3/16/11
This morning’s (i.e., Wednesday, 3/16’s, page A2) Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is intensifying its search for the next FBI chief. On the short list, apparently, is none other than U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and bane of crooked politicians in these parts, Patrick Fitzgerald.
Hmm…
Rahm Emanuel leaves the White House chief of staff’s job to run for Mayor of Chicago with the blessing and full hearted, if not full throated, endorsement of the Daley family. Bill Daley replaces Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff. Suddenly, Patrick Fitzgerald, whom just about every pol in this state has been trying to get rid of ever since he was appointed at the suggestion of maverick one term Senator Peter Fitzgerald, is being considered for a big job in Washington.
This, my friends and readers, is the kind of thing that keeps Chicago politics interesting even in this post demise of the ward based Machine era. And if they keep Chicago politics interesting, such machinations make books about Chicago politics, especially The Chairman and The Chairman’s Challenge, by the ever insightful yours truly, compelling reading.
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