TONI PRECKWINKLE RULES OUT A RUN FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO…MY READERS YAWN

7/15/14

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today ruled out a run for mayor OF Chicago against Rahm Emanuel in 2015.   She disappointed some and surprised many.  But regular readers of yours truly merely yawned and said something like “Yeah, I knew that…a long time ago.”

Ms. Preckwinkle said she didn’t run because she had unfinished business with the County.  But readers of yours truly know the real reason she didn’t run.  As I said on 3/20/14: (TONI PRECKWINKLE AND THE RAHM EMANUEL JUGGERNAUT, Rant Lifestyle)

Toni Preckwinkle is a smart woman.  She knows all of the above. (i.e., that she had no chance against Rahm Emanuel and the Harold Washington analogies were silly and showed no knowledge of Chicago political history.  Read the whole post for details.).  So one doubts that she will run.  If Chicago Teachers’ Union President Karen Lewis wants to lie down on the tracks in front of the Rahm locomotive, Ms. Preckwinkle will be happy to oblige her and may even lend some tepid support with notably muted enthusiasm; Ms. Preckwinkle knows with whom she will be dealing for the next four years. 

Given the supposed surge of Ms. Lewis in the polls, isn’t that comment about her especially prescient?  But I digress.

And as I said on 4/10/14:  (THE 2015 CHICAGO MAYOR’S RACE:  TONI, TONI, PLEASE BACK DOWN, YOU’LL NEVER BEAT RAHM IN THIS TOWN, Rant Lifestyle)

Toni Preckwinkle has no chance against Rahm Emanuel and she knows it.  (Again, read the whole post for details.

If you want to understand Chicago politics, you have to read my posts.  This latest development in Toni Preckwinkle’s plans is only further evidence of what has always been clear to my readers.

See my two books, The Chairman, A Novel of Big City Politics and The Chairman’s Challenge, A Continuing Novel of Big City Politics, for further illumination on how things work in Chicago and Illinois politics.