Chicago mayoral runoff election today (7 April 2015)

[traininthedistance]

I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of Mr. Emanuel before, but hearing that so much of the opposition to Rahmbo is from entitled motorists who think they have a birthright to drive dangerously is pretty sickening.

Go Rahm.

[traininthedistance]

I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of Mr. Emanuel before, but hearing that so much of the opposition to Rahmbo is from entitled motorists who think they have a birthright to drive dangerously is pretty sickening.

Go Rahm.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Okay, feel free to enlighten me.  Just don't try to say that setting yellow lights to the posted speed limit is somehow a grave affront to "justice" or anything, because that sort of argument is, well, exactly the sort of motorist entitlement that needs to stop being elevated over all else.

[traininthedistance]

I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of Mr. Emanuel before, but hearing that so much of the opposition to Rahmbo is from entitled motorists who think they have a birthright to drive dangerously is pretty sickening.

Go Rahm.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Okay, feel free to enlighten me.  Just don't try to say that setting yellow lights to the posted speed limit is somehow a grave affront to "justice" or anything, because that sort of argument is, well, exactly the sort of motorist entitlement that needs to stop being elevated over all else.

The red-light issue is only one in a plethora. The teacher strike and school closings are huge, as is public housing, worker pensions, reducing appointed positions, CTA hikes, etc.

The majority of Chuy supporters that I have engaged with have not even spoken of the red-light cameras, and as an anti-Rahm guy myself, I can tell you that the cameras are not a main source of my opposition. It's largely been a race of the progressives against the centrist Dems, not the pro-red light cameras vs the anti-red light cameras.

Fair 'nuff.  I do actually realize there are many issues at play, and I'm sure I'd disagree with Rahm in a fair number of them; just wanted to pre-emptively push back against that sort of faux-populist claptrap in the same way that I've defended Maryland's so-called "rain tax".  It always annoys me when dissatisfaction with establishment Dems (even and especially if for unrelated reasons) gets spun as a reason to cast aside smart urban policy, and I've seen that sort of spin in multiple sources recently.  It's kinda my hobbyhorse, sorry.