The American Spectator

Appleby| 1.27.11 @ 6:54AM

My Uncle Al lived on the South Side of Chicago for many years, and he always said *This aint the United States of America here -- this is CHICAGO!* Apparently nothing much has changed since Uncle Al got his mansion in the sky.

Perhaps when Obama shuffles out of his current residence, he can get a room with Rahm -- provided Rahm has a room by then.

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 3:58PM

At least Rahm isn't a toal shit like Rove.

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 4:00PM

... oops, total, not "toal" (when insulting someone, always spell-check before posting)

Mark| 1.27.11 @ 4:37PM

Karl Rove? What does that have to do with turnips in Moscow? You can't spell "total", but can you spell "non sequitur"?

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 5:40PM

Well for one thing, Rahm isn't fat 'n' Rove and Sununu are/were.
Looks are only skin-deep, but ugliness goes all the way to the core.

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 5:48PM

Mark,
I'll keep writing this, as it is an obvious fact:
Rahm is younger and more vigorous than Tyrrell.
Youth might not be crucial (reagan immediately comes to mind) but vigor? in a shark-pool such as Chicago?
A Chicago mayor ought to be a 25-30 year old Charles Atlas.

Patriot| 1.27.11 @ 11:57PM

More of that vaunted Liberal "tolerance" we've all come to know and love from Liberal morons like Alan.

Where's the new civility Obama has called for, Brooks?

JeffT| 1.28.11 @ 5:49PM

Not only is Rahm a toal, he is also a total shit. But he is perfect for the dregs of Chicago. Why bother electing someone who isn't corrupt, right?

The Clintidote| 1.27.11 @ 11:38PM

Rammy is a complete and total shit; you'd have to be as dumb as a democRat to believe otherwise. How does Rove factor into your twisted alleged "logic"?

Melvin| 1.27.11 @ 7:07AM

Your problem Mr. Emmett, is that you are not wicked enough. Not to blow smoke up your backside, but you would have indeed been a breath of fresh air politically speaking.
It is almost as if Chicago is afraid of life after the Daley's.
Rahm, is just a Jewish version of Richard Daley, politically there wouldn't be any remarkable policy changes, but then again, no one wants the mayor's desk full of steak knife divots either.

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 5:43PM

For starters, Rahm is younger and more vigorous than Tyrrell.

coal carrier| 1.27.11 @ 7:52AM

I assume that Rahm’s next move is to have ACORN bus in protesters and demand that he be allowed to run. After all, they already have all of the voters signed up in his favor.

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 8:12PM

Tyrrell's heart is in the right place, however he has little experience outside this rag. He should stick to what he does best, AS.

WRTolkas| 1.27.11 @ 8:02AM

Carol Moseley Braun mayor of Chicago. Look East Chicagoans, look East to Detroit. Look to your inevitable fate. G_d be with you.

And Rahm Emanuel, his head is so swelled by his ego that I find amazing that he can fit through a door. Or as a saintly man once told me, when Mr. Emanuel is seated in a room he needs two chairs: one for him, the other for his ego.

Enough said, good-luck Chicago.

Alan Brooks| 1.27.11 @ 9:51PM

Thank God:

By DON BABWIN and DEANNA BELLANDI, Associated Press Don Babwin And Deanna Bellandi, Associated Press – 7 mins ago
CHICAGO – Illinois' highest court put Rahm Emanuel back in the race for Chicago mayor Thursday, three days after a lower court threw the former White House chief of staff off the ballot because he had not lived in the city for a full year.

The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Emanuel's favor, with a majority of justices concluding that the earlier decision was "without any foundation" in the law because it said a candidate must be physically present in Chicago.

"As I said from the beginning, I think the voters deserve the right to make the choice of who should be mayor," Emanuel said shortly after getting word of the high court's action. "I'm relieved for the city. I'm relieved for the voters because they need the certainty that's important for them."

[ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ]

Emanuel lived for nearly two years in Washington working for President Barack Obama. He moved back to Chicago in October, after Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he would not seek another term.

When he learned of Thursday's ruling, Emanuel said he immediately called his wife and took a congratulatory call from his old boss, the president.

Political observers said the ruling resurrecting Emanuel's candidacy would probably give him added momentum heading into the last month of the campaign.

Don Rose, a longtime analyst of Chicago politics, said the saga would bring Emanuel "even greater sympathy" and could lift him to victory.

"It's over," Rose said. "The only open question is whether he wins it in the first round or whether there's a runoff."

But the other contenders in the race did not give any ground.

"Game on," said Gery Chico, the city's former school board president and one of Emanuel's more prominent rivals. He complained that the recent "drama" surrounding Emanuel had "made this election into a circus instead of a serious debate about the future of Chicago."

Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun said she did not question the court's decision.

"The fact is that the field hasn't changed. We're all still in this, and we're all trying to get our message out," she said Thursday at a televised debate, where she was joined by Emanuel, Chico and City Clerk Miguel del Valle.

However, if Emanuel does not get more than 50 percent of the vote on Feb. 22, a runoff election could be more difficult to win against one rival instead of the five he faces now.

"It's going to be very turbulent in the next week or two. A number of voters will reconsider," said Dick Simpson, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The attorney who challenged Emanuel's residency said he would not appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"We don't feel there's a federal issue," Burt Odelson said. "We don't feel there's anything for the Supreme Court to decide."

Emanuel never stopped campaigning as the case unfolded. Within minutes of the ruling, he was at a downtown transit station, shaking hands.

The former White House aide has said he always intended to return to Chicago, and his arguments were accepted by the city election board and a Cook County judge before the appeals court rejected them.

The Supreme Court took special note of Emanuel's testimony before the election board in which he listed all the personal items he left in the house in Chicago when he moved to Washington — including his wife's wedding dress, photographs of his children and clothes they wore as newborns, as well as items belonging to his grandfather.

The board "determined that, in this situation, the rental did not show abandonment of the residence," the court wrote in the main opinion. "This conclusion was well supported by the evidence and was not clearly erroneous."

In a conclusion that was unusually critical of the appellate ruling, the justices said Illinois' residency law "has been consistent on the matter since at least the 19th century."

While all seven justices ruled in Emanuel's favor, two of them issued a separate opinion that was more sympathetic to the lower court, saying Illinois residency law was not as clear-cut as the others believed.

"Spirited debate plays an essential role in legal discourse," they wrote. But the majority opinion and a dissent by an appeals judge "cross the line."

"Inflammatory accusations serve only to damage the integrity of the judiciary and lessen the trust which the public places in judicial opinions," they wrote.

Chicago-based election attorney Adam Lasker said he was surprised by Thursday's decision because the reasoning behind the lower court ruling was sound. He surmised that "there was a lot of pressure from the public."

"The court of public opinion may have won this one," he said.

In the future, the decision could allow less prominent or desirable figures than Emanuel to get on the mayoral ballot.

"It could become known as the Landlord Rule," he said. "Now anyone who rents his house, leaves clothes in it and moves out of Chicago, can come back, and they can be a candidate."

But Edward Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University, said the high court ruling made sense.

"This wasn't a slam-dunk for Emanuel going in," he said. "But it shows the justices saw the appellate court ruling as a hiccup."

When faced with an ambiguity in election law, he said, the justices "decided that you want to err on the side of letting voters vote for candidates that they want to."

In their appeal to the Supreme Court, Emanuel's attorneys called the appellate court decision "one of the most far-reaching election law rulings" ever issued in Illinois, not only because of its effect on the mayoral race but for "the unprecedented restriction" it puts on future candidates.

His lawyers raised several points, including that the appeals court applied a stricter definition of residency than the one used for voters. They said Illinois courts have never required candidates to be physically present in the state to seek office there.

Monday's surprise ruling threw the mayoral race and Emanuel's campaign into disarray. The following day, the state Supreme Court ordered Chicago elections officials to stop printing ballots without Emanuel's name on them. Nearly 300,000 ballots had been printed before they stopped.

Emanuel had been the heavy favorite to lead the nation's third-largest city, and he raised more money than any other candidate vying to replace Daley, who is retiring after more than two decades as mayor.

In the Emanuel family, Thursday's decision was to have lasting implications.

"I have banned the word 'resident' in Scrabble in our household. I never want to see it again," Emanuel said. "Even if you get it on a triple word, you're not allowed to use it."

The Bishop| 1.27.11 @ 8:16AM

Former Senator Braun's tax noncompliance should be no issue. Remember that the late Mayor Harold Washington was born on April 15th and he failed to file for four years. No problem for Chicago. And hearing her being interviewed recently on WLS radio, she sounded almost sagacious after listening to clips of Sheila Jackson Lee. Still, all in all, Mr. Tyrell gets my vote. (I live in Indiana, but, hey, it's Chicago.)

post*tenebras*lux| 1.27.11 @ 8:16AM

Sorry, Mr. Tyrell, but don't whine to the "people" now. You should have done your research a long time ago knowing you were running against one of the cogs in Obama's machine. Isn't is amusing..........when the politicians are ahead in the game, they don't need or know the citizenry, but when another politician is playing fair, suddenly the public matters.

post*tenebras*lux| 1.27.11 @ 8:17AM

Sorry, should have said when another politicians is NOT playing fair as in the Politicians' Handbook of
Fairness.

skedaddle| 1.27.11 @ 8:44AM

"Politicians' Handbook of Fairness"? That must be a very thin handbook. I bet it would fit on a stamp.

Robert Pinkerton| 1.27.11 @ 9:06AM

As I said in another post on this site, the fact that Mr. Emmanuel was President Clinton's point man on "gun 'control'" tells me all I need to know about his character. By each, all, any, and every lawful means he must be kept far, far indeed from power.

Illinois needs both a shall-issue concealed-carry law and a castle-doctrine law.

Nunya| 1.27.11 @ 10:42AM

Good luck with that. Illinois is going the same way as Kalifornia--run my Marxist idiots who think they know better, who are going to run the state into the ground then beg the Feds to bail them out.

Steve A| 1.27.11 @ 9:06AM

Let's see.....Chicago. It's in Illinois, which is bankrupt. It has produced Al Capone, Mayor Daley, Rahm E, Obama & The Cubs. So I care what happens there.... why???

PS: Maybe if Michael Jordan was running I would give a rip, otherwise, you are Detroit in waiting.

Mark Shepler- Jupiter, FL| 1.27.11 @ 9:38AM

What an exceptional issue of ASO today. And I am a longtime fan of Mr. Tyrrell's ever since he dogged the Clinton administration but his line, "Whatever is decided Chicago is now a laughingstock.", is too rich.

NOW, Mr. Tyrrell?

WilliamInWien| 1.27.11 @ 10:03AM

I am in awe of those politicians/law makers who had the vision to pass a law that requires residency for a full year. Must have had some bad experience beforehand. Unfortunately, "carpetbaggers" are no longer carpetbaggers in the sense of the term, but rich players from the Ruling Class that seek opportunity to increase their power. Rober F. Kennedy in New York, Hillary in Illinois or New York, which ever came sooner and BHO in Illinois (?) Remember, as a long time White Sox fan, BHO could not name a sigle palyer on the team, past or present. Is that not a sign of a carpet bagger?

Anthony| 1.27.11 @ 11:17AM

Well we'll just see won't we? Rahm still has the Ill. Supreme Court as his hold card. The pronouncement from the Appellate Court appears to be rather black and white, about as clear and definitive as it can get, but this is the New America.
Don't forget, RET, as your pal Slick Willlie might famously proffer, " it all depends on the meaning of residency".
This being the New America, afterall, where a president mockingly refuses to release his birth certificate to quell legitimate speculation and outright confusion and obfuscation,such that those who demand fealty to Constitutional requirements are called "birthers" and "irrational".
This being the New America, where irrationality and suicidal fiscal insanity by the elite left is applauded and praised, while those who question are called "tea baggers".
I don't know if the Ill. Supreme Court is corrupt, I generally give judges the benefit of the doubt, so I'll not make that assumption, but let's just say I won't be suprised if Rahm in on the ballot come election time.
In the mean time, we'd damn well better hurry and get back the Old America.

CharlieEcho| 1.27.11 @ 11:19AM

This article was written a little premature. Rahm has secured a spot on the ballot per the Ill supreme curt. He must have the right one in his pocket. Ill-noise is the laughing stock of the nation. It would be funny except for Chicago, (stinking water). The people of Chicago, both the dead and living are, or must be proud of the criminal heritage. I would venture they have nothing else to be proud of even though they have a few very good museums. Still the air is foul, it reaches all the way to Springfield.

CharlieEcho| 1.27.11 @ 11:23AM

In the past couple of days there was a video and voice comment by the great Rahm. During discussions on his being removed from the ballot he mentions that he received mail and even voted from the "old address". I wonder if he voted in D.C.? Of course that would only be twice. Not nearly often enough.

Herb| 1.27.11 @ 11:39AM

I spent the first 31 years of my life in Chicago, the better part of which was during the original Mayor Daley's time in office. He actually was a good mayor. He was followed in office by, successively, a wimp (Bilandic), a sot (Jane Byrne), a poof (Harold Washington) and a dunce (Daley II). A ballet dancer fits nicely into that roster.

Wayne | 1.27.11 @ 12:23PM

Good mayor? Do you know how corrupt he was. Do you know of the graft? Do you know that precinct captains had city jobs? But they would lose those jobs if they did not meet their quota of votes in an election? Did you know Daley funneled real estate deals through his son, William, who was too stupid to pass a real estate exam? Did you know people had to pay Daley, and his Fire and Police Chiefs thousands of dollars just to get accepted into the academies? Did you know how corrupt these departments were? He was as crooked as they come.

Ned| 1.27.11 @ 2:40PM

I've always enjoyed the show that is Chicago politics, but is there anyone, anywhere, that doesn't think that town is a corrupt cesspool run by crooks for the benefit of crooks?

One of the things that amuses me, and gives away the nature of the game is that every new mayor's FIRST task once in office is to authorize a multi million dollar, tax funded project to remove the out-going mayor's name from signs everywhere around town, and replace them with their own signs. If they had just ONE honest politician with a functioning brain to suggest that - just maybe - we don't need signs with ANYONE'S name on them, they could take a small first step toward NOT being a kleptocracy.

Richard Baker| 1.27.11 @ 11:55AM

Maybe Emanuel should read and study Big Bill Thompson's tenure in office. After all, he was a friend of Al Capone. Chicago IS a laughinstock because of its citizens willingness to accept crooks as Mayor since Thompson, or maybe before. When stationed in Germany many years ago, my buddy Nick Lucas was asked by a German where he was from. When Nick said Chicago the German said "Ah, Gangsters!"

Ken (Old Texican)| 1.27.11 @ 12:20PM

Emmett,
why in the world would you want to be the 'head' on that pimple?
There's too much puss in that pimple.

Wayne | 1.27.11 @ 12:28PM

Don't understand the love for Chicago. When I graduated from the inner city school on the Southside, Lindblom, I left to never return. It is worse than just corruption, the politicians are gang leaders and killers.

The population of Chicago has dropped by about 1 million people since the '60s because anyone with any sense left the place. The problems of the state stems from the cess pool of the city over flowing across Illinois, and now we have a president who is spreading the pain around to the rest of the country.

It is a toxic city that needs to be destroyed.

Cincinnatius| 1.27.11 @ 12:29PM

Mr. Tyrrell, though you love Chicago, it deserves no better than Braun or Emanuel because its citizens won't clean out the corruption that is an ongoing joke! No, don't cry for Chicago until the people of the city awaken from their stupor and do something about the crooks who run it.

metaforehead| 1.27.11 @ 12:32PM

I don't see the big issue or the reason for the snark, unless it's just because you don't like Rahm. Personally, I don't care one way or the other about him or his candidacy. Just interested in the fairness issue. So lemme get this straight-- he moves to DC to help the Pres run the White House, and that's why he loses his residency requirement? Ouch,that is harsh. Well, the law is the law, but that's pretty weak. You could lose some great candidates like that, and really it is a catch-22. I bet some of your readers would have a hard time with that if it was someone they liked working for a President they liked. What am I missing? He's not really a true carpetbagger, is he? Long-time Chicagoan? Doing his duty to the Pres? Help me out here.

Wayne | 1.27.11 @ 12:50PM

It is a rule. Who else but Rahm would ever get exempted from that rule?

Steve A| 1.27.11 @ 1:24PM

I dislike the guy but I think he should be allowed to run. Seems to me he is more a "resident" of Chicago than DC all day long. Let the voters decide.

Ex=pat| 1.27.11 @ 5:25PM

If you don't like the law, work to change it.

But the law is still the law.

Unless, of course, you're connected to the Combine.

Skinner| 1.27.11 @ 5:38PM

Let the voters decide? In Chicago?
The only votes that get counted in ChiTown are cast by Elvis and in the cemetaries.

CharlieEcho| 1.27.11 @ 1:29PM

Attitudes such as yours are the Chicago problem. There is or was a residency rule. Rahm move out for two years. His lease to the current resident ended his residency. Did he "live" in the residence this past two years? Where was he living the past two years? Students move to campuses all over the country and vote "there". What is the rule? Wink and let it go? Only in Chicago.

Steve A| 1.27.11 @ 2:47PM

Sure thing Charlie. I'm the problem. Yeah, Ok pal. Make sure to follow those rules to the T so you can avoid sending us another Blago for national consumption. Oh, wait, I think he was a "resident" of Illinois. Maybe Rezko is available or Obama can move back after he gets smoked in 2012 & put in for the job. If not, see if you can get fine Illini resident Bill Ayres to step up. Yeah, you guys have it all figured out over there. Spare me the lecture.

ds80| 1.27.11 @ 7:35PM

Steve A, your panties are in a wad coz CharlieEcho was spot-on.

Michael L. Hauschild| 1.27.11 @ 1:04PM

Hell Emmett, you are a shoe in, just hang your Mayoral Campaign sign on the back of the Pence Bandwagon.

blackknights1802| 1.27.11 @ 1:28PM

A small business owner once told me that he had an intelligent meter in his possession. When he flew over Chicago the meter always went to zero.

matthew s harrison| 1.27.11 @ 1:34PM

Mr. Tyrrell,
Chicago has been a laughing stock for as long as I can remember. The list of mayors over the last 30 or so years reads like the who's who if "America's Dumbest Politicians" and the voters aren't much to write home about either.
We have been urinated on by our politicians for so long, we are used to it.
Taxes in the state are out of control-and even at the rates we pay on sales tax, income tax, and every other ridiculous type of tax, the state is bankrupt. Taxes were just raised(both property and income) by record amounts, and along with that, came a bill that increased spending, thus guaranteeing the budget never balanced.
However, there was a victory yesterday delivered by the last judge in the state with a brain, which killed a tax-and has the morons in Springfield wondering how they are going to get their free G-550 rides from the lobbyists for the Gaming world. It is funny to watch.
But back to Rahm, and the rest of the misfits vying for the Mayoral post-
Here in Illinois, we watched Barry Soetoro oust his opponents with legal chicanery to gain his State and US Senate seats. One can only imagine that Rahm will follow in his former boss' footsteps to steal the top job in Chicago-at any cost. That said-we are the laughing stock of the entire nation, if not the world. We have unions who dictate the inner-workings of the city, and the FBI has kept a grand jury convened here for decades, just to handle the graft/corruption that is City Hall on it's very best day.
If you look at the federal indictments during the last thirty years, one can only imagine the laughing /ribbing I take whenever I travel and tell people I am from Chicago!
We are very used to the laws only applying to we peons, and this is no exception to that long standing Chicago Machine rule.
Please, please Mr. Tyrrell-really run-and help us make Chicago my kind of town again!

cuban pete| 1.27.11 @ 1:58PM

Rules-Schmules!
If you are a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, etc.etc. Deomcrat you should be allowed to run for any office anywhere regardless of your residency. The fact that you support the caring, forward thinking left wing agenda should trump any inconvenient statutes or requirements.

Ex-pat| 1.27.11 @ 3:26PM

This whole situation would be laughable if it wasn't the way the whole country is going.

The Ill-annoy Supreme Court, in declaring that Emmanuel (translated: Barak With Us) must be allowed on the ballot has finally shown its core belief: We are the rulers, we don't care what the law says, Richie and his brudder and all his Combine friends are going to have things THEIR way, and the law be damned.

As John Kass at the Chicago Tribune (no longer the World's Greatest Newspaper) quoted: "The Law is a ass."

So is the Ill-annoy Supreme Court.

But the truth is the truth, and it doesn't matter if Emmanuel and his cronies like it: He does NOT pass residency requirements. He should NOT be on that ballot.

But there are Chicagoans who will vote for him (I mean, c'mon - there are Chicagoans who are PROUD of their pols' corruption).

It's sick and it's sad and it angers me beyond rational thought.

I left Ill-annoy because of the corruption there. But the nightmares of it still haunt me, and I can see that, now that the IL Combine is entrenched in Chicago on the Potomac, there is little hope for our Republic.

Seek| 1.27.11 @ 3:28PM

A dissent here: Politics aside, there are many wonderful things about Chicago and its surrounding area. Take higher education. One cannot deny that the University of Chicago is one of the finest universities in the world -- as is Northwestern University in nearby Evanston.
And Chicago's cultural amenities are second to none, the magnificent museums, symphony orchestra and architecture, for starters.

I know, I know....corruption. But it ain't all bad either, despite the blacks running wild on the South Side.

Spoonman| 1.27.11 @ 5:35PM

Nobody questions why he needs $10 million to run for Mayor, against who? Does he get to keep the money he doesn't spend on his campaign or does he have to distribute it so he can earn the position?

Dave Williams| 1.27.11 @ 5:42PM

Dear Heavens, the Carol Mosely Braun-tosaurus is back??? A sick, twisted part of me actually wants to see her get elected. Having permanently retired the cup as Worst Senator EVER, she can add to her accomplishments by being the Worst Mayor Ever...and then, who knows, maybe she could ascend to become the Worst President Ever, despite the fierce competition from the current title-holder....

MikeD| 1.27.11 @ 6:25PM

Unfortunately, like almost every other large American city, Chicago has become a laughingstock and a cesspool. Although I would submit that, at least on the surface, Chicago doesn't appear to be as bad a Detroit or Philadelphia. Corruption is the name of the game, and every major American city run by the democrats is the reluctant beneficiary of the crime, filth, gang violence and substandard services provided by the equally corrupt municipal unions. The cities are dirty, the schools are a joke, and nobody can walk the streets after dark outside the well lit tourist areas. We could do so much better. How many of you have seen the article floating around the internet comparing Detroit with Hiroshima 60 years later? It is not flattering to Detroit.

Marc Jeric| 1.27.11 @ 8:59PM

The corrupt Illinois Supreme Court has eliminated the residency requirement and so allowed Rahm Emanuel to run. No sign of how that will affect the candidacy of the AS editor. As for Moseley Brown - no worry; Rahm will give her an appointment where she will do nothing except collecting her salary.

Speedypete| 1.27.11 @ 9:01PM

We live close to Illinois and we get Chicago television and radio. We enjoy what goes on in Chicago and Illinois for the laugh we get when we are with friends. Long before Rahm they were laying waste to airports (under federal jurisdiction) and spending hundreds of millions to remodel Soldiers Field when other cities built indoor or retractable roof stadiums for close to the same amount. Watching them freeze during the playoff with the Super Bowl bound Packers was hilarous.

Dave| 1.27.11 @ 10:39PM

I'm sure Rahm will find a liberal court that will eventually side with him and allow him to unleash his sickness upon Chicago.

If all the liberals would die tomorrow, the world would be a better place the day after.

Yosemeti Sam| 1.28.11 @ 1:19AM

Illinois Supreme Court: memo to Rahm - you don't need no STINKING residency badge(s) for
propriety. It's OK to be a political - GYPSY!

Recalling old TV series called "Laugh-In" :

Here com de judge, here com de judge, here com de judge, here com de judge ....

Shirley| 1.28.11 @ 4:49AM

I guess if you're a politician, you can do what you want. Everyone knows that he rented out that property that he claims to live in. How is that for a city known for corruption.

S. Ruger| 1.28.11 @ 3:57PM

You may not like Rahm, but it seems that no one should lose status as a resident back home when they go to Washington to serve in the government. He becomes Chief of Staff and all of a sudden he's a Washingtonian? He can run to be mayor of D.C.? Sorry, that doesn't make sense to me.

weddingdress| 7.15.11 @ 5:23AM

Dear Heavens, the Carol Mosely Braun-tosaurus is back??? A sick, twisted part of me actually wants to see her get elected. Having permanently retired the cup as Worst Senator EVER, she can add to her accomplishments by being the Worst Mayor Ever...and then, who knows, maybe she could ascend to become the Worst President Ever, despite the fierce competition from the current title-holder....

Adidas| 8.11.11 @ 4:35AM

is good

العاب| 4.11.12 @ 3:24PM

Your problem Mr. Emmett, is that you are not wicked enough. Not to blow smoke up your backside, but you would have indeed been a breath of fresh air politically speaking.
It is almost as if Chicago is afraid of life after the Daley's