Moseley Braun Levels a Broadside
Nicely played, but we still think she's in to draw off Meeks supporters:
Chicago mayoral hopeful Carol Moseley Braun went on the attack Thursday, slamming rival Rahm Emanuel for "abandoning" President Obama after "pushing policies that [led] to the biggest Democratic Party political loss in 27 years."
"He left the president holding the bag," Braun asserted in a statement that also claimed Emanuel "cut and ran" on Obama when he left his chief of staff job to return to Chicago for a mayoral run.
"If Rahm abandoned the president of the United States, what makes anybody think he'll stick by regular Chicagoans?" Braun asked.
Carol isn't exactly a "regular Chicagoan," but she's making more of an effort that anyone else has to paint Rahm as an out-of-touch outsider. If she actually became a real threat, we'd expect Rahm's people to play dirty. If she actually won, she's got a bunch of skeletons that would enable the Machine to exercise undue influence on her administration.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
47 Comments:
"Carol isn't exactly a "regular Chicagoan," but she's making more of an effort that anyone else has to paint Rahm as an out-of-touch outsider."
The former US Ambassador to New Zealand leveling pot shots?
Rahm is hardly an outsider having served as US Rep in the 5th District. Rahm was highly visible & proactive for his constitutents during his tenure. Can Braun say the same?
Can we resurect Harold Washington?
Look out here she comes!!! If she runs she will be a top vote getter. shit I might even vote for her. Very nice person and her brother is on the job, would guess she is pro Police.
Braun was very pro-active during her term in the US Senate. For her boyfriend's interest in Nigeria! Remember, the national sport of Nigeria is fraud.
Mosely-Braun was caught hiding her mother's assets from the Illinois Dept. of Public Aid while allowing the taxpayers of Illinois to pay for her mother's nursing home care through Medicaid. True story, Braun's mom was in that nursing home near Clark & Oak St in Chicago.
She said oops, she didn't know she wasn't supposed to do that. Sure, in spite of the pages of documents she filled out and all the listing of her mother's assets she had to do.
That was just one of the times she was caught with her hand in the public cookie jar.
She opened her mouth?
She going to prison now.
rahm emmanuel wont stand for that.
Isnt her brother, Joe, a PO or Sgt?
Former Senator & Ambassador cut & ran on her deluxe apartment in the sky, only after getting EVICTED. And she wants to be your next Mayor. mm-mmm- mmmm!
http://www.slate.com/id/2078924/
Braun has no room to talk. She's a crook too!
"Carol isn't exactly a "regular Chicagoan," but she's making more of an effort that anyone else has to paint Rahm as an out-of-touch outsider."
The former US Ambassador to New Zealand leveling pot shots?
Rahm is hardly an outsider having served as US Rep in the 5th District. Rahm was highly visible & proactive for his constitutents during his tenure. Can Braun say the same?
11/06/2010 12:49:00 AM
....ha!!!! Nice try sir!
She's a coppers sister and she's not even close to that reptile Rahm Emannual, shill for Bill Daley, aka pimp for Obama. She's got my vote.
Emanuel will lose the election as a result of his connection with Obama. Epton for mayor!
Didn't she and her aide/lover run around Africa with a genocidal dictator, on the tax payers dime?
Carol Mosely Braun is a corrupt idiot. If she had any brains at all she would still be U.S. Senator. She had a safe seat. All she had to do was show up and go through the motions, and keep her nose somewhat clean, but that was too hard for this goof. She has many skeletons in her closet, but that won't matter to her supporters.
To 11/06/2010 03:36:00A.M.
Harold was not that bad. He had his issues, but he was much better than what we have now or what we will have in the immediate future. The only Mayor who treated us better was Jane Byrne.
If Moseley Braun becomes Mayor will she install her idiot brother as a Deputy Suprintendent?
I remember when she tried to have him promoted from detective to the Commander of the 2nd District!
I would take Moseley-Braun over Rahm any day. Anyone who would vote for that snake gets what they deserve, a nightmare!
The least of the two evil!!!!
"allow the machine to exercise undue influence"?
she is an Illinois democrat...she IS the machine.
Still, it will be great if we can get every elected office that is based within Cook County to be held by an african-american.
That's what's really important.
As to Emanuel abandoning Obamao...I am no fan of Rahmbo, but he was the most moderate voice in the entire Dem leadership, he tried to get them to moderate on their socialist sprint and they refused to listen. He left on an "I told you so" basis, he knew the bloodbath for the Obamao, Pelosi, Reid myopic socialist power grab was inevitable.
Blame the messenger, you corrupt joke. At least her ability to cause chaos was limited as a senator to casting bad votes at the direction of her puppet masters, in the executive position of mayor she will be out of control in attempting to micromanage every aspect to gain social and racial restorative justice. Should she get elected it may be the end of Chicago as we know it. I could not envision a candidate that could result in wanting shanks back, she may be the one.
Here's a prediction that will put the PAG to shame for its accuracy.
Rahm will be the next mayor because the game was set a long time ago and the sheeple of this state are too stupid to vote these clowns out.
And I didn't need a fancy computer to come up with that either.
"Rahm was highly visible & proactive for his constitutents during his tenure. Can Braun say the same?
11/06/2010 12:49:00 AM"
Now, now, it's a bit early for throwing hissy fits, especially when hissy fits are all you have.
The only person rahmbo has ever been 'proactive' for is rahmbo.
As for having been 'highly visible', it's not only what rahmbo's been visibly up to that bodes ill for all Chicagoan's, it's the activities he's been concealing that are truly suspect.
The citizens can only hope that the freshly balanced U.S. House of Representatives will expeditiously begin the processes which will lead to authentic transparency, and thus, expose a significant portion of rahmbo's 'invisible' proactivities to public scrutiny, prior to the municipal elections.
Those who live in Glass houses should'nt throw stones....
If she hadn't been such an arrogant asshat, she'd still be in the senate today.
Why would anyone think she'd do a better job as mayor?
"If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law and wear bright leather pants." -- Moseley-Braun, during the 1990 Senate race.
This dull, grasping, crude woman has no business leveling a peashooter at anyone else, let alone a "broadside."
Here is a genuinely spectacular web page detailing decades of Carol Mosely Braun's wrongdoings --
http://www.realchange.org/
moseley.htm
"For someone who has been in politics for 20-plus years to have so few if any supporters is remarkable. Her candidacy has more to do with psychology than politics. It's just inexplicable." -- political consultant Don Rose.
"During the [1992]campaign, Moseley-Braun announced that 'with this fundraising, as God is my witness, I will never go hungry again.' (Her campaign raised $7 million dollars).
"Much of that money went to Kgoise Matthews, her campaign manager and later fiance, whose previous experience was as a valet for Jesse Jackson. She paid him $15,000 per month and gave him unprecedented control over the campaign's finances, which were full of irregularities. He burned through the entire $7 million and more; they had to borrow money in the last days of the campaign, despite spending only $1 million on TV ads.
"During the campaign, the couple stayed in 4-star accomodations and each got a credit card -- despite FEC regulations, they spent $26,400 on them that was never accounted for. In addition, there were a number of 5-figure payments for obscure reasons such as "advance for travel authorization" and "expense advance for authorization."
"Shortly after the election, she announced her engagement to Matthews, moved into a $3,240-a-month luxury apartment in Chicago's Lake Point Towers, bought a new Jeep Cherokee with cash, then flew to South Africa on the Concorde with Matthews and her son. (Tickets on the now-defunct Concorde tickets ran about $4,000 per person, one way, at the time).
"On January 15th after her election, she put her fiance on the payroll (at $120,000 per year) to "develop strategies to reduce the campaign debt." By the time she laid him off the following October, that debt has risen by $94,000..."
Read the rest of the web page. You won't be able to stop. Carol Mosely Braun, Alderman Arenda Troutman (now in federal prison), Carla Oglesby (Cook County Board president Stroger's just-arrested deputy chief of staff) -- this type is all cast from the same mold.
Carla Oglesby -- charged with felony theft of government services, money laundering and official misconduct -- has filed for unemployment benefits, by the way.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/carla-oglesby-a
ccused-str_n_769944.html
"Carol isn't exactly a "regular Chicagoan," but she's making more of an effort that anyone else has to paint Rahm as an out-of-touch outsider."
"The former US Ambassador to New Zealand leveling pot shots?
Rahm is hardly an outsider having served as US Rep in the 5th District. Rahm was highly visible & proactive for his constitutents [sic] during his tenure. Can Braun say the same?"
--11/06/2010 12:49:00 AM
One could as well say, "An Israeli tank mechanic leveling pot shots?"
This is ridiculous. All of it.
A guy whose Chicago residency is uncertain enough that it calls into question his eligibility to run for Mayor, supposedly "abandoning" a President who, by some accounts, is a citizen of Kenya -- a President who was set into place by Mayor Daley and political organizer David Axelrod, who just coincidentally has also "abandoned the President" and returned to Chicago for the next step in the plan -- Daley's ordainment of Emanuel as his successor.
Come on. The whole submarine packed full of these miserable people is moving in the same direction, with the same self-serving ideas and the same destructive goals. They just shoot a "noisemaker" out through the torpedo tube every once in a while as a distraction.
This great finger-pointing by one at the other, this pretense of dissension and discord is routine. It's all a calculated and cynical show to mesmerize the public, while all concerned continue to grab with both hands.
"Can we resurrect Harold Washington?"
--11/06/2010 03:36:00 AM
I dunno. "In her first job, as Illinois state legislator, she became the official legislative spokesman of Chicago mayor Harold Washington. As part of that deal, Moseley-Braun was paid $100,000 (at the mayor's behest) for municipal bond work as a co-counsel for major law firms, even though she had no experience in the field."
If we have to bring someone back from the dead to run this city, my money'd be on John Wentworth.
"Long" John Wentworth (March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.
"Born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, John Wentworth was a huge man, towering 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) high and weighing more than 300 pounds (136 kg). He drank at least a pint of whiskey each day and would eat from 30-40 different foods during a single meal.
"Wentworth was educated at the New Hampton Literary Institute[1], at the academy of Dudley Leavitt[2] and at Dartmouth College graduating from the latter in 1836. Later that year, he left for Chicago, arriving in the city on October 25..."
"When an author left a manuscript of a history of Chicago with Wentworth for his suggestions, Wentworth obliterated everything that didn't mention him and returned the manuscript to its author with the note saying "Here is your expurgated and correct history of Chicago."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/John_Wentworth_(Illinois)
Like I said earlier...
Rahm's jumping ship is the best sign yet that Obama is going to be a one termer. (Thank God)
Rahm Emanuel is only anything for Rahm Emanuel.
"...she's got a bunch of skeletons..."
Well, uh, yeah.
The woman is really "beyond the beyond" --
"In 1996, Moseley Braun made a private trip to Nigeria, where she met with dictator Sani Abacha. Despite U.S. sanctions against that country, due to Abacha's actions, the Senator did not notify, nor register her trip with, the State Department. She subsequently defended Abacha's human rights records in Congress.[4] Her former fiancé Kgosie Matthews, who also served on her campaign staff (in violation of U.S. immigration regulations[5]), had been a lobbyist for the Nigerian government; Matthews would later leave the country."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Carol_Moseley_Braun
Kgosie Matthews had been the Rev. Jesse Jackson's valet.
http://www.realchange.org/
moseley.htm
This from the woman who s campaign manager was embezzling funds and she was sleeping with him and she knew nothing of it? or something like that.
It was during Washington's time as mayor that they began paying out shitheads rather them fighting them in court.
Tell u whaT if Chico stays in and its rahm,her and chico shell win.Unless rahm pays chico off like everyone else who dropped out. The best excuse was fioretti who said he cant run bexause hes sick ,but hell run 4 alderman. I cant honestly see anyone getting Chicago to where we used to be.We r so in the hole ,its crazy. Might not even be worth voting. Lets see who r wonderful FOP backs. I like when like 5 FOP guys endorse someone they say the police are backing so and so. Bet Donahue backs rahm
Sort of off topic. if "african-american groups" can endorse "their candidate," why can't european-american groups, or caucasian-american groups endorse their candidates? this sounds like such a double standard for the media to report this. this sounds so polarizing to non african-americans. this kind of reporting reinforces the us vs. them mentality that keeps racism going.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/african-american-group-backs-danny-davis-for-mayor.html
When Carol Moseley Braun lost her re-election bid she didn't have enough class to come out and thank her supporters or call then Senator-elect Peter Fitzgerald. She was a sore loser all the way.
In retrospect, I'm sorry that I voted for her the first time.
Your eneimies, enemy is your friend. She is better than Raham. This is poltics's, grow up she is the best we have. Not saying alot but true.
Carol PLEASEEEEEE Let's bring up your scandals? You arent the answer. Rahm got me and my fellow Vets the Post 9-11 GI Bill and you did what as US Senator? Nothing period. Sorry Joe your a good guy but sis is a miss
"Mosely-Braun was caught hiding her mother's assets from the Illinois Dept. of Public Aid while allowing the taxpayers of Illinois to pay for her mother's nursing home care through Medicaid. True story, Braun's mom was in that nursing home near Clark & Oak St in Chicago.
"She said oops, she didn't know she wasn't supposed to do that..."
--11/06/2010 06:02:00 AM
"In 1990, Moseley Braun's mother was living in a nursing home, completely supported by Medicaid because she had no assets. Then her mom inherited $28,750 dollars. By law, she needed to report that to the state within 5 days so they could reclaim some of it to pay for the nursing home.
"Instead, she turned it over to Moseley Braun, who kept some and gave the rest to her brother and sister. She even admits that she drew up a legal agreement spelling out the distribution of money, dated June 27, 1990, which her mom signed.
"When the story broke, Moseley Braun basically blamed her mom, conceding that she should have 'taken greater control of the reporting requirements.' She was forced to pay back the $15,239 that she received to the state, but was not prosecuted in part because the Illinois state Attorney General Roland Burris, a Democrat who campaigned with her, didn't press the case.
"Then a reporter found an unsigned letter from Moseley Braun to her mother with explosive wording. "In an effort to help you "launder" the timber proceeds and not run afoul of the state regulations, I agreed to handle your $28,750. The money was deposited in a money-market account and touched only at your direction."
"The reporter had, at the time, only a fragment of the letter, and it was unsigned, so he had a television reporter friend ask her about the letter during a videotaped interview. Here is the transcript:
"KUR [shows letter]: Do you have anything to say about that?
MOSELEY-BRAUN: No, I don't....
KUR: Can you say you never wrote it?
MOSELEY-BRAUN: No I can't."
http://www.realchange.org
/moseley.htm
There are a lot of "regular Chicagoans" who will never see
$28,750 all together in one place in their entire lives - let alone howling back and forth across the oceans on Concorde.
This material is as bad as Daley's inarticulate babblings about "money, money, big money."
Daley, Emanuel, Braun -- all these people are the same. They all have each other's phone numbers, all go to the same penthouse cocktail parties and glitzy gallery openings as the flashbulbs pop - and they are all grabbing as much as they can get with both hands.
"Incestuous." That's the word I'm looking for -- and you can include a lot of the media as minor players, all whining and barking for a little scratch on the head, a scrap of meat tossed to them by The Powerful.
I'm still howling about Channel 7's threadbare, worn-out Andy Shaw landing on his feet with a nice paycheck as head of the Better Government Association -- of all things! Do little tricks and sniff the right behinds all your life, and maybe you too will end up with a nice bone.
Arf! Arf!
"Now, now, it's a bit early for throwing hissy fits, especially when hissy fits are all you have.
The only person rahmbo has ever been 'proactive' for is rahmbo."
Ask his constituents in the 5th District. You're no different then Broadside Braun. Baseless vague accusations mired in Bullshit. Talk about hissy fits pantywaist.
I'd hide my mothers assets from this crooked rotten state too!
Her brothers a cop. Enough said.
To the unpublished:
stop drinking leftist kool-aid. Obama wasn't in Washington when 9/11 took place nor for the war votes. He was a big zero on the national stage...kind of like this past Tuesday when you think about it.
Anonymous said...
Her brothers a cop. Enough said.
11/07/2010 01:56:00 AM
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So is Beavers. So is the illustrious Cmdr. of 007.
You are a drooling moron.
Via the Chicago Tribune, November 8, 1998:
"Read my lips. Not. Never. Nein. Nyet." --Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, after losing her re-election bid to Republican Peter Fitzgerald, on the possibility of running for office in the future.
retrieved from: Proquest, Lexis-Nexis & NewsBank databases
Moseley Braun is a dummy who embarassed the lake-front liberal broads who worked so hard to get her elected, when she went MIA to Africa immediately after being elected. At least Rham is a bright guy who has accomplished something. Somebody just needs to buy him a personality as a Christmas present. He comes off as arrogant now. What will he be like as mayor.
Actually, I consider Joe a real cop, not a jerk-off like the others of whom you speak. But I see your point with my statement.
I'd hide my mother from this crooked, rotten state.
She still going out with Kgosie?
I think that's how you spelled her man's name.
"Rahm is arrogant". Talk about the understatement of the blog. How about Rahm is closest a human can get to the anti-christ. Thats a bit closer.
"How about -- Rahm is [the] closest a human can get to the Antichrist"
--11/08/2010 11:24:00 PM
The White House staff gave him a dead Asian carp wrapped in a newspaper as a going-away present.
Sonny: What the hell is this?
Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
--The Godfather,1972
What's Michael Chertoff doing these days? Maybe we can get him as Police Superintendent.
I can just see him and Emanuel clattering down the hall on their cloven hooves, leaving burnt footprints and a stench of sulphur behind...
"Rahm's jumping ship is the best sign yet that Obama is going to be a one termer."
--11/06/2010 04:49:00 PM
Everyone has everyone else's number. Obama, Emanuel, Daley, David Axelrod -- Bill Clinton, for God's sake. Doesn't much matter where they're sitting when their cell phone rings.
Like the old telephone company jingle used to say, "We're all connected."
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