Sunday, January 30, 2011

Carol Marin: Rahm owes voters some answers

In last week's debate between the four major candidate for mayor of Chicago, co-moderator asked frontrunner Rahm Emanuel about earning $320,000 for attending six meetings as a member of the board of now-troubled lender Freddie Mac.

In her Chicago Sun-Times column, Carol Marin talks about some "hard truths" for Emanuel:

One, Emanuel’s job on the Freddie Mac board was a high-end patronage job given to him by his former boss and friend, then-President Bill Clinton.

Two, Emanuel’s most recent boss and friend, the current president, has refused to release the minutes of Freddie Mac board meetings during Emanuel's tenure.

Three, Rahm Emanuel is talented and smart. But not smart enough to see the potential hypocrisy in launching an ad about how clout-heavy politicians hand out jobs to their friends and not see himself in that story.

Hard truths.
Related posts:

Gery Chico: Time for Emanuel to tell "hard truth"
Emanuel made $320,000 for little-work Freddie Mac board position
Emanuel was Freddie Mac director as scandal brewed

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