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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Apr 21, 2009 06:42pm |
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| News Date | Monday, April 20, 2009 08:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I was decked up in the Wolftrap Motel in Vienna, VA for several days covering the presidential election in early November when I learned, with great horror, that Rahmbo Emanuel got Obama's nod as chief of staff.
This was the first of several millionaires to be anointed to the president's team: Rahm's fortunes made largely in the same real estate and banking interests that are responsible for destroying the country.
I hadn’t been permanently back in the district in some time, but it was my boyhood mandate: remembering the glory days of Rostenkowski sent a certain chill down my spine, as I sat there contemplating how the Chicago machine was going to fill the seat. With the Blago circus clearly on its way and Mayor Daley concurrently teetering on edge, maintaining power only to ice his legacy with the 2016 Olympic games, I thought that the machine might sit this one out.
In the end, the ward bosses failed to unite behind one goon, though State Rep John Fritchey, a real thug-looking persona in charge of everything from Bucktown to the lakefront, came the closest. He was able to inspire the bulk of his fellow goons in the party to work the polls for him on Primary Day, and he effectively littered the district with his signs.
I entered the race as a long-shot, hoping to inject fiery populist rhetoric into the forums. I initially filed as a Democrat, but was ultimately recruited by the Greens. For me, the party affiliation is a moot point in America: you have two parties of Wall Street and a smattering of minority parties that have no real political power. I don’t get behind any too enthusiastically, though “ecological sustainability” and “making war obsolete” are two worthy endeavors. |
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