= republican principles enacted by "Democrats"

long school days and year, increased choice WITHIN the public schools, raising the minimum wage.
like that?

people chose to put them in and replacing them with non-unionized charters. Solving food deserts by sweet deals to walmart. He didn't want to raise minimum wage till it became clear that it could become a campaign issue after Salwant did it in Seattle.

a whole foods in inglewood, the poorest part of town.
he has also supported urban farms and community gardens, improved farmer's markets.
there is only one walmart in the city.

and the business w waiting for the state to act was a sound one. they didnt want the state to back off because chicago had acted. they didnt want to take the pressure off. it was a campaign issue waaay before he passed it in chicago.

Uh, when they put something like a "Whole Food" into the poorest part of town it is not about the existing residents -- who couldn't possibly afford to shop at the place -- but about attracting those who CAN into that neighborhood. The act becomes one of ethnic/economic cleansing. I have witnesses this here in SF first hand.

yes, the city would like people to move into some areas and bring them up. there is plenty of land available here, plenty of places to live. they are hardly using cattle prods.
the city is losing population and is working to stem the flight to the burbs.

cleansing? rly? nobody is killing people.

the whole foods is part of a bigger picture about the health of the population and the need to expand food availability. 8 other stores. more urban farming, more community gardens, $1 vacant lots, better farmer's markets.

your picking out the whole foods so you can bat it down is missing the whole picture.

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It's happening now throughout So Cal., inching its way through South Central, East LA and in Compton to path a way for the 'hipsters'...

by an $8 loaf of French Brioche.

neighborhoods city by city. Middle class and working class residents cannot exist in these higher and higher priced cities where so much is being privatized and jobs and social supports are dying. No plans for the native people or anyone w/o money, and nobody cares about their lives. Historically artists have always been drawn to cities for the cultural and intellectual vitality but that's becoming impossible.
A recent post here about Rahm shouting at desperate Chicago residents whose much needed community mental health center was being closed, 'You're going to respect me!' really says it about him. Housing costs in DC, NY, Boston, London, SF and elsewhere keep increasing with no signs of letup. At this rate our cities will become more corporate, libertarian and maybe Republican. The world is upside down-to me at least.

off teachers, kids going hungry, parents making $8/hr at whole foods serving yuppies and H1Bs from India.

I know in some places like DC & NY the professionals have their upscale lofts in the city ($1Mill+) and also the weekend country place getaway in MD/VA/Delmarva Beach or NY Hamptons Beach/CT country.

So that leaves the bombed out dystopian suburbs that lack services for any workers who can't afford cities, I don't know. It's all crazy, wrong and happening fast. That's how the financiers and corporatists operate.

First it was unions, now public schools and teachers demonized, utilities and roads being privatized--it's all very fascist and totalitarian, and swift, like in Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine'. Except we aren't Chile 1973 with the CIA coupe, but then again maybe we are, it's us now-

One thing certain is that the wealthy investor class has made even huger profits, mountains of $ from their stock portfolios in the last 6 years, and this is driving up metropolitan housing and rental costs, through the roof.

They're getting the chicken and we're getting the bones for sure. No more scraps coming I fear, just more cuts. Often I think left people should head to Cascadia or other regions to try to set up worker co-ops and sustainable land based communities. Some already have. Nothing but misery and decline for workers around cities, and burbs at this rate.

There was a time when Sweet Thing and the Old Redneck shopped at Whole Foods. No longer. Can't afford it on our two generous pensions.

Bernie Sanders supports Chuy.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/237400-bernie-sanders-endorses-rahm-challenger-in-chicago-mayors-race

Unions supporting Chuy SEIU is the only one that I know of....even my congress critter supports Rahm. And I've been trying to get rid of him since Obama ran against him and Obama lost. I haven't received a strip of paper from him telling me what exactly he is doing for my community in over ten years.

But anyway, I still voted for Chuy this past Saturday (last day of early voting) even though I've heard Chuy doesn't have a chance. I hate Rahm with a purple passion.

much to the chagrin of many members, i hear.

Who would have thought.

that i read has had several teachers that support him say they have talked to other members who are dismayed at the endorsement.

because she's supporting Chuy. And that would appear that those other CTU members are going against their own pres.

Chat rooms produce oppositions all the time. Trolls chat all the time. Stop looking for support for Rahm from unions; no members are dragged against their will to support working class, progressive Democrats. Chuy is our man.

Until democrats grow a pair this is never going to end.

infiltrate and destroy from within. It works very well with political parties too.

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International Business Times
4/5/2015
Chicago Elections Chief Got Lobbying Contracts from Rahm Emanuel's Administration
http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-elections-chief-got-lobbying-contracts-rahm-emanuels-administration-1869898

He's as dirty as the day is long. He will win the run-off election tomorrow, but it will be for all the wrong reasons.

really fucking suck. Sad that this guy will more than likely win, because he "identifies" as a democrat.

i could go on.

I could go on. Your comment #9 is just that. A comment, much of that is a stretch. Your comment proves nothing. But do keep trying.

this is my sector of the economy. i know very well what has been done, what is being planned, and what i am voting for.

where do you live that you see things so clearly?

You may see things differently.

she is on my ignore list. and gonna stay there.

i live in actual reality, here in chicago.

this will come down to who the majority wants. i hope there will some respect for that decision, but i wont be holding my breath.

i guess you think no one should post here if they dont agree with the "common wisdom". too bad about that. i dont intend to shut up.

Never told you to shut up, where you got that no one knows and I have never said anyone who doesn't agree with, as you say "common wisdom" shouldn't post here.

these politicians are still in power. Take away the money, and the Rahms of the political world would stand a chance.

right down to the selective bolding.

yes, there was a lot of grassroots work before he took office. but closing them early was one of his first acts in office. (he also told the koch bros to take thier petcoke somewhere else.)
he has acknowledge those effort every time i have heard him speak about those plants. if he had wanted them kept open, they would have been kept open.
he deserves SOME of the credit.

Go down Torrance Ave south of 106th st. in the 10th ward. It is still there.

they have to either move it, or build a building around it by a date certain. i dont remember the date.

There were two major coke plants there, Acme on Torrance and Republic Steel about a mile to the east. I got my M.S. from the U of Illinois measuring emissions from the coke plants in the nearby neighborhoods.

i just love the comments from people who know nothing but what their confirmation biases allow them to know.

The OP is really over the top. If I still lived there I would vote for Rahm, not because I think he's god's gift but I think he is doing the best he can with a bad situation. Daley left the city with debt and deals which anyone would have a headache dealing with. Chuy is a good guy but I don't think he has political muscle to deal with the problems. He is not Harold Washington II.

and he has run a shitty campaign.

i respected him until he did an ad in front of one of the closed schools, and called charters "elite private schools" a charge he damn well better know is a lie. not a stretch, a flat out lie.
and he should know it is a lie because one of the most popular charter holders is uno, which runs spanish language and culture based schools. desperately needed in a city where hispanics are dropping out in huge numbers.
it was really stupid to piss on his natural constituency. to insult them for choosing a better school for their kids. a free, public school.

off the shores of the Detroit River. Struck dumb with amazement, actually.

Guess somebody figured out that steaming, stinky, blowing piles of pollution didn't blend well with "gentification".

If they didn't have plans to force all the poor people out and redevelop a playground for the Obscenely Wealthy, the petcoke could have stayed there....after all poor people wouldn't care, and even if they did, they don't count.

is what we need in a mayor. just watch.

Someone actually alerted on it due to the misspelling! (You prevailed 1-6. )

He only support those with big money. The average citizens gets nothing but taxed to death.

in fact, mine have dropped greatly because of the crash of '08.

the average citizen gets better schools w more choices, and a better food system. those are pretty basic dem ideals.

in protest after protest.



But then these are not people with the money to fight the privatization of their public schools.

I can't think of anything LESS democratic than the privatization of Public Schools. This we thought, was a Bush policy, but we were apparently wrong.

Privatization of public funds has now moved into the Dem Party too.

How sad that is. The party of the people, is now represented by Privatizers like Rahm!

Great post on a truly sickening situation. Both parties for private grab of public works.

The takeover is almost complete. The failure and corruption within the 'charter school' 'community', doesn't appear to be deterring the privatizers at all.

For now. But sooner or later the tide will turn against these policies.

I would love to see Rahm defeated this time, but we are not at that point yet. He has money on his side and as we have learned, money is the decider.

$ can buy.

and over 100 high schools. It's the third largest public school system in the country. Local demographics change and sometimes city leaders have to make choices to close some schools. Money is not unlimited. The fact that some parents and residents of neighborhoods where schools were closed protested the decision doesn't shed any light whatsoever on the basic question of whether or not it was a necessary or appropriate decision.

go when money is not unlimited?

I am of the opinion that if there is all that money to give to Corporations to fund schools that are not required to meet the same standards for teachers, for which children are acceptable or not, and the necessary profit for the operators of these private ventures, then money IS, in the minds of the privatizers, unlimited.

And I also think that Public Funds should go to the Public services they are intended for.

And that every dime taken out of those public funds for profiteers, is cheating those for whom it was intended.

So maybe spending that money on those public schools rather than closing them to make way for profiteers, would be the more Democratic thing to do.

But then Rahm is a Third Way 'democrat', closer to the Heritage Foundation than to those who initiated these Public services where everyone has a chance to get an education.

We so badly need another FDR at this point in time.

We sure don't need any more Rahms.

for a better life for everyone for more than 100 years. Jefferson who advocated broad public education is rolling in his grave like many great progressives and educators. Corporatists, greed, self-

you, people down here see him not for what he does for them but what he does for everyone in the city -- because we're FDR Democrats here, not corporatists -- and we want him gone. He's bad for the future of everyone in this city.

My property taxes went down by my own appeal efforts. He should get no credit for why taxes are steady; we can tell that it doesn't mean he's done well for the middle class.

The rich will make out anywhere they land, and Chuy can certainly work fairly with them. But everyone else here and on the thread is right about Rahm. He's been bad for the majority of Chicagoans. Everything for the working class has been eliminated, and what they do get access to costs more. He can't be trusted with either our public assets, our schools, parks, shoreland or our money.

lots of folks from elsewhere have their opinions. but folks on the ground see a very different picture.

all i hear from the opponents are the same things they were saying when rahm was still in d.c.
they do not have the slightest idea what he has done.

but how do you know you aren't feeding your own "Confirmation Bias"?

i dont know, i suppose. but my support is for the actions that he has taken. i have been paying attention.
i have had a few talks at the door w chuy volunteers, and mostly they have no clue when i rattle off the reasons i support rahm. things that good lefties SHOULD be clued into, but they are oblivious.

so much of the anti-rahm bs is hollow talking points w little thought behind them. and is about personalities and not policies.

I especially "learned" back in Minnesota when Rahm was the head of the DCCC. He sent his henchmen to steamroll the campaign of a liberal grass roots candidate for Congress and replace it with a more conservative, corporate "friendly" "Centrist"candidate.
It is amazing what a few Million from the DCCC can do in a small Congressional District.
Rahm's "representatives" even contacted Mortensen's major donors and told them that if they didn't donate the same amount to HIS candidate, the door to the White House would be forever closed.

You can read all about it at the following link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=160&topic_id=14207

This is NOT a " hollow talking point".
This was REAL.
I was there.


Rahm is part of the BIG reason the Democratic Party has become so conservative.

Many support the big tough Rahmbo because he is a strong authoritarian figure. Some really need to follow the Big Bully.

nt

and the run-off is not the big unprecedented surprise that some like to paint it. we havent had runoffs for very long. just since after harold washington's time. and ritchie daley was the candidate in most of those elections.

and no, many do not "love" rahm. but this isnt about personal feelings. it is about choosing a leader.

just watch tuesday.

Rahmn didn't hit the threshold, but Garcia came nowhere close to him then, and is coming nowhere close to him now.

I respect their desire to advocate for change, but they're not convincing the restive the electorate to join them.

If he's so sick, then why do people vote for him?

he has brought jobs. and not only jobs, but good jobs.

to teach to a civics class, just like I used to do as Congressman. And with each visit I see firsthand the powerful effect of a strong principal, engaged teacher and involved parents. They are the foundation of our schools and we must continue to support and empower each of them."
http://www.chicagotogether.org/blog/campaign-updates/expanding-high-quality-hoices/

rahm's actual education policy.

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in other words, a Reagan Democrat,
the antithesis of an FDR Democrat.

and has privatized little.

Do you have an inside connection with the Mayor's Office?
I've heard he is very busy privatizing the Public School System in Chicago.
Millions there for the grabbing.

Rahm on Social Security:

The DLC New Team
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Rahm is a piece of shit.

Rahm represents everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party today.

Charter schools are failing, and the public is demanding action against this corporate heist. Investigations are being held. Read it here about Ohio, Albany, in FL and many places. The Chicago voucher schools are so great, sure. Saw a CSPAN panel where a new school in Chicago was being touted by Rahm with Eric Schmidt of Google. They were playing at the snazzy new computers when he told Schmidt, 'wait till you see the swimming pool!'. The two juveniles were wild, you could almost see the tech contract money $$$ they were excited about in the room. Nothing but the best for the right kind of people. Another gem, Rahm recently shouted at a resident, 'You will respect me!' in a low income community where the vital mental health clinics were being closed. Corporate gentrification for wealthy hipsters.

but it DOES tell everyone where he comes from,
what he assumes is important,
what he will do given the chance,
and how much respect he has for the New Deal.

Those are important "tells" for me,
and Rahm is bad news......unless you are Anti-FDR/Great Society too.
In that case, go stand on the side of the room with Rahm.
I'll stay here with the Democrats.

...who from what I've seen are pretty clear at to how they'll be voting tomorrow.

Instead, Rahm sent his henchmen to Minneapolis to torpedo the campaign of a Liberal Democrat and Grass Roots favorite. Rahm actually had his "representatives" pay a visit to Mortenson's primary donors to threaten them to stop and demanded an equivalent donation to Rahm's more business friendly candidate.

Read about it here (well worth the read from 2005):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=160&topic_id=14207


I agree with you. Local elections are for the Locals.
The DCCC, the DSCC, or the DNC have absolutely NO BUSINESS interfering in local elections.
Everytime they do, it is to thwart the will of the people.

I doubt that my writings here is going to change election results in Chicago,
but I'm entitled to my opinion , and am unafraid to post the it.

Both actually have shifty eyes.

very successfully & with great deceit to the masses.

Especially when this jerk doesn't give them any room to get a decent education!



Or for that matter doesn't help those who are being screwed by the elites in general that the Democratic Party normally fights again!

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Just another Republican(D) or as they call themselves in public, "centrists" or "pragmatic". Same thing.

...and the fact that this asshat calls himself a Democrat...

no more third way "Democrats", please.

LOL Not nice AT ALL!

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Would have been better for April Fools.

Oh well, day late, dollar short, that's me.