Thursday, March 5, 2015

.@rahmemanuel Rahm Snaps at Mental-Health Advocates: ‘You’re Gonna Respect Me!’

from http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/05/rahm-goes-nuts-at-a-mental-health-clinic-you-re-gonna-respect-me.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon

Chicago's mayor allegedly blew up when he was asked why he closed clinics. Looks like 'Rahmbo' is back.

They say old Rahm Emanuel came out last night—or maybe it was the real one hiding in plain sight all the time: a sneering, aggressive pol who went "nose-to-nose" with a mental-health advocate demanding, "You're gonna respect me!"

The alleged exchange took place off-camera between Chicago's mayor and Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, a member of Mental Health Movement, a group that has been fighting the mayor over the closure of six mental health clinics across the city. Behind a door that separated the mayor from a roomful of constituents at a campaign stop in the Wicker Park neighborhood, Ginsberg-Jaeckle says, he got Rahmbo'd.

"This is the Real Rahm," Ginsberg-Jaeckle wrote on Facebook. "Calm and collected in public, raging angry and self-defensive behind closed doors."

But Emanuel's campaign, while not directly refuting the mayor's alleged call for respect, said the exchange was more cordial than Ginsberg-Jaeckle's version of events. The mayor's office has reached out Ginsberg-Jaeckle and Delgado to address their concerns, campaign spokesman Steve Mayberry said in a statement.

rest at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/05/rahm-goes-nuts-at-a-mental-health-clinic-you-re-gonna-respect-me.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon

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