I think Garcia might be part of the DFA endorsed slate, so of course Howard Dean’s going to back him:
WASHINGTON – Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate endorsed Jesus “Chuy” Garcia over Rahm Emanuel for Chicago mayor on Thursday.
Important back story: When Emanuel was the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he stuck it to Dean in 2006 – when Dean was the DNC chair. Emanuel wanted Dean to funnel millions of dollars to help House candidates. Emanuel taunted Dean’s “50 State Strategy” and a leaked story about how little Emanuel thought of Dean found its way into print.
Now, back to the present: Enough with the payback. What could this mean?
Dean throwing himself in the mix adds a high-profile progressive voice to Garcia’s team and hits at Emanuel’s vulnerability that was so apparent in the February primary – Emanuel’s lack of a strong ground game to spur turnout in wards where he had supporters.
What a lot of white Americans may not know is how horribly corrupt the black misleadership class has become, as documented by Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report. The way it works, is that clerics and community organizers are bribed to deliver blocs of voters from black communities. But in a post Citizens United world, the policy goals of the highest bidders have been increasingly against the best interests of the African American community at large, so you get Rahm Emmanuels, backed by wealthy neoliberal ideologues, wielding giant wrecking ball policies throughout poor neighborhoods, destroying the public school system, closing libraries, privatizing everything under the sun, policing lefty type dissenters. It’s all about the grift, and the neoliberal backers and Rahm Emmanuels are completely shameless, so until someone can name and shame the fifth columnist Judas Priests that sell out their communities, and take over their former role as arbiter of who runs Chicago, I have grave doubts about whether an insurgency can succeed outright. What they can do in the meanwhile is make things uncomfortable for Rahm and his backers. What they’re doing stinks to high heaven and people shouldn’t be demanding justice, they should be demanding indictments.