Thursday, September 26, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mayor one-term?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mayor one-term?:

Mayor one-term?







The Ward Room's Mark Anderson (Chicago Needs a Mayoral Challenger. Or Five) offers up a rather gloomy picture of democratic possibilities for Chicago.
The next election for mayor in Chicago little more than 18 months away, and it’s time to face a hard fact: When it comes to mayoral politics in Chicago, democracy could be dead. 
I'm a little more hopeful. From my view, Rahm Emanuel's once-powerful political base appears to be coming apart at the seams. Polls I have seen, show Rahm faring poorly in