Danny Davis Quits Chicago Mayor Race, Leaves One African American in Race

December 31, 2010 | Filed Under Carol Moseley Braun, Chicago, Cook County, Danny Davis, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The theme of the race for mayor has thus far been twofold. One, will Rahm Emanuel be allowed to stay on the ballot, and two, will there be too many African Americans in the running effectively splitting the black vote all to pieces allowing Rahm to waltz in unopposed?

When we started this off a few months ago there were four black candidates. Rep. Danny Davis, former Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Reverend James Meeks, and the least known of the pack William “Doc” Walls.

Since then we’ve seen several of these candidates drop their bid, leaving two. First to fall was James Meeks and now the Sun-Times is reporting that Danny Davis has also given up his campaign and will be endorsing Carol Moseley Braun.
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Meeks Out, One More Quits Race for Chicago Mayor

December 24, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Danny Davis, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Illinois, Illinois State Government, James Meeks, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago four names were dropped from the race for Chicago Mayor’s office. This week Reverend James Meeks has suspended his campaign to run for the top seat at City Hall, too.

Further more, the election board responsible for determining if Rahm Emanuel is eligible to even run for mayor has made its decision. Rahm stays on the ballot.

Certainly more will be removed as time rolls onward, but here is the list of candidates as it stands now:
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Chicago Activist William Kelly Offers Statement at Emanuel Residency Hearing

December 18, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

William J. Kelly, local Chicago activist and candidate for Alderman, appeared at the hearing to determine if former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is a legal resident of Chicago so that he can run for mayor next year.

According to William Kelly, Rahm and his minions are trying to force WIND radio from accepting Kelly’s brokered radio program, The Kelly Truth Squad.

In any case, if the audio above is too hard to discern, below is the text of Kelly’s statement…
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Rahm Says He’s a Chicago Resident, But Filed 2009 Taxes as Non-Resident

December 15, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Property Taxes, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Not only did Rahm Emanuel file his 2009 taxes returns as a non-resident of the City of Chicago, but once people began questioning his Chicago residency and biloxing up his run for the Mayor’s office, he quietly went back and amended his taxes to say he was a resident.

If that doesn’t seem like an admission that he wasn’t a real citizen, what is?

According to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times, Emanuel filed his 2009 tax returns as a “part-year resident” of Illinois instead of a full-time resident as he had moved to Washington to take Obama’s offer of becoming his chief of staff.
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Rahm’s Little Spy

December 9, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Walter Jacobson of Channel 2 News reports that Rahm Emanuel sent a spy to one of his opponent’s events. Gery Chico had a community meeting with various representatives of the community in attendance but one fellow was loathe to be fully identified as the rest were. Turns out he was a spy for Emanuel.

Chico held a meeting for community leaders to talk issues. One by one they introduced themselves and identified the community groups they represent.

All except for one man who said only that his name is Jim, and that he was there to observe and learn.

That seemed odd, so Jim was watched and seen tape recording the meeting.

When asked about it, he admitted it was not quite true he was there to observe and learn — but to record the meeting for Rahm Emanuel.

And there you go. Just another example of Chicago-style politics.

Four Out of the Race for Chicago Mayor

December 7, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Illinois, Illinois State Government, James Meeks, Mayor Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The man that is renting Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago house announced today that he’ll drop his bid to run against the former White House chief of staff.

Emanuel tenant Rob Halpin told reporters that the financial burden — as well as the legal hurdles — of running for mayor was simply too much for him to incur.

The board of elections also removed three candidates from the ballot due to the candidates not having enough ballot signatures to satisfy the minimum requirement of 12,500 signatures.

The three removed were M. Tricia Lee, only had 700 valid signatures; Jay Stone, had a mere 246; and Ryan Graves had duplicate signatures.

With Lee’s removal from the ballot, that puts Rahm Emanuel in the second spot on the ballot.

Certainly many more will be removed as time rolls onward, but here is the list as it stands now:
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Chicago Unions Leaders Not Thrilled With Rahm Emanuel

December 6, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Jobs, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Most Chicagoans are assuming that former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will become the next mayor of Chicago. But while the perception might satisfy many folks in the Windy City, at least one powerful Democratic sector isn’t so sure they are happy with the whole idea. Chicago’s union leaders are not very fond of the distempered former Chief of Staff.

Big Labor has been put off on Emanuel since he helped Bill Clinton get the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passed in the 1990s when Emanuel was a Congressman from Chicago’s 5th District.

Emanuel also has a history of dissing Big Labor. At least he’s put other interests ahead of Big Labor enough times that labor leaders are not overly fond of the diminutive candidate.
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Come One, Come All: 20 Candidates for Chicago Mayor

November 24, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Danny Davis, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Government, Illinois, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It’s a veritable cornucopia of candidates for the 2011 race for Chicago Mayor. From the infamous, to the locally well known to the completely obscure (so obscure I can’t even find any info out about them), these are the 20 folks that filed to run for mayor. And where known I added their website.

Carol Moseley Braun – Former U.S. Senator, Hyde Park resident
http://carolforchicago.com

Gery J. Chico – Former President of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Public Schools, Downtown Chicago (Loop)
www.gerychicoformayor.com

Danny K. Davis – Current U.S. Representative 7th District, Austin Neighborhood
http://dannykdavis.com/

Wilfredo De Jesus – Senior Pastor of New Life Covenant Church in Humboldt Park, Logan Square
www.dejesusformayor.com

Miguel Del Valle – Chicago City Clerk, Belmont
www.delvalleformayor.com

Rahm Emanuel – Former U.S. Representative 5th District, West Town, White House Chief of Staff
www.chicagoforrahm.com

Ryan Graves – Engineer with the Dept. of Water Management, Lakeview
www.gravesformayor.com

John Hu – Real estate broker, Rush and Division
http://citizenmayor.net/index.html

M. Tricia Lee – Children’s book author, business consultant, Archer Heights
www.mtricialeeformayor.citymax.com

James T. Meeks – Current Illinois State Senator 15th District, West Pullman
www.jamesmeeksformayor.com

Jay Stone – Hypnotherapist, West Ridge
http://stoneformayor.com

William Walls III – Community Activist, former aide to Mayor Harold Washington, Galewood
http://wallsformayor.com

Patricia Van Pelt Watkins – Community Activist, CEO of Target Area Development Corp., E. Garfield Park
www.patriciaforchicago.com

Fredrick K. White – City Employee, Logan Square
www.fredrick-k-white.com

Roland W. Burris – Chatham, Former Senator

Tyrone Carter – Austin, Music Producer, Author

Rob Halpin – Businessman (famous for being the tenant living in Rahm Emanuel’s house), Lakeview

Tommy Hanson – Real estate broker, River North

Fenton C. Patterson – ??, Englewood

Howard Ray – ??, Humbolt Park
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Kelly Goes to Court Over Media Assault

November 17, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From William Kelly…

Here is an important date!!!! NOVEMBER 19th – Our court date, stand up with us against CBS Anchor Jay Levine

As you know, I’ve filed assault charges against CBS 2′s Jay Levine after Levine threatened me when I tried to question Rahm Emanuel. The incident was caught on-tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOuwImz1hU (or see video at the end of this post)

On November 19th, we need to pack the courtroom! We are a small fish in a big media pond and we need to expose the fact that Jay Levine is allowing his political alliances to interfere with his reporting. This is a David and Goliath struggle about the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, and whether conservatives are second class citizens.

Join us Friday morning, November 19th at 9AM. Be sure to get there early. The hearing will be immediately followed by a gathering nearby, location TBA, with a special guest speaker.

Friday, November 19 · 9:00am – 10:00am
Location: Police Department at Belmont and Western
2452 W Belmont
Chicago, Illinois

There are two courts at Belmont and Western, make sure you go to Branch Court 29.
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Blago Calling Emanuel In Next Trial?

November 16, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Fox News, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Media, Rahm Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Rod Blagojevich is saying he fully intends to bring Rahm Emanuel into court as a witness in the next phase of his corruption trial.

“Rahm is going to be a central witness in this case for us,” Blago told Fox News Chanel commentator Geraldo Rivera.

Geraldo wondered if this would be a major distraction for Rahm Emanuel next year as he runs for mayor as the second Blago trial will be occurring at the same time as the mayoral contest.

This is one thing that could portend trouble for an Emanuel run for City Hall. Of course, Emanuel has to get past the charge of non-residency and the perception that he is a carpetbagger from Washington, too. But… you know…

Anyway, if you want to watch a master of desperate spin, heeeeeeres Rod:

It most certainly will be interesting, though, to have a major candidate for mayor who is in the middle of a campaign for City Hall to be dragooned into a corruption trial. If the other candidates for mayor don’t press Emanuel to answer to just how much of Blago’s corruption Rahm knew about, when he knew it and how much of it he was involved in — and by extension the president himself — they don’t deserve to be on the ballot themselves!

Lastly, there is something amusing about a Chicago Mayor in a corruption imbroglio before he even gets elected, too. If that isn’t a typically Chicago mess, what is?
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Chicago Mayoral Contest Begins: Gery Chico Calls for 10 Debates

November 15, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Danny Davis, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Gery Chico, Illinois, James Meeks, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, the field of contenders for Chicago’s mayoral election is taking shape. Hats in the ring currently were tossed by James Meeks, Danny Davis, Miguel del Valle, Carol Moseley Braun, and of course Rahm Emanuel.

Then there is former school board chief Gery Chico. Chico claims that over 50,000 voters signed his petition as he filed them on Monday morning. Chico says “the time to debate is now.”

Mayoral candidate Gery Chico called for at least 10 debates in the neighborhoods of Chicago on Monday, after filing his petition signatures at the Chicago Board of Elections. Chico filed 50,254 signatures and will unveil the first major proposal of the campaign this week.

“I am calling for all the candidates to commit to at least 10 debates in Chicago’s neighborhoods before the election,” Chico said. “The future of our city is at stake and Chicagoans deserve nothing short of a full and vigorous debate of the issues. Let’s debate ways to create more jobs, make our streets safer and fix education and let’s debate them now because Chicago needs a mayor who is ready on Day One.”

My guess is that Rahm will do his best to ignore all contenders and assume the mantle of clear winner. I’d also guess he will refuse all debates until very close to the end of the campaign.
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Chicago’s Lefty on Lefty Hatin’

November 5, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

This has been an interesting election cycle we are living through, hasn’t it? But another interesting one is soon to unfold in Chicago as the Mayor’s seat becomes up for grabs next year.

The fun has already begun here in Chi-Town. Not long ago, for instance, an amusing little episode of lefty on lefty hatin’ erupted in Chicago between long-time racebaiting activist and Congressman Luis Gutierrez and AFSCME President Gerry McEntee that is simply too delicious to ignore.

Ordinarily, you’d think that a left-wing, Democrat congressman would be fast friends with the president of one of America’s biggest public employees unions. But these two titans of leftism have found themselves embroiled in local Chicago politics.
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Obama & Rahm Set the Record Straight

October 20, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Chicago, Dan Proft, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Dan Proft

In two revealing interviews over the weekend, we learned that President Obama and his tiny dancer who would be Chicago Mayor are challenged by the same marketing problem: the public’s perception of them belies who they really are.

In his sit down with the New York Times, the President laments that in his first two years he let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat”.

He’s not, you know. Sure, you can focus on all of Obama’s taxing-and-spending if you are one of those people obsessed with looking at what people do instead of blindly accepting what people say. Fortunately for him, the President is not such a person.
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WINDs Amy Jacobson Slams Kelly, Reveals Inner Elitist

October 18, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Radio, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

WIND’s Amy Jacobson is an elitist. There really isn’t any other way to say it. Last week on the WIND AM 560 morning show where she serves as second banana to host Big John Howell, Jacobson indulged her inner elitist by attacking William Kelly for last week’s video where he was confronted by the Old Media for having the temerity to ask a question of Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel.

Kelly tracked Rahm Emanuel as he walked about shaking hands with the voters in Chicago and when he tried to ask a few questions, members of the Old Media in Chicago intervened for Rahm and tried to shove Kelly out of the way to protect Emanuel from tough questions. For her part, Jacobson was on the side of the left-wing, Old Media establishment.

One might find it amusing that Jacobson is the one, nose in the air, attacking others for not being a “real,” professional journalist, by the way. It was she that in 2007 was discovered cavorting about in a bikini at the home of one of the people she was supposed to be “professionally” interviewing. She was fired from her TV job for this extremely unprofessional behavior. Yet this woman has the gall to be telling others how to comport themselves?
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Old Media Shields Rahm Emmanuel From Conservative Reporter, Threaten Violence

October 13, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Rahm Emanuel, TV News, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is really outrageous. William Kelly, who has a program on the weekends on Chicago’s WIND radio, went out with the rest of the media shadowing Rahm Emanuel as he walked around meeting and greeting Chicago voters yesterday. The outrageous part was that Kelly, a conservative, was pushed away by one self-professed “real” reporter and threatened with violence from another simply for asking Emanuel if he thought the stimulus was a failure.

I am very familiar with William Kelly as I’ve worked with him off and on for the last year since his run for State Comptroller in the primary. Certainly Kelly is somewhat of a gadfly in Republican politics in Chicago, but for the Old Media to push him around and threaten to “deck” him is way out of bounds. Further, Kelly is just as much a “real” journalist as they are and has just as much right to ask candidate Emanuel a question as they do.
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Ram Emanuel Running for Mayor of Chicago!

October 5, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Tearful Emanuel Leaves WH Job, Says Obama Leads in ‘Toughest Times’ in History?

October 1, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Chicago, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, President, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Washington D.C. | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the worst kept secret in D.C., White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel officially left his post in a tearful press conference on the morning of Oct. 1.

Most of what Mr. Emanuel had to say was your normal, average, everyday puffery that a junior member of a team says when he is leaving his position. Emanuel’s thanks-for-the-memories address was all perfectly innocuous… except for one thing.

Early in his remarks Emanuel issued some hortatory for his boss, President Obama. “I want to thank you for being the toughest leader any country can ask for in the toughest times any country has ever faced,” Emanuel said.

Now, some may think that this is just glad-handing of the sort that one might expect of an underling leaving his beloved boss. But this is far more revealing than that.

Just think of what Emanuel said, here. He claimed that his president has led through the “toughest times any country has ever faced.” Tougher than the Revolution when we weren’t even sure we’d make it as a nation? Tougher than what Madison faced in the War of 1812 when the White House was nearly burnt to the ground? Tougher than the Civil War that Lincoln faced? Tougher than WWI, the Great Depression, WWII?
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What Did Obama Know of Blago’s Selling of Senate Seat And When Did He Know It?

July 14, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Chicago, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

The National Republican Committee wants to know the answer to a few questions…

Once again the exculpatory memo issued by the President-elect’s lawyer, Greg Craig, in December of 2008 is finding itself in conflict with testimony coming out of the Blagojevich Trial in Chicago. First we learned through the testimony of SEIU boss Tom Balanoff that President Obama actually played an active role in promoting Valerie Jarrett as a candidate for his old seat, despite no mention of that in the memo. Now we are learning of another call, this time by Rahm Emanuel that violated Obama’s supposed neutrality policy and again failed to be reported by Craig. Here are a couple of questions for a White House that clearly wants to avoid this topic:

1) How do explain the inconsistencies between Craig’s memo, which said “the President-Elect had ruled out communicating a preference” and John Wyma’s testimony that he received a call from Rahm Emanuel with a message from the President-Elect?

2) How do you explain the reoccurring pattern of omitted or inaccurate information included in the memo, in this case the call from Emanuel to Wyma, and how does that reflect on the veracity of the document as a whole?
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Rahm Emanuel: Another Tax Avoiding Obama Appointee

June 5, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, President, Rahm Emanuel, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I am beginning to think that our tax collecting agencies across the country send out a form letter to everyone that is in arrears with their taxes to immediately apply for a job in Barack “Most Ethical Administration in Decades” Obama’s administration. Here we have another Obama lieutenant that didn’t pay his taxes until someone began to inquire after them.

This time it’s Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff, who decided that he was far, far important to be expected to pay his property taxes here in Chicago. Emanuel suddenly remembered to pay his taxes — three months late — right after WBBM Newsradio 780AM began to investigate the story.

Emanuel owed $7,400 for his late property taxes on his Ravenswood home and paid $445.56 in penalties once WBBM began to look into the story.
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Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel Subpoenaed For Blago Trial

June 2, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Dick Durbin, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Rahm Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It has been confirmed that Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, has been subpoenaed by Rod Blagojevich’s defense team in his upcoming trial the Sun-Times is reporting.

Blago defense team Shelly Sorosky told the Times, “Yes, he’s been subpoenaed by the defense,” and went on to call Emanuel a “critical witness.”

Sorosky said there are two areas of interest involving Emanuel: the alleged attempted extortion of Emanuel by then-Gov. Blagojevich and the U.S. senate seat selection concerning now-White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.

According to Sorosky, the blago team has subpoenaed a whole retinue of Washington types for just-in-case needs. Already they’ve subpoenaed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Former Governor Blagojevich is under indictment for attempting to sell Barack Obama’s vacated illinois Senate seat.

The trial is now empanelling the jurors and the trial will soon be under way.
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Report: May 12, 2010 Sarah Palin In Chicago

May 13, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Chicago, Christianity, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Rahm Emanuel, Religion, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Scott Lee Cohen, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the deep blue sea of the People’s Republic of Chicagoland, Sarah Palin shined like a light of liberty among the darkness of Mayor Richard “King” Daley’s perverse domain. Palin brought hope into the home of President Obama’s cynical “Chicago Way” style of politics, and I was there to witness the May 12 show.

Sarah Palin was her usual effervescent self, upbeat and positive about this great country and happy to appear before us. She reveled in her “aw shucks” persona built from regular Americana, a style that has made her dear to the hearts of so many Americans from coast to coast.

The show started with a little patter between Big John Howell and Amy Jacobson, the morning radio talkers from Chicago’s WIND AM. One of John Howell’s musician buddies performed a few songs for us and I have to say he was pleasant to listen to. Finally, just before the Governor addressed us, the ever avuncular and impressive Guy Benson — who has a Sunday evening show on WIND — entertained us with some political humor.

Then, when the giant curtains parted to reveal the governor, the applause was almost deafening so the evening started with an electric jolt. She immediately asked all U.S. military veterans to stand for recognition to a huge round of applause for her recognition and for ours of our vets.

One of the early things that Governor Palin brought up was this idiotic business of Highland Park High School whose administrators suddenly canceled its girls basketball team trip to Arizona. The team had won the right to play in a tournament for the first time in 26 years. Why was it canceled? Only because the tournament is in Arizona and school administrators are mad at the state. Disgustingly, these school chiefs are using these girls to advance their own political agenda. Palin was amazed that this school was ignorant enough to say Arizona is not a worthy place for their girls to visit yet the school is still sponsoring a trip to China! “Do you know how girls are treated in China,” Palin asked. Then to great applause she suggested that those girls might have to “go rogue.”
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Rahm Emanuel: ‘I Would Like to Run for Mayor of Chicago’

April 19, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Mayor Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On PBS’ Charlie Rose show, Rahm Emanuel finally admitted what has been rumored in hushed voices throughout the city of Chicago: He wants to run for Mayor.

Emanuel told host Rose that if Mayor Daley decides not to run again, he would like to throw his own hat in the ring and run for the big seat at City Hall.

But if Mayor Daley doesn’t, one day I would like to run for mayor of the City of Chicago. That’s always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

Now the pressure is on Mayor Daley to decide if he wants another term and to wonder if Emanuel will run against him despite his claim to want to support Da Mayor if he runs again.

The diminutive, oft times profane Emanuel reiterated a few times that he’s not looking to knock Richard Daley out of the office, but one really does have to wonder. Few Presidential Chiefs of Staff last long and one can be pretty sure that Emanuel will be gone for that position sooner rather than later. So, is he really, really sure that he won’t run to beat Daley?

This is a question that Daley would be foolish not to be asking himself.
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Video: Death Panels for Americans, Free Healthcare for Illegals… It’s In There

March 16, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Republicans, Socialism, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Big payoffs to unions, free healthcare to illegal aliens, death panels for Americans, limits and rationing to Americans… it’s ALL in the bill (HR 3200).

And remember, folks. We get taxed immediately but none of these wonderful “benefits” actually kick in for FOUR YEARS! So even if you liked this communist paradise you won’t get it for almost half the decade. It makes you wonder… how many dead people will Democrats be responsible for since this bill doesn’t kick in for so long, eh?

These are the things that Democrats want in a nationalized healthcare bill. These are the things that WILL end up passed if ANY part of Obamacare is passed.

This will materially alter the relationship between citizen and government and will put a tombstone over what was the United States of America. If Obamcare passes, the U.S.A. is dead.

Some Letters Beating Me Up Over My Tea Party Articles

February 9, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Jobs, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Nancy Pelosi, President, Rahm Emanuel, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well I’ve now written six — this makes seven — articles criticizing certain failures of the Tea Party movement thus far. They are all meant to be constructive criticisms, though, not dismissive nor derogatory of them. It’s measured introspection I employ in each of these articles. No name calling, no laughing, no hate. There is just no logical way to construe what I’ve written thus far as hate against the Tea Party movement. But this whole Tea Party thing reveals several things to me. First of all it shows that there is still a lot of passion for them and that is a very good thing. I want the Tea Party groups to succeed and I want them to become a force that can teach the GOP a lesson. The other main thing it shows me is that too many people can’t read for comprehension these days.

The sad thing is that these days even the slightest criticism of a thing is seen by too many as outright hostility. Everyone is so hypersensitive that even a mild criticism meant as an exercise in introspection is seen as an over-the-top attack. It doesn’t just happen on the right, either. Look at what happened to all those Hillary Clinton supporters during the run up to the 2008 presidential elections. The constructive criticism that Hillary fans offered the Democrats was pounded down so hard by the left that many Hillary supporters found themselves aligned — and some permanently — with the side they thought they opposed; the Republicans.

Naturally there’s the name callers and nay sayers always floating around out there. I had one guy, for instance, say, “who asked you for your opinion” of the Tea Parties? This same guy then went on to give me HIS opinion of them evoking the obvious rejoinder of just who the hell asked him for his opinion, anyway? Obviously he wasn’t bright enough to “get” that concept!
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Our Interview With Republican David Ratowitz, 5th District Candidate for Congress

January 12, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Republicans, State Government, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last Sunday on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism my cohost and I, Ann “Babe” Huggett, interviewed 5th District Congressional candidate David Ratowitz. The 5th District is the Chicago seat that Rham Emanuel once held. Ratowitz is a former Army Ranger and is now a Chicago lawyer. His website is www.ratowitzforcongress.com.

For more of our shows go to our BlogTalRadio page at Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism.

Rahm Emanuel for Chicago Mayor?

January 6, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In her Jan 5 column the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn just reported a “rumor” that Presidential Chief of Staff !

Here is the relevant graph:

Emanuel, the most political animal in this town, also should understand that keeping Rogers on as social secretary reflects upon the president’s judgment. It’s possible that he has other considerations. Emanuel is said to have told people that the chief-of-staff role is an 18-month job and that he is considering a run for mayor of Chicago. And Rogers is a major social and political player in the Windy City.

Not quite a shocker if true, but interesting news nonetheless.

I say not shocking because Rahm is a well known Chicago strongman having served in Congress from the city and being one that has always looked for that next big power grab. Looking to take the Mayor’s seat would be a very logical effort for diminutive Emanuel.
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