" this race has nothing to do with me and Matt Hynes. I have not even seen matt Hynes in over 10 years and to my knowledge none of the Hyneses even live in the 19th Ward anymore. I got involved with Chuy as a volunteer. I am not getting paid a dime. I am working for Chuy because he is much better for our neighborhood. Chuy grew up in a Chicago neighborhood and attended St. Rita High School while the other guy grew up in Winetka attended New Trier and wants to tells us about "Chicago values". The neighborhood I grew up in was safe, neighbors looked out for each other and our public officials demanded the best in constituent services from city hall. Now our police resources are forced to spend much of the time on the east end of the district which isn't even in the ward. Everybody knows somebody or has themselves been the victim of crime. We are paying very high taxes and our children have only a marginal chance of being accepted into the Ag School and Morgan Park is not safe with many out of students living out of the district being allowed to attend because of gang rivalries. The grid system for garbage pick up is a complete waste of money and now instead of neighborhood people doing work and looking out for neighbors,we have some bad actors who live outside of our neighborhood casing houses for burglaries. Matt O'Shea is a very nice guy but it is a slap in the face to Alderman Sheahan and Rugui he sneaks the mayor into the neighborhood to give him undeserved credit. Rahm had $30 million, Obama, every political endorsement, most union officials' endorsements, incumbency, early voting, low turnout and a million dollars negative against Chuy and he still barely broke 40% in the ward. Now Rahm says Chuy is a good man and wants to run a campaign on the issues. A leopard can't change his stripes and now Rahm will attempt to paint Chuy as a nice guy dummy. Really it is rahm who has lied to Chicagoans about hiring 1000 new police officers and if he is re elected he will double our taxes while enriching his big money out town donors. This race has nothing to do with me or Matt Hynes. Chuy will be in the neighborhood plenty between now and the election. I am confident that he will earn your vote".
Sincerely, Mike Joyce
AND QUITE HUMBLE TOO, THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
Sincerely, Mike Joyce
CAGE FIGHT!!!!!!! April 7, May the best man win.
Look who is standing right behind Chuy Garcia.
Forget the Rahm vs Chuy election. That's a sideshow. The real fight everyone will be watching is between 2 sons of Beverly. Mike "Pickle" Joyce vs Matt "Spoons" Hynes. These guys have been itching for this showdown for years and now it's going to happen. If you live in the 19th Ward, chances are good you know all about the blood feud which everyone has tried to keep quite. Watch all the locals get out of town while this is going on.
Pickle has been hired to run Chuy's campaign while Spoons has been hired to run Rahm's campaign. Both are being paid handsomely and stand to benefit greatly if successful.
Pickle is bent on avenging what Rahm did to his family 4 years ago. He has planned this for some time and is determined. A former boxer, dedicated coach, practicing lawyer and self-made businessman, he knows he can go the distance, as he often has and is certain to inflict some heavy damage.
Spoons was sent back to the south side to restore order. Lets face it, there are few that can handle Pickle. Spoons also has some scores he wants to settle and jumped at the chance. An expert organizer and legal scholar, he is a disciple of the left - centrist - right movement. He is known for not tolerating any shit.
This will be a fight to the finish. Let there be no mistake the winner will emerge to run Chicago and collect the spoils during the next 4 years, (provided that their man stays in office) while the loser will be history.
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| Pickle Joyce, great neighborhood guy. |
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| Spoons Hynes, AKA Mr. 19th Ward |
He has been behind the scenes in politics for decades, but also has a real love of his fellow man and truly loves the 19th ward.
He has given so much back to St. Leo and he mentors young men in his boxing programs.. real life giving back to his fellow man.
He put himself through law school and became a well respected, highly acclaimed legal mind, Mike has provided countless scores of hours of free legal work to poor and working families in need, these are the things most people in our community do not know about Mike, be cause he is FAR TOO HUMBLE to ever talk about it.
Mike should become the out-ward political leader of our community and step into the role he is well suited for in political leadership!
I want to say Thank You Michael Joyce! the real Champion of our community,
true leader.
you mention Rahm Screwed over JJ, well Oshea, Sheehan and a few others have as well.
After his Election Day spanking, Emanuel should try a new opening line: “I hear you.”
The April 7 runoff against County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia should be a wake-up call to a seemingly detached mayor with a likeability problem.
Drop the robotic, Washington-style talking points. Empathize with the struggles of everyday Chicagoans. Open your ears and your mind, even to ideas you may have dismissed. Show some humility. Build consensus. Remember that all politics are local.
Enter Rahm who flies in for a chat that goes like this. "You back me for mayor and I will make sure you and your son don't get indicted for this or that. You get to keep the limo, the police detail, etc. No more stress, I will take care of everything". It took Daley about 2 days to decide and the changing of the guard was on.
Problem was that Daley in his heavily medicated state of mind forgot to include his close friends and allies in the deal. He kinda just walked and let everyone hanging. That is what brought us to Tuesday nite. There is no way that Rahm will be allowed to get away with what he pulled.
A Chicago polling firm is calling the city’s runoff campaign between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia a “dead heat.”
New numbers from Ogden and Fry show Garcia, a member of the Cook County board of commissioners, within reach of the one-term Emanuel. And the firm warned that the Hispanic population under-polls, meaning that population is underrepresented in the data.
“They’re likely dead even,” pollster Tom Swiss said Sunday night.
We're just going to come right out and cheer for Chewie. We'd rather see him founder for four years with a hostile City Council than have Rahm surgically destroy what we've paid into without fail for decades. Plus, if Rahm isn't here, Rauner is hamstrung on a lot of his big plans without his buddy. And on a national level, Chicago can make defeating Rahm a small gesture of contrition for helping screw the country with Obama.
on a daily basis from the Texas border. Astonishing that locals flirting with this guy! One more thing. Garcia part of the old Washington progressive movement and Harold was taking us right down the Detroit path.
Pics speaks.. chuy listens!
too bad the 19th ward organization hacks are working against Pickels on this one, we will see who is the real power brokers of our neighborhood really are!
Chicago could follow Detroit into bankruptcy if Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not re-elected, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) warned Monday.
Without mentioning Jesus “Chuy” Garcia by name, Kirk said Emanuel’s challenger lacks the “gravitas with the bond market” to secure Chicago’s mountain of debt and prevent Chicago from going the way of Detroit, which recently emerged from bankruptcy.
“Rahm’s re-election is essential to maintaining the value of Chicago’s debt market. We need a strong capable leader… I would worry about the value of the Chicago debt if Rahm was not re-elected…. It’s a concern if we have some of the less responsible people running against him,” Kirk said.
“None of them could command the respect of the bond market. A collapse of Chicago debt, which already happened with Detroit, I think would soon follow if somebody who was really inexperienced and irresponsible replaced Rahm.”
Sincerely, Mike Joyce
Mike "pickle" Joyce will be the victor, he is highly skilled, and a brilliant tactitioner add into the mix the fact that he is beloved by the neighborhood and greater community at large.. with his fine work with the young men of St. leo boxing programs he is a true man of the people.
and lets not forget he is a highly successful former prize fighter!
who do I lay my money on...CHUY and pickle all day long!!!
Tom Dart
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Dart wants candy thieves, other shoplifters and trespassers out of his jail
You can't believe anything the Tribune prints anymore.
Moreover, the devastation wrought by this strategy remains virtually a secret. The fact that it has been almost invisible and appears to have been entirely legal, demonstrates a set of vexing problems. First, that investigations of the crisis have not delved deeply enough, and second, that the deregulation so keenly sought by the financial services industry has made activities legal that by any common-sense standard should be criminal.
But the sponsors of this toxic trade did bother to make sure they had a powerful friend. The head of the firm in question gave substantial amounts of money by political contribution standards to Rahm Emanuel's PACs, and only his PACs, over the period when these transactions were in play.
The moving force behind a brilliant and devastating subprime short strategy was a heretofore unknown Chicago hedge fund, Magnetar, headed by Alec Litowitz, formerly of the hedge fund behemoth Citadel. Our studies indicate that Magnetar alone accounted for between 35% and 60% of demand for subprime mortgages in the year 2006.
While these transactions may sound similar to the widely decried Goldman synthetic CDO program, Abacus, by which the firm went short various real estate exposures, effectively dumping the risk on customers, the Magnetar program was not only much larger, but also produced far more devastating systemic consequences, thanks to the distinctive structure of its CDOs.
And the hedge fund's cagey bet on Rahm? Litowitz and his wife had never before made significant political donations. In 2005, they started giving to Rahm and his PACs, and only PACs connected to Rahm, just before the Magnetar CDO program began, and continued through the first quarter of 2008, when the trade would have started to pay out handsomely. The Litowitzs gave a total of $8,000 to Emanuel and $10,000 to his Our Common Values PAC in May 2005. In 2006 and 2007, they contributed $51,700 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, while Emanuel was chairman. We have been advised by individuals involved in political fundraising that the amounts given would be considered significant, and the way the payments were distributed across the PACs is sophisticated. Put it another way: this money was not given impersonally.
But this troubling connection should be no surprise. Rahm has long been a favorite of the hedge funds, having raised more money from them than any Senator not running for President. Not surprisingly, he has been a staunch supporter of the financial services industry, and is widely credited with playing a key role in securing passage of the TARP after its initial defeat.
As the Magnetar-Rahm connection highlights, Obama raised more money from financial services players than any previous presidential candidate, so it can hardly be a surprise that he and his minions are happy to give the industry a free pass.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, locked in a tight election campaign, is rolling out a plan to boost job creation in some depressed neighborhoods by waiving all state and local taxes on businesses and taking other unusual steps to lure employers.
The so-called Right to Thrive zones—a pumped-up version of the Enterprise Zones of recent decades—would feature no property, income or sales taxes on businesses that open in these areas for an unspecified time "as long as they create jobs in the surrounding neighborhood," Emanuel says in an op-ed article written for the Chicago Tribune.
Businesses in the zone also would get what Emanuel dubbed "concierge service": a special unit of city bureaucrats tasked with slashing zoning, licensing and other red tape for investors. And they'd receive export, marketing, employment and financial assistance.
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia received a major boost Saturday in his bid to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel, as the powerful and big-spending Service Employees International Union's State Council endorsed the challenger in the April 7 runoff election, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
The union was divided in the first round of voting last month. While the SEIU Healthcare local has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Garcia, SEIU Local 1 — which represents janitors — had remained neutral and even disputed the validity of SEIU Healthcare's support for Garcia.
But SEIU Local 1 officials began rethinking their position after Garcia won the right to face Emanuel in the runoff, and the State Council voted to back Garcia at a meeting Saturday morning.
“We think there is a clear contrast between Chuy Garcia and Rahm Emanuel,” Local 1 President Tom Balanoff told the Chicago Sun-Times on Saturday.
“Mayor Emanuel doesn't understand that what made Chicago great was working people,” Balanoff said. “We think he has totally turned his back on that.”
He declined to say how much the union planned to contribute to Garcia. But labor sources said the vote Saturday could bring as much as $2 million to help counter Emanuel's well-funded re-election campaign.