Why is New York's Bloomberg butting into Chicago politics?

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Why is New York's Bloomberg butting into Chicago politics?


John Kass
February 20, 2013

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is butting his way into Chicago politics like some Mayor Buttinski.
 
Bloomberg, the billionaire, news mogul and despiser of large soda drinks, is spending at least $2.1 million here to determine which Democrat in the 2nd Congressional District gets to replace the troubled and criminally charged former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Bud Light.
 
Bloomberg is pro-gun control. So he's running gun control ads, demanding assault weapons bans and so on, peeling the political skin off candidates who support the Second Amendment, proving one thing:

He's from New York. He doesn't eat in Chicago.
 
Because had Bloomberg bothered to actually speak with the African-American residents he's seeking to re-educate — in communities where young men with gang ties or teenagers walking home from school aren't safe — he might be surprised to learn that things aren't so simple.
 
South and West siders in neighborhoods that plead for additional police know that gangbangers don't use assault rifles. And that banning assault weapons won't stop the shorties from packing those handguns.
 
Many law-abiding residents don't want to give up their own guns.
 
But the Bloomberg political action committee is all about using the gun issue to shape the 2nd District race. He's already driven one candidate out, and he's hammering Debbie Halvorson, a former Democratic member of Congress who is running for the seat.
 
What's odd is that Bloomberg is playing in the Chicago political sandbox of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
 
Emanuel's office and Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC say it's no big deal, and there is absolutely no collusion.
 
If you believe that, you're even more of a chumbolone than the rest of us chumbolones.

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"The NRA is in every race," the South Sider said. "So it's only fair to counter them."
 
That's fair. But would the Mayors Daley or Washington ever allow a New Yorker to mark their territory in Chicago? And why does the Rahmfather allow it?
 
"Were any of them considering running for president of the United States?" asked the South Side guy. "If he's running for president, he'll need Bloomberg and Bloomberg's money and blessing.
 
"So he won't say a thing. And he'll let Bloomberg do what the heck he wants to do. Because that's politics too."
 
So the only Buttinskis wanted by Chicago politicians are those who have a certain value, to be redeemed later, perhaps in 2016.
 
Even if it's a Mayor Buttinski from New York.

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[5412]

Hi,

Bloomberg is an idiot and proving it more with each passing day.  Much like Rahm he has no regard for facts or the law.

You know that it makes little difference, whatever gets elected in Chicago is going to toe the party line so let him waste the money.

regards,
5412

[DumbAss Tanker]

Does that whiny old gasbag seriously think he has a shot at a Presidential nomination?  No f'in' way ANY party, including the Greens or Libertarians, is going to put him at the top of their ticket.