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Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said she still has confidence in the embattled mayor of the city where she was born: Rahm Emanuel of Chicago.
"I do," Clinton told reporters Friday evening in Fort Dodge, Iowa. "He loves Chicago and I'm confident that he's going to do everything he can to get to the bottom of these issues and take whatever measures are necessary to remedy them."
Earlier this week, Clinton called for an independent federal inquiry into the Chicago Police Department's tactics following the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a white police officer. That position had initially puts her at odds with Emanuel, until he relented.
The city has been engulfed in turmoil following the release last week of a video showing the teenager being shot at repeatedly last year, with many of the bullets unleashed after he was already on the ground. ..............(more)
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-05/clinton-voices-confidence-in-rahm-emanuel-as-chicago-mayor
haikugal
(6,476 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)he'll be ready for a VP or Secretary of State pick.
Nauseating. Absolutely nauseating.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Insanity.
roody
(10,849 posts)hatrack
(59,564 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,673 posts)She should have stayed out of this.
DURHAM D
(32,603 posts)By this "take whatever measures are necessary" I assume she hopes he will examine himself and then resign.
For those who don't know... she got him fired from the Clinton WH.
merrily
(45,251 posts)DURHAM D
(32,603 posts)Obama and Axelrod knew exactly what they were getting in exchange for Rahm's endorsement in 2008. They actually thought they could control him and keep him from running his own agenda while in the WH. They were wrong.
merrily
(45,251 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)In 1993, Emanuel's brash, punish-your-enemies style aptly reflected a White House in which certitude sometimes outpaced judgment. He lost support internally and, in a move that sources said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton urged, was fired from his job as political director.
merrily
(45,251 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)promotion in 1997. So, that story does not say what your excerpt make it appear it says.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)I believed she was politically smarter than this. Bad advisers?
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Even if it's true, sometimes just keeping your mouth shut is smart.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Probably no connection at all between that and Rahm's becoming Mayor of Chicago.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Eventually all the nasty shit he has done will catch up with him and anyone around him will get it as well.
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