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It's time to move on
« on: September 07, 2010, 03:04:31 PM »
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/09/daley-says-he-will-not-run-for-re-election.html

"Simply put, it's time," said Daley, 68. "Time for me, it's time for Chicago to move on."

And the big buzz is that Rham Emanuel wants the spot if Daley does not run again.

I can't figure out how to feel about it - glad for the country or sad for the City?

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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 03:21:01 PM »
Sorry, boss - fingers were faster than the brain in where I opened it.

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.

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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 06:55:02 PM »
Chicago is broke. 

All the money from privatizing the Skyway ( $1.83 billion- 99 year lease) and the Parking Meters ($1.157 billion- 75 year lease) is (or will very soon be) gone. 

There is nothing left to steal.
That is really why.

There is a lot of 'grave dancing' going on gun boards about his departure, but I will provide this caution:  The replacement can always be worse.
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2010, 07:46:58 PM »
"Ding  dong the wicked witch is dead....."  ooops.   Malaprop.  Move along, nothing to see here .... >:D
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2010, 08:34:08 PM »

Wow!!  Who has been selected by the machinetm to run Chicago next? 

My favorite quotes from Fox story: “Public officials must understand when it’s time to move on. For me that time is now... it just feels right,” Daley said. Too bad it took him this long to realize that it is time. “I’ve been thinking about this for the last several months, and increasingly in the last several weeks, it just feels right.”    I wonder if McDonald spurred this on?

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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2010, 08:51:47 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on September 07, 2010, 06:55:02 PM
The replacement can always be worse.


Quote from: vaskidmark on September 07, 2010, 03:04:31 PM

And the big buzz is that Rham Emanuel wants the spot if Daley does not run again.


It's worse......  :facepalm:
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2010, 09:09:07 PM »
I bet he is planning a run for Governor or Senate. 
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2010, 09:15:23 PM »
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but I will provide this caution:  The replacement can always be worse.

But is unlikely to be as durable.  Like unto Jane Byrne and Herod Washington, say.

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Rham Emanuel wants the spot

And I would think "what fool would conceivably want him?".  But, that's what I though when Blago ran for Gov.  And Senator Pretty Boy ran for Pres.
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2010, 04:20:20 AM »
Quote from: red headed stranger on September 07, 2010, 09:09:07 PM
I bet he is planning a run for Governor or Senate. 

Nope, he's just smart enough to realize that he's too stoopid for those jobs.  Plus he would get 0 votes from the Collar counties and downstate.   There just aren't enough votes to be stolen, made, errr had in Chicago alone.  He wouldn't even fare very well in Suburban Cook County.

Best to retire and watch it all crumble for your successor.  Secures your legacy, as in "We didn't have all these problems when Daley was Mayor."  ;/ ;/ ;/

 
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2010, 04:21:52 AM »
There's always books and the lecture and talk show circuits.
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2010, 04:23:09 AM »
hasn't he stolen enough to retire?
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Re: It's time to move on
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2010, 04:00:23 PM »
I suspect Chicago v. MacDonald has him spooked. [tinfoil]
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