Rahm Emanuel
In his less than a year in office, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has done a lot to move himself out of the shadow of his predecessor, Richard M. Daley. Emanuel’s administration is much more concerned with wooing TV and print media than his predecessor. Daley was notoriously gruff when it came to dealing with reporters. Emanuel’s people are also impressively tech savvy, utilizing the web to influence public opinion though services like Facebook and Twitter. Daley might not even know what Twitter is, let alone how to use it.
This need to break away from the Daley era has even prompted Emanuel to openly condemn the work of Daley’s office. Emanuel, in the run-up for the announcement of his city-mending Chicago Infrastructure Trust, said Chicago has just suffered through a “lost decade.” He did try to soften the blow by also mentioning he did not want to try to figure out exactly “why or how” this state of affairs came to pass. It is fairly plain, though, that he wishes to impugn the cronyism of the Daley administration.
There is one thing the Daley and Emanuel eras will have in common, though. Both administrations are dead set on denying the law-abiding citizens of Illinois the right to bear arms.
Any supporter of the second amendment most likely remembers that great day in June of 2010 when The Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s ban on hand gun ownership. That plainly unconstitutional law was considered by Daley to be one of his greatest triumphs. When it was struck down he ranted and raved about the violent consequences that would come from letting more hand guns out on the street, yet there has been no rise in gun-related violence in Chicago. Actually, violence has gone down since the ban was lifted.
Despite these numbers, the Emanuel administration still thinks legal guns are the problem. The Mayor has made it his personal mission to push through new gun laws, and not just for Chicago. Emanuel wants all of Illinois to go the way of the Windy City.
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they are restricting and violating the movement of law-abiding people with excessive taxations and unconstitutional ordinances to compensate for lack of their ability to generate revenue…..
Hey Joe,
Do you see yourself writing about The Outfit again in the near future? I know I saw a post from you a while back saying you were going to write more about Chicago politics but even those have been few and far between and like this one…not very thought interesting. I still have your site book marked on all of my mobile devices and laptop and check daily just hoping for a new Outfit article. Quite honestly, that’s all I’m interested in on this site. I can’t tell you enough how much I once loved this site and all of the commentators which you’ve seemed to also have lost.
So, will you be writing Outfit articles? If so, when? Or, should I just scrap this site from my daily checklist?
If you decide to join the other THREE people who are no longer allowed to comment here, it is fine by me.
Dear Joe,
Who, if you do not mind me asking, are the three that were banned? I thought it was just one.
The Don, Black Angelo and SQE.
Dear Barb,
Those other 3 commenters include SQE (your accuracy is off); SQE did not ‘contribute too much information about the Outfit’. The Don and Angelo lacked credibility by incorrectly reporting that Marco is ‘made’ (not to mention the nonsense that Joe Lombardi is ‘made’ lol).
None of my sources deny that Marco is an arch criminal, but he is not ‘made’. It really does not matter because Marco basically (falsely) established that he was ‘made’ (as far as the government is concerned) when he plead guilty.
Tosto did not stop harassing me. Every day that his slanderous videos remain intact for his small number of viewers to review, I feel harassed.
Those ‘guys’ did not leave (Don and Angelo), I banned them for reasons that include the fact that their obsession with a delusion that Marco is ‘made’ was too much bunk for me to stomach. I banned SQE because her sick compulsion with attractive murder victims is pathetic (presuming Anthony is deceased).
Thank you for your readership and blog participation.
85% (or more) of what BA or the Don had to say could have been extracted from the many books written about the Chicago Outfit. Why would anyone be banned for giving up too much information??
Great points!
Joe
Have you ever committed a crime? Not that I am asking you to admit to anything specific but have you ever been involved in any sort of nefarious activity either directly or indirectly related to the period of time which you were an outfit groupie. Just curious is all.
Dear Gus,
I wish to start by thanking you for your interest in my good and hard work here at ANP. I appreciate your interest. However, I am going to respectfully decline to answer your question. I think that whether my answer is yes or no, it could cause additional questions (not necessarily from you) that I would rather not spend time discussing for multiple reasons. Again, thank you for your interest. Please keep supporting ANP by spending time here.