{"id":175837,"date":"2020-11-15T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/15\/oh-god-no\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T00:35:00","slug":"oh-god-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/15\/oh-god-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh God No"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know who, except for Rahm Emanuel, would even consider giving the disgraced ex-mayor of Chicago a position in the Biden Cabinet<\/a>, but it appears that he is under consideration:<\/p>\n

When former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s name quickly surfaced as a possible transportation secretary in a Joe Biden administration, it came as little surprise to those in the political-media ecosystem.
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If the longtime Beltway insider didn\u2019t float his own name for a Cabinet spot, he has plenty of friends up to the task. Soon to turn 61 and out of power since abruptly pulling the plug on a bid for a third mayoral term 26 months ago, the TV pundit, investment banker and informal Biden adviser could be looking for a fourth act on the national stage in his third White House.
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But it was a trial balloon those on the other side of the centrist-leftist Democratic divide quickly sought to pierce.
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Leading the charge was progressive U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. After telling The New York Times<\/a> that Emanuel would be \u201ca pretty divisive pick\u201d and signal \u201ca hostile approach to the grassroots and the progressive wing of the party,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez responded to a tweet on the subject by WTTW\u2019s Heather Cherone<\/a> with this: \u201cWe must govern with integrity and accountability. Laquan McDonald\u2019s life mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His policy chops and experience in the White House, in Congress and working on transit projects as mayor make him a strong choice to join presumptive President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s team. But Emanuel is lambasted by some Democrats for his reputation as a pro-Wall Street, anti-teachers union centrist, and especially for his handling of the 17-year-old Black teen\u2019s shooting death by a white police officer who went to prison for it.
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His second term was dogged by allegations he sought to keep the now-infamous police dashcam video of the incident from coming out until after he won reelection in 2015.
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The city Law Department quickly reached a $5 million settlement<\/a> in April 2015 with the McDonald family in their lawsuit about the shooting, shortly after Emanuel defeated Jes\u00fas \u201cChuy\u201d Garc\u00eda in a mayoral runoff election. The Emanuel administration fought against releasing the video until a Cook County judge ordered it<\/a> in November 2015.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People will refer to his success as DCCC chair during the 2006 election, but many, if not most of the seats that were picked up resulted from Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy, and not his DCCC supported candidates who underperformed.<\/p>\n

This man is a toxic and corrupt self-promoter.  Do not allow him anywhere near the halls of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know who, except for Rahm Emanuel, would even consider giving the disgraced ex-mayor of Chicago a position in the Biden Cabinet, but it appears that he is under consideration: When former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s name quickly surfaced as a possible transportation secretary in a Joe Biden administration, it came as little surprise …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,578,594,374,454],"class_list":["post-175837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-incompetence","tag-joe-biden","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}