- Sooner or later, Mayor Rahm Emanuel must sit down with Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, and retired King Shortshanks and tell them the bodyguard party is over.
Emanuel has done well in office so far, and though it's been only six weeks, the six weeks have gone rather smoothly for him.
Smooth is a relative term seeing as how the superintendent has run interference on the gun issue and the head of the schools is picking a union fight.
But what started out as a poke at Burke over Burke's backing a residency lawsuit against Rahm has taken on a symbolism of its own and both parties are eager to get back to sticking it to the taxpayers, breaking the unions and enriching themselves and cronies with connected contracts.
We're betting the bodyguards are reduced (or gone) by fall.
But what started out as a poke at Burke over Burke's backing a residency lawsuit against Rahm has taken on a symbolism of its own and both parties are eager to get back to sticking it to the taxpayers, breaking the unions and enriching themselves and cronies with connected contracts.
We're betting the bodyguards are reduced (or gone) by fall.