Obama's enforcer was tossed off the ballot in Chicago's mayor race over a residency issue. Dirk Johnson on the real winners-including an alderman rooting for a weak mayor.
Rahm Emanuel is clearly the big loser in the court decision that bounced him off the Chicago mayoral ballot. But who are the real winners?
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His feisty tenant, Rob Halpin, who refused to allow the former White House powerhouse to break the lease and move-a key to Emanuel's residency problem-will go down in history as a real-estate David who managed to stick it to the landlord Goliath.
Emanuel's opponents in the Chicago mayor's race can call it a good day, too. Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun and longtime City Hall insider Gery Chico have suddenly been transformed from serious underdogs to serious contenders for the post being vacated by Richard M. Daley.
Rahm Emanuel is clearly the big loser in the court decision that bounced him off the Chicago mayoral ballot. But who are the real winners?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Carney's Voice Carry?
His feisty tenant, Rob Halpin, who refused to allow the former White House powerhouse to break the lease and move-a key to Emanuel's residency problem-will go down in history as a real-estate David who managed to stick it to the landlord Goliath.
Emanuel's opponents in the Chicago mayor's race can call it a good day, too. Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun and longtime City Hall insider Gery Chico have suddenly been transformed from serious underdogs to serious contenders for the post being vacated by Richard M. Daley.
- 1/25/2011
- by Dirk Johnson
- The Daily Beast
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The car in the reception area of the Rac Club, London. The same location it was first display back in 1969. (Photo copyright Cinema Retro)
Author and Cinema Retro publisher Dave Worrall (right) and Don Rose of Rm Auctions pose with “The Most Famous Car in The World". (Photo copyright Cinema Retro)
Last night (21/10/10) saw “The Most Famous Car in The World” return to The Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, London, for the first time since it was first displayed there in 1969. The car, the only remaining Aston Martin DB5 driven by Sean Connery in the films Goldfinger and Thunderball and now internationally known as “The Most Famous Car in The World” after the title of Dave Worrall’s book, is being sold next Wednesday (27/10/10) by Rm Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s. Owned by Jerry Lee of Philadelphia for some forty plus years,...
- 10/22/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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