Rahm Emanuel,Mayor Daley and the Chicago Democratic Machine

Lynn Sweet of The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

When William Daley was looking for someone to manage his brother's 1989 race for mayor of Chicago, a brash Rahm Emanuel pitched himself for the job.

"I said no," Daley said, going on to select David Wilhelm as campaign manager, who went on to manage Bill Clinton's 1992 White House bid. Instead, Daley offered Emanuel a post as finance chairman for the mayoral campaign, and Emanuel turned him down.

U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel talks on his cell phone as he leaves his congressional office in Chicago on Thursday night with a staff member.

"I said, 'OK, thanks,'" Daley recalled. But Emanuel changed his mind,

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