2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton Won’t Meet Embattled Mayor Emanuel in Chicago Visit
Bernie Sanders has made Clinton's ties to the mayor an issue ahead of the Illinois primary.
Jennifer Epstein
Bernie Sanders has tried to make the presidential primary vote in and around Chicago into a referendum on Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but Hillary Clinton wont be giving him more ammunition when she visits the city on Monday.
The Democratic presidential candidate and the former Clinton and Obama White House aide arent expected to see each other while shes in town, Emanuels office said Sunday. Clinton often meets with, or is introduced by, mayors or other elected officials who have endorsed her as she campaigns across the country.
Adam Collins, a spokesman for Emanuel, said the mayors focus remains on the job voters hired him to do last year, create opportunities for people across the city and tackle the challenges Chicago faces. While Emanuel and Clinton wont be meeting because their respective schedules [won't] make it possible, Collins said, the mayor's support for President Clinton and Secretary Clinton is well known.
Clinton is set to speak to the Plumbers' Joint Apprenticeship Committee Local 130 in the Near West Side, a mile away from where protests broke out Friday on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus ahead of a Donald Trump rally that was ultimately canceled.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-14/hillary-clinton-won-t-meet-embattled-mayor-rahm-emanuel-during-chicago-visit
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)what a wonderful coterie of close friends.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)riversedge
(70,035 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)DURHAM D
(32,603 posts)She got him removed from the Clinton WH for running his own agenda.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)I wonder what is so important on his schedule that he couldn't adjust it to appear with one of his major political benefactors. Maybe he has some more Chicago public school closings he has to announce.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)*Thanks, Bernieforpres2016! Welcome to DU!
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Did anyone think she would? I don't get why this is news!