Mayor Daley on Thursday denounced as an anti-Semitic “disgrace” a union leader’s reference to Rahm Emanuel as a “Wall Street Judas” with “bags of silver” who sold out union workers when he helped muscle NAFTA through Congress.
The remarks were made by a union leader who has endorsed Gery Chico, Daley’s former chief of staff and one-time president of the school, park district and City Colleges board.
The term "Judas" has entered the common lexicon as anyone who betrays. Slaughterhouses used to have a "Judas goat" that would lead the nervous animals coming to market down the slaughter chute, emerging safely at the other end while its compatriots were shunted to the killing floor. So now goats are anti-Semitic?
The term more than adequately defines Rahm as one who has taken money from organized labor institutions and has now promised to gut pensions and contractual promises made to the very people he expects to blindly support him.
All Shortshanks does is expose his complete ignorance of history and his willingness to lower the tenor of the debate by any means possible. Of course, Daley comes by it honestly as attendees of the 1968 Democratic National Convention will recall Daley the Elder screaming at Senator Abe Ribicoff from the floor of the event.
The term more than adequately defines Rahm as one who has taken money from organized labor institutions and has now promised to gut pensions and contractual promises made to the very people he expects to blindly support him.
All Shortshanks does is expose his complete ignorance of history and his willingness to lower the tenor of the debate by any means possible. Of course, Daley comes by it honestly as attendees of the 1968 Democratic National Convention will recall Daley the Elder screaming at Senator Abe Ribicoff from the floor of the event.