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03/04/11

Rahm to Meet with Farrakhan and Anti-Defamation League? No Way, Says ADL Rep

ABC7’s Chuck Goudie reported Wednesday the possibility of a coming together between the Jewish community and the Nation of Islam’s Minister Louis Farrakhan. “The Anti-Defamation League seems open to a meeting with Farrakhan and Chicago mayor-elect Emanuel,” Goudie said. The ADL’s regional director, Lonnie Nasatir, said that’s not so. Nasatir told me today...

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03/03/11

Danny Davis on Rahm, Moseley Braun, and the 2012 Congressional Race

Two-time mayoral candidate and congressman Danny Davis, who criticized black Rahm voters during the campaign, took a more mellow look when he called me yesterday from his office in Washington. “Life is alright with me,” he said...

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02/25/11

Miguel del Valle Says No to Rahm Emanuel

Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle says he declined an invitation from Rahm Emanuel to co-chair the mayor-elect’s transition team. Del Valle told me in a phone interview that he turned the position down because—after his term as City Clerk is over on May 15th—he will work on other projects “organizing around progressive issues in the neighborhoods.”...

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02/25/11

Mayor-Elect Rahm’s High-Profile Brothers

Rich Daley suffered his share of controversial stories about his brothers Bill and John, but they were not nearly as dramatic as what awaits us with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Last night on WIND’s Mike Gallagher Show, the conservative host was in full outrage mode over a story...

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02/22/11

Could the AP Have Found One Voter Not Voting for Rahm Emanuel in the Mayoral Election?

While it’s true that Rahm Emanuel leads his three main rivals in the race today to succeed Richard M. Daley as mayor of Chicago, there are some people in this city who cast a ballot for someone other than Emanuel. Perhaps not, according to an Associated Press story picked up by many media outlets, including Crain’s. The piece, which did not have a byline, includes interviews with six voters—and five are voting for Rahm. (One voter doesn’t say whom he’s voting for.)

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02/21/11

Controversial Pastor and Chico Supporter Herbert Martin—plus Memories of Steve Cokely

At the ABC7 debate Thursday, the candidates for mayor were asked whom they would name to their “kitchen” cabinets—their unofficial group of advisers. Not surprisingly, Gery Chico named two men whose endorsements are crucial: Congressman Luis Gutierrez and the Reverend B. Herbert Martin, Sr., longtime pastor of the Progressive Community Church in Bronzeville. Martin, 68, is best known for being Harold Washington’s close friend and pastor—and for standing with Steve Cokely in 1988 after Cokely, then 37, made inflammatory recorded lectures at Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam headquarters.

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02/18/11

Tea Party for Chico, Donald Trump for Emanuel—What's the Difference?

Rahm Emanuel and his surrogates have been pounding relentlessly on Gery Chico for accepting—sort of—the endorsement last month of the Chicago Tea Patriots, an offshoot of the main Chicago Tea Party group. But late last year, before a new campaign finance reform law kicked in, Donald Trump contributed $50,000 to Rahm’s campaign for mayor. This is the same Donald Trump who appeared in Washington earlier this month before the uber-right group...

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02/18/11

Telling Moments at the ABC7 Final Mayoral Debate

Last night’s ABC7/League of Women Voters mayoral debate, the final one before Tuesday’s primary, featured the same back-and-forth we’ve heard before. As usual, some of the most enlightening moments came post-debate, when the candidates descended into the “press room” for 10 minutes each.

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02/17/11

At Economic Club Dinner, a Mayor Daley Lovefest

On Tuesday night, Rich Daley delivered a 30-minute self-congratulatory and, at times, inspiring speech. It was also relentlessly upbeat, even sunny—“the future [of Chicago] is brighter every day,” he said. But the most intriguing aspect of the evening, for me, was what wasn’t said...

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02/15/11

Not Asked at the WTTW Mayoral Forum: What Would Rahm Do with His Leftover Campaign Cash?

Every political junkie watching Monday’s WTTW Chicago Tonight mayoral forum surely has a question or two that he/she wishes the moderator, Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin, had asked. I wish Marin had asked Rahm Emanuel, “Should you get the 50-percent-plus-one vote next Tuesday, will you direct what’s left of the $11 million or so in fundraising money...

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03/04/11

Rahm to Meet with Farrakhan and Anti-Defamation League? No Way, Says ADL Rep

03/03/11

Danny Davis on Rahm, Moseley Braun, and the 2012 Congressional Race

02/25/11

Miguel del Valle Says No to Rahm Emanuel

02/25/11

Mayor-Elect Rahm’s High-Profile Brothers

02/22/11

Could the AP Have Found One Voter Not Voting for Rahm Emanuel in the Mayoral Election?

02/21/11

Controversial Pastor and Chico Supporter Herbert Martin—plus Memories of Steve Cokely

02/18/11

Tea Party for Chico, Donald Trump for Emanuel—What's the Difference?

02/18/11

Telling Moments at the ABC7 Final Mayoral Debate

02/17/11

At Economic Club Dinner, a Mayor Daley Lovefest

02/15/11

Not Asked at the WTTW Mayoral Forum: What Would Rahm Do with His Leftover Campaign Cash?

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