A Look At Rahm's Challenge in Chicago

NBC Chicago reports on a challenge to Rahm Emanuel:

As Finance Committee chairman, Burke is the second most powerful politician in Chicago. His committee reviews all spending bills, and he gets a desk in front of the room, from which he gives long-winded speeches which show off his study of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. (“As Winston Churchill once said…”) His wife is on the state supreme court. His brother is a legislator. But as long as Daley is mayor, Burke is a distant second. Now that Daley is retiring, Burke sees his big chance. The last thing he wants is an autocratic mayor like Rahm Emanuel, who may fight him for control of the Finance Committee.

Burke’s man in the mayor’s race is Gery Chico. A Southwest Side boy, Chico grew up in Burke’s ward, attending Kelly High School. Burke gave Chico his start in city government, as a staffer on the Finance Committee, and has called him “an outstanding asset for government. Gery Chico has never accepted an assignment he did not do well and complete successfully.” In return, Chico calls Burke “my dear friend.”

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