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Chicago election

Tashah

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Chicagoans will cast their vote this Tuesday to elect the new city mayor. Turnout is expected to be heavy. To be declared the winner, a candidate must receive at least 50% of the votes cast. If all candidates fall short of this requirement, a run-up election will occur in April between the top two vote counts. Rahm Emanuel has a substantial lead in most survey polls.

Chicago politics. THIS should be interesting :2razz:
 
Emmanuel will win. I'd be surprised if anything else were to happen. He already got ushered in by the political machine, just to run. They wouldn't have done so for Joe Blow from Washington, who used to live in Chicago, but left to take a job somewhere else and decided he wanted to run for mayor despite not meeting residency requirements.
 

Yes, he'll sure win. I think he'll do a good job, too. He's a no-nonsense guy with a confidence one doesn't see too often. Chicago has lots of tough problems to solve. I think he'll be up to the task.

As for him not being a resident, I completely disagree and thought the whole issue was a sham. He didn't put his house up for sale. He took a job serving his country not unlike someone in the military who gets shipped from his apartment in Chicago to Iraq for a year. The guy shouldn't have had to leave his house empty and let it go into foreclosure in order to keep his residency. He voted here. The President and First Lady are considered Chicago residents. They vote here. Why should he have been any different? The issue was political bull****.
 

My grandmother, a little old Irish lady who is a naturalized citizen, informed me that she wanted to vote for "that 'Ronny' fellow" because he sounds like he wants chicago do do well. I then asked her what she felt about his stances on teh issues and she looked at me and said "I think he's an educated man".

This is when I decided to give up on politics altogether.
 

In the military you don't have to give up residency of your home state. I don't think he had to be any different, but he chose to do things in a manner that relinquished his residency. They made a strange logic tree to grant him residency to run for office, with "intent to reside", qualifying. I'm not necessarily calling him a bad guy for it, but the system bent the rules for him.
 

What if she had said "he couldn't be worse than Daley(Daly?)."
 
WI Crippler said:
What if she had said "he couldn't be worse than Daley(Daly?)."
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I wish she'd at least say something like that.

She thinks Daley was the bees knees, but she sure couldn't say why she thinks that. I'm pretty sure she votes for people based on how much she likes their tie (because she's also sexist and doesn't believe a woman can be mayor or president or anything important like that)
 
Rahm will win - and be very good for Chicago. Chicago is a great city that works. People from Michigan go there for long weekends just for that reason.
 
haymarket said:
Rahm will win - and be very good for Chicago. Chicago is a great city that works. People from Michigan go there for long weekends just for that reason.
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Not every city has a Gary,IN to dump all their trash in.
 
Yeah Rahm will win and win BIG. Thats a good thing too! What really rubs me wrong are the racist blacks in this city and how they do things. And that classless, big mouthed ignorant bitch Carol Moseley Braun.... wow. She doesnt deserve to run a car much less a freakin city. What a joke she is! Watch her call someone a crack-head on TV! Carol Moseley Braun Calls Rival Ex-Crack Head : It's All Politics : NPR
 
And in shocking news, Chicago voted for Rahm. Shocking only because they finally had a chance to change the Machine, but they failed. Good luck Chicago, you're gonna need it.
 
MrVicchio said:
And in shocking news, Chicago voted for Rahm. Shocking only because they finally had a chance to change the Machine, but they failed. Good luck Chicago, you're gonna need it.
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Have you ever spent any real time in Chicago?

It is one of the best cities I have been to in America.
 
MrVicchio said:
And in shocking news, Chicago voted for Rahm. Shocking only because they finally had a chance to change the Machine, but they failed. Good luck Chicago, you're gonna need it.
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You do realize that there were no candidates that weren't a part of the machine, right?
 
haymarket said:
Have you ever spent any real time in Chicago?

It is one of the best cities I have been to in America.
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Yeah, I have in fact. I even been to the top of the Sears Tower.

My step sis and her hubby just quit their jobs and are moving the hell out of Chicago as of last December because it's so "good".
 
MrVicchio said:
Yeah, I have in fact. I even been to the top of the Sears Tower.

My step sis and her hubby just quit their jobs and are moving the hell out of Chicago as of last December because it's so "good".
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Where did they move to?
 
MrVicchio said:
Yeah, I have in fact. I even been to the top of the Sears Tower.

My step sis and her hubby just quit their jobs and are moving the hell out of Chicago as of last December because it's so "good".
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Different strokes for different folks. I love the city - and not just the obligatory tourist traps.
 
haymarket said:
What is a "machine" except an organization which helps politicians get elected?
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A machine is a successful organization with ties to organized crime rof
 
haymarket said:
What is the machine?
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The Machine is a contribution of efforts from the Unions, the mob, the dirty police and the government. It gets things done.
In any case, Chicago is pretty nice but the people are pretty shallow and not very nice.
 
independent_thinker2002 said:
A machine is a successful organization with ties to organized crime rof
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That is easy to say. But the successful organization is the BIG BOSS. Meaning guys like Al Capone, etc don't run the machine. People like Emmanuel or Daley. They are the BIG BOSSES. Besides I happen to know a few organized criminals and I am not proud of. One had to leave the country because the police were onto him. He still makes a **** load of money. But he would have been more successful if he went political and made some friends in the machine. That way the police would have left him alone. Sad the way things are....but it works.
 
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