- Al Podgorski/Sun-Times
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel just wants you to know the facts, with maybe a few near and almost facts thrown in.
Minutes after the mayoral debate on WTTW ended last night, Rahm Emanuel’s campaign sent out an e-mail to “fact check” things said by his opponents.
If Fioretti is mayoral material, he’d admit that, along with 39 of his City Council colleagues, he simply failed to ask the right questions—or to make sure he’d actually read and understood the agreement—before voting to sell off control of the city streets.
The mayor doesn’t ever mention that partners at the law firm representing CPM donated to his campaign during the time he says he was being tough and wringing concessions from them.
Moreover, city payroll records show that the number of officers on the force has dropped by about 300 since Emanuel took office.
During the debate, he claimed that the mayor doesn’t actually control the TIF program. That would be false. Aldermen may have some input about certain projects in their wards, but decisions about where and how to use the money—which amounts to more than $400 million a year—ultimately rest with one person commonly referred to as “Mr. Mayor.”
