Mike Klonsky's Blog: After Rahm's legacy tour, he heads for Wall Street

Mike Klonsky's Blog: After Rahm's legacy tour, he heads for Wall Street

After Rahm's legacy tour, he heads for Wall Street

The elite get all the breaks and are shown all the shortcuts. In the meantime, ordinary people are forced to pay full freight. -- Rahm Emanuel in The Atlantic

Once there was a wicked witch in the lovely land of Oz And a wickeder, wickeder, wickeder witch there never, never was He filled the folks in Chicago land with terror and with dread 'Till one fine day from Washington way a cyclone caught a house That brought the wicked, wicked witch his doom As he was flying on his broom For the house fell on his head and the people pronounced him dead And thru the town the joyous news was spread Ding-dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead Wake up, you sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up, the wicked witch is dead! He's gone where the goblins go below, below, below, yo ho Let's open up and sing, and ring the bells out Ding-dong! the merry-o sing it high, sing it low Let them know the wicked witch is dead Ding-dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead Wake up, you sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up, the wicked witch is dead!He's gone where the goblins go below, below, below, yo ho Let's open up and sing, and ring the bells out Ding-dong! the merry-o sing it high, sing it low Let them know the wicked witch is dead

Rahm’s announcement of his new Wall Street gig comes on the heels of his phony legacy tour where he tried, with lots of media help, to rebrand his term in Chicago as a “progressive” era of good governance. It included this piece of centrist populism in the Atlantic where Rahm fakes a hit on "American elites" but actually goes after the growing "socialist" insurgency within the Democratic Party.As many of us expected it would, the story ends with Mayor 1% laughing and flashing his middle finger at all of us as he boards his limo to the Wall Street investment firm Centerview Partners LLC, whose leaders are mainly Rahm cronies and campaign donors. They include Centerview founder Blair Effron, who contributed $61,500 to the former mayor’s campaign fund, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who has donated more than $70,000 to Emanuel’s campaign, and Robert Pruzan, another Centerview founder and Rahm pal for the past 20 years.

This so-called "boutique" investment firm Centerview (centrist CONTINUE READING: Mike Klonsky's Blog: After Rahm's legacy tour, he heads for Wall Street