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Old 02-10-2011, 03:14 PM
Status: "Ephesians 6:12" (set 10 days ago)
 
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Emanuel agreed with most candidates in supporting reparations for descendants of slavery, but said that all citizens need to keep in mind that the city has a significant budget deficit to tackle.
I can't believe that special interest nonsense is even a topic for discussion regardless of finances.

And about that budget...
Deficit now equal to more than $11,000 per Chicago resident

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Coupled with Chicago residents' share of state pension debt, covering the unfunded liabilities of public pensions would now cost every man, woman and child in Chicago more than $11,934, up from $2,442 just a decade ago, the report found.
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Old 02-10-2011, 11:23 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Public pensions are keeping what remains of the chicago middle class families in the city. Neighborhoods on the northwest side and southwest side of chicago are still alive and thriving because of those pensions. Take away the benefits of city employment and major parts of Chicago will become become economically ravaged. Unfortunately, most people commenting on this thread live in trendy or heavily gentrifying north side neighborhoods or even in the suburbs. Neighborhoods like Dunning, Norwood Park, Garfield Ridge and Clearing are't in their vocabulary and most likely they have never even been to these parts of the city.
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Old 02-12-2011, 01:13 PM
 
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Might be fruitful for someone to look into his bathhouse escapades.
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Old 02-15-2011, 08:33 PM
 
Location: THE USA
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I heart Rahm. He is a bad ass!
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Old 02-19-2011, 09:28 PM
Status: "Ephesians 6:12" (set 10 days ago)
 
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Yeah he is gangsta.
Just the type you want to empower with the responsibility of running the third largest city in the nation ( that is until enough move out to give Houston the honor).
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:24 PM
 
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Thumbs down Mr. Mayor

He won. May Chicago get the government they deserve!

Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayor race - Chicago Sun-Times

The "fix" is in.
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Old 02-22-2011, 08:41 PM
 
Location: THE USA
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He won. May Chicago get the government they deserve!

Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayor race - Chicago Sun-Times

The "fix" is in.
And just how was this FIXED? Please provide links supporting this claim or SHUT IT!


Don't be a POOR SPORT AND BAD LOSER
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Old 02-22-2011, 10:59 PM
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He won. May Chicago get the government they deserve!

Rahm Emanuel wins Chicago mayor race - Chicago Sun-Times

The "fix" is in.
Please explain. I did not vote for Rahm (I'm a lefty who voted for Del Valle, whose political policies would probably make the collective heads explode of the conservatives who hang out on this forum, much moreso that Rahm who was easily the most conservative candidate on the ballot in my opinion), but he seems to have won pretty fair and square, by getting the 50% of the vote +1.
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Old 02-23-2011, 04:50 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Is he trying to position himself for a presidential run in 2016?
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Old 02-23-2011, 07:57 AM
 
Location: The land where cats rule
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Rahm Emanuel: All the votes and back room deals money can buy.
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