Rahm Closing on 50%
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel is closing in on the majority he needs to win re-election and avoid a runoff, but nearly 1 in 5 Chicago voters remain undecided a week before Election Day, a new Chicago Tribune poll found.
The survey found that Emanuel has boosted his favorability and job approval ratings among voters after millions of dollars in TV ads, while support for top challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia may be stalling as he starts to air his own ads in the closing days of the campaign.
The poll, conducted Wednesday through Sunday, found Emanuel at 45 percent support — just shy of the 50 percent-plus-one-vote benchmark he needs to avoid an April 7 runoff election against the second-place finisher. Cook County Commissioner Garcia had 20 percent support, while Ald. Bob Fioretti and businessman Willie Wilson each had 7 percent backing. Community activist William "Dock" Walls had 2 percent, while 18 percent said they were undecided.
C'mon people - anyone but Rahm is the way to go. Get out there and vote.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
68 Comments:
I am actually canvassing and many people do not vote.
.not registered
.to busy to vote
.don't know where to vote.
.registered at old address
.too busy too vote
YEP all ASSCLOWNS you know who you are.
When you are living in your kids basement think about not voting!
They want everyone to believe he is going to win so the option stays home.
I'm Voting for my family's future and voting for anyone else.
One Poll says that
NBC says different
COPS can make the differance
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957072/A-expensive-getaway-Obama-family-s-separate-weekend-trips-trips-cost-2-5-million-did-Barack-spend-Valentine-s-golfing-California-Michelle-went-skiing-Colorado.html
This is tactic used in the first Obama election. Convince people that the election is already won and your opponents will stay home.
I don't know anybody who has voted for Rahm. Talk it up with your family and at Roll Calls.
Has anyone had trouble with early voting?
Rhams a Rich $15 Millionaire
Not from Chicago but Northshore
Wants to be back in DC someday
Will raise Taxes and Fees
Kids don't go to CPS
Does anybody know someone who is voting for Rahm? I don't. Don't pay attention to the polls. Just vote.
Went to a 26th Ward candidate forum tonight. Moderator noted that as of October, the new 012 had lost 145 officers or a 28% drop. Wanted to know if candidates would pledge to vote no on a budget that didn't include $$ to hire more police. Only the challengers said yes. When the mic went Maldonado he corrected the moderator and said 40 more officers had left in the last 4 months! Like he was one upping her and proud of it.
That means 012 is down 185 officers or 35%. They must be all riding alone. That's a huge district that spans the Ike.
The moderator also said police and fire pensions were among the worst funded in the nation. Asked if they would pledge to vote for a city-owned Casino with profits going only to city pensions. Ald Maldonado and challenger Corona said yes. The candidate who bragged she endorsed by the FOP said no...
Afterwards, the moderator's brother was talking to her and I think I heard her introduce him as CPD. No wonder she knew her $hit and wouldn't take BS answers.
The event was at EuroFurniture on Grand east of Western. Horse of Honor for Mike Ceriale is on display there. It's damn beautiful. The CPD officer who painted it did an amazing job. Stop and see it. It's inspiring.
If you luv Ommma
Then Vote Rahma
Remember that hangover?
Fuck the Chicago news media!
They want so badly to annoint Rahm and maintain
The status quo of this city working out for no one but
the big money campaign contributors.
You middle class churls stand still and be quiet while
your pockets are being picked to make life easy for those who contribute nothing but their weight in misery.
It's ok if YOU'RE
Redistributed out of what you worked for.
Remember the leaked debate questions. Well within a week abc7 wrapped up that investigation. They fired a "freelance" employee. That is all, no additional information will be made available on this matter! Case closed!
My mother, a staunch anti-Rahm voter, called me Monday morning when the papers blared about Chuy Garcia being caught in some real estate tax issue and 'being forced to pay back thousands of dollars'. Then he got blamed for the actions of his adult son. Her comment was something like 'they're all dirty'. And, she said she wouldn't vote for him. (She's now voting for Fioretti, which is fine; it's still a vote AGAINST Rahm.)
The problem is, the articles had the intended effect of dirtying up a front-runner candidate on the very first day of early voting. Rahm's underhanded machinations worked. Neither story broke that day, but they definitely were PLANTED as if it was some brand-new bombshell revelation.
Emanuel is sleazy and devious and will trample anyone and anything that gets in the way of his ambitions. Anyone who votes for him is short-sighted and gullible.
Vote Early and Vote Often!
-Alfonse Capone, distinguished Chicago businessman
Get Out and Vote.
Vote against EVERY Incumbent. What has anyone done to deserve your support?
Funded your pension?
Increased Police Manning?
Cut your Taxes?
Plowed your Street and alley?
Made your neighborhood safer?
Made your Public Schools Better?
If you cannot say yes to the above, Vote against EVERY Incumbent!
OT: How come the media calls an 18-year-old who commits a crime a "man" but when another 18-year-old attacks a police officer and gets shot, that 18-year-old is called a "boy" (like Michael Brown)
Anybody know any hungry reporters?
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2015/02/this-is-awkward-robbery-of-mayors-son.html
I hope the undecided's come to their senses and realize anyone but a Rahm.
This egotistical asshole is digging deep into his war chest to ramp up the phony, inaccurate TV ads and mailings.
I'm hoping and praying for a runoff. Rahm doesn't like to sweat like the common folk.... let's make it happen.
How about a write in campaign for Jon Burge? It would be hilarious to watch the SUN TIMES have to actually print a couple hundred write in votes for him in their 'newspaper".
After white males have dominated the mayor's office forever in Chicago and after already having had "firsts" with black and female mayors, Hispanics seem to think the office now 'belongs' to them.
A couple of Facebook pages representing groups of City of Chicago retirees and City of Chicago pensioners have been swamped with Chuy supporters who have totally taken over the content and the dialogue of those pages and begun berating other group members who don't agree with them even to the point of calling people morons etc. Great way to garner support for your candidate, by angering the voters.
It's becoming just another typical disgusting election in Chicago. I will say though, that if the way these Chuy people are acting now is what we can expect from Chuy and his supporters sneaking into the mayor's office on election day, I reserve my right to vote for Rahm and fuck Chuy Garcia.
I know some people are reading this and saying OMG, what an a**hole, but THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND SAYING WHEN YOU ARE ATTACKING OTHER PEOPLE!
We don't HAVE TO vote for Chuy in a runoff, ESPECIALLY if all it means is replacing one douche bag with another equally contemptible douche bag. We can just stick with the devil we know...
The ONLY poll that matters is the one on election day and THAT day I'm voting for the only candidate that has shown any concern for cops and our pensions, Bob Fioretti.
Fioretti is on record stating he will protect police and fire pensions. He is on record stating their aren't enough police and will hire 500 more. He was on the radio yesterday saying he would like term limits and the City Counsel should have somewhere between 16 and 35 Aldermen.
Guess who I am voting for.
My Alderman called me last night asking me to support him. He's in a tight race where I live. I asked him who he supported for mayor. He said Rahm and I told him I couldn't support him.
He then started to give me reasons why he supported Rahm and I gave him my reasons why I couldn't stand Rahm and would not vote for Rahm.
He asked what union I was in and I told him. He started to say that the union negotiated away my benefits. I corrected him and he decided it was time to hang up.
This retiree is doing his part. Stay safe boys and girls.
The 1% are buying the election. If the other candidates had Rahms campaign cash to attack his record he would be polling in the single digits.
Vote !!!
The tyrant must be stopped. ABR. Anybody But Rahm.
The poll is an animated phone call. I just hung up! This is the liberal media pushing Rham.
doc walls earning his money...
The very last thing these rotten media fucks want to happen is the regular working and taxpaying churls taking their city back...
They're fearful of the specter of vengeful head-taking that should justifiably follow anyone but Rahm being elected. Especially by their favorite whipping boys...
Those wild-assed, pension grabbing cops.
If you'll notice, a lot of the media inspired fiction from early in the agit-prop war against The Police in this town has gone away...
Maybe bullshit, spin, lies of omission and misrepresented facts have their saturation point even with the low information electorate?
It would suck almighty if in spite of their money and influence that local media is finally cut out of the political annointment business for maintaining the current corrupt political-corporate culture from which they've profited so handsomely.
Which is why we were praying that someone like the Koch Bros. would blow into Chicago just like Rahm did and stick it in both ears of the knee-walking, prog-tard media collective by destroying it and re-booting it just like CPD.
Why should Policemen and their families be chained behind the doors of the Theater of Fuckery as Rahm Emanuel and Gary McCarthy set the joint on fire and local media gets to point and laugh at the spectacle?
We wanna see them learning how to bleed too...
You know... Just like Rahm figures first responders should.
PLEASE PLEASE don't follow the advice of the person saying we should write in Jon Burge. Election rules are clear on this, a write in vote for someone who has not filed for candidacy is a non vote and won't be counted. So a write in vote for Jon Burge would in effect be a vote for Rahm! Don't do it! Also there is not one incumbent Alderman that deserves your vote, our Aldeman in the 41st Ward especially. If you read her fliers she claims credit for all the school renovations in the ward. B.S. the projects were in the pipeline before she arrived on the scene! A vote for her is a vote for Rahm!
Don't believe those stupid polls- they fudge them to discourage others from voting so don't fall for the bs! Get out and vote!
The River Wards will be the difference. Rahm does not want to be embarrassed.
Fioretti is on record stating he will protect police and fire pensions. He is on record stating their aren't enough police and will hire 500 more. He was on the radio yesterday saying he would like term limits and the City Counsel should have somewhere between 16 and 35 Aldermen.
Guess who I am voting for
Am sure he means well and he says this but if he gets elected,which he won't, none of that will happen.
They all say what you want to hear when running for election, but either don't or can't follow up on campaign promises.
Do you really thing the aldermaen will reduce the size of the city council? and the mayor can't do it alone.
Do you think for one minute that if we had a cansino with a ton of money coming in that any of it would go to the pensions. As soon as the money starts coming in it's a free for all for them to spend it on anything they want. The pension is he last thing on their mind. Just like the lottery was suppose to go for education until they saw all the money and start steeling it all.
I commented on this as an off topic issue in the "dispatcher missed the 10-1" post by SCC just two posts down from this. It appears at 02/17/2015 at 08:38 am.
I wish I could copy and paste the damned thing to here but don't know how and am to lazy to try and learn now.
SCC, if you can transfer my post here, thanks. Everyone else, please drop down to that 10-1 post and read it there.
Basically, every city employee, active or retired has a huge family and friend net work that can be mobilized to at least keep that little cocksucker rahm from winning hands down without him having to do a Feb. run off. Make the little weasel at least spend some money and make him sweat!!!
These polls are all wrong. Because their numbers are "soft". Everybody I talk to says they hate getting these calls. Who wants to go on record how they are going to vote? The subjects of these polls just tell the pollsters whatever they want to hear. This is a common political ploy: pretend its inevitable in order to discourage voting.
One poster here says he is voting for the mayor because Chuy voters were disgusting on a FB page. Could be "rat-f***ing" which is pretending to be your opponent, doing anything that p***es off the voters. This is a classic strategy. I do not believe Chuy supporters did any such thing. He has been a perfect gentleman his entire political career.
One poster here says he is offended by obnoxious comments on a Chuy FB page. Sounds like classic slimy political strategy called rat-f***ing. Pretend to be your opponent and p*** off the voters.
Our mayor is a 1 percenter from the suburbs. He has millions in campaign donations. Whoever pays you is your boss. Do you think those 1 percenter campaign donors care about working people, public employees who depend on getting their pensions they EARNED?
One poster here says he is offended by obnoxious comments on a Chuy FB page. Sounds like classic slimy political strategy called rat-f***ing. Pretend to be your opponent and p*** off the voters.
Our mayor is a 1 percenter from the suburbs. He has millions in campaign donations. Whoever pays you is your boss. Do you think those 1 percenter campaign donors care about working people, public employees who depend on getting their pensions they EARNED?
Let's blame rahm for his kid talking to weed man and getting beat up and robbed.Don't blame Chuy for his kids mistakes nor rahm for his. If rahm can't controlled nor protect his neighborhood what do you expect from a big city like Chicago.
Rahmmie at 95thst red line
Will he fool black voters again
Created jobs ? What about 2,000 police officer jobs cut from budget , what about the political sponsored police officers assigned to desk duty in a district near you
Kids shot , that desk jockey might have prevented that shooting
Anyone have e tra $$$ for red light tickets , telephone 911 tax , water bills have doubled , next year real estate taxes will increase . It is all for the children , yeah right.
Vote for me I'll set you free .
50%! Oh that would be a damn shame! Damn shame!
Anonymous said...
How about a write in campaign for Jon Burge? It would be hilarious to watch the SUN TIMES have to actually print a couple hundred write in votes for him in their 'newspaper".
2/18/2015 04:13:00 AM
When the vote is CRITICAL, and keeping Emanuel under fifty percent of the vote is CRITICAL, you encourage people to throw away their vote because it would be entertaining for thirty seconds to see Burge's name printed in the tally?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
This is tactic used in the first Obama election. Convince people that the election is already won and your opponents will stay home.
I don't know anybody who has voted for Rahm. Talk it up with your family and at Roll Calls.
Has anyone had trouble with early voting?
2/18/2015 12:31:00 AM
A good way to take a day is to 'talk it up at roll calls'. Don't be stupid and give people ammunition against you. Electioneering isn't allowed at work.
Write in Seiser for City Clerk, Mendosa is unaposed, She has a Chauffeur/Bodyguard what a waste.
Folks at work say they are not voting. "I don't do politics" or "It wont matter who wins its all the same"
The shit bugs me!! Men and women died so you have the opportunity to vote!
Already done.
5 proud Norwood Parkers from this family cast their ballots for Chuy in 016 station yesterday.
He's not close to 50% yet.
The papers and TV assholes want you to stay home so he wins.
Sorry to say, but Rahm still has my vote. The other choices are just too bad to even think about.
I do not like any of these candidates.
Years ago, a friend was campaigning for a Congressman and he thought "everyone " listens or reds polls. So he decided to "leak" the results of a fictitious poll in which the Congressman was doing quite well.The newspapers ran with this "leaked" poll. The name of the poll was....wait for it!...DBI international....or Don't Believe It! The Congressman won, and I'm sure the DBI had a lot to do with it.
union workers recycled garbage now picked up by a private crew
one man does the work of three
he is privatizing
less police , fire dept kept their numbers but not police
vote , the pension you save may be your own
VOTE Rham / McJersey and you'll get the 10.5 Hour Day and It will all go to HELL!!!
Imagine fightin for your life on the fourth day of 10.5 You wont have the strength or mental capacity to think and act straight
Gotcha Thanks
hey ssc, my write for 2015 rudy guiliani for mayor, seiser for supt. and cicero mayor larry dominick for 41st alderman , dont laugh a hell of alot better than what we have now
JUST A THOUGHT
No Rahm........No Rahm.
Vote Police, Fire, Teachers, and other city workers in as Aldermen.
The others have not pushed the Mayor to put one additional dime into the Pension Funds.
The city worker populated wards get a voice also, right?
Not now we don't.
Pay the bills you owe first before throwing money at any project that helps the Mayors friends out.
We don't HAVE TO vote for Chuy in a runoff, ESPECIALLY if all it means is replacing one douche bag with another equally contemptible douche bag. We can just stick with the devil we know...
2/18/2015 04:51:00 AM
Stick with the Devil you know?!!! What does that even mean? The guy thinks you are serfs and treats you as such. So we should keep him?
Vote for any of the other guys. In the run off, vote for the other guy. If they turn out to be bad, the Aldermen will minimize them. They cannot do any long term damage and we can vote him out next time. Who knows, maybe we'll even get a guy we really want next time.
If Rahm gets in for another four years, he increases his power exponentially. He becomes the king and he will them treat us taxpayers like his slaves. Support Rahm with a vote? NEVER! I'd rather go down swinging.
ANYBODY BUT RAHM!
vote for me i'll set you free is on the $ , vote for willie Wilson
he admits he backed bruce rauner , not ballerina boy
he'll take care of whitey, blackie and brownie
There's blood in the water. Don't discount the probability of a run-off. If it occurs Rhambo is a
goner.
I was listening to WLS, Rush Limbaugh, today, and several times a spot came on for Willie Wilson. This spot has to be the most ghetto thing I have ever heard on WLS. At first I thought it was a [racist] parody, until I heard it a second time, then a third. I don't want to paint with too wide a brush, but I think Willie is missing his target audience with this one.
SCC, If you can find this radio spot, I think you would agree.
Frankly, I think this spot would still be offensive if it were on WGCI. Power 92.3 (on a Friday or Saturday night) maybe.
Have you voted yet?
Has Dean come out and said, "I want every cop and every cop's family member to vote."
Have your bosses said make sure you vote. Our safety and pensions depend on it.
Have your partners voted?
I don't have any respect for any cop who sits this election out. I have more respect for a cop who say he voted for Rahm because his Alderman got him a new garbage can. At last then Rahm has to address our needs even if it is a garbage can.
Not voting is worse than voting for Rahm. Not that I would ever do that or recommend anyone do that. Not voting then just shut up and pay your taxes.
Stay Safe and VOTE!
I already early voted for fioretti. Rahm successfully split us up. Our dept is half voting for fioretti and half for chuy. How u idiots could vote for that idiot and his sponsored "stop police criminal" rallies he use to throw in the barrio years ago is beyond me. If u guys are going to do anything unite for fioretti. People say he sued the police department before.. Yeah so? One of our former supt Bryzck (sp) is a lawyer suing chicago cops with loevy.. U didn't know that? Also, fioretti has defended more coppers in lawsuits and criminal cases than he has ever sued and that is a fact... Use your heads
Chug at 20% rah father 33%,Fioretti 27%, Wilson 15%,doc5%. Get out and vote.
Sorry to say, but Rahm still has my vote. The other choices are just too bad to even think about.
2/18/2015 12:04:00 PM
Thank you for chiming in Mr. Emmanuel.
Never trust an important vote to police. Police don't vote, not in Chicago. Not in important elections. Not in any elections. Not in FOP elections. Too lazy, don't care, got something better to do. But boy can they complain! Do something about anything? Never! Just complain.
I've seen it for too many years.
Anonymous said...
There's blood in the water. Don't discount the probability of a run-off. If it occurs Rhambo is a
goner.
2/18/2015 04:41:00 PM
Not a chance. A goner? Hah! And who is going to vote him out of office? Not coppers, that's for sure.
It's amazing that anyone actually believes ANY political advertising.
Only a moron don't vote:
You can register at numerous locations!
You can vote early weeks ahead of the election at any of about 30 locations and 7 days a week some weeks.
If you go early you will not have to put up with the lying,ass kissing democratic precient captain either!
You can do what I do request a absentee ballot on line get it in the mail vote against Rahm and his bitch alderman (if applicable in your ward) then just drop it in the mail, no postage required!
Don't be a little bitch chump and let this jag off Rahm take your families future. The asshole ain't gone take his families millions that were given to him!
"Chicago ain't ready for reform"
Alderman Paddy Bauler shortly after shooting a police officer in the leg in his tavern.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I already early voted for fioretti. Rahm successfully split us up. Our dept is half voting for fioretti and half for chuy. How u idiots could vote for that idiot and his sponsored "stop police criminal" rallies he use to throw in the barrio years ago is beyond me. If u guys are going to do anything unite for fioretti. People say he sued the police department before.. Yeah so? One of our former supt Bryzck (sp) is a lawyer suing chicago cops with loevy.. U didn't know that? Also, fioretti has defended more coppers in lawsuits and criminal cases than he has ever sued and that is a fact... Use your heads
2/18/2015 10:20:00 PM
Using Brezek as an example was a poor choice. He was a sleaze as supe, using official funds for unofficial fun, and a sleaze as an attorney afterward.
We know neither Fioretti or Garcia will get over fifty percent of the vote. What we're hoping to do is make sure Emanuel DOES NOT get fifty percent of the vote, which will force a run-off.
Then, in the run-off, we vote for the guy who is NOT RAHM.
Please vote Rahm out :}
seiser for mayor lt garrido for supt.
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