The Biggest Pander?
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel changed gears Tuesday and pledged to dedicate the jackpot of revenue from an elusive, publicly owned Chicago casino toward solving the city’s $20 billion pension crisis and the $10 billion in unfunded pension liabilities at the Chicago Public Schools.
The decision to earmark casino revenues exclusively for pensions is a sharp turn for Emanuel.
THAT is a major tectonic shift for Rahm. A political bombshell. A game changer.....if true.
Get it in writing first of all, because the Lies of Rahm are enough to fill encyclopedias. This has been suggested here and elsewhere dozens of times, and all of the sudden, it's a Rahm Position?
Labels: money questions, pension
posted by SCC at 1:35 AM
218 Comments:
Yeah sure because Rahm is such an honest man and never deceitful. He would never lie to get elected. What a load of BS! Politicians always treat any type of revenue as their personal cash cow. He would spend casino money on everything other than the pension that the politicians destroyed. The fact that he waited til now to say this should be a clear sign that he will never do it even if Chicago did get a fantasy casino.
Who cares what the partial digit promises .....in writting or not.......do not allow these last minute hijinks and condundrums to influence your future......your present and again your future..... I'm not saying that the chew man is my dream choice but he sure beats the hell out of this nightmare we are dealing with "Mr. I'm taking your pension and im cutting your benefits and raising your taxes cutting your services and I will replace you with the cease fire group. Love Rham ".... F him today.....tomorrow. and April 7.....he is only saying this because it polls well to say this... stop the cutting and bleeding now.....he is like a domestic violence offender.....he will say what he thinks you want to hear so you will drop the charges.....stop being the punching....kicking.....stabbibg bag he wants you to be.
Dyla Hata
That' my guy, RAHM all the way.
Hell yeah get it in writing or else he will come up with the BS il put 1000 officers on the street and forgot to mention they were officers already assigned somewhere and not actually hiring more....I could hear him say I never said il do It I just said il think about it!!! Hes a freaken snake...
The Ballerina is really Dancing now , more lies to save his job , He'll say and do anything now LMAO, Hes gotta go
Read the fine print with this little fibber…he is desperate and he knows his political aspirations are quickly fleeting. He is going to lose and this desperate attempt will fail.
Make the payment first and I will vote for you sir…as I recall you said you were going to "put 500 officers on the street". Shifting officers from one spot to another temporarily was Rhams way of keeping his promise…this guy is full of shit.
It's a huge shift for Rahm and most likely he's lying through his teeth. Politicians will often say anything to get elected and in that regard Rahm is even more slippery and slimy than your average politician.
Rahm has always said he wants a casino whose revenue is earmarked for "the children" not for existing debt.
Don't trusr this arrogant, pandering asshole for even a split second.... you don't change a zebras stripes and Rahm is hellbent on ruining our pension.
SCC, your writing skills crack me up. I love the use of "tectonic". Thanks for the laugh.
Why did the uber-rich Ken Griffin give another $500,000 to Rahm? Does he understand more than most that if the city goes bankrupt all the bond holders will probably lose more than the pensioners?
Always ask ...WHY?
What is the hidden agenda?
Casino money is money only in theory, IF it is built, IF the people come and spend, IF the mob doesn't skim all the profits.
The TIF MONEY on the other hand is real hard cash, in hidden accounts that connected people have and control and do not want to give it up for an obligation like employee pensions.
Theoretical money vs. Real money.
More Democommunist bullshit.
Hahahahahahahah! Yeah sure Rahm. You would never lie. Just like you said you're putting 1000 cops on the street. Anything to win the election hoping voters are dumb.
Easy promise: There is no casino, so there is no pension funding. But IF there is a casino, THEN there will be pension funding.
And down the road, if Chicago does get a casino, Rahm (or whoever is in office at that time) will pull a "Just kidding!"
The Biggest Pander....
...you mean those cute black and white bears from China.
See, he cares about public employees and their pensions.
Hmmmm...
The REAL Muthafuckin' reason the LaSalle St. and Wall St. money conjurer financiers/bankers are literally rolling
100 ton hopper cars of loot to Rahm to keep him in office?
www.salon.com/2015/03/17/not_true_and_they_knew_it"_what_rahm_emanuels_wall_street_craze_cost_chicago/
By David Dayen
As was originally suspected,
Rahm Emanuel is the "cleaner" sent here to cover and conceal evidence of the monstrous financial crimes that these money conjurers committed along with Chicago's entrenched elected elite class.
Using the media to keep propaganda hotted-up about how teacher, police, fire and other muni employees pay, benefits and pension are wrecking this city financially while he is the only one who can take on the unions and make "tough" decisions.
Donkey Dung...
Salon.com has a series of articles snatching the covers off this orchestrated mess.
It seems that the bankers are worried about the possibility of CPS taking action to snatch back billions in vigorish from Wall and LaSalle Streets for having sold CPS a bill of goods on how volatile/dangerous/fucking toxic various financial instruments (auction rate securities, interest rate swaps and the like) were.
Constant comment on how the city is virtually locked into these eye-watering things for DECADES of paying juice on the damned things before a penny of principal is reconciled.
The banks structured this rotten shit so that it can't be refinanced... They get their money or the city/CPS can sue...
Rahm says fuck y'all and an elected school board.
He's here to protect his friends.
Fuck Rahm and fuck Chase, Bank of America etc.
Legal action might lead to some very wealthy asses decaying alive in federal custody.
Note:
This shit has been going on for years.
The same fuckers who made money under Shortshanks are making money under Rahm.
Observe:
The SEC, DOJ, FBI and a host of other fedgov agencies straining and shitting themselves with the great effort it takes to look the other way.
To have been a fly on the wall when the made members of Daley Inc. decided to send "Brother's Keeper" to the White House to stymie any fed sniffing around into all the taxpayer treasure that has vanished.
This article lays Rahm out for closing 50 schools and realizing a cost savings of $25 Million.
Translation:
Strictly a hit-back at the teachers for striking considering how many Billions CPS has pissed away.
Meanwhile, Rahm ain't giving a fuck.
Some cities have pushed back on this shit and won but the banks are able to wrest confidentiality agreements
As part of the settlement so us churls will never know the score. By design...
Hey!
Crack investigative reporters in Chicago!
Start HERE you sorry whores!
Hmmm...
Joravsky and Dumke, (Chicago Reader) along with Matt Tiabbi (Rolling Stone - 26SEP13 "Looting the Pension Funds") and David Dayan pretty much tell it on Rahm and Daley's financial Fuckery with the bankster bunch.
Rahm is just protecting their interest.
Viva Hate.
We can't wait until the "Great Correction" begins.
He also said he would consider removing the residency rule and immediately said no after he was elected..
No trust
Rahm is losing. This desperate "Hail Mary" into the end zone is proof of that despite what the bought and paid for Tribune says.
End the era of the Daley/Emmanuel kingdom. Vote Rahm out now. Maybe the Republican Party will wake from their decades long slumber and field our Scott Walker in four years.
Does that sound like a guy who is 10 points ahead? DO NOT trust this guy! He already has a resource for the pension payment.
Rahm is a cancer that can not be allowed to infect us any longer. ANYONE but 9.5!!!
tell me lies tell me sweet little lies!
More like Rahm takes a police position as crafty tactical political move that he never intends to honor.
The public still remembers 1000 new cops and how he lied, and how crime went up as a result. And how he, as a result, lied about crime figures (think Chicago Magazine articles.)
You had one term, loser. Now it goes to Garcia. Probably just for one term too.
Las Vegas is in trouble, Atlantic City Casinos are folding. A Casino is no guarantee for financial success, and remember Las Vegas has decent weather and almost gives food away! Chicago and the Teamsters strangle and strong-arm anyone putting a venue in Chicago. Consider McCormick Place, some of the conventions coming here today do so because they get a discount on using McCormick Place. One major convention gets use of McCormick Place for $1 dollar! One Dollar! The Auto Show gets a 30% discount. The Weather sucks in Chicago, and everything is overpriced! A Casino is only going to draw the most undesirable people, many of whom already live here to wherever it is located. Rahm is full of shit with this plan, and by the way, what about the 4 yrs. he already has had? This Casino idea just came to him this week, as he faces a runoff? More Rahm bullshit, like he fed us when he worked for BJ Clinton and BO."G"
Just like he put 1,000 "new" police officers on the street
A casino does not produce the needed billions nor does it generate any money in time to pay the the police and fire required payment in 2016. Rahm knows this so making an empty promise is no problem. Don't be fooled
Rahm Emanuel’s Achilles’ heel: 6 reasons he may lose his reelection - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/16/rahm_emanuels_achilles_heel_6_reasons_he_may_lose_his_reelection/
Good read
The biggest pander indeed.
Pure kabuki theatre for the stupid, as all that has to happen is more of the same, NO CASINO.
You fall for this bullshit and you're truly a fool.
When he tells me he's gonna STOP siphoning my tax dollars away in TIF theft and pay for the catchup payments due THEN we have him,
Until then, it's all bullshit that he has a million ways to get out of.
Use the revenue from a source that doesn't exist, and some stupid fuckers will believe it and vote for him too.
I still wont vote for Rahm.
I'll hire 1000 new cops. Lie.
Crime is down. Lie.
I'm for all the people of Chicago. Lie.
Chicago's bond rating is in the toilet. True.
Rahm works for big money, not all the people. True.
Rahm will increase taxes and fees. True.
Rahm will take pensions from city workers. True.
Rahm will give free schooling to underperforming CPS students and additional taxes will pay for it. True.
Gambling is unethical, and as a extremist conservative do not condone. I do not wish for my pension to be funded with people neglecting other responsibilities in order to gamble.
Solution....high frequency trading tax of $10.00 per trade.
America
Casino + legalize pot and tax it + lower cigarette tax to be competitive w/Indiana
I called it
Still not going to vote for the little fucking prick. Now that people know the "Chicago pension crisis" isn't really a "crisis" we'll see what happens. Still, fuck you Rahm. You picked a fight with, and wanted to "stick it in our ear" for no reason other than pure elitism. We care for this city more than 99% of the people who frequent or live hear. We work for the city, send our kids to school in the city, live in the city, care for the well being of our community and neighbors, and that meant jack shit to you. You picked a unwarranted fight with the fabric and shoulders of the city for no reason.
I hope Chuy can learn from rahms mistakes. Chicago and Chicagoans are a different element. What makes this city work are the people who persevere over the bullshit weather, taxes, traffic, politics, pandering, etc... All the backyard reverends, race baiters, political hacks can keep trying to divide the many different races and religions of Chicagoans, but it isn't working. When it comes down to it, chicago is already intentionally divided by race, religion, ethnicity, socio economic background. What outsiders fail to understand is that most of that is by choice, and as Chicagoans we appreciate and respect that. We go to little village, China town, southside, northside, little Italy, and so on, to visit, eat, root for our teams. That's something a non Chicagoan will every understand. Good bye Rahm.
Chuy promises a tax on all burrito vendors to help with the crisis.
He's truly an idiot if he thinks that will get the black vote. How insulting to black people. New flash to all you asshole politicians and race baiting reverends. Noater what color you are, you want to live in a safe neighborhood too. Do you really think meeting with the families of dead criminals is going to win you the black vote? How fucking ignorant.
Unfortunately the idea of a casino in Chicago is a day late and a dollar short. Casinos are declaring bankruptcy around the entire country. Illinois casinos are facing a very difficult business environment due to legalized gambling machines that are saturating the metropolitan area. Lastly the new high minimum wage pushed into law would further decrease profitabilitY. Too late to get ob casino bandwagon. About 20 years.
If RAHM is not lying he could sign the promise with the fire and police union.
It is a commons practice for the city to sign side agreement when negotiating a contract.
But he is the guy who left some clothes in a house and claimed he lived there.
Those polls must be awfully wrong don't believe the hype figure it out DEAN.
Get it in writing and use it to wipe your ass with next time you take a dump. For that's all anything in writing is worth anymore. Same goes for Chuy's promises. Rahm will win this election, but not without sweating some. And thanking his lucky stars for Karen Lewis' brain tumor. Vengeance is mine says the Rahmster.
WE don't believe a word of it. Unfortunately people that don't read this blog will believe his lies.
If he puts in in writing, he has my vote, if not he doesn't, it's that simple
National news rahm is asking republicans for help being elected desperation? Chuy must really be way out in front! Go chuy it's yours, David vs Goliath unless board of election results are manipulated chuy must be winning:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/rahm-emanuel-needs-republican-help-20150317
big changes coming after Rahm wins.
Do NOT believe anything tiny dancer says. He's in a tough election, he would say anything to anyone right now to get re-elected.
lets be real here. after he loads up the payroll with 6 figure do nothing jobs. just what do you think will be left?
How can you tell when Rahm is lying? His lips move.... Rahms a pandering SOB lately.
Get it and writing and notarized, because this guy is a lying piece of shit.
That's it, rahm gets my vote if he does this. Thats what I've been waiting for to decide my vote. Who ever shored up the pensions. Sometimes these run offs can be a great thing.
People in the gambling industry have been unsuccessful trying to get gambling expansion passed for the last 20 years. It's nice talk but even if Chicago does get a casino the powers will be will divert the monies earmarked for pensions for their pet projects. This is nice talk but it's just that.....talk.
Now if wrote a verrrrry large check from the TIF accounts maybe someone would believe him.
If true.....but as you stated SCC, get it in writing. It seems to me that he knows something about what the Supreme Court's decision may be?
Will Rauner grant him the license though?
New commercials hammering the shit out of Chuy. He needs to talk about "opening the books". He can't say what he is going to do unless you know where the cash is going. Transparency my ass!
You must fully fund the pensions so that you can place new taxes on the pensions.
It's like money laundering for the parasitic bankers and their government puppets
Yep and crime is down and he put more cops on the streets too ( that was in writing)..lol
Yeah ok. First try getting approval. Then why should it be Chicago owned?? That just means mismanagement and corruption.
The lottery will pay for schools.
go chuy go....bury this dancin little devil!I HOPE HE GETS A RED LIGHT TICKET as he escapes to ohare airport on election night!!!
And how many years has the mayor been in office now?
If he really wanted to do something about the pensions it would of been done already instead of sitting on his ass playing games.
The aldermen too. They would of rubber stamped anything the mayor wanted to do so I am not buying this bull shit.
You can't believe anything a reptile says.
Free college for cps , preference on police and firefighter tests for cps students . Buying votes at our expense.
Gambling doesn't produce value. It moves money from one pocket to another. Supply and demand Is the factor that killed Atlantic city. Same here, if chicago builds a casino, another in illinois will go bankrupt. They have two in quad cities. Aurora, elgin, Joliet will fight for patronage like never before. I was in nevada and California. Fo you realize how dependent these casinos are on oriental tourists? Las vegas cssinos put up decorations f or south Korean holidays. It is funny to see, but the orientals truly are a significant target market in vegas. Gambling is a tough, competitive business. People in ac found that out the hard way.
Rahm put police officers on disability back to work .
Half of police officersreceiving duty disability can drive , walk , travel , wait in long line at airports , Disney , babysit , go to school , shovel snow , cut grass . Allow these poor souls to feel good about themselves and work in the front office , 311 center and free up able bodied , full duty police officers to work a beat car .
Look at the commander of crime lab , he works everyday for years ,a example of a good police officer with a work ethic.
SCC, not very good at electronics...maybe you can help. On the Tribune website there is a series of articles with videos about how shortshanks and others spent us and our kids futures into oblivion! (Don't know how to send you the link).
Voters need to see this shit. All smoke and mirrors. That is why Chuy cannot say HE Has a plan. Itis so fucked that it will take months after and if EVER the BOOKS ARE. OPENED. Then and only then a "plan" be devised.
Rahm it is. I change my vote from chuy to rahm. If the rest of you don't then you're fools.
I'm seeing front yards with signs both Andrew Napalitano and Rahm. What's up with that? Did he make a deal?
Desperate men say desperate things.
Rahm knows well that he could lose this election so everything he has been against is now good. You better believe he's lying his ass off in desperation. He just like many pitch one thing during the campaign then change it after elected.
Casino money for pensions is a darn good idea. But do you believe him ? Where are the 1,000 police officers he promised 4 years ago , cpd has 100's of police officers hiding in I it and district offices .
How many will be pulled from street duty to work in the caps deputy chief office .
Dont believe him. 2 yrs ago he said all casino money was to be used for the schools....now for the pensions.....the sale of the skyway was to be used for the pensions....sale of parking meters etc to be used for pensions.....
Is this rahm's plan....to count on the disfunctional state to solve his problems...he hasnt done shit in four years.
At least....Garcia is looking at the tif slush fund, and hinting of a forensic exam of cps mayb more....find the money is a better answer than rahm promising shit.
Vote chuy!
Hold me close Tiny Dancer.
If Rahm had said I'll use the casino revenues for pension, and UNTIL THE CASINO IS UP AND RUNNING I'll divert money from the TIF funds as necessary, I might buy it.
Until then, no sale.
Call the next case. Not a cop.
I just don't believe him.
In writing my ass. The laws for funding pensions are already in writing and have been in writing for many years. Who in Illinois has paid attention to all that "in writing" crap?
This time it will be in writing and will start with, "OK, I know we've lied like a motherfucker before, but hey, that was politics, this is the real deal, well, OK, it's an election but I swear, this time it is the truth, really."
Then, the casino bill that passes will have a provision: "all profits from any casino within the City Limits of Chicago from now until the end of time will be earmarked for whatever bullshit project the mayor wants." There, then that is in writing too and that writing will magically supersede the previous writing that was not signed in blood.
Anonymous said...
If he puts in in writing, he has my vote, if not he doesn't, it's that simple
3/18/2015 07:49:00 AM
Here is simple: "I will gladly pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today."
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Giving the illegals American votes
Chuy aint gotta snowball's chance in hell. I'm no Rahm fan, but Chuy sounds like a rank amatuer. The latest Rahm commercials makes him look like a deer in headlights. Especially the one highlighting Chuy's "Creative Finaning" statement. I laugh my ass off each time I see it.
Anonymous said...
If he puts in in writing, he has my vote, if not he doesn't, it's that simple
3/18/2015 07:49:00 AM
He can write a full fledged tome swearing to that statement and it would be totally meaningless because there is NO CASINO and none in the foreseeable future.
I would suggest you rethink your stance.
He is as desperate as he will ever be,I don't think he ever has lost at anything or so close to it that he fears what it feels like,he will say and do anything to win and the people will lose or he will lose and the people will win,another 4 years of somebody anybody but a repeat of his crap,it would be unbearable!
By the time a casino is authorized, contracted, built, up and running (5 years?) he will have long destroyed the pensions. It's another empty promise that Frodo knows he won't have to make good on.
Nothing to believe here, move along.
--No Cop Here
Lottery money was supposed to go for education. Times were better when policy was legal in the hood. I was a runner for my grandfather, people paid bills, had extra money in their pocket. Rahm is a liar.
Just like the 1,000 additional police officers he promised, he plays with words . Some should dissect his actual comment to see where he would be able to weasel out of that campaign promise.
They all lie and tell you what you want to hear just so they can get elected. Thats the way they are. Just like the lottery was suppose to go for education. That never happened. One of them is going to be mayor, both are the same neither one is going to be our savior. Just have to deal with with either one when the time comes.
Willie Nelson also agreed to bring casinas to Chicago, I mean casinos. Willie endorsed Chuy Garcia. Yay! :)
+++++ 'Mayor Rahm Emanuel changed gears Tuesday and pledged to dedicate the jackpot of revenue from an elusive, publicly owned Chicago casino toward solving the city’s $20 billion pension crisis and the $10 billion in unfunded pension liabilities at the Chicago Public Schools.' +++++
Bwaaahahaha! Tiny Dancer may as well promised that if he's reelected the city will give every resident a ***FREE*** Flying Pink Unicorn that poops $100 dollar bills, because 100% of nothing, is nothing. The reason it's nothing is that said 'publicly owned' Chicago Casino will never be built. Not ever.
Just look to Atlantic City as to why it's 'never', where casino after casino has shut its doors -- not sure if any are still operating. Even Trump had to shut his Atlantic City casino doors and if 'The Donald' can't make money in a venture and/or sees there's no money in something, believe it. He doesn't make many blunders when it comes to being profitable from real estate/commercial buildings/enterprises.
And everyone can thank 'King Barry' and his Fundamental Transformation. That son-of-a-bitch didn't only put the brakes on our economy, the f--ker destroyed it. Thanks to that asshole people barely have enough money to buy Bread & Hamburger, let alone have disposable income to gamble with.
So forget this bullsh-t by Rahm. It's not even one of those infamous 'Campaign Promises' politicians make with no intention on ever fulfilling, this is more like the delusional ravings of a madman.
post script:
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Even if the casino was built 20-30 years ago, during 'the casino boom', today it'd be an empty White Elephant sucking on the city's finances like a vampire for general upkeep while they try to dump it for five cents on the dollar.
Promising something that doesnt exist to get elected =
PRICELESS!!!!
Hate to tell Ya all but neither Rahm nor Chuy will work with that fireman running in 41. Hope you guys don't mind playing even more taxes and getting much much less.
It's not a good idea to assume that a proposed casino would bring in a lot of money nor enough to fund anything to do with our pensions. Casinos are saturated throughout the states. The money they hoped to get is not being realized and they are being torn down or sold. Just be realistic.
A single casino done the right way in Chicago would be a goldmine. We are either the number one or two tourist destination in the country. Not to mention all the degenerate gamblers that live here. It wouldn't solve the pension crisis as a stand alone solution but it would put the fund on the right track. Or just vote for Chuy who has no plans for anything. He will take out red light cameras eliminate parking tickets get rid of sales tax and give everyone an elotes cart for free.
translation is he doesnt intend on having the casino built ever or til after a pension reform is put in place. rahm is a conniving weasel thatll say anything to get what he wants.
This little Weasel Fagot Prick is in trauma now knowing he will lose, Hes now thinking of all the money he will now lose, not being a Mayor anymore lol . MONEY IS HIS GOD , Money only for him and his buddy's
once a liar always a lair.
He"ll say anything to win this election don't believe him
"...the Lies Of Rahm are enough to fill encyclopedias..."
I envision dusty shelves groaning with old leatherbound volumes -- the kind held shut with two straps with buckles.
The Rahm I. Emanuel Mayoral Library -- past the two chain-mailed men with halberds guarding the ancient nail-studded oaken door, then down, down, down the twisting steps into a stone-walled chamber illuminated by flickering wall sconces...
...only to find a pile of cardboard boxes marked "GOLAN MOVERS."
*
Even if it was true, there would be minimal if any profit coming out of this thing. Once the luster wore off (a year) it would be a white elephant. Check out the Atlantic City casinos. The Revel cost $2.4B to build. Two years later closed and shuttered in bankruptcy just like numerous other casinos. W(ho)TF wants to come to this cow town for a casino experience?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If he puts in in writing, he has my vote, if not he doesn't, it's that simple
3/18/2015 07:49:00 AM
If he puts it in writing, I'll be cautiously happy and I'll STILL vote for Chuy.
Everything Rahm SHOULD have done in the last four years, he's suddenly doing, the week before he faces a runoff? I'm sure all these revelations are just a coincidence, and not at all related to fear of losing the election. SURE they are.
"The decision to earmark casino revenues exclusively for pensions..."
Be something if there were actually a casino.
The man's desperation increases daily, as the runoff approaches.
Block where a lot of coppers live, saw three or four "CHUY" signs in the lawns, not an Emanuel sign anywhere...
It's really no skin off his nose to make this statement. He knows that Chicago will never get a Casino, that ship has sailed. When it was a possibility Rahm said all money would go to the schools. Maybe Chewy should be asking about the financial vehicles used for borrowing versus conventional bonds.
The swaps and different borrowing methods employed by Rahm have cost the taxpayers more than the entire pension deficit for the city of Chicago. Putting millions into his campaign contributors pockets and taking more from the taxpayers pockets. A lawsuit should have been filed but Rahm's people who orchestrated this highly volatile, restrictive and punitive financing are still working for the city and a lawsuit would expose them as either corrupt, dumb or both.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/chicago-public-schools-100-million-swaps-debacle-demonstrates-high-cost-high-finance.html
"The TIF MONEY on the other hand is real hard cash, in hidden accounts that connected people have and control and do not want to give it up for an obligation like employee pensions."
"Theoretical money vs. Real money."
3/18/2015 04:16:00 AM
Theoretical money vs. theoretical money.
"TIF creates funding for public or private projects by borrowing against the future [alleged] increase in these property-tax revenues."
...and when the vacant lots remain vacant, when the stores along the elaborately-landscaped new streets stay empty, and all of thie projected future revenue never materializes, guess who gets stuck paying off the loan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_increment_financing
"Solution....high frequency trading tax of $10.00 per trade."
3/18/2015 06:40:00 AM
WOW!
That counter would be running so fast it'd be just a blur...
Obama is giving illegals 1.3 TRILLION in retirement benefits but they are talking about the coppers pensions where we actually are citizens,pay taxes and contribute 9% of every check for our retirement! The city never put it, stole from it via daley vaneko dv urban reality lost mufti-millions! There is going to be a revolution 1 day here, the working people are getting really tired of the freebies!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/17/robert-rector-estimates-lifetime-retirement-costs-of-illegals-granted-executive-amnesty-at-1-3-trillion/
Anonymous said...
big changes coming after Rahm wins.
3/18/2015 08:08:00 AM
Let us guess and it will be on a Friday,and we heard it here first, news from 35th!
Conservative here. Distasteful to call myself a Republican these days. That said, Rham MUST be destroyed. For the good of the city and the Republic. I will endure four years of a Midwest DeBlasio to make it so.
I vote for an Autocratic Dictatorship !
So...
The Feebs aren't looking at how City Hall under Daley Inc. and Rahm & Co. colluded with the big money campaign fund people to criminally mismanage tax payer treasure for the profit a chosen few to the tune of BILLIONS and you have every stray and aimlessly wandering asshole with an ill-formed opinion saying that it's actually ok to steal money from Policemen by not paying them what they're worth, jacking their medical costs and intentionally exploding the bottom out of their pensions?
Where the fuck are the feebs?
Oh wait, they're busy "reviewing" many years of justifiable use of force by The Police against Catered To Constituents while Rahm is scheduled to meet with the bereaved "muthas" of dead muthafuckahs who brandished/intended to discharge/actually discharged firearms at Policemen.
"The Cops shoulda backed-down/de-escalated and left ouwwah young black mens alone..."
Yup...
So much other shit the feebs need to look at but they hit the "Easy" button and target The Police for scrutiny and oversight only because Policemen have rules to abide by.
The fantasy is someone buying out Policemen for a tidy sum so they can go away and let this city justifiably drown in it's own excrement.
No more worries about "brutal cops" and "all da young mens of ouwwa communerty bein' kilt by da poleece for no reason."
Nor will you have to be aggravated with a know-it-all accosting you as you run into a place to take a piss between jobs... "Duhhh... Must be nice to make all dat muny doin' nuttin'..."
If fair were fair, we'd be walking around with a big bag of ignorant motherfucker's teeth... Assholes feels free and easy to step in a Policeman's way and deliver dumb shit because they think our rules of conduct makes it "ok" for them to do that.
Grrrr!
Short time to go...
Sick idea to forge ahead with casino gambling in Chicago will yield more victims with excessive compulsive disorder treatments for excessive gambling?
A lying liar lies.
I don't care what he promises. Any money he claims he's willing to allocate will end up in the pocket of a Wall Street sociopath with the standard % kicked back to local scumbags.
F this guy. The other guy might be worse for the city but it's time to show these pricks the voters can flex if pushed. I feel pushed.
OT: Minneapolis Wilding.
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/296673401.html
It all boils down to this--FUCK RAHM EMANUAL. He is a lying no good cocksucker who will say or do anything to stay on the fifth floor at city hall
Brilliant Idea - Chicago can be the next Atlantic City!
Fricking Liar!
Hire 1000 police. LIE!
Cut city council in half. LIE!
Build more college prep high schools. LIE!
Open and Transparent govern-
ment. LIE!
Protect the pensions. LIE!
Get me a date with a hot
hollywood bimbo. OK, maybe I heard that one wrong. But tiny dancer
lied about everything else.
Just like the Illinois Lotto, it will go into a general fund, and disappear never be seen again.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a Tool....
This is an election agenda, nothing more
Make sure you vote him out of office make sure your family votes to will the Police come out and vote strong ? That is the question !
we are still waiting for the 1,000 new police officers
he did reduce cpd budget by 1500 police officers
casino isn't built yet promise or not don't believe him
@ 3/18/2015 04:56:00 AM
No wonder Flamin' Tutu was pissed at the teachers for striking...
No wonder he lobbied Springfield to increase their vote threshold to call a strike.
He wanted them to shut up and sit down before their noise prompted too close a look at the bad financial dealings going on a CPS via City Hall...
How many more of these bad financial dealings is Rahm trying to keep suppressed?
Why is he so hell-bent on stealing budgeted monies from CPD, CFD and busting them out of their pensions in the name of reform?
How come Policemen and Firemen (and by proxy, decent, law abiding taxpayers) are the ones who have to "learn how to bleed" and get it "stuck in their ear" while Rahm and his big money friends are laughing up their sleeves at everybody who isn't them?
Priorities...
Local media wants the names of Chicago Police Officers who have incurred Complaint Register Numbers going back almost fifty fucking years.
Mmm-Okay?
The Feebs want air and opportunity to re-open previously investigated and adjudged as rightful/lawful CPD shooting incidents because the former Attorney General "feels" that the "victims" rights MIGHT have been violated by virtue of their unlawful/dangerous conduct leading to their asses being shot by The Police in the first place?
Custom order crazy being passed off as the new normal?
Whoever sets the agenda decides what is actually a priority.
Until WE THE PEOPLE take this city, state and nation back, the voices crying in the wilderness/yelling from the roof-tops about Fuckery are really nothing but noise.
Yo, he beeza lyin' muthafucka!
Why doesn't the media or Chuy call out rahm on his lie of putting 1000 officers on the street??
Rahm stated Hire 1000 new officers and put them on the street. When called out on his b.s. he then stated put 1000 desk officers on the street. Well media and Chuy even with rahm's change to what he said here's the truth. 1000 desk officers or inside officers are not on the street either. Desk officers are listed on the schedules to look like they are on the streets but in reality they are listed in a phony made up beat car with no car provided so in reality they are still inside working the desk. So the truth is 0 officers were hired and 0 desk officers were reassigned to the streets. So the city is no safer. Actually with deaths and retirements there are less officers working the streets!!
Jane Byrne promised the Chicago Fire Fighters that she would give them a contract in exchange for their backing and endorsement in her run for mayor. First thing she did when she was in office was flat out refuse to sit down with them to negoatiate a contract, causing the Firefighter's Strike in 1980. TRUST NO POLITICIAN!!!
A single casino done the right way in Chicago would be a goldmine. We are either the number one or two tourist destination in the country. Not to mention all the degenerate gamblers that live here. It wouldn't solve the pension crisis as a stand alone solution but it would put the fund on the right track. Or just vote for Chuy who has no plans for anything. He will take out red light cameras eliminate parking tickets get rid of sales tax and give everyone an elotes cart for free.
3/18/2015 11:15:00 AM
I was going to comment on all of the delusional points here, but why waste any more time on a Rahm lover.
How will the overtaxed CPD provide protection to the gamblers being mugged as they enter and exit a Chicago casino? It is happening already in the parking lots in Indiana.
Detroit HAS a city based casino and it still went bankrupt.
Last time i checked Rahm has to pay regardless by court order.
So Chuy can win and he can sign the check.
But my retro im never getting back.
And casinoes take a few years to build hell the state can't even figure out how to sell weed!!!
WEED tax for pension full legalization forget anovs for get jail with potheads.
So we're supposed to believe Rahm this time?
He hasn't contributed one penny of the city's pension obligation to our pensions because he doesn't like our pension system and feels we "need to learn how to bleed" . He also has been quoted as thinking about " sticking it in the cops ear".
He is hellbent on destroying our pensions and can't be trusted to do the right thing.
Fuck him. Go Chuy go.
Rahm has always been good at promising money from future earnings. Just like the spending the projected $140 million from red-light tickets then like always, when it falls short he's scrambling.
Here's an idea, you want my vote, make the payment right now from the TIF slush fund and then when (and if) we ever get a casino you can pay it back into the tif account.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
-former 253
It will be like Jackie Rogers Jr's 100,000 dollar jackpot show.
Perhaps he can get a gig in Hollywood as a midget stunt double!
What?! You actually BELIEVE in Rahm's casino bull shit to pay off pensions
and pre-election "promises"?
I've got a bridge to sell you.
Pay the pension debt and then I'll vote for you, ......
.....I promise
We are all banking on a casino panacea. Gambling is a vice and has lead to many broken families and bankruptcies. Degenerate gamblers quickly run out of money and are not a viable solution. Besides, we need to enlist Native Americans to run the casino under tribal law with its associated privileges as to avoid compliance with state, county and municipal ordinances and regulations.
We hear the drumbeat of the economy is picking up. O.K., where are those tax revenues that follow the touted improved economy? Where are all those shovel ready jobs? Factory building after factory building is being demolished. Record numbers of food stamp recipients. Stagnant wages.
Where is the accountability of the “previous administrations” and their administrators? Where has all the money gone? Open those books, convene special grand juries and put the big name politicians on the hot seat under oath. Ask the tough questions. What other financial shenanigans are going on inside city hall? Only the shadow knows.
The real solution is to cut taxes and regulation to draw businesses back into the city, the state and the country for that matter. After all, we see multitudes of people who will do the jobs Americans just won’t do. And how about all the Chicago City College grads who have the technical, mathematical and engineering skills to compete globally for those new 21st century high tech jobs which those green energy companies seek to employ. And as soon as we get those high speed trains, rest assured the communist Chinese will experience that sucking sound as jobs return to the U.S. As soon as free college educations are a reality, its lights out with an economic karate chop to the Red China economy.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
A single casino done the right way in Chicago would be a goldmine. We are either the number one or two tourist destination in the country. Not to mention all the degenerate gamblers that live here. It wouldn't solve the pension crisis as a stand alone solution but it would put the fund on the right track. Or just vote for Chuy who has no plans for anything. He will take out red light cameras eliminate parking tickets get rid of sales tax and give everyone an elotes cart for free.
3/18/2015 11:15:00 AM
Well, Rahm didn't have a plan for a casino until it appeared he would lose the runoff.
And, on 08 April, he'll tell you why he's decided there isn't going to be a casino, anyway.
I'm taking Chuy at his word. He's going to ASSESS the problems and ADDRESS the problems. That's how it should be done, not with fast=talking and empty promises.
Ram wants to get reelected!
You can buy a few pull tabs from alderman Zalewski. Hiccup, Burp, Fart... I wet my Bloomers!
Four years of this lying prick and now he's going to promise anything to anyone so he can get your vote.
HE is a liar. Why trust this Republican in a Democratic coat. He has to pay back the millions that his PAC money donors are pouring into his campaign. Do you think he cares about your pension. He cares about taking away your pension. Rauner is poring in millions along with Penny and numerous hedge found mangers. The public pensions are big money for them. City moves them around and big fees are paided. To who you might ask? Can you say Rauner,Rahm,hedge fund managers. So why are they trying to cut your benefits you might ask. Because it cuts their profits. Follow the money. They are thieves. Your pension money is more then the TIF money which the mayor uses at his discretion to pay off his campaign donors whenever he can.
Still want to vote for this dirt bag?
If they granted the licence, found a spot to build and started today in would be 3 years before the doors opened.And IF 9.5 was elected in April, he'd be heading back top DC by then anyfucking way. If Hilary gets elected 9.5 goes east. So, as someone says, if there is a profit to be had, who's to say the next jagoff keeps the promise. If 9.5 writes it down, the next guy will say its not my promise, he will go to court for three years to have it ripped up and the pensions don't get a nickel.
9.5 is making a promise he won't ir can't keep. It's all smoke and mirrors.
If we get a casino, and that's a big fucking if, it will kill the ones over the border in Indiana. Casinos are folding all over the country. Harrahs in Joliet is circling the drain. Anyone who voted for Rahmbo based on this is as empty headed. You want a casino? D. Trump had one in A romantic city he will sell too you for a sawbuck.
He's not even pandering to you, don't you get it?
He's pandering to the general population over the property tax issue. He's in "man-with-a-plan" mode to make the citizens he despises think he's a sharpie looking out for them.
1.) The current law states that the pension payments must be made from property tax revenue.
2.) There is no casino.
3.) He needs his $6K per bottle wine club buddy, Gov. Warbucks to change the current pension law AND give him a casino.
When they change the law, it will be designed to get him off the hook, and continue the flow of $$$ to the contractors, DePaul, the Outfit, Pritzkers, etc....
Do not believe this man if he says the sun rises in the east.
He is a straight up thug who is here to save the Daley Crime family, in which he is a made man.
Rahm would earn my vote just by promising to get rid of all the CPD "Double-Dippers" like Civilian Director of HR Don O'Neill, who collects a gold-braid pension and a substantial salary at the same time.
Especially the one highlighting Chuy's "Creative Finaning" statement. I laugh my ass off each time I see it.
I laughed my ass off when I read this comment. What exactly is Creative Finaning? Is it anything like Creative Financing?
At least Chuy isn't making false promises like Rahm has/did.
It wouldn't matter if Rahm put his lie on paper or not. To them a contract is only legit if it benefits them. They always break contracts. Didn't we all enter into a pension contract with the city upon employment? Don't they take money out of our check every two weeks? We hold up our end of the contract. Ask the Wriglyville rooftop owners how the city protected their contract with the cubs. The Judges are controlled by politicians. PERIOD!
For starters, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A CASINO IN THE WORKS! Even if a fantasy Casio was approved it would be many many years until it was operational. This lie is absurd on so many levels. There's a better chance of revenue coming from a Casio on planet Mars right now. He should lose voters for saying something so outrageous. Most likely He won't even be Mayor if a Casio came to Chicago. Everyone should be offended by this. What a jerk!
Not a snowballs chance in hell that family man, CFD member, and life long resident of the 41st, Anthony J. Napolitano, made a "deal" with Rahm. However, the other candidate has a proven track record as a rubber stamp for Rahm.
You have to be soft to believe anything that comes out of that guys mouth
Remember that he closed the beach because it was too hot too.
If a politician ever told the truth a casino would be a good start but we all know it's a lie. Rahm knows voters have short memories. And putting it in writing means nothing to politicians. Our pension contract is in writing. Politicians own Judges and the media.
Anonymous said...
Chuy aint gotta snowball's chance in hell. I'm no Rahm fan, but Chuy sounds like a rank amatuer. The latest Rahm commercials makes him look like a deer in headlights. Especially the one highlighting Chuy's "Creative Finaning" statement. I laugh my ass off each time I see it.
3/18/2015 09:58:00 AM
Better a deer in the headlights than a snake in the grass.
Vote Chuy!
you would have to be mentally tarded to believe or think Chicago will get their gear together, finacially. (just being politically correct about the "tarded" deal, saying the other word is a no, no!)
Fuck a casino...
Rotten m/fers shouldn't have shirked their
fiduciary duty and shouldn't have looted
the municipal tax payers treasury to enrich
the dirty fucks aligned with Rahm in saying
Cop, Fireman and teacher pensions are too
sweet and given too soon...
Lift residency after 7 yrs big property tax raise coming.
Don't build a casino ya damn fool.
Get rid of the damn rules that keep us non-competitive and build some FACTORIES. Places that make shoes, cars, washing machines, clothes and widgets. Any thing with the label MADE IN THE USA on it.
It is getting almost impossible to find any American made products anymore. Part of that is thank to people like the Daley/Vaneko Crime family. Remember NAFTA.
Now the DVCF wants to issue Russian and Chinese crime family associates U.S. Green Cards so they cards so they can directly invest in the U.S. More selling out this country by the Democommunists.
Fuck a casino...
Rotten m/fers shouldn't have shirked their
fiduciary duty and shouldn't have looted
the municipal tax payers treasury to enrich
the dirty fucks aligned with Rahm in saying
Cop, Fireman and teacher pensions are too
sweet and given too soon...
Ok, he has a 500 million deposit due in 2016 - I'll give him to Dec 31st of that year. That's about 650 days away from today. If the casino was built in a day that would give him 649 days. Drum roll please...500 mil / 649 days =$770,416 each day. I have a hard time believing that a casino would produce that much revenue for the city EVERY DAY for the next 21 months or so. Next case. However, 1000 redlight tickets at $770 each
might come close.......
TOO LATE FOR THE CASINO IDEA.
Hey, I said we should have built a casino on Navy Pier about 25 years ago.
At that time, that would have been a game-changer. Chicago would have rolled in the money - not only from people coming in by bus - but the high-rollers coming from all over Lake Michigan to dock their yachts and play blackjack and slots.
But to some, OH GOD NO - that would bring in the Mob (as if they aren't here already)
Now?? You have to be F'ing kidding. How many well-established casinos did they shut down in Atlantic City?
Why? No business. How many people do you know still go out to the casino every weekend?
Money AIN'T there anymore. Plus, you have casinos in Indiana and Wisconsin already. They have drawn the crowd.
Our lame approach to gambling in this state - riverboats on water that initially had to "leave the pier" all the time - cannot be fixed now.
Too late for the "great revenue generator" idea. A Casino isn't a "fix-all" for decades of municipal mismanagement.
Next case. Next idea.
It'll take 7 years to build and he will be long gone by then lol
We all know the real rahm...but the sheeple eat up his bullshit like it's free pizza.
Rahm is losing. This desperate "Hail Mary" into the end zone is proof of that despite what the bought and paid for Tribune says.
End the era of the Daley/Emmanuel kingdom. Vote Rahm out now. Maybe the Republican Party will wake from their decades long slumber and field our Scott Walker in four years.
3/18/2015 05:27:00 AM
Um. Chuy is from Daley regime. Rahm is from Obama machine. I'm still voting chuy but make no mistake he is the old guard...
To the person who suggested the "Lasalle street tax" of $10 a trade......the CBOT and others in that financial district have made it perfectly clear that ANY tax on trades will force them to move.....and is illegal to impose such a tax anyway......Chicago will really start looking like Detroit if that is ever allowed.
Casinos: the Holy Grail of dying cities.
The moment he wins, rham will say "I do intend to use casino revenue for the pensions, but not until there is pension reform(cuts and slashes)"
Just dont fall for the bullshit. Tell your neighbors and anyone that will listen NOT. To vote for this Obama made crook.
A vote for chuy is a vote against yourself.
Chuy Chuy Chuy!
What Casino?
As has been said before, the casino bubble has burst. Vegas, Atlantic City, etc are all shriveling and dieing.
People don't have the disposable income to throw away on losing games of chance. Plus they can bet on sports like football, hockey and basketball. Why is "March Madness" such a big deal?? The gaming on the games.
Illinois casinos are suffering. Partially due to the no smoking but also due to competition from the video poker machins. Why drive to a casino when all you have to do is walk down to your local bar or resturaunt to lose your paycheck and stagger home? And casinos siphoned money off of other entertainment ventures, like shows and resturaunts, so no new money was created.
Anonymous said...
They all lie and tell you what you want to hear just so they can get elected. Thats the way they are. Just like the lottery was suppose to go for education. That never happened. One of them is going to be mayor, both are the same neither one is going to be our savior. Just have to deal with with either one when the time comes.
3/18/2015 10:35:00 AM
True. Vote them out every 4 years so they can't build a power base.
Rham still can't get my vote!!
I'm voting for Rahm because his hair is never out of place. Plain and simple. I consider myself very shallow.
Dear FLOP,
Now that rahm is building up speed to an inevitable win, now is the time to endorse him.
Best bet is land based casino with 4,000 gaming positions would have annual Adjusted Gross Revenue of about $600 million. Rivers in Des Plaines is presently pulling in about 420 million a year with only 1,200 gaming positions. Not sure how that would be taxed and how much would go to the State. Present casinos pay about 50%. About 125 million (best guess) would come from Rivers and some other large number would come from Harrah's Horseshoe in Indiana. Most of the rest would be from local people with only a small portion coming from tourists. While it could go over 600 million, I would bet that it won't be under 500 million. Even after paying the bills and taxes, that is a lot of cash.
I wouldn't believe anything Rahm says. He's a progressive like Garcia. They both lie. After 4 years I'm done hearing Rahm's lies. Garcia can lie for the next 4. Getting fucked either way. Maybe Garcia will kiss me.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Chuy aint gotta snowball's chance in hell. I'm no Rahm fan, but Chuy sounds like a rank amatuer. The latest Rahm commercials makes him look like a deer in headlights. Especially the one highlighting Chuy's "Creative Finaning" statement. I laugh my ass off each time I see it.
3/18/2015 09:58:00 AM
You pro Emanuel cheerleaders and the editorial board members of both recycled bowel rag papers have to be some of the dumbest, most ignorant and most obtuse m/fers ever...
Rahm can happily shit talk about having a "plan" because?
TA-FUCKING-DAAHH!
Because RAHM has the REAL municipal books!
LOL!
Fools, assholes and hypocrites.
Letting Rahm take an open book quiz like this and not extending the same courtesy to Garcia?
Let Garcia and his financial people have a crack at the books... Bet your ass that there is a reasonable expectation that they could come up with a plan just as good if not better than Rahm and his people have cooked up...
No...
Not a Garcia fan.
But we hate Rahm, the people who stand with him and what he stands for.
with a passion.
I love all the comments, very very constructive. Even Willie Nelson knew that it will take about 5 years to build a casino way before you can even see a penny from casino profits. But I bet Rahm did not know that there's a record high of Casinos filing for bankruptcy. Why not didn't Amer Ahmed tell Rahm?.... Lmao!
They will probably "borrow" money from pension fund to build the fuckin casino! This pension cricis was created to justify a publicly owned casino in the City Of Chicago.
This is the best sentence I've read on this post...
End the era of the Daley/Emmanuel kingdom. Vote Rahm out now. Maybe the Republican Party will wake from their decades long slumber and field our Scott Walker in four years.
I'm still waiting for the 1000 extra police. Now the districts are so short I can't take any days off. Fact teams days off are mandatory cancelled and VRI exists. Lies Lies lies! I pay double for my water my street don't get plowed it only get driven past a bunch of times.
Lied lier pants on fire!!
Just raise the damn residency already. Dont want/need anything else. Pretty sure there are major cities out there where it was ruled unconstitutional, if only FLOP was good for something.
I dont mind working in/for the city. But having to live here? FUCK that.
Um. Chuy is from Daley regime. Rahm is from Obama machine. I'm still voting chuy but make no mistake he is the old guard...
3/18/2015 08:48:00 PM
I agree Chuy is the old guard, but he isn't the man in charge. In four years he will be beatable if he doesn't get it in gear.
Rahm usurped the throne from Daley. I would have loved to see Daley's face when Rahm announced, as if off the top of his tiny head, that he would like to be the Mayor of Chicago when Michelle pushed him out of the White House. Daley's jaw must have hit the floor.
This Daley Machine put two presidents in the white House and Richie had it taken from him. Shuffle the deck again and this monster get weaker, maybe even beatable. Daley's old guard is working for Emmanuel, but they aren't working hard.
Look at the commander of crime lab , he works everyday for years ,a example of a good police officer with a work ethic.
Let's keep that situation you described real, sir. The only reason Murphy was brought back as the Director of forensics was that he was a friend of Phil's, period. The man was already retired, with a pension as a Lt. when his unfortunate accident occurred.
Murphy has a lot of assistance in overseeing his unit, and that's all needs to be said on that front. Nice of Phil to take care of his friends, and no one who's come in after Phil would want to be seen as the person who sent Murphy packing. Public perception goes an awful long way on those kinds of things.
"Chicago would have rolled in the money - not only from people coming in by bus - but the high-rollers coming from all over Lake Michigan to dock their yachts and play blackjack and slots..."
3/18/2015 08:20:00 PM
...and flying in and out of Meigs on their private planes with their $6,000 bottles of wine, direct from Aspen...
Chicago -- The City That F__s Up.
>>>True. Vote them out every 4 years so they can't build a power base.
3/18/2015 11:15:00 PM<<<
Unless.....
they really really really do a lot of good things for us.
Unlikely with most politicians, but possible with a precious few. Our vote is something to be earned and to be feared.
"People don't have the disposable income to throw away on losing games of chance."
3/18/2015 11:13:00 PM
Casinos are supposed to draw in -- what money? No more production, no good-paying jobs for the former middle class, no creation of wealth.
RahmRaunerLLC will "balance the load on the backs of the poor," as one lady said. With the proposed cutbacks in food, medical care, and transit -- instead of in subsidies for Presidential libraries, basketball venues, and luxury hotels -- this is going to be a real disaster.
But, then, old people don't riot much...f__k 'em. As Ezekiel Emanuel says, "they have had a complete life." Besides, you've already taken their house, auctioned off their possessions, and cleaned out their savings -- sometimes by force.
http://nasga-stopguardianabuse.blogspot.com/2014/09/illinois-senator-steve-stadelmans-bill.html
Strap them into a wheelchair, shove it into the corner, and go file your nails and look at TV until your shift ends...so to speak.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
As has been said before, the casino bubble has burst. Vegas, Atlantic City, etc are all shriveling and dieing.
People don't have the disposable income to throw away on losing games of chance. Plus they can bet on sports like football, hockey and basketball. Why is "March Madness" such a big deal?? The gaming on the games.
Illinois casinos are suffering. Partially due to the no smoking but also due to competition from the video poker machins. Why drive to a casino when all you have to do is walk down to your local bar or resturaunt to lose your paycheck and stagger home? And casinos siphoned money off of other entertainment ventures, like shows and resturaunts, so no new money was created.
3/18/2015 11:13:00 PM
The original idea for a Chicago casino was to help draw more conventions and trade shows. Las Vegas on the lake? Help the tourist trade. Get them here than kill them with taxes and fees or flash mobs!
I hope he puts it right smack dab in the middle of downtown. Then all his high ass friends and constitutes can mingle with the shit bums and low life's that frequent the Indiana casinos.
Anonymous said...
They all lie and tell you what you want to hear just so they can get elected. Thats the way they are. Just like the lottery was suppose to go for education. That never happened. One of them is going to be mayor, both are the same neither one is going to be our savior. Just have to deal with with either one when the time comes.
3/18/2015 10:35:00 AM
People thought the lottery money was going to be in addition to tax money, oh boy, the education system ought to get good with all that cash to swim around in.
It was billclintonspeak presto change-o now you see it now you don't bullshit.
The lottery money did go to education; and tax money was removed and spent on bullshit. The more lottery money that went to "education" the more tax money they could divert to give fat asphalt contracts to Bill Cellini.
It was just a shell game. The extra didn't go to education, it went to contracts, slush funds, clout pensions and the rest.
Lying deceitful bastards. The only halfway honest Illinois governor was Richard Ogilvie. He said Illinois needed an income tax. The Illinois Combine pilloried him and he was voted out after one term. The income tax was never repealed however.
Anonymous said...
As has been said before, the casino bubble has burst. Vegas, Atlantic City, etc are all shriveling and dieing.
People don't have the disposable income to throw away on losing games of chance. Plus they can bet on sports like football, hockey and basketball. Why is "March Madness" such a big deal?? The gaming on the games.
Illinois casinos are suffering. Partially due to the no smoking but also due to competition from the video poker machins. Why drive to a casino when all you have to do is walk down to your local bar or resturaunt to lose your paycheck and stagger home? And casinos siphoned money off of other entertainment ventures, like shows and resturaunts, so no new money was created.
3/18/2015 11:13:00 PM
I trust there will be a huge sports book at any Chicago casino.
Rahm is a liar and yet there are deluded fools that will still vote for him. As much as i want to believe he will fund our pensions with casino revenue, i am highly skeptical and as police officers who are often lied to on a daily basis and should have a stellar bullshit detector, you should be as well. Based on his past actions, i would venture to put money on the fact that this is a lie to garner votes because he is desperate and has no plans of following through on his promises.
It has dawned on Mayor 1% and/or his lawyers gave him the bad that the pension heist statutes are going down in flames !
Breaking news right now magic Johnson gave rahm $250,000 for his campaign after rahm gave magic Johnson company an 80 MILLION dollar contract city contract, wow more pay to play? Go chuy! I'm sure its all legit! The levels of thievery is out of control!
Guess still no money for pensions right rahm?
I remember attending a funeral for one of our fallen heroes. Rahm was walking up and down the lines of exempts standing there in formation outside the church, shaking hands with them. A Latino exempt who had been a street deputy and had been "demoted" back to commander stopped Rahm and said to him, "Mayor, if we ever get gambling here I want to be your chief of security for it!" We all laughed as did the Mayor. But ... the exempt I'm referring to (who's still exempt) will probably wind up getting it if and when it happens. Stranger things have happened!
A desperate lie from a proven liar who openly declared war on the police. Stick that in your ear, Rahm. Vote Rahm out and then vote Chuy out four years from now. City council will tie Chuy's hands anyway and he'll be powerless.
Remember this? http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Rahm-on-Casino-I-Want-it-For-Our-Kids--167231175.html
And he wants NO oversight for the mythical casino.
"The latest Rahm commercials makes him look like..."
You're going to let Rahm define his opponent for you?
The Rivers casino in Des Plaines makes over one million every single day of the year. Check facts on Illinois Gaming Board website.
The Emanuel surrogates further noted that Inspector General Joe Ferguson has conducted 25 performance, program and follow-up audits since 2011, all of which are available on the internet, and that all 147 tax-increment-financing.
Yes he has, Ferguson has shure done so. Just like he should of investigated Celia Meza, Ferguson's Deputy inspector General of Investigations Joe hired which she was fired from CTA No Shaman violations right Fergie. Yeah let's trust Ferguson's investigations.
Chuy for Presidento..Yip-pee!!!
I remember rahm saying he wouldn't nickel and dime the citizens,LIE
water tax
sewer tax
telephone tax
cable tv tax
city vehicle tax
more red light cameras
new speeding cameras
and more taxes coming
If he'd get elected he'd quickly develop amnesia and continue full speed ahead with his never ending attack on our pension.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I remember rahm saying he wouldn't nickel and dime the citizens,LIE
water tax
sewer tax
telephone tax
cable tv tax
city vehicle tax
more red light cameras
new speeding cameras
and more taxes coming
3/19/2015 12:48:00 PM
He wants to tax SERVICES now. He specifically mentioned attorney's fees last week, but in the past he has mentioned veterinary services and nail salons.
Draw your own conclusions as to how far this could go.
Um. Chuy is from Daley regime. Rahm is from Obama machine. I'm still voting chuy but make no mistake he is the old guard...
3/18/2015 08:48:00 PM
I agree Chuy is the old guard, but he isn't the man in charge. In four years he will be beatable if he doesn't get it in gear.
Rahm usurped the throne from Daley. I would have loved to see Daley's face when Rahm announced, as if off the top of his tiny head, that he would like to be the Mayor of Chicago when Michelle pushed him out of the White House. Daley's jaw must have hit the floor.
This Daley Machine put two presidents in the white House and Richie had it taken from him. Shuffle the deck again and this monster get weaker, maybe even beatable. Daley's old guard is working for Emmanuel, but they aren't working hard.
Shortshanks didn't have anything taken from him. Shortshanks knew it was time to leave because there was nothing left to steal and the lipstick on the pig was no longer working.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Rivers casino in Des Plaines makes over one million every single day of the year. Check facts on Illinois Gaming Board website.
3/19/2015 10:07:00 AM
It 'makes' over a million a day, or it PROFITS over a million?
"The latest Rahm commercials makes him look like..."
You're going to let Rahm define his opponent for you?
3/19/2015 10:03:00 AM
Yes, because I am a shallow simpleton that lets the mainstream media outlets that are bought and paid for by the Progressive Democrats tell me how to think!
How's that for a run on sentence?
In Chuy's lastest TV ad you can see him reading the prompter. As he stands in front of a school closed by Rahm, you have to wonder if Chuy was in the slooow class. You would think he could memorize a 30 second campaign spot.
"Jane Byrne promised the Chicago Fire Fighters that she would give them a contract in exchange for their backing and endorsement in her run for mayor. First thing she did when she was in office was flat out refuse to sit down with them to negoatiate a contract, causing the Firefighter's Strike in 1980. TRUST NO POLITICIAN!!!"
You absolutely don't know what you are talking about. Were you even on the job then? Or are you listening to the bullshit your firefighter daddy told you.
Jane Byrne promised a contract in her first administration. After she won election the Fire union demanded a contract NOW! She said, hold on, you will get it. But there is a process. You and the city need to sit down and discuss issues and demands and negotiate. They, like the little bee-otchs they were, said NO! We want it NOW. So they went on strike.
A slice of Campaign Lie ala Rahm
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