Insignificant Blog

Yesterday, we pointed out how Eric Zorn conferred upon on us the power to influence the Cook County State's Attorney.

Now WGN points out that we're influencing Mayor Rahm Emanuel, too:

• For the first time publicly, Mayor Emanuel talked about his now indicted former city comptroller Amer Ahmad.
  
  Emanuel was not happy with questions about his indicted ex-comptroller during what was supposed to be a happy ribbon cutting at a new prep school today.
  
  “It’s not like the justice department gives you a heads up,” he said.
  
  The mayor expressed his frustration with his former comptroller for not being forthright with him.
  
  “He had a responsibility to inform the Mayor’s Office of what happened and what were the questions. That is where he violated the trust,” Emanuel said.
  
  But the question remains did the mayor’s office miss some red flags?
  
  In 2010, a nasty campaign for the treasurer’s office was being waged in Ohio.  Ahmad’s boss got hammered because of Ahmad’s questionable ties to a lobbyist.
  
  It’s those ties that are now the basis of the federal indictment against Emanuel’s hand-picked choice to be the comptroller
  
  Just last month, a month and a half before the comptroller’s corruption charge, WGN asked to speak to the mayor about Ahmad’s role in Ohio after a police officer blogged about the comptroller’s troubles.
  
  The mayor’s office cancelled a scheduled interview saying it doesn’t respond to right wing bloggers.
  
  Soon after that, Ahmad resigned.

Last time we checked, we were American citizens. And up until Barry got elected, the libs said that it was the duty of all patriotic Americans to question their government and that "dissent was the highest form of patriotism." But evidently, when an insignificant blog with right-leaning tendencies actually points out the questions that aren't being asked by the supposed media watchdogs, well, that's just not worthy of consideration. WGN actually lost access to the mayor, which we think ought to be a bigger deal than it is being played as. A public official not answering questions in the public interest? Hammer that fucker.

This scandal is getting some (tiny) legs. Kass is pointing out that the connections to Rahm's political structure. And now it's coming to light that Ahmad got paid for unused vacation time when he had (and withheld) knowledge of the investigation, the FBI interviews and possibly the anticipated indictments. If anything, it's putting another nail in Rahm's national ambitions.