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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (98832)	1/24/2011 4:38:16 PM
From: chartseer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

A Daley man will still win. citizen chartseer

To: TideGlider who wrote (98832)	1/24/2011 4:39:25 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Controversy Moseley Braun was the subject of a 1993 Federal Elections Commission investigation over $249,000 in unaccounted-for campaign funds. The agency found some small violations, but took no action against Moseley Braun, citing a lack of resources. Moseley Braun only admitted to bookkeeping errors. The Justice Department turned down two requests for investigations from the IRS.[11] In 1996, Moseley Braun made a private trip to Nigeria, where she met with dictator Sani Abacha. Despite U.S. sanctions against that country due to Abacha's actions, the Senator did not notify, nor register her trip with, the State Department. She subsequently defended Abacha's human rights records in Congress.[12] Her former fiancé Kgosie Matthews, who also served on her campaign staff (in violation of U.S. immigration regulations[13]), had been a lobbyist for the Nigerian government; Matthews would later leave the country. She had paid Matthews, a native of South Africa, a salary of $15,000 a month during the campaign.[14] In 1998, after George Will wrote a column reviewing the allegations of corruption against her,[15] Moseley Braun responded to Will's comments, saying that "I think because he couldn't say nigger, he said corrupt,"[16] She also compared Will to a Ku Klux Klansman, saying "I mean this very sincerely from the bottom of my heart: He can take his hood and put it back on again, as far as I'm concerned."[17] Later, Moseley Braun apologized for her remarks.[16]

To: TideGlider who wrote (98832)	1/24/2011 4:40:55 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 224744

The following five candidates will appear on the February 22 ballot as of January 24, 2011: Gery Chico, former chief of staff to Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, former president of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Public Schools, former president of the Board of Commissioners of the Chicago Park District, former chairman of the City Colleges of Chicago Miguel del Valle, City Clerk of Chicago and former Illinois State Senator Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator from Illinois, former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, former Cook County Recorder of Deeds, former member of the Illinois House of Representatives Patricia Van Pelt Watkins, non-profit administrator and activist William "Dock" Walls III, community activist and former aide to Mayor Harold Washington One candidate has been removed from the ballot by the Illinois Appellate Court pending appeal: Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and former U.S. Representative from Illinois's 5th district ------------------------------------------------------------- CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is still shy of the majority he would need to win next month's mayoral election in Chicago, a poll indicates. A Chicago Tribune/WGN poll released Friday indicated 44 percent of likely voters said they would support Emanuel in the Feb. 22 election, leaving him 6 percentage points shy of the 50 percent needed to avoid an April run-off. While Emanuel and his nearest opponent, Carole Moseley Braun, are known to voters equally, 59 percent say they have a favorable opinion of Emanuel while 39 percent hold a favorable opinion of Braun, The New York Times reported. Two other mayoral candidates, former school board President Gery Chico and City Clerk Miguel del Valle, are unknown to 34 percent and 40 percent of voters, respectively. The poll of 708 likely Chicago voters was conducted by telephone Jan. 15-19 by Market Shares Corp. The margin error is 4 percentage points. Emanuel has reported raising $11.7 million in three months, with contributions coming from Chicago's business community, Hollywood notables and out-of-state donors -- for which he's been criticized, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Chico, favored by Chicago's police union and Alderman Edward M. Burke is second behind Emanuel in the amount of money amassed for the mayoral race. As of Dec. 31, the partner in the legal firm of Chico & Nunes reported collecting $2.5 million. Read more: upi.com