Another Candidate Out?
A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas for records involving dozens of state grants for after-school, job training and other programs, some of which were sponsored by state Sen. Rickey Hendon, a Chicago mayoral candidate.
Federal investigators were seeking any state agency records about dealings with more than 50 individuals and nearly 40 entities, according to copies of Aug. 3 subpoenas to the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education that were obtained by the Tribune.
The Associated Press reported Thursday that the grand jury subpoenas also were delivered to three other state agencies.
It'll be interesting after Rahm is crowned to see where all these supposed challengers end up in the new administration. A lot of surprise promotions and cabinet positions we're sure.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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When push comes to shove in February, it will be Rahm vs Chico and it will be a bloodbath, making the Giannoulis/Kirk smear campaign look like a junior high school student council campaign.
Hendon is just a loud mouf West Side politician who is going to get his just due.......deservedly so.
You go Rahm!
When you win, I get to rent out my home here in Chicago and move way away from here, just like you did!
Go Rahm!
Hendon had about as much chance of being elected Mayor as Bill Clinton has of becoming national chairperson of the Girl Scouts.
Dart getting out is good for Rahmbo.
Hendon is a freaking joke.
Rickey Hater.
Nothing to see here. Rickey Hendon is nothing more than a buffoon, and isn't even a real candidate for Mayor in any sense of the word. No one would take him seriously, and few outside of his West side constituents would even consider voting for him.
I don't think Braun, Fioretti or Emanuel have anything to worry about.
The search for a "consensus black candidate" has been narrowed to two, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and Board of Review Commissioner Larry Rogers.
Either one would virtually guarantee a win by Rahm Emanuel. The pieces are falling into place. The powers that be are rigging things so that no one but Rahm Emanuel has a ghost of a chance.
This election is much too important to be entrusted to the voters.
Prepare for 20 years of Rahm.
The City of Chicago deserves a race baiting Democratic politician as it's mayor, that is why I am supporting Rickey Hendon.
If you watch his rant last week in favor of Pat Quinn you will also see Congressman Danny Davis standing right behind him, nodding his head in favor of the comments and afterwards clapping in approval of them.
Democrratic politicians are allowed to step over the line but heaven help anyone else!
Anonymous said...
"The search for a "consensus black candidate" has been narrowed to two, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and Board of Review Commissioner Larry Rogers"...
10/29/2010 05:49:00 AM
Larry who? How do you run a guy that nobody's even heard of?
I don't think there's anyone out there that WANTS AND HAS WHAT IT TAKES to be Mayor of Chicago at this time, besides Rahm.
He has the desire, name recognition, knowledge, connections, fund-raising ability and balls to make the tough decisions that will need to be made at this point in Chicago's history. We may not like him, but we better get used to him!
So is there a Mexico flag flying from Juarez HS in 10th Dist?
DON’T ASK, DON’T VOTE….IBD
By Ruth King on October 27th, 2010
Election ’10: The president’s home state gets a pass from the Justice Department on ensuring its soldiers overseas can vote. An administration obsessed with gays in the military doesn’t care about voting rights for GIs.
Consider that the Illinois primary was in February and that the deadline to print and mail ballots to soldiers fighting for democracy in places like Iraq and Afghanistan was Sept. 18 — long enough, one would think, for even the slowest bureaucracy to do the job mandated under the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) act.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Board of Elections hand-delivers ballots to inmates in Cook County Jail. The board doesn’t even wait for the inmates to apply — it brings the applications with the ballots! More than 2,600 inmates have cast ballots — strikingly similar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not receive a ballot for Tuesday’s election.
Not that I love Rahm but Chico just said this morning that he will take a 20% pay cut and expects city managers and those greedy union members (for you Chico lovers that means YOU) to do the same
Rickey Hendon is an example of the people whp elected him..assholes.
The west side has high unemployment, epidemic crime, is poverty stricken, child sex trafficking and human traffickers roam the streets bkasting threats and profanity and Rickey Hendon and Danny Davis do nothing, even when thye used to disrupt Rickey's weekly meetings.
The powers that be do not exist, most in the black community do not want Hendon, Meeks or Davis as mayor, they only take care of themselves.
And blacks definitely are not going to vote for a candidate just because they are black.
"It'll be interesting after Rahm is crowned to see where all these supposed challengers end up in the new administration."
Cardboard box on the sidewalk outside.
"A lot of surprise promotions and cabinet positions we're sure."
"Did I say that?" Emanuel laughed as the door of his limousine closed.
Anybody, I mean ANYBODY is better than having Rahm in there as mayor. I will vote for whoever has the best chance of beating him
For God's sake...
If your are the POLICE and reading this, in Chicago, get your ass out and VOTE!
...or else you are part of the problem.
Drag everyone you know along.
We need a 95% cop vote turnout.
Where are all the young political Science majors that want to serve the public. There has to be a few bright people out there with a few good ideas that have the desire to run for the biggest political office in Illinois.
Emanuel digging dirt on others, eh?
How soon we forget --
Norquist, Hamsher Call For Investigation, Rahm's Resignation
Dec 23 2009, 4:12 PM ET
"Grover Norquist, a leading voice of fiscal conservatism...[and] Jane Hamsher, a leading voice of the digital left, coauthored a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder today calling for a Department of Justice investigation of Emanuel for his role on the board of Freddie Mac, alleging that the White House, since Emanuel arrived there, has blocked an investigation of the government-sponsored mortgage lender.
"A 2003 report by Freddie Mac's regulator indicated that Freddie Mac executives had informed the board of their intention to misstate the earnings to insure their own bonuses during the time Mr. Emanuel was a director. But the White House refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request from the Chicago Tribune for those board minutes on the grounds that Freddie Mac was a 'commercial' entity, even though it was wholly owned by the government at the time the request was made.
"If the Treasury approves the $800 billion commitment to Fannie and Freddie by the end of the year, it will mean that under the influence of Rahm Emanuel, the White House is moving a trillion-dollar slush fund into corruption-riddled companies with no oversight in place. This will allow Fannie and Freddie to continue to purchase more toxic assets from banks, acting as a back-door increase of the TARP without congressional approval.
"Before the White House commits any more money to Fannie and Freddie, we call on the Public Integrity Section in the Justice Department to begin an investigation into the cause of Fannie and Freddie's conservatorship, into Rahm Emanuel's activities on the board of Freddie Mac (including any violations of his fiduciary duties to shareholders), into the decision-making behind the continued vacancy of Fannie and Freddie's Inspector General post, and into potential public corruption by Rahm Emanuel in connection with his time in Congress, in the White House, and on the board of Freddie Mac."
http://www.theatlantic.com/
business/archive/2009/
12/odd-couple-of-norquist
-hamsher-call-for-
investigation-rahms-
resignation/32543/
"The pieces are falling into place. The powers that be are rigging things so that no one but Rahm Emanuel has a ghost of a chance.
"This election is much too important to be entrusted to the voters."
--10/29/2010 05:49:00 AM
I get the most horrible feeling you're right; Daley and Axelrod will force Emanuel into place as though with an inexorable hydraulic press, the same way they foisted Obama upon us.
"OOOOOOOOOOO," roared Oprah's robot-gals -- and the deed was done.
"Prepare for 20 years of Rahm," said the metallic voice on the loudspeakers.
That sentence chills me as much as would an anouncement of the imminent arrival of nuclear winter.
Somehow I see myself dragging stone blocks marked "TAX" up an incline, as an overseer shouts and points -- while the perennial "corner boys" are left to laugh and sport at others' expense, running across the alleged "food desert" pelting each other with thirty-pound Butterball turkeys from the "church" up the street...
I have to go. I need my medication now.
Anonymous said...
So is there a Mexico flag flying from Juarez HS in 10th Dist?
10/29/2010 07:55:00 AM
So is there a Juarez HS in 10th Dist?
Any preferences for the coming elections?
"So is there a [Mexican] flag flying from Juarez HS in 10th Dist?"
--10/29/2010 07:55:00 AM
There certainly is -- in violation of Federal law. Photo here --
http://www.communitywalk.com/
location/benito_juarez_high
_school/info/131120
A Mexican flag is also carried in parades by the school's color guard -- again, in violation of Federal law. Photo here, with the State's Attorney present and smiling --
http://www.statesattorney.org
/index2/gallery_diadelosninos
_01.html
"No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United States at any place within the United States or any Territory or possession thereof." -- United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1
http://www.ushistory.org
/betsy/flagcode.htm
"Any preferences for the coming elections?
10/29/2010 10:30:00 PM"
none of the above.
Anonymous said...
Not that I love Rahm but Chico just said this morning that he will take a 20% pay cut and expects city managers and those greedy union members (for you Chico lovers that means YOU) to do the same
10/29/2010 09:08:00 AM
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Read the article again. He didn't say that unions would take a 20% cut. He said that after him & thousands of management employees then he could have unions have cost-cutting concession. I have no problem making some concession once they get rid of all the excess fat and clouted that are useless & getting high salariers to do NOTHING.
If you read the whole story the subpoenas were issued on Aug 3 which was almost 5 whole weeks BEFORE Daley annonced that he was not going to run for re-election.
So I don't think that Rahm had his hands in this one. But he did throw JJJ under the bus. This is just a coincidence. Ricky was going to get caught sooner or later because he way too dirty and arrogant about it.
"If you read the whole story the subpoenas were issued on Aug 3 which was almost 5 whole weeks BEFORE Daley annonced that he was not going to run for re-election.
So I don't think that Rahm had his hands in this one. But he did throw JJJ under the bus. This is just a coincidence. Ricky was going to get caught sooner or later because he way too dirty and arrogant about it.
10/30/2010 09:18:00 PM"
are you always this retarded or just when you post bullshit on a blog?
Gery Chico is inept political shlock. Go check his record, as Daley's earlier-model Huberman, no agency benefitted from his presence. He trades on his "Daley connection" now in private practice. Ugh.
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