The Trib looks at the Chicago mayoral runoff
Here's a look from the Trib at the dynamics of the Emanuel/Garcia mayoral runoff.
Mayor Emanuel's disgraceful behavior in the Chic-fil-a affair continues to prevent me from rooting for him very hard. It's difficult for me to have much sympathy for a guy who would abuse his power to prevent someone who honestly disagrees with him about a political issue from opening a restaurant within the city limits. But at a moment when Chicago's finances are teetering on the edge of a cliff, his fiscal restraint seems to me to be important enough- and a significant enough source of opposition to him- that if I still lived there I'd probably vote for him just to help my home town keep its head above water.
The runoff is April 7.
Mayor Emanuel's disgraceful behavior in the Chic-fil-a affair continues to prevent me from rooting for him very hard. It's difficult for me to have much sympathy for a guy who would abuse his power to prevent someone who honestly disagrees with him about a political issue from opening a restaurant within the city limits. But at a moment when Chicago's finances are teetering on the edge of a cliff, his fiscal restraint seems to me to be important enough- and a significant enough source of opposition to him- that if I still lived there I'd probably vote for him just to help my home town keep its head above water.
The runoff is April 7.
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