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Rahm Emanuel pushes to end investments in gun manufacturers
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago who acted as White House chief of staff until 2010, is hoping to initiate a nationwide campaign of disinvestment from companies that make and sell military-style assault rifles along the lines of the 1980s disinvestment from apartheid South Africa. Emanuel has instructed the fund…
Music Fridays: Take A Load Off Edition
It’s been a terrible week, news-wise. The Libya situation is bad enough, but having Romney gleefully exploit it to push racist buttons with his base was even more terrible. Not because I think it hurts Obama—probably the opposite—but because that’s how ugly and low modern conservatism really is. There’s the…
Parody: Rahm Emanuel explains what he’d really like to do to Chick-Fil-A
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel touched off a firestorm last week when he announced his support for a local alderman’s attempt to prevent a Chick-Fil-A franchise from opening in his upscale neighborhood. “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values,” Emanuel said in a statement, referring to the company’s opposition to same-sex marriage.…
Rahm Emanuel: If Romney ‘whining’ about Bain, how will he handle China?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) on Sunday advised presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to “stop whining” about suggestions that he broke the law or lied to voters by saying he had “retired” from Bain Capital, even though Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents show that he was in charge of…
Rahm Emanuel: Citizens United is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has launched a scathing attack on Citizens United, the ruling that opened the floodgates to unlimited political spending by a handful of billionaire donors, calling it one of the “worst decisions of any supreme court in American history”. The mayor of Chicago has added…
Rahm Emanuel vows to fight for marriage equality
Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has thrown his support behind an Illinois bill that would grant same sex couples all the marriage rights now exclusively available to heterosexual couples. “I’ll push for it because it is consistent with the values base, and the practical…
Michelle Obama tired of being portrayed as an ‘angry black woman’
First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday denied accusations that she had not gotten along with her husband’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor’s new book “The Obamas” charges that the first lady believed the president’s advisers were “insular, disorganized” and “not careful planners.” “Rahm…
Chicago traders taunt ‘Occupy Chicago’ protesters with ‘We are Wall Street’ leaflets
Someone in the Chicago Board of Trade dropped leaflets on top of “Occupy Chicago” protesters Wednesday afternoon as they rallied alongside unions in the city’s financial district. “We are Wall Street,” the leaflet said. “It is our job to make money.” “Go ahead and continue to take us down, but…
‘Occupy Chicago’ protesters confront Rahm’s chief of staff
Volunteers from National Nurses United and “Occupy Chicago” demonstrators marched to City Hall on Tuesday to protest their arrest late Saturday night in Grant Park. About 130 people were arrested after they set up tents in protest against the consolidation of economic power and refused to leave the public park…
Rahm Emanuel mandates Chicago city employees use public transit
A new policy introduced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week says public transportation is “the preferred method of travel” for Chicago city employees. Under the new rules, employees who do not take public transportation must give an explanation on reimbursement forms. The maximum mileage per day has been capped at…
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