Rahm Emanuel, Jesse Jackson Jr.—both mulling Chicago mayoral runs—huddle Wednesday night
By Lynn Sweet on September 15, 2010
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)—both mulling Chicago mayoral runs—huddled in Washington on Wednesday night.
“It’s fair to say they had a conversation not only about the race, but about the city itself,” said a source who declined to be named.
Emanuel and Jackson are among the more than two dozen potential contenders pondering jumping in the Feb. 22, 2010 nonpartisan Chicago mayoral primary in the wake of Mayor Daley’s decision last week not to seek another term.
Jackson’s wife, Sandi, a Chicago alderman, also is on some long lists of maybe candidates.
Emanuel is wrestling with what is a major life decision for him, one being made in the context of having to juggle major domestic and international matters for the Obama White House.
Emanuel commissioned his long-time pollster, Stanley Greenberg to poll Chicagoans to help Emanuel test issues and his own viability.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/09/rahm_emanuel_jesse_jackson_jr-.html
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Jackson also said he and Emanuel do not agree on many issues, but they do agree the city is at a tipping point and “the economic destiny of Chicago hangs in the balance.”
Jackson said Emanuel’s candidacy would “nationalize” the race, entangling it in Obama’s agenda.
“No one entering this contest should be under any illusion that if Rahm Emanuel comes to town, he’s (not) bringing an A-game,” Jackson said. “This will not be a B-game. And those who would be mayor need to recognize that. I say this with respect, but not unafraid to be in the ring with him myself.”
Neither Jackson nor Emanuel has very long to mull their decision. Election rules give candidates until Nov. 22 to file petitions to run. Any candidate would likely need to start laying groundwork well before then
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100917/ap_on_el_st_lo/us_emanuel_jackson_chicago_mayor_8
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Ooh, to be a fly on the wall!! Betting Rahm had the upper hand, and NEITHER mentioned what’s possibly coming in the Blago retrial.
RE dealing with JJJ for the AA vote?
How is that going to fly with (’ex-muslim’) Jeremiah Wright’s ‘church?’ LOL!