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April 13, 2011
Mayor Daley talks transition to successor Emanuel
Posted by Hal Dardick and John Byrne at 4:20 p.m.
Mayor Richard Daley said today that he’s been meeting with Rahm Emanuel, who will step into Daley’s shoes on May 16, but didn’t get into the details of those talks.
“There’s a transition going, definitely,” Daley said after the City Council meeting. “We’ll continue meeting. When he first got elected, we started meeting.”“We talk about government,” Daley added. “We talk about the problems that the federal government is going through. We talk about what the state government’s going through. All these problems you talk about. You try to figure out what your solutions are.”
He said that representatives from his administration and Emanuel’s transition also have met.
“They are talking to people,” Daley said. “They want people to stay. . . . You have to have a transition. If you don’t, then it’s not a government that functions for the people. It only functions for the individual.”
Daley and Emanuel have long been political allies. The Democratic organization in the mayor's ancestral 11th Ward home backed Emanuel in his Feb. 22 victory, though Gery Chico carried the ward. Many of the people Emanuel appointed to his transition team have ties to Daley.
But the takeover of the city administration is not Emanuel’s only concern, because he’ll have to work closely with the 50-member City Council. The council’s most powerful member, Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, backed Chico over Emanuel in the election.
Burke today said he has yet to meet with Emanuel since the Feb. 22 election. “I've written a letter saying congratulations and good luck,” he added.
Emanuel has said he's met with more than 40 current and future aldermen since his election, and Burke was asked why he wasn’t among them. “Maybe he’s saving the best for last,” Burke quipped.
Daley, meanwhile, said he knew nothing of the goings on between the two men: “I don’t know about that,” he said. “That’s their problem, not mine.”
“This is all about leadership — it has nothing to do with the City Council,” Daley added. “It’s about leadership. You need a good leader, and (Emanuel) will become a good leader. Because the issue is bigger than any City Council member. You know that. Issues are bigger than that.”
Posted at 04:18:07 PM in 2011 Chicago election, 2011 Chicago mayor's race, Chicago City Council, Chicago politics, Mayor of Chicago
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