Posted on 01/10/2010 2:48:08 PM PST by maggief
WASHINGTON -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel praised Mayor Daley on Saturday and urged him to run for re-election in 2011 in a statement designed to quash gossip that Emanuel is considering a City Hall bid.
"Mayor Daley is a great mayor for a great city. He has my full support and it is my hope that he will seek re-election," Emanuel said in a written statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.suntimes.com ...
Odds favor a job shift for Rahm Emanuel
Mayor bid or not, chief of staff post is often a short-term gig
PING!
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Related???
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Jeffrey Feldman: Year of the Rahm: Get ‘Em, Then Gut ‘Em
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/jeffrey-feldman-year-of-the-rahm-get-em-then-gut-em/
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/1950212,CST-NWS-watchdogs21.article
On the day last year that Emanuel was named White House chief of staff, John Harris, the top aide to then-Gov. Blagojevich, began researching whether Blagojevich had the authority to appoint someone to temporarily fill Emanuel’s Northwest Side congressional seat, according to records that show the Web browser history on Harris’ state government computer.
The records show that Harris, who was Blagojevich’s chief of staff, Googled this exact search term on his state computer on Nov. 6, 2008: “temporary appointment to fill vacancies in the house of representatives.”
The confirmation of Harris’ Google search — which, by the way, yielded 308,000 hits — lends credence to previous Sun-Times reports that Blagojevich’s office was working with Emanuel at that time on a strategy that would enable Emanuel to one day reclaim his old House seat and vie for the powerful post of speaker of the House.
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Nancy Pelosi’s uphill health bill battle
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Guess the check is in the mail.
The people of Illinois would vote for Osama bin Laden if he had a “D” after his name, so why not?
Rahm is the perfect Kapo; Hitler would have given him a coveted job of herding the helpless to their end. Rahm would have given his brother a choice job in one of their camps.
Are we back to the drawing board or what?
Burris’ US Senate?
Could be ...
or “Emanuel to one day reclaim his old House seat and vie for the powerful post of speaker of the House,” (Post #2).
What the heck could he have in mind?
Burris’s US Senate seat and then I draw a blank.
Trying to think “big money project,” or “seat of power.”
Gee !! They are as thick as thieves.
Probably because they are.
UGH, I know. Speaker of the House.
The very thought should be enough to send shock waves through the electorate.
Can you imagine Durbin replacing Reid?
Could happen.
I’ve been thinking about the Chicago mayor
thing .. even the senatorial seat .. I just
can’t fathom how he’d be increasing his
power and wealth .. legally.. in either of
them, after his Wasserstein-Perella $18M in 2+
yrs, and his proximity to all the seats of power
in DC and globally at Obama’s elbow.
There could be something else that’s
motivating him, I guess, but none of those
compute to me. Now the attraction to the
power of the Speaker slot wouldn’t shock me.
Maybe SEIU ? A new Soros-funded think tank
or lib hedge fund ?
Would he be a shoe-in to win his old seat back?
Goo don you for trying to think rhe money angle.
I’m trying to think that way too.
Money AND power.
Two new Federal Bank chairmanships soon to open.
I think so. At least he was a year ago.
I think Rahm stays put as one of the tools proping up Obama.
Don’t think he is jumping into house or senate.
though not happy city with Boma and Nazi Pelosi,
speaker of the house may be an interesting issue ahead.
“Mayor Daley you should run in 2011” is equivalent to a dead fish sent to you by the DC Mafia.
“Mayor Daley you should run in 2011” is equivalent to a dead fish sent to you by the DC Mafia.
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