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Emanuel's fund-raising skills are credited with helping keep Clinton's presidential campaign afloat during some rocky times, particularly the scandal over whether he slept with Gennifer Flowers. As a young political operative, Emanuel once joined other youthful colleagues in mailing a dead fish to a Democratic pollster with whom he had had a falling out.

After his White House stint, Emanuel returned to Chicago in , making several million dollars as an investment banker. That gave him the financial freedom to mount a hard-fought race for Congress in When Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi tapped Emanuel to lead the Democratic efforts to recapture control of the House in , Emanuel continued to browbeat anyone he considered an obstacle -- steam-rolling weaker Democratic candidates in favor of stronger ones, for example, or engaging in legendary battles with party Chairman Howard Dean, not to mention launching all-out war against GOP candidates.

But Emanuel also showed an ability to cajole, flatter and even stroke his stable of Democratic hopefuls, going so far as to send them Eli's cheesecake when they had scored a political success.

Leading his party to its first House majority in 12 years, Emanuel has now become the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House.

While continuing to launch cutting attacks on Republicans, he has also formed friendships with such Republicans as Reps. He has even become friendly with White House chief of staff Josh Bolten. When Emanuel's friend Obama began closing in on the presidency, many thought Emanuel would remain in the House. He was potentially in line to become House speaker in a few years. Environmental groups, already jazzed over Tuesday's landslide election of eco-friendly Barack Obama, celebrated again Thursday.

That's because U. Rahm Emanuel, a fellow Illinois Democrat -- a man one environmentalist called "the godfather of Great Lakes restoration" -- accepted the president-elect's offer to become White House chief of staff, officials said.

Davis lauded Emanuel for introducing in a far-reaching federal cleanup package for the lakes. He said Obama will be a president "who understands coastal economies" and noted that as an Illinois legislator had co-sponsored the Great Lakes Legacy Act, which committed millions of dollars to clean up toxic "hot spots.

Obama, the first president from a political base in the Great Lakes since Gerald Ford from Michigan in , had already won favor among environmental groups. Lawrence Seaway. Covering up a murder is disqualifying for public leadership. It is shameful and concerning that he is even being considered. Emanuel has a long record of disrespecting Black people in Chicago and beyond.

Let us not forget that as mayor, Rahm Emanuel slashed millions of dollars from the Chicago public schools , with draconian cuts to counselors and social workers, and two-thirds of school librarians. Emanuel has displayed sexism and racism and employed harmful racial stereotypes toward other groups. You do a lot of studying? If you disrespect the AAPI community, and your Japanese experience is limited to having a sushi roll named after you, you should not be the U.

But if your legacy in government service centers around your coverup of the execution of a Black boy by a white police officer — and bullying people — well, that should further disqualify you from this and any other job.

An Ambassador Rahm Emanuel would amount to nothing less than a slap in the face to Black voters who supported Biden, and the Black Lives Matter movement. If Biden wants to maintain Black support, he must not give Rahm Emanuel any position in the administration.