Posted on 04/19/2010 7:59:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
He has been equivocal on the subject in the past, but tonight White House chief of staff and native Chicagoan Rahm Emanuel made no bones about it. He wants to be the mayor of Chicago.
"I hope Mayor Daley seeks reelection. I will work and support him if he seeks reelection," Emanuel told Charlie Rose on the host's PBS talk show, in an interview to be broadcast at 11 p.m. "But if Mayor Daley doesn't, one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago," Emanuel continued. "That's always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives."
In January, after the Washington Post published a story that said Emanuel, a one-time Daley aide and longtime supporter of the mayor, was mulling a mayoral run, Emanuel did not deny the report, instead saying in a statement he was "100 percent focused on the job at hand: serving President Obama as his chief of staff."
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Nice to see he’s getting out of the corruption business.
Ah, so THIS will be his exit cover story. “Rahm is going to leave to prepare for running for mayor, someday.”
Resign now and do it, you sack of crap.
We haven’t seen or heard much about/from ballerina boy lately have we?
Rahm’s always wanted to be a gangster. Being the major of Chicago would a dream fulfillment.
PING.
Doesn’t your last name have to be Daley? Maybe he’ll change his last name.
Emmanual can be mayor of his special group in jail where he belongs.
Frankly, I am a big supporter of Rahm joining Bernie Madoff as a long-term bunk mate.
“But if Mayor Daley doesn’t, one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago,”
said the twinkle-toed fairy.
Say, if hizzoner were to retire for his health or meet with an unfortunate accident. Or something.
“So let it be written, so let it be said!”
Crook heading for the cookie jar.
The head Kapo.
And if the people of Chicago vote for him, just as they voted for Daley over and over, then they wholly and fully deserve to continue being screwed.
He ripped us off at fannie and now that he has enough money he wants to boss everyone in chitown around. The ballerina has a complex.
Kapo Emanuel would make Hitler proud; birds of a feather and all that don’t ya think?
Washington should be embarrassed to lose such a fine man because the payola is better in Chicago./s
i’ve heard in the past one of his ambitions was to take over Nazi Pelousy’s job
Mayor of Chicago must be where the “real money” is.
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