By Steve Rhodes
Can politics by subtraction win? Plus: We Didn’t Start The Fire: The Most Emblematic Chicago News Story Of The Year. And: Book Plug: The Defender.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
:59: Scott Lucas and the Married Men at the Hideout last Saturday night.
* The Week In Chicago Rock.
* The Weekend In Chicago Rock.
5:22: Born of Osiris at Durty Nellie’s in Palatine last Saturday night.
9:07: Los Lobos at City Winery last Friday night.
10:20: Politics By Subtraction.
* Ethan Michaeli.
* We The People Media | Residents’ Journal.
* Patricia Van Pelt Watkins.
* Incompetent?
* “Desk jobs.”
* Rahm is doing everybody’s jobs.
* CHA is sitting on at least $400 million.
* Terry Peterson’s kinky cash.
* “Rahm misjudged the public on this,” says Bill Daley. “What he didn’t seem to grasp was that the only good, middle-class jobs left for blacks in most of the neighborhoods are teaching positions in the schools. The closures cut deeply into whole communities. He could have shown greater empathy.”
* Still a hack, hardly a wonk.
* The bullying fundraiser who always takes more credit than he deserves.
* Fair Chicago.
* Preckwinkle: Did Obama pressure her out of the race?
* Rahm Drops Challenge To Willie Wilson’s Petitions.
* Fioretti: The Reader’s guy?
* Chuy Who?
* The black vote’s various segments.
* The 95th Street Station: Where Rahm Shakes Black Hands.
$240 Million Rehab.
Shaking hands.
Not shaking hands.
Hearing of lots of folks who refuse to shake Rahm’s hand. Needs to become city-wide campaign. NO THANKS, NO SHAKE pic.twitter.com/nyCZF6jFIN
— The Truth about Rahm (@RahmTruthTeam) December 20, 2014
* Latinos for Rahm.
Who are the ‘Latinos for Rahm’? http://t.co/qtccjBcVnr 20141218,0,5062440.column Carefully staged. No surprise.
— Karen Lewis (@KarenLewisCTU) December 21, 2014
* The runoff’s the thing.
1:05:00: We Didn’t Start The Fire: The Most Emblematic Chicago News Story Of 2014.
1:10:00: Book Plug: The Defender.
1:13:54: Davy Knowles at Martyrs last Thursday night.
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #31: Sweet Action! A Special Report On Sports Gambling.
STOPPAGE TIME: 16:40.
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Posted on December 28, 2014