Rahm Screws New Mayor
Rahm is like a virus - a gift that keeps on giving:
- Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral reign ends in May, but thanks to contracts he’s extended to many key agency heads, whoever replaces Emanuel will be stuck with them for years to come — or pay handsomely for the privilege of making new appointments.
A clean sweep of the heads of the Chicago Park District, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Housing Authority would cost taxpayers at least $820,000 in golden parachute salaries — and more for benefits — in addition to the salaries for the new appointees. That’s according to an analysis of those contracts by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Michael P. Kelly took the helm of Chicago’s parks in 2011, among the first agency heads Emanuel tapped after he was elected. Yet Kelly didn’t sign his first contract with the Park District until December — and it lasts until at least Dec. 31, 2022
Imagine being the new guy or gal and not being able to appoint the heads of your departments without costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars that are in short supply. How does this crap get by the City Council? Oh wait, they're corrupt tools, too.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
76 Comments:
Off topic , but I giggle ever time I read the name “ Juicy Smellit “.
If you make the Bosses work and have them punch in on a time clock most will quit.
You also replace all their office staff with spies who collect info on the boss with a great contract and just wait till the screw up. NOT that hard...
You then audit every damn thing they sign.
Mayor Rahm knows best what is good for Chicago.
That is why their big city deals and contracts should all expire on the last day of their terms and no sales of city properties without a referendum. Fuck these politicians. They have done nothing to be deserving of our trust.
If that were the case back 10+ years or so ago, we would not be stuck with the meter deal for 75 years.
Someone might say it would be a huge headache or it would keep companies from seeking city deals.
Bullshit. They'll still seek city contracts and I give a fuck if the new mayor gets a headache.
Total BS that will cost all the tax payers! Fuck Rahm!!!
Rahm is like the burglar who knows you're
out of town for the weekend...
Eat up your food.
Wear your clothes, etc.
Then as a final insult, takes a crap in one
of your good pots and leaves it simmering
on the stove.
The next mayor has a lot of Rahm's
crap to contend with.
In this modern world, they are all mercenaries.
With respect to ordinary taxpayers, Eli Wallach's words are appropriate: "If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep:
Nothing to see here - just the typical Clout attitude of Chicago.
Changing of the Guard?
FU$K YOU! - my contract isn't up till 2022 - or whatever.
Stop and think before you vote. Daley looked like a sure thing but then the attack ads came out after him with his CEO Bonus at SBC and his not so hot job as Bank President. Will he really deliver? Hmm, maybe to the connected, but not to you?
Chico sounded pretty good but then, if you listen closely to his ad and hear what he says, he is not promising anything more than just more machine politics and rhetoric.
In Chico's Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ApH9mUiO4
"As Mayor - the Wealthiest will Pay what they owe."
NO GERY, it should be - "The Connected should pay what they owe!"
They can start with all the "Sweetheart" property tax deals the "Connected" have on their properties.
We HAVE to put someone in there who has no connection to/ affinity for/ or who gives a shit about the old boy network! I'll gladly pay the "golden parachute" costs if it sends a message to the jagoff alderscum, that the new guy isn't going to tolerate their crap. Replace every stinking one of his appointees just on general principle. Day 1, call them in and tell them that they are gone in 30, 60 days, whatever, and we will cut the check. Then bring in some forensic accountants and let them tear apart Rahm's budget and the phony TIF funds. Our only hope is Vallas or McCarthy. SCC, Please give an endorsement.
Rahm should be hanged, drawn and quartered in Daley Plaza for all the harm he’s done to this city in 8 yrs. His administration wont’t be remembered for anything good. From countless tax hikes, raised fees, expansion of speed and red light cameras, teacher’s strike, McCarthy and his nonsense compstat crap, closing 021, combining 012/013 and 019/023 (and lying that the manpower wouldn’t diminish), hiding the McDonald video, the Supt search that hired granny after she and the other two picks were passed over for Johnson, and she threatened to sue, taking away the retirees health care and smiling about it, thousands of murders and tens of thousands of people shot, sanctuary city bullshit, hiring more crooked people like Triple B and that guy whose name I can’t remember who had some trouble in Ohio, eliminating 1400 police positions with the stroke of a pen, and then not hiring to keep up with attrition, but always claiming to put his promised “thousand hired” on the streets, CPS school closings, extended days, CPS sex assault scandals, that Brizard guy, his bullshit “code of silence” comment, which seems to be alive and well in the city council, the pension “reforms” that the city tried, only to be told they were against the state constitution, kicking the pension can down the road again, the city’s credit rating in the dumper, all the while borrowing more and more money at higher and higher interest rates, $93mil for bike lanes and screwing up traffic even more so in the loop, Divvy, crumbling infrastructure, carjackings through the roof, lack of police coverage, especially in the “good areas”....and that’s just what I could think of. I bet there’s a lot I missed, but I do know there isn’t much he did that was good. Not one thing comes to mind for that. Rahm, May can’t get here soon enough. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Satan 9.5's long goodbye has been way too long.
Once he announced he was not running, his ass should have been out of City Hall.
Why? Because he is a slimy, sneaky, lying, shit-stirring, no good politician.
By the time May 2019 rolls around, it will be 9 months since Satan 9.5 made his announcement.
That is way too much time to do way too much nonsense and leave us holding the bag.
This should not even be legal,to,saddle the TAXPAYERS with golden parachute contracts for any public employee.
All contracts signed by the mayor ought to expire upon the end of the Mayor's term of office. If he wins another, let them execute another contract.
If I were elected - I'd fire everyone the first day. I wouldn't pay them anything beyond their salary. I'd immediately direct the Corporation Counsel to go to court and seek to have the contracts declared null and void.
Let the schmucks sue the City - tie it up in Court for at least 4 years...
This nonsense with super long contracts needs to end. To wit, Shortshanks locking us up in a 100 yr contract for parking meters
All of the Mayoral Candidates should file a court injunction or Lawsuit to prevent Tiny Dancer from doing anymore "Hirings", "promotions" and contract extensions/negotiations until the next Mayor takes over since its now close for the asshole to get out.
When the Times is poling on to Rahm. To little and way to late.
He must have been wearing a wire and has Rahm over a barrel. That or the Democrats just know how to take care of their own.
The President of Daley College is way over his head. Total enrollment down. Thinks landscaping and a new building will attract students. I've only seen an increase in rodents in the school.
Chicago = the most corrupt city in the country. Of course, our mayor and city council fu*ked us (again); would we expect anything less from our politicians?
Rahm is a sneaky little bastard, isn't he?
Rahm is like herpes but not a problem. Keep them on and transfer them all to do sanitation work, cleaning garbage cans. Assign them a supervisor that will ensure we get our money’s worth out of them every day.
Rahm’s guys in those positions are Daley’s guys.
They will resign
Why do I feel good that the self serving in city hall now are better than say Lightfoot's should she win? (barf) Good government with the results of a new election isn't something that happens in Chicago. I see the candidates running and I think meet the new boss, same as the old boss, I won't get fooled again. This ain't the number once corrupt city for no reason.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
All contracts signed by the mayor ought to expire upon the end of the Mayor's term of office. If he wins another, let them execute another contract.
If I were elected - I'd fire everyone the first day. I wouldn't pay them anything beyond their salary. I'd immediately direct the Corporation Counsel to go to court and seek to have the contracts declared null and void.
Let the schmucks sue the City - tie it up in Court for at least 4 years...
This nonsense with super long contracts needs to end. To wit, Shortshanks locking us up in a 100 yr contract for parking meters
2/19/2019 01:56:00 AM
this is the way..........
He's rewarding those dept heads who "water-buffaloed" his pet projects. Maybe he wants a strong reference from them in future, when he finally he leaves his next job (Sterling Bay, of course).
Sue the Parks chief for all the trees he allowed to be cut down in Jackson Park. Do NOT provide him with an attorney. Make him pay for his own legal defense.
Encourage everyone whose children who were denied entrance into Payton College Prep to sue the School chief
Make her pay for her own legal defense.
"The wealthiest will pay what they owe."
That Cad, Chico, sounds like JB Pritzker.
There is not enough "wealthiest" in the state, let alone the city, to bail out all the bloated salaries, pensions, and connected contracts that have been generated in both the City and Cook County.
Stop spending money you don't have!!!
Now THERE is a plan someone should promote and I would give that person $1,000,000 to run in Chicago. In the long run, he (or she) would not only save me money, they would save all of you money.
I stopped going down to the city and I told Lovey I better not see anything pop up on her American Express Black Centurion Card from ANY store or restaurant in Cook County.
No Howell spends 10% on Sales Taxes. AND no Howell will be paying any Mileage tax on his vehicles either! I pay MORE than my fair share in taxes!
BTW -- good job in exposing that actor and his phony lynching event. I saw some great comments on both Tucker Carlson AND Laura Ingraham on FOX on how the CPD came through with a solid investigation.
GREAT JOB to those nameless detectives. Give those gents some raises!
Coming from a Howell - that says a LOT. Good job in catching the boy who cried Wolf. I am VERY proud of those detectives in the CPD.
Now where are the Felony charges against him for filing a false report?
Good morning SCC, can you start a thread regarding the corporate run schools that just offered the striking teachers an 8 % pay raise plus other benefits to go back on the job . Not much in the news regarding it . We need to keep it in the forefront prior to our negotiations !!
How anyone can put any trust in Rahm is beyond me? You call a man like this a leader? By what standard?
Can anyone imagine what the founding fathers would have thought of Rahm and Obama?
Never know maybe Rahmbo's got a date with a GRAND JURY already! I'm sure after this election smoke clears, there will be a multitude of politicians with the same date!!! The more dates the better for the taxpayers! It couldn't happen to a more qualified group of scum.
When you’re a major league asshole like Rahm you do things like this.
Fuck Rahm!!
What ever happened to the billion plus dollars that the babbling idiot Richard M Daley got for the sale of all the parking meters?
Keep them as Department heads in NAME ONLY. Put them in the corner sharpening pencils....and have YOUR PERSON call the shots.
Don't forget the biggest ticking time bomb...the $285 million dollar pension payment due to police and fire May 2019.
At a recent debate all were asked where those monies would come from, some from their reactions were obviously unaware of it and none could answer the question
THATS our only concern in this race people
wonder how much the payoffs were for the mayor and his people as he is leaving? How much extra tax did they have to pay to the elected? How long will this last they are putting us on the redline disaster waiting to happen phone chargers oh yeah just make it easier for the animals to take things from people right you put your phone in the charger they push you aside goodbye cell phone photo booths who the hell is going to use a Photo Booth what is this a circus? Maybe this would be for the pedophiles the right public transit or maybe they could take a photo somehow with their guns in their hands before they rob you?
CTA will add food, phone charging and photo booth vendors this spring
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-cta-food-cell-chargers-photo-booths-20190219-story.html
Vallas is the only acceptable one and even he is clouted. No one with even distant ties to Preckwinkle should get a single vote, especially Toni herself.
If we had a competent corporate staff these contracts could probably be voided without much effort, but this is Chicago.
Wait until we find out what Lyin’ SpecialEd’s signing bonus is or rather his severance package will be.
He could put in his guaranteed rate goldbraid papers this April, then RottenRahm signs him up as a civilian to fill the gap when he leaves after then runoff in May, knowingly the next superloon progressive mayor will likely replace him for their own version of incompetence.
I’d do that for anyone who toted my water, did my bidding, manipulated the stats for three years.
Only Rahm Deals are solid, binding and non re-negotiable.
He learned that from ShortShanks.
Too bad the Vallas campaign is going nowhere.
The only candidate that made sense.
Hey Rahm take your garbage administration,and the weddings dress with you when you leave, and don’t leave no slime on the street when you crawl away ! Just Remember that karma is a bitch you rotten Motherfucker!
With respect to the ordinary taxpayers if god didn’t want idiots he wouldn’t have made Democratics!
How hard would it be to put a clause in these long term contracts That the length of the contract is only good as long as the person that appointed you is still in office.
Rahm learned from his moronic boss at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue how to screw things up over an eight-year period.
To borrow a line from “Good Morning Vietnam!”:
Rahm is going to leave a load of crap that would fertilize the Sinai.
It’s just what he does - he never lets a crisis go to waste, even if he has to make it himself. And he always leaves a huge mess for his successor to clean up.
Something his next prospective employer should consider before hiring/electing him.
Looks like the rahm n Barry show is sinking more we can save billions on an eyesore and the rahm family and friends payouts could finally end, rahm just resign now the federal bus is coming full steam ahead get the first seat:
In blow to Obama Presidential Center backers, judge allows lawsuit challenging Chicago's Jackson Park location to proceed
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamacenter/ct-met-obama-center-presidential-library-chicago-lawsuit-20190219-story.html
Of course these big shots got their contract. The guys in blue facing danger and liability every day get no contract and get no raise! Shame on FOP!
part of mayor tutu's fuck you farewell tour.
Anonymous said...
wonder how much the payoffs were for the mayor and his people as he is leaving? How much extra tax did they have to pay to the elected? How long will this last they are putting us on the redline disaster waiting to happen phone chargers oh yeah just make it easier for the animals to take things from people right you put your phone in the charger they push you aside goodbye cell phone photo booths who the hell is going to use a Photo Booth what is this a circus? Maybe this would be for the pedophiles the right public transit or maybe they could take a photo somehow with their guns in their hands before they rob you?
CTA will add food, phone charging and photo booth vendors this spring
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-cta-food-cell-chargers-photo-booths-20190219-story.html
2/19/2019 11:04:00 AM
follow the money a last gasp for the elected to get cash before indictments hopefully, load up the federal bus plenty of comfy seats!
You guys see what Vallas just put out? Came from Crislov & Assoc at 20 North Wacker...
“Participants,
As you recall, we sent inquiries to all of the mayoral candidates. Only Paul Vallas responded with a firm commitment to restore the retiree healthcare”
Went to his FB page and watched him explain the entire thing on YouTube. He’s definitely got my vote now. Nobody else has a plan that is so detailed and outlined
Rahm should be like J.B. and pay these people their raises out of his own pocket.
Rahm surely has the $14 Million nest egg that Rauner gift wrapped for him years ago so Rahm can afford to do so.
Rham is a disgusting bitch.
From Paul Vallas OUR ONLY hope!!!
In addressing the city’s pension shortfall that is about $42 billion, I have laid out a five-year financial plan that will work “without changing pension benefits, period.” If you would like more details I would be happy to share them with you.
Disgusting. A process that virtually guarantees failure for an incoming administration if they want to put competent people in place. Rahm must’ve learned this through O’Bama. Guaranteeing that there will be a Swamp alive and well regardless of who becomes mayor. Tiny Douchebag set this city back decades.
He did all of this for the good of the city. What a crock of bullshit.
Daley College President should be the first to go. Seeeee yaaaa....somebody please look at this goof
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What's with the 1 billion dollars in TIF funds ear marked for the Lincoln yards development project? Let the contractors assume the risk, they don't need our tax dollars.
Which, unfortunately is exactly what the Chicago voters want.
No one to blame but the person on top. That's right, the Superintendent answers to Rahm.
Michael Kelly is rewarded for protecting Rahm’s friend crooked Bob Oneill, President of the grant park conservancy. Oneill got caught selling permits and funneled the money to his not for profit. Crains was afraid to write a legit story as was the tribunes phony reporter Greene. The golden parachute was approved on the last meeting of Jesse Ruiz who happens to be Rahm’s girl Sophia kings husbands law partner. She was appointed by Rahm. Check out this corruption. Oneill was allowing private interests to use park district property with his ok. Guess it’s ok since Oneill was instrumental in cutting the horseshit Lolla deal for Rahm’s donors and his crooked brother. This all must end.
Getting a person to quit is easy. On day one you tell them they now report to [fill in the blank]. They are then requested to do other assigned duties. Send them to squatter camps and have them clean them out. Have them trap the rats in the old tunnels that flooded a few years ago. Give them a voucher for UBER to go into the community to reach out to the poor youth standing around certain corners wasting away afternoons that could be spent in a job training program. Assign them to a VRI box and tell them not to abandon their posts by just leaving. Make sure they're unarmed, and have seen the de-escalating tape. That afternoon have them sign their resignation letters.
Anonymous said...
From Paul Vallas OUR ONLY hope!!!
In addressing the city’s pension shortfall that is about $42 billion, I have laid out a five-year financial plan that will work “without changing pension benefits, period.” If you would like more details I would be happy to share them with you.
2/19/2019 05:56:00 PM
Whoever is managing his page should simply supply the link to his policy page when they post stuff like that. He is pro-police and pro-city employee pensions. Vallas has also made it clear he intends to make certain that retiree pensions and health care benefits are paid in full.
Keep them as Department heads in NAME ONLY. Put them in the corner sharpening pencils....and have YOUR PERSON call the shots.
2/19/2019 10:19:00 AM
Exactly.
Dpeaking of fuckerey, bill (I cheated on the test) daley wants JB the Hut to push for a state constitutional amendment allowing public pensions to be changed. He said government doesn’t exist for it’s employees to. Gee. bill that’s suprising coming from you, as your family has raped every level of government for generations.
Will the media call him on this. Hell no!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
From Paul Vallas OUR ONLY hope!!!
In addressing the city’s pension shortfall that is about $42 billion, I have laid out a five-year financial plan that will work “without changing pension benefits, period.” If you would like more details I would be happy to share them with you
Yea right, he has a plan. Then give the details. What it’s such a good plan that no one else can figure it out. If he had one he should have given details at the debates.
Close the door before Rahm’s leaves the city taxpayers with the cost of the Obama Warmin’ Center...
Vallas is not a politician. He’s a career bureaucrat. He won’t be mayor, but whoever is should give him back his old job as the city’s budget director.
Jerry Joyce is pro Police and pension
Doesn't sound legal.... any more than a 75-year parking contract...
Pay to play ?
Next Mayor better take health insurance away from all retired mayors ,Alderman .
Make alderman a part time elected position without any benefits.
Reduce number of Alderman by 60%.
Save money 💰, it’s for the children .
The link for Vallas’ pension crisis plan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9aCl5_fYQuA
Look at the cps what a disgrace literally hundreds of children sexually abused and her with her crew are still in power plus a hefty extension what about “the children?” Mayor!
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What's with the 1 billion dollars in TIF funds ear marked for the Lincoln yards development project? Let the contractors assume the risk, they don't need our tax dollars.
Property tax bills are driven by government spending, not assessments. The biggest optional driver in Chicago is the TIF program, with Rahm and his cronies working to add $1.5B worth of TIF before he leaves office. That’s $1.5B the rest of us will have to pay.
Anonymous said...
Keep them as Department heads in NAME ONLY. Put them in the corner sharpening pencils....and have YOUR PERSON call the shots.
2/19/2019 10:19:00 AM
Exactly.
2/19/2019 10:47:00 PM
No... They'll still run around trying to
"supervise" some poor Copper...
As we've said for years, root out every bad/incompetent
"boss" and bus them from HQ to Bulk Storage down on
39th & Michigan and let them be an affliction to each
other only until they quit, retire or kick the bucket.
No radios.
No cell phones.
Make them fight each other/establish cliques/pecking orders
for the ONE land line phone in the place as they generate
dueling C/R numbers against each other.
Every.
Motherfucking.
Day.
>Grin!<
Rahm's a STROKE !!!!!
I voted for Willie Wilson for Chicago mayor by mail in ballot
$800,000? That's it? Didn't Daley leave like $20 million in commitments or something? Taking care of all of his "buddies" on the way out.
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