Finally someone calling out Rahm for the duplicitous little bastard that he is.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy on Wednesday accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel of leading a “strategic gentrification plan” aimed at forcing African-Americans and other minorities out of Chicago to make the city “whiter” and wealthier.

Kennedy said Emanuel’s predecessor, Richard M. Daley, filed “undervaluation complaints” about large commercial properties “until the assessor walked a straight line.” In 2003, the city Law Department said it had successfully fought $27 million in reductions that had been granted to assessments of business property.

“That’s not happening anymore. And as a result, we’re underfunding our schools and we’re underfunding our Police Department, and the result is violence,” Kennedy said.

Following the Tribune’s reports that raised questions about the assessment system, Emanuel was asked last month if he would start sending city attorneys to challenge assessment appeals filed on behalf of major commercial property owners, some of which are filed by law firms owned by House Speaker Michael Madigan and Ald. Ed Burke.

“I’m not going to speak to that at this point,” said Emanuel, dodging the question. “I appreciate that."

“This is involuntary. That we’re cutting off funding for schools, cutting off funding for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities. What choice do people have but to move, to leave?” Kennedy added. “And I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city. The city is becoming smaller and as it becomes smaller, it’s become whiter.”

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Yes, a guy, who lives in Kenilworth and off his family wealth and name, calling out Rahm is awesome.

for shame on a Seacrest supporting a Daley

The enemy of my enemy is my friend
The friend of my enemy is my enemy

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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The truth and the Daley's are total strangers.

100K less African Americans in the city today than there was just 7 years ago. I'm sure that hasn't caused too much hand wringing in Sauganash though.

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I'm sure you are doing your part to integrate your community.

Black flight started under Daley with the closing, but no replacement of housing. That is the same Daley that Kennedy explicitly praises.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Just because some black folks realized suburban living is better doesn't mean there is something untoward going on.

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