Shut Up Kirk
- Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk has given his tacit endorsement of Mayor Rahm Emanuel for re-election, reports WBBM [...].
He refused to call it an endorsement, but Senator Mark Kirk made clear he feels Chicago would risk dire financial straits like Detroit has seen if Mayor Emanuel is not re-elected.
“I think the people running against Rahm don’t have the gravitas with the bond market,” Kirk said. “I would worry about the value of a Chicago debt if Rahm was not re-elected.”
Hey Kirk? Rahm majored in Dance. At Sarah Lawrence. He doesn't have any "gravitas" with the bond market any more than we do. He doesn't have an MBA or banking experience aside from the spots that Clinton and Rauner handed to him. And he couldn't even win an election against 4 nobodies - at least two of which were Machine plants to split the vote.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Relax, scc. An Emanuel endorsement from Kirk means lots more votes for Garcia.
Kirk will hurt Rahm more than help him.
Kirks afraid Rahm will lose and then run against him.
I'll remember all these fools at voting time. Can't wait too vote mark out also......
Kirk should just stay out of it. He isn't doing so good if they took polls on his job rating. He is just another one term guy.
“I think the people running against Rahm don’t have the gravitas with the bond market,” Kirk said. “I would worry about the value of a Chicago debt if Rahm was not re-elected.”
I was alerted to this by an officer who wanted me to share what I know. I'm in the financial services biz and know some of the individuals involved and I know for a fact that the people at the rating agencies can't stand Emanuel. Especially the females. They have gone out of their way to be dismissive of him in person because they know he has to kiss their asses. It's like the math nerds getting revenge on the playground bully.
Do they want Chuy to win? Not necessarily, but I think they believe if he did he might take advice from experts, something Emanuel is loathe to do since he always has to be the smartest person in the room.
Illinois is very unfortunate in it's choice of senators. Both of them should be replaced by persons with gravitas. They are both dim bulbs.
He has a better path out than Chuy "Spend more on my campaign, and feel no pain" Guevara. Face facts. If Rahm doesn't win re-election, Chicago irredeemably tips over onto the path to bankruptcy. You really expect Jesus's mustache to make sound financial decisions for Chicago?
Look at Detroit to see how your benefits fare under that situation. It's the least worst of a bad time.
Rahm kept your earned overtime retro
Rahm is forcing old timers to sue to stay out of obamacare
Rahm continues to take care of ihis hedge fund homies with your tax dollars in the TiF slush fund
Rahm voters in unison please, "thank u sir, may I have another"
Gravitas ? Is that like hemorrhoids or something ? He has presided over how many bond downgrades already ? Guess those gravitas aint working.
Ask the US Speaker of the House who he supports?
My money says that Boner would endorse Rahm.
Kirk said. “I would worry about the value of a Chicago debt if Rahm was not re-elected.” Really!!! As if Rahm has a plan to wash the debt away. Maybe pretend that he doesn't have t come up with $600 million next.
I wonder if RINO Kirk used that excuse when Daley was running and putting Chicago deeper in debt with every election win?
Why is Kirk even commenting on a Democratic election???
This surprised me as well, SCC.
Hopefully, someone runs against him in the Republican primary.
Wait, now I am supposed to vote for Rahm because the 1%ers whom he really works for like him better than Chuy? Oh, yeah......yeah, fuck you Mark Kirk.
This is just another one those times that politicos are trying to turn Rahm's incredibly disgusting personal traits into a positive. He's a consumate asshole--oh, he's just tough.
What really happened is this:
The 1%ers sent there nicest errand boy to issue their ransom demands, "Vote for Rahm, or Chicago gets it."
Or was it the 0.1%ers? I forget which.
Oh really, stroke boy? I distinctly recall those very same institutions lowering Chicago's bond rating several times during Rahm's four years in office. Those are not the actions of someone who likes what Rahm is doing.
If this really is just about how the 1%ers want to change the public policy that governments should pay it's bills (yes, my pension is a bill owed by the people of Chicago), then just say so. Why be coy?
We know you'd rather spend Chicago's money by funneling it to the 1%ers than by paying the bill owed to the people who keep it together. And you'd rather buy something new and shiny than keep up to date with maintenance.
A few years ago there was a meeting of citizens and politicos at the Boathouse on North Ave Beach. I'm pretty sure it was during the IL Govenors race. The one before last.
Kirk was there and I met him. I knew right then when I told him, "If Obamacare is good enough for us citizens, it's good enough for congress.", by his response, he was full of shit and evidently a graduate of the Lindsey Graham School of Talking Out of Both Sides of Your Mouth.
He wasn't in congress yet at that time I don't think. I wish the guy well healthwise, but he's a snake.
Sound kind of elitist to me Mr. Kirk. Mind your business and go run up some stairs. Yes I know that's mean, but so is politics.
Kirk, simply, is not a Republican.
Get rid of Rahm and maybe the Republicans can get off their asses in four years and field a candidate who isn't the butt of the joke.
Jeez. IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEIR IS A WELL OILED POLITICAL MACHINE HERE IN CHICAGO!
Didn't Rahm's hand-picked school board make some really shitty investments that are going to cost the city millions more than they thought?
Rham has gravitas? Same people in office in the city and state for forty years and Kirk thinks Rham is the guy? All of these politicians should be kicked out held accountable for this fiasco and term limits set! Just look at Kirk, the job is so good even becoming a mush he won't leave. They are all corrupt because of no term limits!
This scumbag conveniently leaves out the fact that EMANUEL HAS ALREADY BEEN TALKING TO DETROIT BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEYS!!!
Yeah.... a scumbag politician using the excuse we'll go into bankruptcy if we don't elect mayor 1% to save us, yet that's exactly what Emanuel intends to do if he gets elected.
He has his staff confer with Detroit attorneys to find out how they can best protect their friends while at the same time attempt to expose only the pension to destruction.
Then he has his buddy downstate put in the paperwork to LET chicago go bankrupt.
Yeah... this loser Kirk is playing the lie all the way to the end ain't he?
You elect Emanuel, you WILL get a bankruptcy.
You elect Chuy, he MAY destroy the illegal siphoning of taxpayer slush money known as TIF for good, thereby putting taxpayer money where the law first demanded it, on taxpayer services rather than lining the pockets of the rich.
Kirk is a stroke.
I think kirks medical problems have affected him exponentially! Ahh mark the bond rating has fallen 5X since rahm was pathetically elected! Wake up people!
Speaking of Emanuel's financial skills:
Emanuel was named to the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac by President Clinton in 2000. He earned at least $320,000 during his time there, including later stock sales.[43][44] During Emanuel's time on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities.[44][45] The Obama Administration rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel's time as a director.[44] The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight later accused the board of having "failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention." Emanuel resigned from the board in 2001 before his first bid for Congress.[46]
Kirk was a goof even before his health problems....now after, he's even worse....
However, I will bet he was a very good ballet dancer. "Lightloafers" Littleton has a picture of him in his outfit. He keeps it in his locker in the firehouse.
He is the envy of all the boys there.
Rahm's financial background and finesse is second to Daley's. Both spent frivously and amassed huge debt that will be on the backs of the people not corporations. Both of these mayors have and still are manipulating the city finances.
Blame went to Harold because of old man Daley, but no blaming Shortshanks for today's dire straits.
Kirk should worry about his job not Rahms.
How is Rhambo supposed to 'fix' our bond market status when he was responsible for the many lowerings of our ratings during his term, one as recent as last week.
He has as much "gravitas" with the bond market as Liberace has with WWF.
Piece of north shore shit.
12:53...
We are convinced that Rahm intends to fuck the employees, and nobody else.
Look at his spending.
Rahm fully intends to walk away from Chicago after 8 years of milking it dry for his friends. Leaving it bankrupt.
He is here to cover Daley's crimes and grab all of the loose change still laying around. Period.
Hey Rahm! Where's the 600 million Daley put aside for the Olympics?
No contractors or members of the entitled constituencies are being asked to bend over.
As I'm reading this thread I heard a ad for rahm by the union plumbers! They say rahm will make the whole state better! Think they have been sniffing their pipe glue too long.... Remember that if you need to call a plumber/off duty fireman.
Where are Kirk or Durbin's names on this?
They really look out for us by telling us who to vote for!
Washington, Feb 13
U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) today introduced the Social Security Fairness Act, which eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), two titles of the Social Security Act that unfairly reduce or eliminate Social Security benefits for millions of Americans who have devoted much of their careers to public service.
“This bill ensures that a teacher who spends his or her summers working a second job or a police officer who changes careers after years of service will not face a possible 40 percent reduction in their Social Security benefits,” said Davis.“By repealing these outdated provisions that unfairly penalize public servants in Illinois, we can provide some certainty to retirees while helping to recruit future teachers, firefighters, and police officers.”
“We must work to ensure that public employees, just like retirees who have private pensions, receive the full Social Security benefits to which they are entitled,” said Schiff. “We have a responsibility to our educators, police officers, and fire fighters to act now to repeal these inequitable provisions, and ensure that hard work for the public good is justly compensated, even in retirement.”
"These outdated provisions deprive educators and other public employees of the benefits they have earned and the secure retirement they deserve," said Illinois Education Association President Cinda Klickna. "I thank Representatives Davis and Schiff for their leadership on this issue and for their support of educators throughout Illinois and across the nation."
The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reduces the earned Social Security benefits of an individual who also receives a public pension from a job not covered by Social Security. For example, educators who do not earn Social Security in the public schools but who work part-time or during the summer in jobs covered by Social Security have reduced benefits even though they pay into the system just like others. The WEP also affects people who move from a job in which they earn Social Security to a job, such as teaching, in which they do not.
The Government Pension Offset (GPO) affects the spousal benefits of people who work as federal, state, or local government employees—including educators, police officers, and firefighters—if the job is not covered by Social Security. GPO reduces by two-thirds the benefit received by surviving spouses who also collect a government pension. Nine out of 10 public employees affected by the GPO lose their entire spousal benefit, even though their spouse paid Social Security taxes for many years.
The WEP substantially reduces benefits workers included and counted on when planning their retirement and it substantially penalizes lower paid public employees. These provisions also discourage qualified, talented individuals from entering into public service professions, hindering efforts to attract new math and science teachers from the private sector unwilling to sacrifice earned Social Security from prior careers. The WEP and GPO provisions do not eliminate a windfall for workers, they penalize public service employees by taking away benefits they earned throughout their careers.
Davis and Schiff were the lead sponsors of the Social Security Fairness Act of 2013 in the 113th Congress. Repeal of the WEP and GPO should be a part of the discussion as Congress grapples with our current fiscal issues and reforming of the federal tax code.
Proof we no longer have a republican party in Illinois. Rauner and Kirk are as bad as the Democrats
Yea ok Kirk...and Daley was a financial genius?
The soon to be ex-US Senator from Illinois......
Live Long and Prosper!
Are the politicicians Racist ? It looks like they are joining forces republicans and democrats to keep a Mexican American down . Looks like Puerto Ricans want to keep Mexican American in place , not his time . BS .
It is about retaining power , it's not for the children .
Chicago is NOT Detroit...go walk around downtown and the Mag-Mile. Open up the books, let's see the TIF money too. The reason there hasn't been a fix to the financial problems is the lack of political balls to do the right thing and cut off the free money spigot for the fat cats. Don't be cowed by Moody's Bond ratings or a threat to move the Royal Obama Library out of town, much less a leaked story about Rahm talking to Detroit Lawyers. It's all manipulation! Take back our Gov't and the City from the schemers NOW. Then we can fix it.
Do you think Chicago is better, worse, or the same as Greece?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-03/greek-pensioners-fund-ukraines-government-syriza-will-tap-pension-funds-pay-imf
Just yesterday we warned that, among the 'solutions' the Greek government was exploring in its scramble for cash to pay back The IMF loan, was 'borrowing' from the nation's pension funds. Today we get the sad confirmation that indeed Greece will raid cash reserves in pension funds and other public sector entities to cover its funding needs. As Reuters reports, Greece will use short-term repo transactions to transfer the cash, but one government official said they could not be used to repay the IMF. As the radical left-wing government takes from the implictly wealthier Greeks (pension funders), it is giving free electricity, a rent allowance, and food stamps to the poor.
(OT) why is this guy not impeached?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/03/govt-union-obamas-weak-immigration-policy-is-inviting-an-attack-worse-than-911/
Just got a survey via email from fop asking who they should endorse for mayor.
O Rahm
O Chuy
O No endorsement
lets see the results! If it is honest will be chuy! But still hold your nose.
OT will Jesus Garcia force all the sworn full duty police officers to do the job they were hired to do ?
Patrol the streets of Chicago , not act as a secretary for a commander , mailman, review officer . Civilian clerks could do the job for 60% of the salary .
Why do patrol officers in districts that are run by deputy chiefs receive same pay as other officers. They should receive D2 pay for being assigned to high crime districts.
Guess what? This city is facing a Detroit-style financial meltdown no matter who gets elected, and neither of the two useless candidates have anything to offer in the way of solutions.
It just might be, as columnist Byrne suggests and Mish Shedlock seconds, that our only recourse is a municipal bankruptcy.
Thank you Mayor Daley. Thank You, Ald.Ed Burke of the finance committee. Thank you Rahm. Thank You all you rubberstamp aldercreatures who never asked how we were going to pay the mounting debts. Thank you, municipal employees, who demanded unending raises and retirement at age 50 no matter that the private sector worker bees who underwrite your paychecks have been sinking into unemployment and poverty, with stagnant or dropping incomes, failing businesses, and ongoing layoffs.
And thank all you denizens of Chicago- I can't call you citizens- who thought only of what you "want" at your fellow taxpayers' expense- evermore welfare programs, evermore "economic development" that is nothing but multimillion dollar gimmes for crony businesses large and small, for evermore programs for people who will not starve without them, for trophy parks and public spectacles.
The bill for all of the above is due, and we can't pay it.
He has a better path out than Chuy "Spend more on my campaign, and feel no pain" Guevara. Face facts. If Rahm doesn't win re-election, Chicago irredeemably tips over onto the path to bankruptcy. You really expect Jesus's mustache to make sound financial decisions for Chicago?
Look at Detroit to see how your benefits fare under that situation. It's the least worst of a bad time.
3/03/2015 12:53:00 AM
One of Rahm's staff has stopped by, here.
Rahm hasn't done a thing to improve things and he's has his four years. He is not interested in fixing our pension. Don't you get that?
On a more personal level, have you seen his brother, the Obamacare architect? There really is something wrong with that family.
It doesn't matter which one gets elected, Chicago is going down the Detroit drain. Emanuel might drag it out a bit longer than Garcia but at this point there is no saving this place. Kiss your pension goodbye boys and girls and send Richie and his pals a note on the ream job they gave us.
Rham was an investment banker. Just sayin'...
Dear Kirk,
I don't care for your sexual preferences.
I don't care for your marital preferences or lack there of.
I don't care for you military record.
I don't care for your stroke that has debilitated you and 65% fixed on our dime.
I don't care that you are a RINO.
What I care about is that you are a sellout crippling America.
i saw lady gaga at the polar plunge with her fience taylor kinney, lady gaga for mayor, lt garrido for supt, seiser for chief of patrol
Anonymous said...
Do you think Chicago is better, worse, or the same as Greece?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-03/greek-pensioners-fund-ukraines-government-syriza-will-tap-pension-funds-pay-imf
3/03/2015 02:03:00 PM
You'd get Fucked in the ass less in Greece
Isn't it about time for Rahm's water carriers at the Tribune and Sun-times to publish another article about those greedy elderly pensioners asking to receive the pensions they were promised and the Illinois Constitution mandates ? Why we're at it, cue the music for Ty Fahner from Mayer Brown /Civic Committee along with Lawrence Msall from the Civic Federation to weigh in on the so called "pension reform" and how "courageous" it is for politicians to cut promised benefits and otherwise screw retirees.
Stop comparing Chicago to Detroit, it's not even close! Take a look at Detroit and then look at Chicago and you will realize the city has the capability of fixing the problem, the little dictator just refuses to do so. You think these millionaires are giving him money if they couldn't recoup on their investment. Wake the hell up you Rahm lovers and stop spreading lies and baseless innuendos that try to make him look better then what he is, and that's a political fundraiser, not a leader!
Hey Scc everyone should be directed to check out rahmsaccomplishmens.com There is an amazing compilation of his screw ups on this site.
Senator Kirk lets have a foot chase through the barrio and see who wins!
Time for change! Vote for Jesus Garcia!
Never mind Obama, Durbin, and now Kirk!
The remnants of the establishment are now over due their own retirement instead of keeping Business as Usual!
Rahm was, is and always will be a dancer
In other news, Rahm's big old "fuck you" to the neighborhoods that didn't deliver him his reelection:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mayor-chicago-rules-ban-24-hour-construction-wrigley-192954478--mlb.html
Anonymous said...
Rham was an investment banker. Just sayin'...
3/03/2015 03:24:00 PM
Get real. He was just put in that slot. He is as much an investment banker as Shemp was a brain surgeon.
Thank you, municipal employees, who demanded unending raises and retirement at age 50 no matter that the private sector worker bees who underwrite your paychecks have been sinking into unemployment and poverty, with stagnant or dropping incomes, failing businesses, and ongoing layoffs.
First of all its called negotiation not demands.
secondly if Daley and the current administration had paid their portion of the pension the fund would be fine.
Direct your anger at the right people namely the crooked politicians who lined their own pockets instead of fulfilling the cities financial obligations!
What is our choice? We know what Rham is about, he always told us he would fuck us and did. Chuy has come out and said he would protect the pensions ( probably with tif funds ), hire 1000 coppers. That's all I need to know fuck Rahm. By the way, he surrounds himself with smart people, David Orr and Clem Ballanoff. Guys who know how to work across the aisle. It s sup rising how many Republicans that are with them.
Let's face it. Mark Kirk really wanted to say all chuy can be expected to know about numbers is counting pesos and heads of lettuce.
These comments about jesus garcia being a radical communist don't have a clue what they are talking about. Jesus Garcia will invite police and fire to sit down and work out a fix.
What has Rahm already done, and made loud and clear?
That there is no more time to talk and no room for negotiating on our pension. He's already decided what's best for you.
There will be no payment to your pension fund. He already said that.
Anonymous said...
Rham was an investment banker. Just sayin'...
3/03/2015 03:24:00 PM
Get real. He was just put in that slot. He is as much an investment banker as Shemp was a brain surgeon.
3/03/2015 10:31:00 PM
Come on, Larry was the brain surgeon. Curly assisted.
Anonymous said...
Illinois is very unfortunate in it's choice of senators. Both of them should be replaced by persons with gravitas. They are both dim bulbs.
3/03/2015 12:43:00 AM
I saw that movie, gravitas, George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It was OK, how the woman landed a Chinese spacecraft and got it into the re-entry procedure without speaking or reading Chinese and without being a pilot is sort of artistic license but it was an OK movie. Better than most of the crap out there now. Except for American Sniper. And Zero Dark Thirty. Those were good. I saw Zero Dark Thirty 6 times. I own the Blu Ray. I would have dropped a few 2,000 pound bombs on the house but Seal Team 6 did a great job. They had gravitas too.
Lmao!.. Yeah let's make fun of Chuy that he is being honest and has to do his homework about finances and give Rahm a standing ovation for not googleling Ahmer the comptroller that Rahm hired the Ahmer that's in Pakistanian prison. They asked the pakistanian authorities how they found out about Ahmer criminal past they responded " we googled him" something Rahm, nor his many assistants had the gravitas to do Lol.
My swing vote will be swinging back democratic if you open your mouth again Senator.
Chewie on that!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Thank you, municipal employees, who demanded unending raises and retirement at age 50 no matter that the private sector worker bees who underwrite your paychecks have been sinking into unemployment and poverty, with stagnant or dropping incomes, failing businesses, and ongoing layoffs.
First of all its called negotiation not demands.
secondly if Daley and the current administration had paid their portion of the pension the fund would be fine.
Direct your anger at the right people namely the crooked politicians who lined their own pockets instead of fulfilling the cities financial obligations!
3/03/2015 10:40:00 PM
Ahhhhh...
One of Rahm's minions lets the mask slip...
Fuck You.
We tumbled down pissy concrete stairs fending off ghetto savages. We bagged melted into the carpet stinkers, we gently took assholes into custody that have murdered babies because they wouldn't stop crying, we've been shot at, we've returned fire, we've been balled up in car crashes, we've kicked doors down on top of assholes who thought they were home free etc and so on...
You have the fucking nerve to bitch about Coppers retiring in their 50's?
What the fuck kind of inattentive, tone-deaf asshole are YOU?
We hope you and your loved ones find yourself in the deepest kind of shit with these bad m/fers roaming Chicago and need a Cop in the worst way and that poor slob of a 66 to 70 year old blue shirt you ignorant assholes fantasize about is the only one who can respond to your screams for help.
You coulda had a pension too but you were too much of a pampered pussy to sign up take your post in one of these urban no-go zones for 20 or more years before retiring or cashing in your seniority to bid to an upright, taxpaying, working citizen area of this city.
Aren't you ignorant fucks tired of blaming/shaming the people who played by the rules?
Or is that all you got?
What is our choice? We know what Rham is about, he always told us he would fuck us and did. Chuy has come out and said he would protect the pensions ( probably with tif funds ), hire 1000 coppers. That's all I need to know fuck Rahm. By the way, he surrounds himself with smart people, David Orr and Clem Ballanoff. Guys who know how to work across the aisle. It s sup rising how many Republicans that are with them.
3/04/2015 12:50:00 AM
At a candidate forum in 019 he said he was in favor of a casino with proceeds going to the pension funds.
Garcia was well-liked by Republicans when he was in Springfield.
Kirk, it rhymes with jerk.
Aren't you ignorant fucks tired of blaming/shaming the people who played by the rules?
Or is that all you got?
3/04/2015 11:12:00 PM
WOW! I have to hand it to you. I could not have said it better myself. You won't realize how much this job has hurt your mental and physical health until you are in your early 50's and thinking about retirement. Not to mention the PTSD that will follow you until the end of your days. But, the public does not care because they do not have apension no one should. Rauner said he would not mess with pensions of police and fire. I take him at his word.
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