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I may be the only one who makes under a million bucks who had dinner with Rahm. « Fred Klonsky

I may be the only one who makes under a million bucks who had dinner with Rahm. « Fred Klonsky:


I may be the only one who makes under a million bucks who had dinner with Rahm.

Not long ago I posted a story about my dinner with Rahm.
This wasn’t a planned dinner. It was an accident. Anne and I were having dinner at our neighborhood fine dining establishment, the wonderful Lula, and up drove a big black SUV and out came Rahm with some friends who plopped themselves down at the table next to ours.
According to the latest column in the Chicago Reader by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke, this may have been the closest that Rahm got with a bunch of regular working stiffs in a long while.
Ben and Mick filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a list of those who The Mayor meets with.
It ain’t folks like me.

Last September, after submitting a FOIA request and badgering mayoral aides for