No Paris trip for Rahm. Staying home to close more schools.
CHICAGO — It was strange to watch Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s hands tremble behind the podium as he talked to reporters about his new task force aimed at improving accountability in a police department that a lot of Chicagoans don’t trust. -- Mark Konkol at DNAInfo
While Rahm trembles, all the national news shows this a.m. began with the story of his possible departure. But the Little Emperor tells Natasha Koreki at Politico,he's staying, like a good captain, ready to go down with the ship come election time. I'm wondering what the other ship officers, like his big-money campaign patrons, think about those prospects? They've invested a lot in Rahm and stand to lose a lot when the ship sinks.
Yesterday's New York Times editorial reads:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel demonstrated a willful ignorance... All along, Mr. Emanuel’s response, either by design or because of negligence, was to do as little as possible — until the furor caused by the release of the video forced his hand. The residents of Chicago will have to decide whether that counts as taking responsibility.
They're right. We will.
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| Rahm tells Korecki, "I'm staying." We'll see. |
One thing I know for sure.Rahm isn't leaving for Paris as planned or anytime soon. If he's read his history, he knows that coups d'etat happen happen most when the emperor is out of town. Beware the Ides of December.
Another thing I know is that Rahm's newly-formed, so-called, Task Force on Police Accountability, is a farce and those who accepted appointments to it have now made themselves complicit in the cover-up the mayor Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: No Paris trip for Rahm. Staying home to close more schools.: