“Hillary Clinton proudly lists Mayor Rahm Emanuel as one of her leading mayoral endorsers,” Mr. Sanders told reporters during a news conference while campaigning in Chicago. “Well, let me be clear as I can be: Based on his disastrous record as mayor of the city of Chicago, I do not want Mayor Emanuel’s endorsement if I win the Democratic nomination.”
Mr. Emanuel’s ties to the Clinton family go as far back as Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, when he served as his finance director. He went on to serve as political director and senior adviser to Bill Clinton until leaving the White House in 1998. Hillary Clinton has defended Mr. Emanuel among the growing calls for his resignation. “He loves Chicago and I’m confident that he’s going to do everything he can to get to the bottom of these issues and take whatever measures are necessary to remedy them,” she told reporters in Iowa this past December. As Mr. Clinton’s former finance director, Mr. Emanuel held fundraisers for Ms. Clinton as early as 2014.
From: Why America’s Worst Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Loves Hillary Clinton | Observer
Wow. This linkage is like a personal gift to me, Will. A perfect picture of the two candidates’ politics wrapped in a Rahm-bow. Thanks!Report
Chicago has one of the largest and best organized activist communities in the U.S., and they are going all out against Anita and Rahm. Hopefully their time left in power there is short.Report
Anita and Rahm should both be in jail. But I guess corruption, obstructing justice, etc., isn’t illegal when the
PresidentMayor and chief prosecutor do it.ReportWell said Still.Report
And when it’s a longstanding tradition. Rahm does it far too often, but previous mayors did it Daley.Report
For sure. Chicago is due for a change, and I have hope that Chicagoans are going to start demanding more of their elected officials. At the very least, there seems to be a real “We’re not going to take it anymore” movement developing there.Report