By crushing the competition, Rahm Emanuel is not just mayor-he may be mayor for life. Jonathan Alter reports from the victory party, from the jokes about Rahm's residency flap to the challenges he faces. Plus, Howard Kurtz on the rise of anti-politicians.
Batten down the hatches, Chicago. He's Da Mare. The *!#&! mayor.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
When a Chicago lawyer named John Levi last fall introduced Rahm Emanuel to the partners at Sidley Austin (the Chicago firm where a young Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson in the late 1980s), Levi reminded his audience that for Chicagoans, there are only two truly important political jobs in the world-president of the United States and mayor of the city of Chicago.
"And not necessarily in that order!" Rahm exclaimed.
After crushing the competition with 55 percent of the vote and avoiding a runoff, Emanuel is not...
Batten down the hatches, Chicago. He's Da Mare. The *!#&! mayor.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Nice Rhetoric, but Need Real Results
When a Chicago lawyer named John Levi last fall introduced Rahm Emanuel to the partners at Sidley Austin (the Chicago firm where a young Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson in the late 1980s), Levi reminded his audience that for Chicagoans, there are only two truly important political jobs in the world-president of the United States and mayor of the city of Chicago.
"And not necessarily in that order!" Rahm exclaimed.
After crushing the competition with 55 percent of the vote and avoiding a runoff, Emanuel is not...
- 2/23/2011
- by Jonathan Alter
- The Daily Beast
Police Academy actress Debralee Scott has died at her home in Florida of natural causes. She was 52. Scott, who appeared as Mrs Fackler in the 1984 comedy and its third installment Police Academy 3: Back In Training in 1986, was also known to US TV audiences for her roles in 1970s shows Welcome Back, Kotter and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Scott also had bit parts in movie classics Dirty Harry and American Graffiti. Her policeman fiance John Levi was killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
- 4/18/2005
- WENN
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