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Mayoral challenger Willie Wilson demanded Thursday that the FBI and the Illinois attorney general’s office investigate Rahm Emanuel’s campaign and its mass mailing in the hunt for absentee voters.

Wilson initially accused Emanuel’s re-election campaign of mailing actual absentee ballots that instruct voters to return them to Chicago for Rahm Emanuel, P.O. Box 1346, Chicago.

But Election Board spokesman Jim Allen said the mass mailing, like those used extensively by Gov. Bruce Rauner and former Gov. Pat Quinn, actually include absentee ballot applications — not the ballots themselves. […]

“If somebody fills out an absentee ballot, it should be going to the Board of Elections — not to his place and his people. Not to someplace where he can control it. Who would trust him? Voting is supposed to be a sacred thing,” said Wilson, who recently donated $1 million to his own campaign.

I can see why some folks might want to change the law about ballot applications, but there’s nothing illegal with having people mail their applications to the candidates.

* Meanwhile…

A couple fights over red-light tickets until they agree to “dump Rahm and stay together,” in a radio ad promoting the mayoral candidacy of Willie Wilson.

In the comical radio spot airing on city stations, a man admits, “I just got a red-light ticket.”

“What!?” says a woman, until she admits, “I got one yesterday. I just didn’t want to tell you.”

“I want a divorce,” says the man.

“I want a new mayor,” responds the woman, and they go back and forth until she suggests, “Let’s just dump Rahm and stay together,” to which the man agrees.

The spot is classic Rickey Hendon…

* This one wasn’t as fun…

Even by the standards of a local political scene that’s often as filthy as a port-a-potty at Taste of Chicago, the metaphor used in a new city election campaign ad is pretty crappy.

“It’s time for an enema in the black community!” flamboyant former state Sen. Rickey “Hollywood” Hendon shouts in the spot that’s been airing on black radio over the past few days.

Hendon calls on Chicago’s African-American voters to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel as well as many black City Council members in next month’s election.

The ad…

* Related…

* ADDED: New CTU Poll Shows Garcia Losing Ground to Emanuel

* State Rep. McSweeney Moves to Eliminate Red Light Cameras in Illinois

* Victory Auto Wreckers to replace its classic car-door-falling-off commercial

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:25 am

Comments

==It’s time for an enema ==

Should’ve had that voiced by Jack Nicholson as the Joker

Comment by Anonymoiis Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:30 am
Seems like during the Hendon “enema” ad, Hendon shouts his name out more often than that of Willie Wilson.

Comment by Louis G Atsaves Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:31 am
That Rickey Hendon’s a real joker… http://youtu.be/jKofnVkUwBA

– MrJM

Comment by MrJM (@MisterJayEm) Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:31 am
Hilarious! I miss Rickey.

Comment by 36th Warder Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:36 am
Don’t work blue, Rickey, youve got too much talent, like a young Frank Gorshin….

Comment by Wordslinger Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:36 am
Pretty catchy!

Comment by VanillaMan Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:37 am
Compare it to what Rahm is doing. This is a clinic on how you take advantage of a big advantage in campaign money.

Enemas? Really? Ick.

Comment by A guy Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 11:49 am
Rahm’s ads:trying to convince via repetition people to believe him
WW’s ad: anything is better

Comment by Belle Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 12:04 pm
Will Victory Auto Wreckers also be featuring a new ad with our Governor and his old van?.. “This old van is worth money!”

Comment by Big Muddy Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 12:12 pm
My wife received that piece from Rahm but I did not. I voted in 2014 and she did not. Could be a coincidence but I doubt it.

But in any case, the envelope and the piece make it clear that it came from Rahm. There is no deception of any kind.

Comment by Gooner Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 12:12 pm
That CTU poll is really interesting. Seems odd that they would publicize a poll showing no good news for their candidate.

Chuy really needs to be viewed as “the” alternative to Rahm in order to get voters out, but that hasn’t happened. If the field looks like Rahm and a random assortment of challengers, it is good for Rahm.

Comment by Gooner Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 12:28 pm
Regarding the Rickey Hendon spot, the only thing I can say is “Wo-oow.”

I don’t know the emoticon for jaw-dropping disbelief, but it would be the only thing I could use or say to come close to my initial reaction to that ad.

Comment by PrairieFire Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 1:02 pm
Garcia’s campaign has been disappointing so far. I saw him speak to a very sympathetic crowd, and he was almost Rauner-esque in his singleminded refusal to commit to almost any substantive policy positions, particularly progressive ones. Every answer was “we’ll need to study that further.”

That might work when you’re a billionaire and can flood the airwaves out-of-pocket. It’s not going to work when you’re an underfunded outsider whose only shot is to get your base excited.

Comment by Eli Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 1:21 pm
Gooner, after reading the article, I think the CTU published it because they still have Rahm well under 50%. It’s critical to them that people believe Garcia can actually force a runoff.

Comment by Century Club Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 2:32 pm
Century Club,

That’s a good point. I clicked through to the Illinois Observer piece which included the low Garcia numbers. However, clicking through again to the Lake Polling Memo puts Rahm below 50 as the headline.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Comment by Gooner Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 2:39 pm
“Garcia’s campaign has been disappointing so far. I saw him speak to a very sympathetic crowd, and he was almost Rauner-esque in his singleminded refusal to commit to almost any substantive policy positions”

So far, the only space b/t Chuy and Rahm that Chuy has articulated seems to be (i) elected school board, and (ii) moratorium on new charter schools.

If he wants my vote, he’ll articulate a plan to fund the 2016 police/fire pension payment that goes beyond “cancel all the TIFs” (which, among other things, isn’t enough $$).

Comment by Chris Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 3:53 pm
The mailings soliciting absentee ballot applications are legal, under current law, but I dislike them too. Jesse White has lent his name to these mailings in two separate elections.

Comment by Under Further Review Friday, Jan 23, 15 @ 3:54 pm