I don’t like the guy much. Haven’t since he took credit for the 2006 election, which was won because they didn’t follow his strategy…they followed Howard Dean’s. But he was still taking credit for it.
5.
Cat Lady
I don’t care one way or another about the guy, but since he pisses of conservatives and firebaggers, it’s win win win.
It’s not the real Emmanuel. The MayorEmmnuel Twiiter account is a spoof that’s been running for least the last couple of months, and it’s not currently publicly known who is behind it. Last I heard though, the spoof account had something like 5 or 6 times as many followers as the real Rahm Twitter account.
dms
10.
Hal
Alan Keyes didn’t run?
11.
Emma
dmsilev: What does it say about my opinion of the man that I assumed it was true? Or maybe I’m just ready for a politician who REALLY tells it like it is!
Reminds me of a showing of “What’s My Line” in the 60’s, when one of the panelists asked the obviously Brit guest that night if he knew who the Lord Mayor of Chicago was.
Think Keyes, like Gingrich, couldn’t run this time around because it would open up his PAC to actual public scrutiny, which would of course blow the doors off the gravy train.
16.
Hal
@alwhite
Yes, nothing is more important that pissing off the firebaggers, certainly not having a good governing philosophy.
Almost as important as Firebaggers constantly rehashing how much better a Chief of Staff Dr Howard Dean would have been.
I believe his name automatically changes to “Daley” when he’s sworn in. It’s in the City ordinances.
It’s a bit more involved than that. What will happen is that King Richard II of the House of Daley will, in the next couple of months, officially adopt Rahm as his son. At that point, Richard II will abdicate his throne, and it will pass to his heir, Rahm I of the House of Daley.
dms
18.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
It felt weird voting for Rahm for mayor. First, he’s not Daley and second, he’s not a Sox fan. I’ll get over the first fast enough but the second is going to difficult. The Cubs suck.
Hizzoner Emanuel? Da Mare? It’s gonna take some getting used to.
19.
NobodySpecial
I will love love love to see what ya’ll say when he continues privatizing the city and at the same time goes after the unions.
20.
Emma
Rusty: (putting on my best imitation of my father’s voice) Hey! Them are fighting words in this house!
I ran into a Sox fan in Milwaukee while attending a Brewers-Sox game, and he was jubilant…the Cubs had lost earlier in the day, and the Sox were playing well.
“A good day is when the Sox win and the Cubs lose!”
i haven’t followed this race, so forgive me for playing catch-up.
how do you walk back saying that your opponent hasn’t heard of you the last 20 years because they were strung out on crack?
carol mosseley braun: “uh, i am sorry that my opponent was offended by being associated with the hard working members of the crack community. no one works harder, or is more ingenious than the members of our crack community, when they are in pursuit of their common goal”
and really, at that point, why is it common, and expected to apologize? wouldn’t the world be a better place, if a politician could merely respond with a yeah-i-said-it-B…., i think it would restore some faith in the system for someone to not have to cowtow to everyone’s very public butthurt.
27.
Anya
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Oh my God, what an amateur. This actually shows that Walker is in the pockets of the Koch brothers.
I ran into a Sox fan in Milwaukee while attending a Brewers-Sox game, and he was jubilant…the Cubs had lost earlier in the day, and the Sox were playing well.
“A good day is when the Sox win and the Cubs lose!”
My goodness – you may have run into me! Sometimes, when the Cubs lose, if it’s bad enough, the Sox don’t even have to win. Like the time Brant Brown dropped the ball…
The best game last season was the day Zambrano melted down at US Cellular Field and got into it with Derrick Lee. Outside of winning the world series that’s about as good as it gets.
“A good day is when the Sox win and the Cubs lose!”
I have an ex-boyfriend who has that cross-stitched on a pillow. I’m not kidding.
30.
aimai
As a former Chicago resident, and Dem, and Jew I’m really nervous about Rahm as Mayor. Its not that I think the other choices would have been any better–its just that I don’t see even the execrable Daley’s love of (some) aspects of Chicago and big city mayoring in Rahm. Daley and his father were pretty terrible people, and the selling off of the parking meters was just the most obvious of a long line of corrupt decisions, but damn they loved the city (the white parts) and paid attention to the details.
My fear is that Rahm will be just as corrupt as they were, without even giving a shit about the neighborhoods. Maybe he will be good. But I doubt it. And that matters more to me than all this blather about firebaggers or pissing people off or the sox or the cubs.
aimai
Edited to add that its not that I’m excusing either Daley from their horrible racism as well as their generic corruption. Its more that they at least came out of machine politics where you pay off the locals with something. Is Rahm going to even bother to get potholes filled for his voters? Is he going to tackle education with other than slashing teacher benefits? I’m not seeing Rahm as much of a detail guy.
Sometimes, when the Cubs lose, if it’s bad enough, the Sox don’t even have to win.
To the everlasting credit of the White Sox themselves, no matter how bad their record may ever get, they will never be nearly as pathetic as their fans. (ETA: Yes, I was smiling as I typed that.)
@aimai: I’m guessing you’ve been out of town for a while. Trust me, if Richie had been anywhere near as bad as you make him out to be, the black and Hispanic aldermen would have held a political blanket party for him a long time ago. It’s been a very long time since the minority alderman and community leaders (who, given current city demographics, are no longer all that “minority”) were the kind of shrinking violets that would let the Daley machine run all over them. Potholes will certainly continue to get filled, since that’s the job of the respective alderman, not the mayor.
Now, as for the education issue, as well as any other union issues, that remains to be seen. I’ve heard hearsay that Emanuel is no friend of labor unions, and that’s the one thing about having him as mayor that bothers me. “Data” not being the plural of “anecdote,” however, I’m not going to go out on a limb and make any predictions about how this might play out. But I will be watching very closely to see how he handles the unions now that the campaign is over.
32.
Amir_Khalid
I know this thread’s been dead for hours, but I just wanted to say how much I love the reference to the Disney songbook.
33.
4jkb4ia
That entire Twitter feed has been full of win for the last 24 hours.
Napoleon
Hysterical Tweet.
Emma
One has to admire the man’s chutzpah!
JPL
Funny
Villago Delenda Est
Well, we’ll have to see how this goes.
I don’t like the guy much. Haven’t since he took credit for the 2006 election, which was won because they didn’t follow his strategy…they followed Howard Dean’s. But he was still taking credit for it.
Cat Lady
I don’t care one way or another about the guy, but since he pisses of conservatives and firebaggers, it’s win win win.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Oh no, there goes Chicago! Go, go Rahmzilla!
OT, but someone pretended to be David Koch and got a prolonged BJ from Scott Hosini Walker.
It’s the TeaPublican version of Uther Pendragon & Ygraine!
Alwhite
@Villago Delenda Est:
I think you have summed up Rahm’s career strategy completely.
@Cat Lady:
Yes, nothing is more important that pissing off the firebaggers, certainly not having a good governing philosophy.
Dennis SGMM
I wonder how long it will take Chicago’s civil servants to stop addressing him as “Mayor Daley.”
dmsilev
@Emma:
It’s not the real Emmanuel. The MayorEmmnuel Twiiter account is a spoof that’s been running for least the last couple of months, and it’s not currently publicly known who is behind it. Last I heard though, the spoof account had something like 5 or 6 times as many followers as the real Rahm Twitter account.
dms
Hal
Alan Keyes didn’t run?
Emma
dmsilev: What does it say about my opinion of the man that I assumed it was true? Or maybe I’m just ready for a politician who REALLY tells it like it is!
Too bad.
Califlander
@ Dennis SGMM:
I believe his name automatically changes to “Daley” when he’s sworn in. It’s in the City ordinances.
gnomedad
@Califlander:
Yeah, it’s a title, like “Caesar”.
Villago Delenda Est
@Califlander:
Reminds me of a showing of “What’s My Line” in the 60’s, when one of the panelists asked the obviously Brit guest that night if he knew who the Lord Mayor of Chicago was.
Villago Delenda Est
@Hal:
Think Keyes, like Gingrich, couldn’t run this time around because it would open up his PAC to actual public scrutiny, which would of course blow the doors off the gravy train.
Hal
@alwhite
Almost as important as Firebaggers constantly rehashing how much better a Chief of Staff Dr Howard Dean would have been.
dmsilev
@Califlander:
It’s a bit more involved than that. What will happen is that King Richard II of the House of Daley will, in the next couple of months, officially adopt Rahm as his son. At that point, Richard II will abdicate his throne, and it will pass to his heir, Rahm I of the House of Daley.
dms
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
It felt weird voting for Rahm for mayor. First, he’s not Daley and second, he’s not a Sox fan. I’ll get over the first fast enough but the second is going to difficult. The Cubs suck.
Hizzoner Emanuel? Da Mare? It’s gonna take some getting used to.
NobodySpecial
I will love love love to see what ya’ll say when he continues privatizing the city and at the same time goes after the unions.
Emma
Rusty: (putting on my best imitation of my father’s voice) Hey! Them are fighting words in this house!
Villago Delenda Est
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
I ran into a Sox fan in Milwaukee while attending a Brewers-Sox game, and he was jubilant…the Cubs had lost earlier in the day, and the Sox were playing well.
“A good day is when the Sox win and the Cubs lose!”
stuckinred
@Dennis SGMM: They’ll just switch to “Hizzoner”!
wobblybits
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Wow. I hope that goes viral today.
Anya
Let’s hope for Chicago’s sake, Rahm is proven to be a smart and a sensible mayor.
chopper
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
that is fucking brilliant. all he needed to add to the conversation was “i put on my robe and wizard hat”.
fucen tarmal
i haven’t followed this race, so forgive me for playing catch-up.
how do you walk back saying that your opponent hasn’t heard of you the last 20 years because they were strung out on crack?
carol mosseley braun: “uh, i am sorry that my opponent was offended by being associated with the hard working members of the crack community. no one works harder, or is more ingenious than the members of our crack community, when they are in pursuit of their common goal”
and really, at that point, why is it common, and expected to apologize? wouldn’t the world be a better place, if a politician could merely respond with a yeah-i-said-it-B…., i think it would restore some faith in the system for someone to not have to cowtow to everyone’s very public butthurt.
Anya
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: Oh my God, what an amateur. This actually shows that Walker is in the pockets of the Koch brothers.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
@Villago Delenda Est:
My goodness – you may have run into me! Sometimes, when the Cubs lose, if it’s bad enough, the Sox don’t even have to win. Like the time Brant Brown dropped the ball…
The best game last season was the day Zambrano melted down at US Cellular Field and got into it with Derrick Lee. Outside of winning the world series that’s about as good as it gets.
R-Jud
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
I have an ex-boyfriend who has that cross-stitched on a pillow. I’m not kidding.
aimai
As a former Chicago resident, and Dem, and Jew I’m really nervous about Rahm as Mayor. Its not that I think the other choices would have been any better–its just that I don’t see even the execrable Daley’s love of (some) aspects of Chicago and big city mayoring in Rahm. Daley and his father were pretty terrible people, and the selling off of the parking meters was just the most obvious of a long line of corrupt decisions, but damn they loved the city (the white parts) and paid attention to the details.
My fear is that Rahm will be just as corrupt as they were, without even giving a shit about the neighborhoods. Maybe he will be good. But I doubt it. And that matters more to me than all this blather about firebaggers or pissing people off or the sox or the cubs.
aimai
Edited to add that its not that I’m excusing either Daley from their horrible racism as well as their generic corruption. Its more that they at least came out of machine politics where you pay off the locals with something. Is Rahm going to even bother to get potholes filled for his voters? Is he going to tackle education with other than slashing teacher benefits? I’m not seeing Rahm as much of a detail guy.
Ash Can
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
To the everlasting credit of the White Sox themselves, no matter how bad their record may ever get, they will never be nearly as pathetic as their fans. (ETA: Yes, I was smiling as I typed that.)
@aimai: I’m guessing you’ve been out of town for a while. Trust me, if Richie had been anywhere near as bad as you make him out to be, the black and Hispanic aldermen would have held a political blanket party for him a long time ago. It’s been a very long time since the minority alderman and community leaders (who, given current city demographics, are no longer all that “minority”) were the kind of shrinking violets that would let the Daley machine run all over them. Potholes will certainly continue to get filled, since that’s the job of the respective alderman, not the mayor.
Now, as for the education issue, as well as any other union issues, that remains to be seen. I’ve heard hearsay that Emanuel is no friend of labor unions, and that’s the one thing about having him as mayor that bothers me. “Data” not being the plural of “anecdote,” however, I’m not going to go out on a limb and make any predictions about how this might play out. But I will be watching very closely to see how he handles the unions now that the campaign is over.
Amir_Khalid
I know this thread’s been dead for hours, but I just wanted to say how much I love the reference to the Disney songbook.
4jkb4ia
That entire Twitter feed has been full of win for the last 24 hours.
JenJen
Not sure if MayorEmmanuel or DRUNK HULK are my favorite tweeps. Good thing I don’t have to choose. :-)