Friday's Bad News Release
As per usual, City Hall releases bad news late on a Friday:
- Embattled Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool resigned Friday after being accused of engaging in a “full-blown cover-up” during an ethics investigation by the district’s inspector general
Chicago school board President Frank Clark said Claypool’s resignation is effective Dec. 31.
The vigor with which Rahm defended Claypool's corruption means one of a few things to us:
- Rahm is losing his touch;
- Claypool knows where too many bodies are buried
Maybe Rahm's resistance to an elected School Board is about to collapse?
And that wasn't the only bad news released late Friday:
And that wasn't the only bad news released late Friday:
- Moments before it was supposed to be considered by a jury, the city of Chicago has moved to settle a major police misconduct case in which it failed to produce a critical disciplinary report involving the officer until the middle of the trial, years after such documents were first requested.
Rahm is obviously counting on the weekend news cycle (and the SNOW EMERGENCY!!! reporting that the news channels are already running - like it doesn't ever snow in Chicago) to deaden the impact of two political black eyes.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
67 Comments:
Nick Schuler, former CPD copper and son and brother of CPD coppers brought Claypool down. Way to go Nick. Now only if you can get Rahm.
Big deal. Claypool will land on his feet, in another government job, from which he'll receive another government pension.
Wasn't this the job they gave him so he wouldn't run for mayor?
Will he receive a pension from this gig?
rb
Rham doesn't give a damn scc, havent you figured that out yet?
Claypol belongs in jail.
Claypool has been around for YEARS. He is definitely a Crown Prince of Clout.
So he steps down as CEO, big deal. Where will he go next?
He'll surface in some other top position. President of a Museum, like Science & Industry? That's a $1,000,000+ gig. That's why it isn't FREE anymore - they pay a LOT of patronage hacks.
Claypool will land on his feet.
gee I wonder what he will receive $$$$ wise for resigning...
Aw heck.....ole Forrest will just slide right into another government pension job somewhere. He should be going to jail but I guess if you are so deeply connected you dont worry about trivial things like that.
Claypool knows everything. He is the consummate fixer.
So how much will the settlement check be written for?
Forrest didn't run Forrest run.
Like an eel or a snake, these crooks go on and on. Slither away.
Maybe the next police chief? Back to CTA? CPS? (From listening to "news"radio, I know the name.)
No shame here. The "sin" will evaporate and all will be forgiven. You know how that goes. Oh, I'm sorry. Police are guilty until proven innocent. (Sarcasm)
NOT ILLINOIS. NOT LAW.
Does he collect a pension from all the postions he held?
How about an elected police board. And only cops get to vote.
Barbara Byrd Bennett (2009-2011)---run out of town, convicted for wire fraud and bribery, now serving 4.5 year sentence.
Jean Claude Brizard only lasted a year (2011-2012) before he realized he was in waaaay over his head, and run out of town.
Forest Claypool--(2015-2017) brought down by the CPS Inspector General's report.
Maybe Chicagoans are getting a little tired of all the corruption from the poisonous tree that is CITY HALL.
Worked for getting BBBennett into jail - let's go after Claypool, then Emanuel...
Nick Schuler for Mayor!
An old timer told me years ago, "nothing good ever came out of the 5th floor on a Friday afternoon...". So true
I'll bet Ole Forrest is gonna take a 6 mo. vacation, and then he'll find another Govt.job to SUCKLE on for awhile. FOR SURE....
Whats good for the good is good for the gander! I would rather see him do jail time like the rest of the crooks in City Hall should! Goes to show how the Politicians and Rhams people can do what they want and all they have to do is Apologize? Maybe Weinstien, Lauer, Moore and everyone else should say they are sorry for sexually harassing women then all would be better....go fuck yourself Rham!
Who the hell is his clout? For years this guy and gotten great jobs and everywhere he has gone he screwed up. Again, another example of the peter principle.
Not only did Rham suffer two black eyes but a good punch in the balls yesterday when again, Trump was on Tv bashing Chicago and its crime! He says Afghanistan is safer! hahaha and the big blame of chicago's downfall is Rham and his corrupt democratic political buddies who cant run a city! I fucking love it...Finally someone who speaks the truth.....Go Trump! Now send in your people and clean house after you initially kicked Rham in the balls. Get em while hes down!
Check his pension package media ass hats!
If he was convicted for OBSTRUCTION which is a crime (lying and getting caught taped) NO pension.
BUT RAHM says he likes him and all is well.
Didnt RAHM like BYRD BENNET TOO he sure does like a lot of rule breaking thieves.
Rham or Rahm or whatever he's going by these days must really be losing it. Any really sharp politician should be smart enough not to hire a smart and accomplished IG that has integrity.
Charge him with a rule 14 violation and send him to call back.
Now get the hell out of Chicago Forrest, your DemocRAT work here is done.
"Run Forrest... RUN!"
As far as Claypool Penion wise. These elected and appointed positions that he's held all have pensions that are reciprocal. That means all the time he has in all these positions count, and will be based on his final salary. He won't be needing another gig. His pension will be in the middle to high 5 figures. No need to feel sorry for Forest.
Run Forest run.
His retirement package will be Extremely Expensive for the Chicago Taxpayers
All planned. Rahm can't admit he made another bad appointment at CPS. So he backs Claypool to the hilt while behind doors tells him that he has to go. Claypool accedes and leaves and will probably end up someplace like the MPEA (McCormick & Navy Pier) that is already run by Rahm's placement Lori Healy. All this allows Rahm to pander to the public but still keep control as well as the illusion that he backs his people.
Anonymous said...
Nick Schuler, former CPD copper and son and brother of CPD coppers brought Claypool down. Way to go Nick. Now only if you can get Rahm.
12/09/2017 12:09:00 AM
This is why they don't want former/retired
Chicago Coppers in these OIG/Govermemtal
Watchdog type jobs in Chicago...
Coppers know "things."
Some wily "Policeman-To-His-Core" might
fuck around and give the Feds a "Treasure Map"
with political, corporate and media powers-that-be
X'd and circled for their abject Fuckery.
And such a "Treasure Map" might prove ultimately
to be fatally actionable...
"Clout" exists solely as a firewall against
the fatally actionable being aimed at the
political, corporate and media powers-that-be
in Chicago.
Which sort of explains why there is so much
revelry in seeing The Police getting served really
hard as of late and being cast as the source of
all that ails Chicago.
Heh...
Some wild-assed, free-thinking "nutron"
Copper might slip past the layers of gate-keepers
and palace guards and REALLY fuck up the clout
and money-making apparatus the inner party has
painstakingly put in place.
I sort of expected this. Didn't Rahm give McCarthy a vote of confidence before canning him for becoming a "distraction" approximately forty-eight to seventy-two hours later?
So much of this police reform nonsense is simply a smoke screen to cover the fact that Rahm buried the videotape of the McDonald shooting in order to safeguard his reelection bid. Special Ed once rated the shooting as justifiable and nobody is calling for his dismissal.
Old man Schuler was a complete ass. Sgt Taps and his hatred towards tact teams was legendary.
An elected school board is a bad idea. The Machine will pack their suck holes. And they will ruin every last school in this City. These Prog just cannot help but destroy anything good.
Some people... their whole life is a “ soft landing”. I’m sure he ll be ok.
Why Effective December 31. They don't afford us this luxury.
Imagine the corruption and malfeasance of a full FBI audit of CPS would find.
CPS finances sure go unsupervised, or managed without any oversight.
Remember, before jack-of-all-trades Ronold Huberman had his short stints at CPS and equally corrupt CTA, he was caught buying, stockpiling outdated equipment and altering the invoices while at the helm of OEMC.
Neither Claypool, Huberman or Rahm are MBA finance guys, yet they got all this praise as fiscal turnaround reformers.
So please ring on the audit AG Sessions, our local state Democrat AG is a weak, distracted, mindless twit.
So as of December 31st Forrest Claypool is out as CPS CEO, whoopie.
But we all know it, he 'ain't' goin' nowhere.
On Tuesday, January 2nd, Claypool will likely walk into a new cushy office at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, aka McCormick Place, for a nice six figure salary. He 'prolly' won't be on the Board of Directors right away, Rahm's four picks are filled right now.
But that won't stop Tiny Dancer, there's always that old, 'I'm resigning to spend more time with my family.' ploy, pols love to use. And I'm sure Rahm can convince one of his four toadies on the board that they need to be with their family.
To paraphrase General Douglas MacArthur .....
'Machine Politicians never really get fired, they just wind up at McCormick Place'
There can be No Doubt, that Nick Schuler, former CPD Sgt,. has become the "Grand Inquisitor" in the Kingdom of Rahm. Lest we forget, this is the second CEO of Chicago Public Schools that the former Jesuit Seminarian has brought down. Schuler turned his investigation of Barbara Byrd Bennett over to the FBI, when he discovered that she was ripping off federal money. It seems that Fr. Schuler is one of one of very few officials willing to put public interests ahead of their own political ambitions. For example; another Inspector General over at City Colleges of Chicago finds crime, misconduct and mismanagement of federal money; and his response is to bury it with the Chancellor, so that it can be forgotten. No effort for Prosecution or Restitution is made. Instead, the goal is to Protect the Image of a Diploma Mill, while the offenders scurry off to work at other colleges. Schuler, unlike Gasiarowski the Inspector General at City Colleges of Chicago, realizes he works for the citizens of Chicago, rather than the Democrat Machine. Taking down two top CPS Officials was no minor feat. And as with McCarthy, in this case only 24 hours earlier, Rahm was saying in so many words that he had Claypool's back! I guess as with so many other things Rahm says; when he says he has your back, it means you are being lied to and about to be Fired! Rahm lies, and careers die! Stay Safe. Baby "G"
I know its just a pipe dream but wouldn't it be nice if all politicians were held to the same laws as everyone else? Oh, not in Chicago but in another place where there's at least a resemblance of ethics and law and order.
J.J.
Romocide is trying to lessen the blow because a hard blow can cause the whole dam to collapse!!!
It can trigger the house of cards to collapse.
Forest Claypool is to PCS
as
Harvey Weinstein is to Hollywood.
Claypool is just the tip of the iceberg.
Nick Schuler, former CPD copper and son and brother of CPD coppers brought Claypool down.
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I don't know that I would be bragging about it. Rahm can get a lot of indirect revenge if he wants to.
If CPS & the CTU worried more about teaching children rather than stealing.....
time we be trimmed the Forest
Not surprised. The other day at some press conference, Rahm and Claypool had the lamest hug I’ve ever seen. I knew them that Claypool was done.
aww you mean Forrest Cesspool
This is just another one Of Rahms Bitches , Claypool had so many Frickin City Leadership Jobs it ain't Funny , How many Double Dipping jobs did this Asshole have , starting when he was at the Chicago Park District , Unfuckin believable
Good job Nick!!! Long way from the safe house buddy!!!
‘Uhhh...Hello Lisa ? So tell us again why Claypool was not on your investigative radar?’
Obviously Claypool has something on Rahm. I thought Rahm was going to drop to his knees during that press conference. It was sickening and then you had Claypool in the background laughing!
claypool will and another job.. more likely handed out many goodies to pastors.. friends
We need a chart, man, I love charts! Showing exactly what thes public officials are getting now that they are resigning under stress of being identified as sexual harassers and liars. We already know what happens to the police officer but we need to know exactly what these other morons are getting from the public trowel. By the way how is Jessie JR doing? Still collecting pension and social security? Still can’t find a job?
Jean Claude Bizarre + Barbara Jailbird Bennett + Forrest Cesspool = Rahm Emmanuel
The common denominator
It's positively comical how many City of Chicago entities Claypool has "led and bled".
It's incredible how many pensions this guy has accumulated in 25 years of petty cronyism.
Isn't this the same lawyer-buddy he protected at Chicago Park District more than two decades ago? Why does it seem like the same dozen people apparently get appointed to govern Chicago agencies, over and over again, from agency to agency, inept as ever, clouted as ever, collecting a pocketful of pensions and honorariums?
Mintle just became Vice Chancellor at UICC. Guess she beat Claypool to the position.
If Rahm has your back get ready for the knife he's hiding.
Claypool gone.... HA HA! Love it when the dumbocrats feed on themselves. With the way the political winds are blowing as of late, if you know of ANY POLITICIANS who sexually harassed anyone, lied under oath, committed ethics violations, took payoffs: REPORT THEM NOW. Don't delay.
Get it out to all the lamestream media outlets, the blogosphere, etc. Make it well known so these POS get driven out of office. Use things to our advantage for once.
He needs a good nickname like “ gump” or “ clay poop”
What were 'clergy' doing at the press conference re Claypool???? Separation of church and state....so they running the public schools now???
I'm sure Claypool is just dotting the "i's" and crossing the "t's" since he wrote his book as things happened. Anxiously awaiting its publication.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Old man Schuler was a complete ass. Sgt Taps and his hatred towards tact teams was legendary.
12/09/2017 09:08:00 AM
Maybe the "tac team" worked hard
at earning that hate?
...Just sayin'.
When I was a Sgt.in 20, Claypool let all his north shore suburban friend run a soccer league at a park located on Marine drive. Well these folks thought they could park in fire lanes etc. But we ticketed them all and they called him who called the WC and demanded that I get dumped, well I was heavy enough to stay, I think he had the tickets non suited via the city.
Who has 9.5 hired that didn't get fired, released, resigned under a cloud of shit? The prior school board president, who it's serving time for embezzlement. That clown from Detroit who was stealing money. McCarthy ( Mr I wanna be mayor as a threat in the mc Donald case or at l east give me the security at the airports) this goof cheapool, the 1st deputy excaliente, this non in charge change cheating superlietendant or his fiance.
What total POS.
Rahm supported these antics because clayfool did what Rahm told him to do and stated "he did his job well" fuck resigning how about jail time. Rahm is ready to send a po up the river for an act that took less than a second to decide what to do yet he readys this ass hole with an A++ resume for his next gig, which I'm sure will be with a fortune 500 company or a municipality somewhere. Maybe in Russia with Daley's kid.
In the meantime, Rahm's political fortunes improve, and his polling is on the upswing
From Capitol Fax:
Polling shows Emanuel is no longer upside down
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2017
* Greg Hinz has a pair of poll results on Mayor Rahm Emanuel today. One was taken of Chicagoans in US Rep. Mike Quigley’s district which showed a 57 percent favorable rating and a 41 percent unfavorable rating. Emanuel’s job performance was a net positive, at 52-46. The sample for both polls was of likely Democratic primary voters for next March. So, it doesn’t include the smallish number of Chicagoans who take Republican ballots (about 11 percent last year) and those who may not vote in the mayoral race.
The other one…
The other survey—actually, results of two polls of 584 likely [Chicago Democratic primary] voters conducted in late October and then late November—was conducted by a national firm that has done previous work in Illinois. The pollster involved asked questions about Emanuel as part of his survey for a statewide candidate and while neither will allow their names to be used, I spoke with the pollster directly.
In this survey, Emanuel citywide got a personal favorable rating of 50 percent positive and 40 percent negative. His rating from African-Americans was slightly better than among whites, 51/37 as opposed to 51/42, due mostly to a strong 56/32 rating from black women.
Emanuel’s rating on the North Side was 53 percent favorable to 38 percent unfavorable, fairly close to the results in Quigley’s district. The split was narrower on the South Side, 49 percent to 40 percent, and almost even on the West Side, 47 percent to 44 percent.
Those numbers collectively “look like the coalition that elected him last time,” said the pollster, asserting that Emanuel’s public efforts to get more state school aid for Chicago Public Schools, hire more police and help immigrants are having an impact. And overall, Emanuel’s numbers probably are stronger than they appear because the survey excludes Republicans, who likely would lean toward the mayor in a challenge from a progressive on the political left such as Garcia, the pollster said.
Rahm has destroyed the police department,violent crime is out of control, and he supported a lying corrupt politician running the Board of Education, in addition to furthering ruining that agency. He is taking a hatchet to retiree benefits, and is empowering a rogue police oversight agency to destroy the lives and careers of officers, and you guys are supporting him?
Wait till he increases the property taxes, and runs more population out of Chicago. Anyone that votes for Rahm deserves what they get.
Anonymous said...
What were 'clergy' doing at the press conference re Claypool???? Separation of church and state....so they running the public schools now???
12/10/2017 12:04:00 AM
It's that "Empowerment" thingy...
Why do you think every fucking time
Rahm holds a presser, the same talentless,
social justice bleeding hearts and racialist
grievance mongers are crowded on the dais
with Rahm to show a unified front...
At upright, law-abiding taxpaying chump expense.
Naturally...
We've taken to calling those wretched photo-ops:
"The Phalanx of Fuckery"
Just like back in the days of Stalin
when you could tell who was in favor
and who might have gotten snatched
off the street by big men and bundled
off into "The Magical Cookie Truck to Nowhere."
The re-touches/rub-outs of those old photos is amusing...
>Fart-Noise of Contempt<
"Defun' da Po-leece an' give dey money to US!"
All together now.
"The Police ARE the problem in Chicago..."
Someone please explain how the State Police can give out bonus checks to their master sergeants. I thought the state was broke but
somehow they came up with a million dollars to give out. I’m guessing the Merit Incetive program is a way to give buddies extra money
Most master sergeants make over 100,000. What a scam. It’s disgusting. Shame on the governor for misuse of tax payer money.
How about an elected police board. And only cops get to vote.
12/09/2017 06:25:00 AM
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How about NO!!! We can't even get the FOP board elected without some foolish shenanigans. Now you want to elect the police board???? LOLOLOLOLOL
claypool knows where all the bones are buried
he was the hatchet man , got rid of all threats and employees that were anti administration
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