A top GOP strategist predicted that Rahm Emanuel would become a “massive liability” for Hillary Clinton
As an adviser to President Bill Clinton, Emanuel played a central role in the passage of the 1994 crime bill (along with then-Sen. Joe Biden), which critics now blame for a system of mass incarceration that disproportionately affects minorities. Obama has made criminal justice reform a top priority of his last year in office, and on Thursday morning, he invited members of Congress to the White House to discuss bipartisan sentencing reform measures on the Hill.
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Rahm's mother is Martha Smulevitz, who married the Ben the Israeli in August 1955. Ben told me that they met in Chicago. I asked if she was related to the Smulevitz family that was living in Palestine in the 1930s. He said no. There are Smulevitz's and Shmuelevitz's all throughout the Zionist invasion of Palestine: one was hanged by the Brits and another was the chief of staff for Menachem Begin.
When I first moved here in 2006 it was a beautiful city with that "chicago charm" you talk about.
Now it's gone to absolute shit.
I don't even go into the city anymore.
I almost got stabbed on the miracle mile because I was looking in a shop window and my eyes happened to lock with a black guy who took it as "disrespect"
Chicago needs help
Toni Preckwinkle
SUPPOSEDLY THIS LADY IS THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN CHICAGO.
HAVE WE RESEARCHED HER?
Preckwinkle's views on Obama were prominently featured in a July 2008 New Yorker cover story on Barack Obama's political origins.[67][68][69] The article begins by recounting a 1995 meeting between Preckwinkle and Obama in which he discussed a possible run for the Illinois Senate seat then held by Alice Palmer.[69] According to the New Yorker's account, Preckwinkle "soon became an Obama loyalist, and she stuck with him in a State Senate campaign that strained or ruptured many friendships but was ultimately successful."[68][69] In 1995, she successfully challenged the signatures of Obama's opponents in the Democratic Primary for the Illinois Senate, allowing Obama to run unopposed.[70]
Preckwinkle supported Barack Obama early in his political career, endorsing him in his campaigns for Illinois Senate in 1995–6,[71] U.S. House in 1999–2000,[72] and U.S. Senate in 2003–4.[73] She was among those who encouraged Barack Obama to make his first run for the United States Congress in 2000,[74] and she was an early supporter when he ran in 2004.[75] When Obama later became a United States Senator following the 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois, Preckwinkle had a large say in his Illinois State Senate replacement.[76] She became Obama's Alderman when he moved from Hyde Park to South Kenwood in June 2005.[77]
According to the New Yorker article, Preckwinkle had since become "disenchanted" with Obama. The article’s author suggested that Preckwinkle's "grievances" against Obama were motivated by Preckwinkle's perception that Obama was disloyal.[78] Notwithstanding any such concerns, Preckwinkle was an Obama delegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
The Cook County Democrats’ No. 2 chieftain—a “tweedy independent with sensible shoes,” as the Tribune’s John Kass once described her—more powerful than Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel? Right now, absolutely.
Long known as a workhorse and policy wonk who appeals to lakefront liberal types, Preckwinkle recently unleashed her Machiavellian side. While much of Rahm’s credibility and moral authority dribbled away over the past year, she used her sharp elbows to force her way into every facet of county government and beyond. She successfully pushed the mayor to install Kurt Summers (No. 44), her former chief of staff, as city treasurer, and now she has State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, once thought immovable from her perch, in her sights. The party’s shotgun endorsement of Kim Foxx, another one of Preckwinkle’s former top aides, for state’s attorney? Engineered by Preckwinkle, of course. If Foxx wins the primary on March 15, it will be impossible to deny that Preckwinkle is the biggest political force in town.
thanks for looking out anon