I took a hiatus from writing last week; I was just too busy
to write and was harboring a few doubts about the whole point of the
exercise. But I was at a party last
Saturday night and talked to several people whom I hadn’t seen in a while who
told me how much they enjoyed my posts and asked me to assure them that I
wouldn’t quit. No coincidences, as they
say, but I digress.
At any rate, I found some time this week to write a few
posts. Almost all my musings this week
were on Chicago politics; I did that because it seems like my writing on the
politics of my hometown for Rant
Lifestyle, a site about which I still have my misgivings, seems to sell my
books…if an uptick in sales since writing for Rant is any evidence.
THE 2015 CHICAGO
MAYOR’S RACE : TONI, TONI, PLEASE BACK DOWN, YOU’LL NEVER
BEAT RAHM IN THIS TOWN
Some of Toni Preckwinkle’s fans are delusional, but I hope
she isn’t. And I think I came up with a
new expression for the political situation in Chicago : Pax
Rahmana. Pretty good, eh?
TAKE IT TO THE BANK: CHICAGO
MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL WILL GET HIS TAX
INCREASE…AND MAYBE HIS CASINO
Those who say that this whole pension bill is a stalking
horse for a casino may be partially right, but property taxes are going up in Chicago
anyway.
JEB BUSH IN 2016:
MOTHER KNOWS BEST
Yes, I know the Wall
Street Journal editorial page has gone into the tank for this guy, but the
GOP can’t be that suicidal. Or can it?
JESSE JACKSON JR. GOES TO A NICER JAIL: “THAT’S (NOT) THE SOUND OF THE MEN WORKING ON
THE…CHAIN GANG…”
Once the glare of publicity faded, Triple J got to go to the
federal housing he wanted all along. So
it goes. But couldn’t the Jackson
family have come up with a story that wasn’t quite so insulting to our
intelligence?
Have a great weekend, everybody. Blessed Holy Week and Passover.
See my two books, The Chairman, A Novel of
Big City Politics and The Chairman’s Challenge,
A Continuing Novel of Big City Politics, for further illumination on
how things work in Chicago and Illinois politics.
