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Rahm election scandal
Taxpayers $172 Million
Will Rahm Emanuel Testify About his Rigged Congressional Election?
Chicago’s job and election rigging schemes have cost taxpayers at least $172 and more.The city spent the bulk of the $172 million on personnel contracts that were intended to correct the city’s hiring abuses, including the personnel practices that benefited Emanuel’s career.
The Daley administration purposely violated a Federal Court Order when it awarded job applicants and city employees with jobs, promotions, and overtime pay to campaign for Daley favored candidates, such as Rahm Emanuel. About 150 to 250 city workers unlawfully campaigned for Emanual . The money to pay for Emanuel’s campaign workers came from Chicago taxpayers, not Emanual’s campaign contributor. Dam outrageous!
2005 Judge Wayne Andersen held Mayor Daley and the city in Civil Contempt for Violations of Court Orders . Judge Andersen also assigned a federal court monitor to ensure Mayor Daley and the city complied with the Orders of the Court. The Federal Court monitor protects city job applicants and employees’ civil rights. The Federal Court monitor also guards the civil rights of candidates, political organizations, and voters. This assignment of the Court monitor was due in part to politicians like Emanuel who sought unlawful advantages over their political competition.
Since 2005 Judge Andersen has twice denied Mayor Daley’s requests to remove the Monitor. In , 2009 when Mayor Daley was gearing up for reelection, the mayor announced the city had cleaned up its act and was preparing to return to Federal Court for a third time to ask Judge Andersen to remove the Monitor.
When Jay Stone learned of Mayor Daley’s plans to return to Federal Court, Jay requested that Judge Andersen call Mayor Daley and Aldermen Tom Allen, George Cardenas, and Eugene Schulter to court to explain their spurious remarks they made about him and Shakman Monitor Noelle Brennan. Furthermore, Jay informed Judge Anderson that Mayor Daley and the aldermen’s inflammatory comments showed that they don’t understand the original Court Order, and that their ignorance left them unable to follow the Orders of the Court. Give me a break ! Since Jay suggested to Judge Andersen that he compel Mayor Daley and the aldermen to testify in his Court, Mayor Daley has not followed through on his 2009 promise to ask Judge Anderson to remove the Federal Court monitor.
Judge Andersen retired.
Emanuel Named in Federal Court Corruption Trial
During Donald Tomczak’s June, 2006 Federal Court testimony, Tomczak described the Daley administration’s job and election rigging schemes. Tomczak used his Water Department office to coordinate numerous campaigns, including that of Rahm Emanuel’s bid for Congress. Tomczak managed city workers whose livelihood depended more on their campaign performance than it did on their job performance.
Tomczak received orders to campaign for specific candidates from Intergovernmental Affairs commissioners Victor Reyes and John Doerrer. Once the elections were over, Tomczak gave the Interl Affairs commissioners his list of city workers who campaigned for the Daley backed candidates. Employees at the Intergovernmental Affairs office rewarded the people on Tomczak’s campaign worker list with jobs, promotions, and other perks
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