Mayor Daley has been around so long and shuffled the deck of his City Hall cabinet so many times, he was bound to draw some bad hands.
That’s the way it goes when you’re Chicago’s longest serving mayor. Some of your appointees make you look like a genius. Others make you look like a fool. Or even worse, they embarrass you by resigning in scandal.
Daley has experienced his fair share of good and bad over the last 22 years.
- The mayor’s decision to hire career FBI agent Jody Weis as police superintendent —and pay him $310,000-a-year — is the most notorious flop for the morale problems it caused. But there were other, earlier examples.
Ouch. That's going to leave a mark. Nice to see Fran is still doing Shortshanks' dirty work, right up until the very end. We wonder if Rahm's going to hire her like the Shankster hired Heard all those years ago.