ping
Chicago is a political cesspool.
Why doesn’t the GOP go after Rahm like the dems did to Karl Rove...it seems like the perfect irony?
I’ve got no use for Daley. His oafish public demeanor is an embarrassment and, in the long run, I think his tenure will be judged as a disaster for Chicago. But Rahm Emmanuel as mayor? I’d feel better if they just somehow raised Capone from the dead and made him mayor.
I listen to WLS every morning and I do believe that Daley is out now. I also believe that Jesse Jackson and his son both (who you don’t see at all anymore) are going down in the Blago wiretaps.
I just hope they have enough to go after Rahm and Obama if Daley or Blago take an immunity offer, I know it will never happen but it’s fun to daydream sometimes...
If Emanuel is the political animal everyone says he is then he knows that he has no chance of beating Richard Daley in the Democratic primary for that office.
Unless Daley steps down, there is no way Rahm could win in Chicago. It is the Daley machine that made Obama, not the other way around.
Posted: Wednesday, 06 January 2010 7:49AM
Rahm Emanuel reported eyeing mayor’s job
Regine Schlesinger Reporting
WBBM Newsradio 780
CHICAGO (WBBM) — There’s word this morning that President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, already is looking at life beyond the White House and that he might be eyeing the 5th floor at Chicago’s City Hall.
It was no secret that then-Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel was less than thrilled when the newly-elected president asked him to give up his seat in the House to become the White House chief of staff a year ago.
Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn tells Newsradio 780 she’s heard from people close to Emanuel that he’s told them he’s almost ready to leave.
“He’s said, ‘The job of chief of staff is an 18-month job, it’s a burn-out job.’ He’s made it quite clear that he’s not happy and that he’s totally stressed all the time and that he’s thinking of running for mayor of Chicago,” Quinn said.
Quinn doesn’t know whether that would be contingent on Mayor Daley retiring or whether Emanuel might challenge him in the 2011 election. In any case, Quinn believes by next fall, Emanuel will either be gone from the White House or at least will have announced that he’s leaving.
http://www.wbbm780.com/Rahm-Emanuel-reported-eyeing-mayor-s-job/6048918