Posts Tagged ‘ rahm emanuel ’

Poll: Rahm Emanuel’s Approval Ratings Plummet

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February 22, 2013

Just two years after Rahm Emanuel slid easily into Chicago’s City Hall to replace Former Mayor Richard Daley, Emanuel is nowhere near as popular with Chicago residents as he was after first returning to the city from his post in President Obama’s White House. A new representative poll conducted by Crains/Ipsos shows just 2% surveyed...
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Fresh from Ahmadinejad meeting, Farrakhan hosting Chicago townhall Weds night

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September 26, 2012
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Tonight Louis Farrakhan, who just met with Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is hosting an online three-hour townhall. You can submit questions via twitter, facebook, or YouTube (instructions here), and follow the questions by using the hashtag #askFarrakhan. There are several things I’d like to know, starting with why did you meet with the Iranian...
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Rahm: Ends justify means if it means one more nature park

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August 17, 2012
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This morning we learned from Mayor Rahm Emanuel that the ends justify the means if it means that a park might come out at the other end. Nine years ago, Mayor Daley trucked in a line of bulldozers in the dead of the night to carve giant Xs into Meigs Field, a small Chicago...
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Godfather cuts back on Taste of Chicago, makes room for Asian Carp sliders

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July 10, 2012
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While many of the traditional Taste of Chicago vendors have been lost this year as the Godfather, Rahm Emanuel, cut Chicago’s annual festival down to 5 days from 10-there’s one new item on the menu. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will be providing free Asian Carp sliders, made from ground up patties of...
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Occupy Milwaukee “F*ck voting, f*ck parties, I believe in protesting”

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April 6, 2012
Brian G. Pfeifer Workers World Communist

Last week I covered a joint Occupy/union protest in Milwaukee, Wis., against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was there speaking at fundraiser for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. While covering the protest, some behind-the-scenes operatives became so agitated at the presence of a journalist asking questions that they went to extreme lengths to keep the...
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Clueless Chicago School Protesters: You Can’t Fix What’s Not Broken

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February 24, 2012
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By: Kyle Olsen The protesters wandering around in various locations throughout Chicago are little more than warm-bodied rentals who are able to clutch a sign bearing the name of someone – in this case, Chicago Public Schools CEO J.C. Brizard – they’ve never heard of. It’s a classic example of astroturf trying to appear...
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Exclusive Video: Chicago Teachers Union Pawns Protest Rahm

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February 21, 2012
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Monday night Chicago Teachers Union and Occupy Chicago protesters, along with some local residents, showed up in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood to protest converting 18 public schools into charter schools. While none of the schools considered for conversion are in the north-side neighborhood, these community organizers chose this location specifically because it is where...
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Neurosurgeon Confirms Death Panels in Obamacare

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November 23, 2011
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For more than two years now, health insurance experts like myself, health care experts like the physician activists at www.Docs4PatientCare.org, as well as Tea Party activists like former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin have been trying to warn the American public about the 2010 Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare). Chief amongst our...
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Rahm’s Brother Writing Book on their Childhood

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November 18, 2011
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Rahm Emanuel’s brother Zeke plans to reveal-all about the three brothers’ childhood growing up in Chicago in a new book. According to a statement from Zeke’s publisher, “Emanuel casts new details on well-known episodes of his and his brothers’ early lives and reveals never before told stories of their growing up in Chicago.” Hopefully Zeke...
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Radical Activists Preparing for Massive Demonstrations at Chicago NATO & G-8 Summit

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August 29, 2011
Radical Activists Preparing for Massive Demonstrations at Chicago NATO & G-8 Summit

In June we reported on newly elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel using his clout to bring the 28-member NATO meeting and G-8 Summit to town in 2012. Also, in bringing the meetings to Chicago, the city will likely be confronted with the usual large-scale protests, which are most often comprised of violent anarchist revolutionaries. The...
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