There's a lot of consternation and gnashing of teeth on the blogs about Rahm's endorsement of Rice. It shouldn't really come as a surprise since he's basically returning a favor. It was the 36th Ward Democratic Organization that got out the vote for Rahm in his successful bid to become congressman of the 5th (our) District in 2002. This, in turn, resulted from Mayor Daley's request to Alderman Banks in order to reward Rahm for, among other things, doing a good job in Daley's 1989 mayoral campaign.
Now just because Mayor-elect Rahm endorses an aldermanic candidate, doesn't mean it's a lock. Emanuel endorsed machine candidate Tommy O'Donnell in the 47th ward aldermanic race and he ended up losing to wunderkind pot-hole-reporting app developer Ameya Pewar. You gotta really like that.
Check out Ben Joravsky's story in this week's Reader, "How Ameya Pawar Bowled Over the 47th Ward".
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