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Monday, October 22, 2012

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. It’s working? What’s working? « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. It’s working? What’s working? « Fred Klonsky:


Life in Rahm’s Chicago. It’s working? What’s working?

Rahm and top cop Garry McCarthy.
On Thursday, Chicago’s sad excuse for a mayor held another one of his press conferences to announce his crime fighting strategy was working.
Friday through Sunday seven people were murdered and 21 were shot.
Typical of what Rahm calls working.

Two men were killed and a woman was injured after they were shot Sunday evening in the Burnside neighborhood, police said.

The trio were part of a bloody weekend in which seven men were killed and at least 21 people were wounded in shootings in the city since Friday afternoon.
The bloody weekend followed a three-part broadcast on national television highlighting Chicago’s increasing violence resulting from Emanuel’s police, schools and social service management disasters.
Embarrassing for The Mayor. Tragic for the victims.
When Rahm ran for mayor a little over a year ago, he managed to raise $11 million in campaign funds to promote