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Daley Tue Sep 07 2010
Daley Will Not Seek Re-Election
This is the biggest political news story Chicago has had in maybe twenty years: Mayor Daley will not be seeking re-election, according to several different sources.
Let the jockeying begin. Is the Regular Democratic Organization based in the County Party organized enough to anoint a successor? Will the Mayor tap somebody? Are we looking at an imminent run by Rahm Emanuel--just in time to step down after the mid-term elections? Will the rumors about County Board candidate John Fritchey turn into a run? Will the Mayor's tenuous coalition--Lakefront Liberals, South Side ward organizations and the Southwest and Northwest Side "ethnic" wards--hold together or will individual ambitions tear it apart?
Will the city's racial politics, subdued in deference to a Mayor who knew how to divvy up the goods, explode back into the fore?
Is there time for anybody to raise the money necessary to take on any candidate deemed a Daley-tapped successor?
Will the independent politics resurgent in places like the near Southwest Side provide the backbone of a legitimate independent candidacy? And with no Mayor Daley, what will "independent" mean?
Stay tuned as we follow.
JohnnyQ / September 7, 2010 2:06 PM
Fioretti and his Blago-esque helmethair will put up a good fight against Rahmbo.
But my vote is with Waguespack!