What Chicago is talking about this week:
Electioneering season is in full swing (again)! Rumor has it that Bristol Palin is benefiting from a coordinated Tea Party campaign on DWTS!
Actually, that's one reality show I'm not watching ... and, to be as honest as a glad-handing fast-talking politician, that's also not today's topic. Instead - just less than a fortnight from the overwhelming secret-money-funded hate-ad-prevalent national brouhaha, Chicago has enlivened what would have been a quieter aldermanic election with a race for mayor of the nation's third largest city (and my hometown now for nearly 10 years)! The week ahead is filing week, so it's time to "put up or shut up" and to "put your 4 million dollars where your mouth is" (that's the projected cost of playing the [insert candidate name here] for Chicago mayor game).
So, if your glass is half empty, that's 100 days to find special interest funding, to fight your way into Tammany Hall-ish back rooms and to document that you've been a Chicago resident for the last year (an anti-carpetbagger Rahm-roadblock requirement for candidates). Or, if you're the optimistic half full glass enthusiast, that's 100 days to build consensus across this ethnically diverse metropolis already splitting into election factions along racial lines and to demonstrate leadership in quite challenging budgetary times.
To which I say: play nice, mayoral wannabees! On your mark ... get set ... go!
POLITICS AS USUAL -- UNUSUALLY ON DWTS:
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/11/12/inside-the-gops-plot-to-win-dancing-with-the-stars-will-sarah-palins-fans-get-bristol-the-win/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=hl_rssynd&cmpid=outbrain_hl_rsssynd
DAY OF ANNOUNCEMENTS:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/mayoral-hopefuls-taking-the-plunge.html
PUT UP OR SHUT UP:
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/2890116,111410sptchimayor.article
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