Rahm. No clever headline.
There’s not much clever I can say about Rahm Emanuel’s crushing victory in the Chicago mayor’s race yesterday.
In the lowest voter turnout in 30 years, Rahm got 55% of the vote. He carried 40 out of 50 wards. He creamed the lack-of-consensus African-American candidate, Carol Moseley Braun. She came in 4th. King Alderman Eddie Burke’s guy, Gery Chico, barely got a quarter of the vote. Progressive candidate Miguel Del Valle came in third.
Chico gave one of those “now we’re all Chicagoans” speeches. He has too much invested in city contracts to
