- Mayor Rahm Emanuel will be spending a lot less time at the Democratic National Convention than he’d originally planned.
Originally, the mayor had planned to be in Charlotte from Tuesday through Friday morning.
Now, his Communications Director Sarah Hamilton tells Newsradio that Emanuel has changed his plans.
Hamilton insisted the mayor’s shortened trip to the convention doesn’t have anything to do with a possible teachers strike.
[...] She said Emanuel’s abbreviated trip likewise doesn’t have anything to do with the city’s higher murder rate this year.
Wow. When Rahm starts lying, everyone else starts lying, too.
This reminds us of a recent Obama story:
Remember when the media was insisting that Romney, apparently head of FEMA, cancel the convention to deal with Isaac?
Well, he's not the head of FEMA, but he did something the actual head of FEMA forgot to -- tour the affected areas.
President Barack Obama was today forced to announce he will fly to storm-hit Louisiana on Monday – hours after Mitt Romney beat him to the punch by deciding to head there this afternoon. After it emerged that Obama was still taking time to fit in a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio before checking out how clean-up operations are proceeding in the Bayou state, the Obama campaign abruptly cancelled that event.
'In light of the President’s travel to Louisiana to meet with local officials and view ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac, President Obama will no longer travel to Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, September 3,' the campaign said in a terse statement.
Obama is the one actually in charge of FEMA. He's also the one with a solid block of campaign stops through the storm.