4. The Ten Lessons Of Rahmses - Lesson One

by Driftglass:


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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:


Elections:


Laughter?


My armor! The war crown! My fuckin' pencil-box!


Laughter?


I will turn the laughter of these fuckin' mopes into wails of torment!


They shall remember the name of Chico! <http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/11/09/chico-chicago-s-not-getting-mayor-rahm-ed-down-its-throat>


Only that I stabbed him in the fuckin' neck with a fuckin' pencil and he died under my chariot wheels!



Tomorrow, Lesson Two: Being Da Boss



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[tularetom]

5. I was as critical of this corporate DINO POS as anybody

And I was as glad as anybody to see him leave the white house.

But I think I was wrong about him when I accused him of pushing President Obama in a centrist direction.

He's been gone a month or so and it's becoming apparent to me that he didn't push him as much as help him move in a direction that Obama had already chosen.

[Segami]

9. No, you were bang-on right about him from the get-go. Nothing has really changed.

And it won't for a while if that!

[LWolf]

6. Time to send donations to his opponents. nt

[sharesunited]

7. Big city mayor should have a big heart. Not a big bag of grudges and profane vocabulary.

Where is our Bloomberg?

Better yet, where is our LaGuardia?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. That photo sums up perfectly how I view that little douchebag. nt

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