- Sun-Times Media
- From left: Bill Daley, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, and current Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2005
I open my morning Sun-Times—home delivered, as always—and what do I see? A creature crawled out of the Black Lagoon!
Daley makes another move toward gov run, the headline reads.
Inside, columnist Michael Sneed’s got the inside dope from unnamed inside dopesters about Bill Daley commissioning a poll “to determine his viability in a race for governor of Illinois.”
“We’re hoping he’ll run, but the polls will tell all,” Sneed quotes “a top Dem source.”
Meanwhile, one paragraph later, Sneed reports that Mayor Rahm, “who is this/close to Bill Daley,” recently “called a heavy duty top Dem contributor asking if he’d be willing to contribute to a Daley gubernatorial run.
“The response: Sneed is told the answer was: ‘No.'”
Translation: Tired of being a rich banker, Bill Daley wants to run for governor, but Mayor Rahm’s doing whatever he can—including leaking poisonous stuff about Daley to gossip columnists—to sabotage that effort. While pretending he’s Bill Daley’s friend.
Hey, Daleys, I told you not to trust this guy.