Nine to Vie for Mayor
- At least nine candidates filed to run against Emanuel.
In addition to Garcia and Fioretti, they include: municipal consultant Amara Enyia, former Ald. Robert Shaw, Chicago police Officer Frederick Collins, businessman Willie Wilson, Fenton C. Patterson, Gerald Sconyers and perennial candidate William "Dock" Walls.
Asked whether he would be willing to hold debates with his opponents, Emanuel said "there will be a time for debate" but did not say how many debates he would be willing to take part in.
Yeah...sure he is. Rahm is Nixon on television. He comes across as extremely unlikeable, arrogant and condescending, kind of like that asshole Gruber who calls the American voter stupid. Rahm knows better than you and by golly, it's all about the children you know.
One of the candidates could put a dent in Rahm's numbers tomorrow if they promised to get rid of the speed and red light cameras.
One of the candidates could put a dent in Rahm's numbers tomorrow if they promised to get rid of the speed and red light cameras.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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"One of the candidates could put a dent in Rahm's numbers tomorrow if they promised to get rid of the speed and red light cameras"
Hilarious because it's true
Nine Candidates?
That is how the GOP ended up with Romney in 2012 and McLame in 2008.
I know you guys think nobody cares but as a non cop, I think a mayoral candidate could do more than just promise to remove those cameras,
one thing could be to restore the faith of union workers and others who value fair treatment of police, teachers and firemen by assuring taxpayers that this town will honor its commitment to pensions and uphold the laws that protect that benefit.
chicago has a long tradition of being a place where workers have earned and can expect their rights to matter. No mayoral candidate should take that lightly or expect those who make such great sacrifices in service to the public to take such a big step backward without a revolt.
One of the smartest moves would be to attack the stupid red and speed cameras. Is anyone in this field smart enought to debunk the myth of safety and actually expose it for what they are! Those cameras are nothing more than a money grab against the stupid citizens! Rahm believes the voting public is stupid and the voters buy the lies that they are for the children! Yea right Rahm, i have a bridge in the desert for sale too!
I believe Garcia is against the speed cameras. He's going to get the Latino vote. Rahm screwed the blacks so that vote is gone. He's only popular with the north shore residents and there out of district. He comes across as an unlivable pussy who has security detail 24 7 around his house while the city burns. I'd be supprised if his own neighbors would vote for him.
10-1 Freddie is Running: How Funny
How many are shill candidates meant to divide the anti-Rahm vote?
With all these folks running, the mayor's got it in the bag.
A whole collection of miss-fits and opportunist!
Rham's got my vote right wink wink
Thanks FLOP
The condition of the Chicago streets should be enough to put an end to Rahm but then consider the goofs who are running against him.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Did't Bob call for this? http://theexpiredmeter.com/2014/10/mayoral-candidate-calls-for-moratorium-on-red-light-cameras/
one last class of evidence techs off old list?
OT --
Businesses to receive incentive for hiring illegal immigrants, report says
Published November 26, 2014
"Businesses will have a $3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal immigrants or native-born workers under President Obama’s sweeping action on illegal immigration.
"Congressional aides condemned the loophole saying it puts illegal immigrants ahead of Americans in the job hunt.
“If it is true that the president’s actions give employers a $3,000 incentive to hire those who came here illegally, he has added insult to injury,” Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican told The Washington Times. “The president’s actions would have just moved those who came here illegally to the front of the line, ahead of unemployed and underemployed Americans.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/26/businesses-to-receive-incentive-to-hire-illegal-immigrants-report-says/?intcmp=latestnews
Unfortunately I think they're going to splinter the vote enough to all but ensure a Rahm victory.
4 more years of that asshole dictator.
Within the next four years he'll have taxed and fee'd the middle class into oblivion.
All the while he'll be taking care of big business and pandering and catering to the ghetto dwellers/ Link card crowd.
We're fucked.
Angelo better allow Collins to talk for 10 minutes at the dec fop meeting.
America
" kind of like that asshole Gruber who calls the American voter stupid."
Last election validated Gruber.
The assholes are the voters that keep pulling the same lever expecting a different result.
Does anyone know anything about the police officer that threw his name in?
OT: Just saw on CNN the 3 FOOLS. The idiots family lawyer Benny Crumbs who cant put 2 sentences together, Sharpton whom is nothing but a howlin racist and the thug step daddy Michael brown sr who incited da fools by yelling, "Burn this bitch down". Which fools did. LOL. These 3 down low fools share half a fucking brain. And Benny Crumps lost this and Trayvon. Where did this dumb fuck get his BS law degree. Cant even sue for these. Most attys as dumd as that fuck though. Maybe commercials Benny Crumbs?
They can form a softball team, since they are all softballs.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
The list is not complete.
John Catanzara is also running for Mayor.
All this election talk and procedure is all just folly and circle jerking.
The voter turn-out will be dismal.
And dismal is a incumbents wet dream.
Because the incumbent WILL get out his supporters.
There WILL be four more years of Tiny Dancin'.
Unless he decides to take his Dancin' to some other stage.
With all the concern for the kids maybe take the Chairman position at St Judes?
Anonymous said --
one thing could be to restore the faith of union workers and others who value fair treatment of police, teachers and firemen by assuring taxpayers that this town will honor its commitment to pensions and uphold the laws that protect that benefit.
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Sorry but many others think that these bloated pensions and all the scamming of double-dipping should end.
No one is denying someone a pension, but when they become the size of Lotto Jackpot payouts, something has to give - and it is NOT the over-taxed taxpayer.
First, they should cut any double-dipping of two or more pensions. No one needs over $80,000 a year in pensions. Cap them.
Plus all the "gaming of the system" when it comes to jacking up the last three years of salaries in order to get a larger annual pension - teachers are notorious for this.
Sorry but the BIG public trough of money has run out. Time to make reasonable cuts to those pensions that are way out of reality.
Nine "non-candidates".
What Chicago should get is a real candidate who would be good in steering Chicago in a positive direction.
Rudy Guiliani? I would vote for him long before any of these 9 clowns.
Run off !
Looks like the machine is up and running, Rahm is a little worried about a run off with Garcia so the Dems have loaded up the race.
Rahm will be the hands down winner and will FUCK the city up more with new property taxes and other city fees, he will run businesses out of the city and all the better resturants will move out to Chicago Northwest, The Village of Rosemont. Take that to the bank.
hmmmmmm
maybe I'm an asshole too, but...
The American voter *IS* stupid!
What the hell I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring as well. I'm coming out of retirement, vote for me Bozo the clown. WGN got's my back.
Why not round it off to ten and include, Lar “America First” Daly
It's probably the only Daley we could ever again trust in that office.
Get used to the fact that we will have Raccoon Eyes for another four years. He isn't done destroying what is left of our city so he needs more time. All of these "candidates" are pluggers just to divide up the vote.
Don't Underestimate The Current Mayor. He Is Cunning and Ruthless. He Has Many Allies Cut From The Same Cloth. He Will Give Up The Mayor's Spot, Only When He's Damn Good And Ready To Do So. The Democratic Party Has This Town And State "Clocked" The Only Way This Mayor Can Not Be Re-Elected, Is When "HE" Decides "HE" Does Not Want It Any More.
"With All Our Rage, We Are Still, Just Rats, In A Cage"
These are very sad and disturbing times for law enforcement.
What an ass backwards world we live in.
http://rightwingnews.com/media/two-new-york-times-reporters-posted-darren-wilsons-home-address-look-see-home-addresses/
I believe Garcia is against the speed cameras. He's going to get the Latino vote.
He will never get this Latin vote.
How sad. nothing but a slate of awefull horrible people. Only in chicago does the tradition continue.
one last class of evidence techs off old list?
Nope.....new test, new list....you can thank a pissing contest and a certain dethroned DepCh from the D unit for letting that list go by the wayside
Gracias' biography states that he came to this country with his parents, when he was aged ten. Nowhere in his biography does it state when he became an
American citizen. This guy might not be an illegal.
End gold braid pension , end pension for any appointed rank , merit promotions . Pension should be best last 8 years average salary . Pension based on last rank that a person was promoted to by Test Score , not merit , political promotions .
Romney in 2012 and McLame in 2008...
So you stayed home both times and passed on voting for two honorable, qualified, experienced and conservative candidates with proven records of effective leadership.
Because you bought that bullshit media narrative about how :
(a) they are old, rich, racist white men.
(b) they weren't true Republicans.
And now you have a president who is ineffective, indecisive, always partisan, and can't admit the majority of the public doesn't support his opening of our borders, his mishandling and current re-escalation of involvement of the Iraq (and now the Afghanistan) wars, the overreach of the IRS, the overreach of the NSA, the failure of his signature healthcare reform law, his lack of a plan for the spread of ISIS, his lying about having Al Queda on the run, his concessions to russia at the expense of our alliance with Poland and the eastern bloc, his weakness toward the Chinese at the expense of our alliance with the S. Koreans and Japan, his lack of response to the invasion of Ukraine and Crimea at the expense of losing the faith and trust of our NATO allies, Australia, and Britain.
Then there's his revolving door problem of retaining Sec's. of Defense, his choice of Sec's. of State, his buffoon of a VP (yes, I'd prefer a Palin to a Biden), his race-agitating AG, his going off to fundraisers in the moments after Benghazi, or his having to go golf after the beheading of an American at the hands of our enemies...
Or maybe you think "McLame" would promise to close Guantanamo, tranfer gitmo prisoners to an Illinois prison, or swap 5 taliban for a deserter? Or promise negotiations on a huge legislation would be held on C-span? Or promise no Ebola cases in the U.S? Or promise to "do something about million dollar bonuses for CEO's" or "shovel-ready jobs?"
And all you can do is spew a tired old snark about "McLame?"
You mean Vietnam P.O.W Senator McCain? The Republican Senator whose won every primary and general for his seat for his party in a landslide in Arizona for 30 some years? One of the most prolific legislators in our senate that actually passed laws with his name on them before asking the country to consider his candidacy for president? the one who actually proved he could get things done on both sides of the aisle and who would prefer to talk to congress before having to spend two terms as president making excuses or blaming previous presidents?
I'd vote for a John McCain at 100 years of age before I'd ever vote for any fake, pandering, clueless, Chicago closet hyde park japanese garden down-low wannabe marxist like this pseudo intellectual pompous wuss like this sorry excuse for an American president who slimed his way into office these past 6 miserable years.
"there will be a time for debate"
Oh, perhaps on some hair-splitting point of Talmud, around the time the Red Calf is led onto the Temple Mount as the shofars quaver and the sky blackens, rent with the lightning of the Final Days -- but certainly nothing sooner than that or more substantive than that...
Don't hold your breath.
I would like to see Rahm go one-on-one with Lar Daly, though. Perhaps "Live At Red Rocks," with Yanni providing the sound track and a background set of French clowns on fifty-foot stilts teetering amongst smoldering mockups of Victorian houses...
Garcia is a Socialist.
And vote for sanctuary city.
NO VOTE.
Just like Karen lewis.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is responsible for the higher cost of doing business
small business store fronts in the City of Chicago have collectively taken a bigger financial hit due to the higher cost of fees and permits as required to do business in the city.
VOTE NO! EMANUEL HAS GOT TO GO!
Now, JESUS "CHUEY" GARCIA is an alternative to the current administration!
Check your biases and prejudices at the front door before you support this current mayor!
Sorry but many others think that these bloated pensions and all the scamming of double-dipping should end.
No one is denying someone a pension, but when they become the size of Lotto Jackpot payouts, something has to give - and it is NOT the over-taxed taxpayer.
First, they should cut any double-dipping of two or more pensions. No one needs over $80,000 a year in pensions. Cap them.
Plus all the "gaming of the system" when it comes to jacking up the last three years of salaries in order to get a larger annual pension - teachers are notorious for this.
Sorry but the BIG public trough of money has run out. Time to make reasonable cuts to those pensions that are way out of reality.
Uninformed on so many levels
Fioretti is a friend of the police.
I'm voting for him.
we need EVIDENCE TECHS NOW.we can't wait another six plus months for testing ,grading,and training!
Fioretti is a friend of the police.
I'm voting for him.
Good for you.
Fight your Rahm Cam ticket.
For anyone receiving a red light or speed camera ticket identifying their car make as "OTHR", their citation was not issued properly in compliance with Chicago's Municipal Ordinance. State and City law mandate that the make of their vehicle must be identified on the ticket and if not, the ticket should be dismissed in accordance with the ordinance.
9-100-040 Violation notices – Contents, distribution and recordkeeping.
(b) Whenever any vehicle exhibits a compliance violation during operation or is parked in violation of any provision of the traffic code prohibiting or restricting vehicular parking or standing or regulating the condition of a parked or standing vehicle, any police officer, traffic control aide, other designated member of the police department, parking enforcement aide or other person designated by the city traffic compliance administrator observing such violation may issue a parking or compliance violation notice, as provided for in Section 9-100-040 and serve the notice on the owner of the vehicle by handing it to the operator of the vehicle, if he is present, or by affixing it to the vehicle in a conspicuous place. The issuer of the notice shall specify on the notice his identification number, the particular parking or compliance ordinance allegedly violated, the make and state registration number of the cited vehicle, and the place, date, time and nature of the alleged violation and shall certify the correctness of the specified information by signing his name as provided in Section 11-208.3 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, as amended.
Mayor Emanuel's administration selected Xerox after the Redflex scandal to issue tickets and they have access to everyone's registration through the secretary of state. They're either lazy, sloppy, or grossly incompetent not following the letter of the law (along with the contempt for the Federal three second yellow light standard). You have to DIG into the ordinance to find this detail, and I do not believe the city's attorneys in corporation counsel or judges who are claim they know the law (as Judge Chico did when he ruled against me) are unaware of it while they enforce the tickets in violation of the city's own ordinance. This is wrongful prosecution.
http://www.wlsam.com/common/page.php?pt=Red+light+cameras+continue+to+issue+questionable+tickets&id=116052&is_corp=0#
Someone to ROYALLY fuck up this city like Willie Wilson????????.
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