Rahm Emanuel opts out of most forums

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Something’s missing from Chicago’s mayoral candidate forums: Rahm Emanuel.

On at least three nights next week — Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday — just about all of the major candidates for mayor, except the former White House chief of staff, have agreed to sit side-by-side at community forums and take questions from voters or panelists.

But Emanuel is taking a pass, as he has done with other forums this week and last.

“I don’t think he’ll do any of them,” Emanuel spokesman Ben Labolt said of next week’s forums. “He’s been speaking to voters directly where they live and work every day of the week.”

Rahm was busy in forum.