Rahm Emanuel Challenges Garcia to Offer Solutions for Chicago Fiscal Crisis
With the runoff election just three weeks away, the mayor faces his challenger for the first of three debates.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel talks with residents at a senior living center during a campaign stop on February 23, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his opponent in an April 7 runoff isn’t leveling with voters about pension liabilities that threaten to drag the nation’s third-most-populous city into financial ruin.
Emanuel told Jesus “Chuy” Garcia that he needs to be “forthright” about the crisis, rather than waiting until after election day to appoint a committee to devise solutions.