If you liked the scandal-ridden Daley machine, you will love Rahm Emanuel as mayor. And why not? Daley and Rahm both move in the same inner circle politically and financially. Rahm's campaign offers voters little more than a continuation of Daley's policies and management style, including management and control over the city's public schools.
Bill Clinton's Chicago fund-raising visit to pump the Emanuel campaign ("there's no better role model") highlighted both Daley's and Rahm's connections to the same family of political and financial interests. Candidate Miguel del Valle was quickest to point out the fallout from Rahm's brief term on the board of directors of Freddie Mac. it was Clinton who appointed Emanuel to the board in 2000. Rahm earned $320,000 for his 14 months of service, but