People Hate Rahm Emanuel So Much It Might Cost Hillary Clinton Illinois

[Miles Archer]

People Hate Rahm Emanuel So Much It Might Cost Hillary Clinton Illinois

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-illinois-primary-rahm-emanuel_us_56e7177ae4b0b25c9182e2bb

The race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has tightened in Illinois' Democratic primary as Sanders' campaign works relentlessly to tie Clinton to Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's deeply unpopular mayor.

The wealth of votes in the Chicago metropolitan area could be key to victory in the state's Tuesday primary. Early voting has already begun, and turnout is reportedly high in the city and surrounding Cook County.

Over the last few years, Emanuel's handling of multiple shootings by city police and public school closures has raised local ire. A Chicago Tribune poll in January found that just 27 percent of voters approve of his job performance and that 4 in 10 Chicagoans want him to resign. He's even more unpopular among Latino and black voters in the city.

The ties between the mayor and Clinton are long-standing. Emanuel, who endorsed Clinton before she had even announced her 2016 presidential bid, worked as a high-profile adviser to then-President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. He served as President Barack Obama's chief of staff while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.

[dogman]

1. Every time we try third-way, the banks win and the people lose.

People are beginning to see that.

[merrily]

2. Rahm didn't even cost Rahm Chicago. Yes, I know things got much worse since then, but

she is distancing herself from him. I would not pin my hopes on Rahm, one way or the other.

If a Boston politician with whom Sanders had once been associated went off the rails, I would still have voted for Sanders in the primary.

[DURHAM D]

3. This is funny. They don't like each other.

Plus, she got him removed from the Clinton WH.

Has she even acknowledged him during this primary?

[Kalidurga]

4. You mean like putting him at the top of her list of mayors that support her...

not that I know of.

[JeffHead]

6. He sure as hell acknowledged her long before it was "cool"

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rahm-emanuel-endorses-hillary-2016#48071

[w4rma]

7. "Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman regularly speaks with the mayor."

A spokesman told the outlet "their respective schedules [won't] make it possible" to meet, adding, "the mayor's support for President Clinton and Secretary Clinton is well known.”

Bloomberg noted that while Clinton won't be meeting with Emanuel, Bill Clinton spent time with him last week while visiting Chicago, and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman regularly speaks with the mayor.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/272877-clinton-wont-meet-rahm-during-chicago-visit

[Hydra]

5. This will have far ranging effects if it works

I've heard Rahm has ties all over. If he starts dragging all of them down with him...

[panader0]

8. Was Rahm ever a good guy? Why did he become so big to begin with?

Where was his clout? Why did Obama pick him? How did he become mayor of Chicago?

[Aerows]

9. His specialty

is slinging insults.

He's like the twin of that guy from Amy's Baking Company.

[panader0]

10. I never liked the guy--I never knew much about him before he joined the Obama crew.

I don't get why he's a player.

[Punkingal]

11. Another specialty was recruiting Republicans to run as Democrats.

As long as they had money of their own to spend it didn't matter if they were Republican.

[WillyT]

12. Huge K & R !!!