Godfather Fails in Chicago: Rahm Emanuel Headed to Runoff
Despite Obama Backing
by Matthew Boyle 24 Feb 2015Washington, DC
Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor and President Barack
Obama’s chief of staff, failed to win re-election on Tuesday in the Democratic
primary—and will head to a runoff—a major embarrassment and defeat for the
cutthroat Democrat and for Obama himself.
“Despite a multi-million-dollar ad campaign and a
last-minute boost from President Barack Obama, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fell short of an outright win in his reelection
bid Tuesday, emerging ahead of a five-candidate field but without the majority
support he needed to avoid an April 7 runoff against Cook County Commissioner Jesus
‘Chuy’ Garcia,” Politico wrote in a breaking news alert late Tuesday night.
“The Associated Press projected that Emanuel, Obama’s former White House chief
of staff, will not win a majority of the vote. He currently leads Garcia, 45
percent to 34 percent, with 84 percent of precincts reporting.”
Garcia forcing this race into a runoff is a massive
indictment of the president’s standing in the biggest city of the state he
represented in the U.S. Senate. It is also the latest breakdown of the Chicago
political machine, coming after Republican Bruce Rauner won
the governor’s race in Illinois this past fall.
“This win proves that a movement of people like you can beat
a political machine backed by billion-dollar corporations. On to April 7th,”
Garcia, the Democrat who forced Emanuel into the runoff, tweeted
on Tuesday night.
It remains to be seen what will happen in the runoff, but
Emanuel could be in serious trouble if each of the other candidates in the race
throws their weight to Garcia. “Trailing Garcia is businessman Willie Wilson in
third with 10 percent, Alderman Robert Fioretti in fourth with 7 percent and
William ‘Dock’ Walls was in last with 3 percent,” the Chicago affiliate of CBS News reported.
That’s a total of 20 percent of all the rest of the vote,
which–if it all went to Garcia–would mean the president’s former chief of staff
would lose the election 54 percent to 45 percent.
CBS News
William
M. Daley is a contributor for the CBS
News, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Mayor Richard M.
Daley’s brother, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Note: Richard M. Daley
is William M. Daley’s brother, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
, was the Chicago (IL) mayor, Michelle Obama was his staffer, and Valerie B. Jarrett was his deputy chief
of staff.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
and was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Michelle
Obama was Mayor Richard M. Daley’s
staffer, a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP,
and is a friend of Valerie B. Jarrett.
Mark
A. Angelson was a partner at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the deputy mayor for Chicago
(IL).
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is the president of the Barack
Obama administration.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, Michelle Obama’s
friend, and was Mayor Richard M. Daley’s
deputy chief of staff.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Bruce
V. Rauner is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and the Illinois
state government governor.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and Henry Crown’s son.
Henry
Crown was Lester Crown & John J. Crown’s father.
John
J. Crown is Henry Crown’s son,
and was the Cook County (IL) Court
judge.
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