nunsing he will not run for reelection. his father preceded him as mayor and one or the other has run the city for much of the past 55 years. the daleys have done a bit to contribute to chicago s reputation as a hotbed of corruption. suspected that elderly daley helped schwinn the election in jfk s favor with the votes of more than a few dead people that race was died was decided with just 9,000 votes in illinois. a daley ally was convicted for trying to pack the payroll with campaign workers. i think rahmbo would be a worthy successor. joining me with analysis is the author of culture of corruption, michelle malkin. first of all, if you look at orszag leaving and roamer leave leaving the economic time leaving, i don t think rahmbo has much time any way.
nunsing he will not run for reelection. his father preceded him as mayor and one or the other has run the city for much of the past 55 years. the daleys have done a bit to contribute to chicago s reputation as a hotbed of corruption. suspected that elderly daley helped schwinn the election in jfk s favor with the votes of more than a few dead people that race was died was decided with just 9,000 votes in illinois. a daley ally was convicted for trying to pack the payroll with campaign workers. i think rahmbo would be a worthy successor. joining me with analysis is the author of culture of corruption, michelle malkin. first of all, if you look at orszag leaving and roamer leave leaving the economic time leaving, i don t think rahmbo has much time any way.
that s one of the things that the president is going to talk about today in proposing these additional subsidies. it s a heck of a lot better of where it was, and we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. let s switch gears and you re a chicago guy. yesterday, the big announcement, mayor daley is going to step aside. somebody new is going to run. that guy down the hall from you, rahm emanuel, he has said in the past his dream job will be to run for mayor if daley stepped aside. now he s doing it. what do you hear? look, both of us, rahm and i worked for the mayor from the very beginning and we really were stunned to hear his decision. he s a guy who is very passionate about his job. and we were happy for him because after 22 years, he deserves to move on in his life but we were stunned. rahm is an extraordinarily talented guy. he has all the skills set to be a great mayor of chicago and he has a love and passion for the city that would be helpful as
announcing yesterday on the steps of city hall he won t run for re-election next year. remember, daley has been mayor since 1989. his father served for over 20 years. now all of the speculation is looking at the chief of staff of the white house, rahm emanuel. former chicago congressman. also grew up in the area. will he run for mayor? he talked about doing it. yesterday he put out a statement saying mayor daley s announcement was a surprise. he has to act soon. you have to register to run by november 22nd. the election is in february of next year. the heat is on. i wonder who would replace rahm emanuel. what will the president do? that s the other big guessing game. who will replace him as chief of staff with the midterm a few weeks away? a lot of buzz out there. we are watching it with you. reminder for the latest political news, go to our website, cnnpolitics.com. apparently money can buy happiness. it only takes about $75,000 a
and praising mayor daley. if he wanted to stop speculation about him running for mayor of chicago, we would have the statement. the fact is we don t have the statement. i ve talked to some folks very familiar with how mayors races in city politics work and they say even though the filing deadline for mayor is not until december, that realistically rahm has about a week or two to make a decision and make one publicly. because if he doesn t, he risks seeing others who may have similar plays at constituency groups, the business community in chicago, things like that, filling the void. and that he needs to make his decision sooner rather than later. now the timing on that isn t ideal for the white house. you talk about the shakeup. there was going to be a reorganization of some form around when they were going to start the re-election of the campaign. whether that s david axelrod moving to chicago to run the re-elect, robert plouffe, robert gibbs, rahm emanuel.